Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-11-15
NEWS FROM over iowa

Senator Gear and others have gone to
Mississippi on a hunting expedition to
last several weeks.
While Engineer Swanson, of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Hallway,
was taking water at McGregor a car
rier pigeon lit on his cab. The foil ow-
ing was written on tag attached to
the birds neck: New York, Nov. r.
Hill is beat-warld without end, the
country has gone to HI"
Champion James j. Corbett played
"Gentleman jack at Davenport re-
Gently, and during the day had the
$4,000 championship belt, offered by
the New York Police Gazette, on show
in window. During the night it was
stolen, with a valuable overcoat, from
the store, the thief breaking in at the
rear.
Auditor Mccarthy has issued GER
tifcate authorizing the Sibley State
Bank at Sibley to begin business. The
bank has paid us capital stock OF
S35, OOO and is controlled by Des Moines
men. James b. Locke is the president
and Frank Y Locke is the cashier. 1t
is an entirely new organization, having
nothing whatever to do with the bank
that failed there some time ago.
The members of the Northeastern
Iowa Teachers Association, at its
recent session at Waterloo, effected a
permanent organization by the election
of the following officers: President,
d. II. Wells, Grundy Center; vice-pres-
1dent, Frank E. Howard, Allison; sec
rotary, o. NJ. Ellit, Reinbeck; treasurer,
C P. Colgrove, Nora Springs; chairman
of executive committee, +. c. Sessions,
Waterloo.
party of tramps had supper and
alcohol drunk around campfire in
the outskirts of Boone. In the morn
ing one of their number was found
dead by the fire. Part of his clothing
was burned off, and it is likely that he
died of exposure His name was James
Hendricks, and he had worked in
Boone as a marble cutter once or twice
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daughter is the wife of well-to-do
merchant at Jordan, MINI. Six tramps
were arrested but there are no marks
of violence upon the body and no APP
parent cause for a murder
Several years ago Ferdinand Giese, a
volunteer fireman of Davenport, lost
both eyes fighting a fire in a Daven-
port church. The people bought him
home and the city had just pensioned
him. At midnight few nights ago he
heard an alarm in his carpet weaving
shop, went to it alone, and opening the
door was set ablaze by fire that was
raging in it. The shop was destroyed
and he was fatally burned. The next
day Paula Teschinski, aged ), had her
clothing fred by her little brother
while they were playing with matches,
and was fatally burned.
The testimony in the case against
Supervisor Strange at Sioux City is
very sensational in it's disclosures of
of jury bribing. One witness testified
that Strange asked him to try and get
on the jury and he would pay him well.
He did get on the special venire but
was not on the jury. Strange asked
him to name some one else who could
be handled, and he did so. The man
was on the special venire, showing
that Strange had control of the Of
ficials, and could have the men called
for the jury that he wanted. Both
these men were paid money by Strange.
Deputy Sheriff Gambs testified that he
talked with one of the jurors after the
trial. The juror was nearly drunk at
the time. and he declared that he made
S125 by coming to town the day he did
Strange was present, and tried to get
him to quit talking, and finally took
the man to the depot and sent him
away.
Gov. Jackson has appointed twenty
seven delegates from Iowa to attend
the anti-option convention to be held
at Vicksburg, Miss, November Goth.
The object of the convention is tourge
upon the United States senate the
passage of the Hatch bill or some like
measure for the suppression of
gambling in staple products. The
delegates appointed are: At large
A. w. Swain, Oskaloosa; Charles II.
Martin, Des Moines; L. =. Walden,
Allerton NJ. J. Kelly, Williamsburg;
ID. c. Chaser, Dubuque. First district
B. r. Vale, Bonaparte; J. p. Man
atrey, Fairfield. Second district-John
A. Evans, West Liberty; Bruce 7. Sea-
man, Davenport. Third district. f
Merry, Manchester; G. NJ. Miller
Hazleton. Fourth district-Daniel
Sheehan, Usage; Simon Rustad, North
wood. Fifth district-A. n. Poyneer
Montour; John T. Hamilton, Cedar
Rapids. Sixth district-John Voorhees,
Oskaloosa; d. w. Norris, Grinnell
Seventh district-R. c. Webb, De-
Moines; John Forester, Adel Eight
district-E. j. Gault, Cincinnati; j. Ii
Harsh, Creston. Ninth district-Johl
Hays, Red Oak; w. b. Martin, Green
field. Tenth districts. Burnquist
Dayton; John G.. Smith, Algona
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