Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-05-17
AROUND THE STATE.

The state central committee have
called the repu blican state convention
60 meet at Des Moines on the 18th of
June.
Frank Pierce, notorious for his record
as searcher. and slayer of Policeman
Wishard, has been taken to the PEN
itentiary.
Mrs. Fred Yates attempted suicide at
Clinton by jumping into the river.
She has been married only week and
had domestic trouble. She was rescued
half dead
At the convention of democrats of
the Second congressional district at
Clinton, Congressman Walter 1. Hayes
was renominated by vote of SO to Is
for Bills and for Kelly.
w. S. Lewis of Glenwood has been
appointed by Gov. Jackson of the Fiji
teenth district, to succeed Judge
Deemer, who was recently appointed
associate justice of the supreme court.
Ex-senator j. S. Hapchett died at
his home IN Waverly from the effects
of paralytic stroke received several
days ago. He was 81 years old and
served the county as sheriff and in both
branches of the legislature.
I. I. Slocum, representing an timer
ant jewelry firm, was indicted by the
federal grand jury at Des Moines for
sending foul letters through the gov.
ernment's mails. The recipient of the
letter in question, and on which the
Indictment was returned is Miss Nellie
Bird, of Creston.
According to recent decision OF the
supreme court the JOINT rates made by
the railroad commissioners In 1890 are
illegal, because the commissioners did
not give notice of their purpose to fix
rates and did not give the railroads an
opportunity to show that the rates
fixed were not reasonable.
In order to escape assignment, j. A.
dealer of indie penGerce, filed mortgages
aggregating S544, 904. The largest is
in favor OF John C. Allen, GloversvIlle,
n. Y, for $544, 444. Bills of sale for
$50, 900 were also made. Mr.. Wells
says he will meet all claims in full.
Eagle Groves school board has put
veto on the graduation of pupils of the
high school who are unqualified for
that honor, and IN the future the men,
bers of the senior class will be required
to take the county examination en-
titling them to a teachers certificate
before they will be allowed to graduate
and receive their diplomas.
Rev. Alvin Ingalls, Hobbs, dean of
the Bible department of Drake U niver-
sitv and one of the most widely k nown
ministers In the west, died at his home
in Des Moines on the 18th. The cause
OF death was nervous prostration,
superinduced by an affection of the
bladder and two severe surgical opera
tions, which were too great tax upon
his vital forces.
Ira Davis, the 19-year-old son of Gen
erai w. l.. Davis, of Cedar Rapids, was
drowned IN the Cedar river at the pal
isades recently. 1t has not been
learned whether he was in bathing or
fell out of boat His body was not
recovered for several days. Young
Davis was drowned at point in the
river where no less than score of
people have lost their lives in the last
few years.
, Herman Peters shot and killed his
niece, Annie Hansen, at her home, ten
miles north of Remsen. She was wash
ing dishes at the time. The rest of the
family were away from home. Peters
went to neighbours house and said it
was an accident. The neighbor re-
turned with Peters and saw the corpse.
Peters then went out to the barn and
shot himself through the head with the
same revolver. Annie was a young
woman and Peters was rs years old.
Oscar Ovcrholtzer, who so mysteri
ously disappeared on March Is, and
who was last seen at the kirKwood ho-
tel in Des Moines that same night, and
who has since been heard from at
Buenos Ayres, South America, is now
on his way home, having been IN that
coutry long enough to want to get
back. He is the young man who left
Extra to go to Muscatlne to buy lum-
Der, but when he left Des MONIES he
went to Chicago. then to New York
where he shipped on the first vessel
bound for Buenos Ayres.
The young man O7crholtzer, who
has been missing from his home at
Audubon for a long time, has been
head from. He is in Buenos Ayres.
All kinds of suggestions had been in
dulged In as to his whereabouts
The smallpox scare at Pacific June
tion is rapidly subsiding, as the doctors
have finally concluded that the cases
in question were only a mid fern of
varioloid. There are only two of L. A.
Sherman's children sick now, and both
are getting along nicely. Every pre-.
caution, however, is being maintained
and every one has been vaccinated.
Two new cases of smallpox have beer
reported to the health authorities a