Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26
NEWS FROM over iowa

greSSlOnal district met at DeS Nome!
and renominated Congressman John A
Il. Hull.
John Krout, who turned states evi
dence in the cases of George Weems
and John Hammil convicted of the
murder of Conductor Ridpath at Des
Moines, has been discharged.
Judge Trimble of Keokul, recently
appointed agent of the Iowa Nebraska
pension agency, has sent his declina
ton to the president, saying the duties
of the place are too arduous.
The Seventh congressional district
populist convention, held at Winter
set, nominated j. r. Bancroft, of Des
Moines, recently named by the indus
trial party, for congressman.
Attorney John A. Patterson, one OF
The most widely known attorneys in
southwestern Iowa, died after a linger-
ing illness. He was mayor of the city
at one time and an old soldier.
A state fair well is being sunk 600
feet in the expectation that it will fur
nish permanent supply of water. 1t
will be stored in tank on the hill and
will furnish all the grounds with run
ming water and thus be great saving
of expense and great convenience to
the visitors.
The Fl. Dodge assessor has complet-
ed his assessment under the new law,
of property occupied by the saloons.
He returned ten retailers in FIT. Dodge
and two wholesalers. The former will
pay $1,000 annually, the latter 5000.
Under the old prohibitory law twenty
saloons paid $500 each.
Mrs Laura Raynor, prominent con-
fectioner, was arrested at Creston,
together with a number of female en-
ployes, upon a warrant charging the
proprietress with keeping "a house of
prostitution. The restaurant business
was run as a blind to conceal the Grim
inal character of the place.
While a pal engaged the proprietor
of furniture store in Nashua in con-
versation, Nick Porter of Charles City
went through the safe. He only OBJ
tanned SO, having missed a package Of
$500 that was in the same drawer under
a book. He was arrested and gave
bail for his appearance in court.
A spark from an engine of the Chi
cago Great Western railway set fire to
the fields of DR.. DINNER and board
barn, near Dyersville, destroying near
1y 100 acres of grain and hay. The
owners at once went to Dubuque for
the purpose of entering suits for dam
ages against the road. They claim
$4,000 loss.
Carrie King, of Davenport, took an
ounce of laudanum and n spoonful of
rough on rats. but was discovered in
time to be pumped out and saved.
Paul Koch took a large dose of carbolic
acid, but his mother discovered him
and got help in time to save him.
Suicides have been epidemic in that
city for several weeks.
Edward Curtley, well known crook
in that locality, passed SO counter
felt bill on the landlord of the Central
house at Vail, but the bill was detected
short time afterwards and the culprit
chased and caught. After replacing
the counterfeit with good cash he was
allowed to go free, as the landlord re-
fused to prosecute him.
: Deputy Sheriff Lenhart arrested
George Goddard, who is wanted for
counterfeiting by the United States
authorities, at Creston. Goddard is
supposed to have been connected with
the counterfeiting gang which was
captured in that city recently. He
was taken to Council Bluffs to answer
before the federal court
Rainmaker Jewell accepted the FIT.
Dodge business mems proposition of
$500 for n supply of chemicals for five
days with full instructions for use, and
II. NJ Griffith, a druggist, was sent to
meet Jewell at Harrington, Kansas.
He returned home and the mixture was
Immediately begun on. The interest
ing process is now proceeding.
A couple of frauds named James Lid
die and John Moerl1o, styling them
selves James Liddle & Co., city direc-
tory publishers, in name only, of Des
Moines, left Cherokee for TT. Dodge,
forgetting to settle a number of little
bills before they left. Landlord Lucas,
of the Cherokee house, has a watch
pledged for a portion of board bill
still due.
In spite of the objection of company
II the encampment of the Second Regi-
ment, Iowa National Guards, will be
held in Burlington. Although Col.
Guest telegraphed Adjutant General
Prime that the citizens had decided
the encampment be held elsewhere on
account of Company HIS objection, it
was decided that time was too short to
select another place.
Republicans of the Sixth district, in
session at Grinnell, unanimously re-
nominated Congressman John F. Lacey.
The boy who was found at Waterloo
recently and identified by the parents