Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-13
news FROM over iowa

A petition for saloons under the new
law has been filed with the Emmett
county auditor. 1t contains about
thirty more names than the required
65 per cent.
The three prisoners who SO cruelty
beat the wife of the jailer at Boone
while escaping from the Jail, have
been captured and are now held al
Des Moines.
John Swanlk, farmer of Sand Greek
township, Union county, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head
with a revolver. He was young man
residing with his mother, and his rash
act is attributed to temporary
arrangement.
Harvey Crandell was arrested at
Armstrong by the sheriff's officers and
brought to Sioux City on the charge OF
grand larceny, preferred by ID. B.
Huston, of the latter place. Mr..
Huston is in the butter and egg
business at Correctionville, and Gran
dell was employed by him as driver.
About November 90 he disappeared,
and a double set of harness valued at
$40 went with him. 1t was learned a
few days ago that he was in Armstrong,
and his arrest followed.
Ruth Baker, 16 years old, one of five
orphan sisters of DEBORAH, Iowa, who
was employed in a family named
Wardlow, 329 Walnut street, Chicago,
took morphine with suicidal intent,
dying the next day. Some property
was left to the sisters by the parents,
but this, it is said, was lost through
the i'll management of their guardian.
1t is thought the loss of fortune, as
we'll as parents, caused Miss Baker to
become Respondent, and that is the
only reason given for the suicide.
Burglars robbed the depot at Krum
a nd stole handcar, on which they at
tempted to escape. Detective Harri-
son. at Fairfield, went to look into the
A fight ensued, in which one robber
was killed and Harrison was shot, not
dangerously. The other robbers es
capped. Frank Junkin, an undertaken,
and Deputy Sheriff Ricketts, left Fair
field for Batavia in connection with
the encounter. The train didn't stop
and they jumped, both receiving fatal
injuries,
The weather department and the
Martin mulct law are likely to clash
in Iowa this winter. The mulct law
enacted by the Legislature last winter
for the regulation of the saloon bust
ness provides that no distractions may
be put in saloon windows. Since the
cold weather set in and the windows
of the saloons were covered by frost,
according to Sioux CITY dispatch,
some of the ardent prohibitionists
have been raising objections to this
condition and want the officials to in
siSt that the windows be kept clear.
The shippers of Keokuk, at recent
meeting adopted resolutions protest
ing against the proposed action of the
railroad commissioners raising freight
rates, as an advance in effect will be
prohibitory to doing business from
points situated near Keokul1, Chicago
and st. Louis having advantage by rea-
son of interstate tariffs. 1t is the
opinion of the shippers that the high
salaries of railroad officials should be
reduced in proportion to the decline of
labor and products. They deem it I'M
fair that rates should be advanced in
the present depression, and ask the
commissioners to suspend further ac
ton.
The State of Iowa VS.. Lizzie Weston,
accused of the murder of Patrick Finn,
at Independence last September, is now
on trial in that city. The story runs
that Finn, prosperous young farmer,
and always bearing a good reputation,
went to Weston's house late at night
for immoral purposes. He was refused
entrance, but persisted and was shot
in self defense. Little credence is
given to the story, it being generally
believed that another party whom the
Weston woman is shielding was at the
house and did the shooting as well as
robbed the body. The prosecution
promises that the public will be treated
to sensational testimony.
At two o'clock in the morning the
Log Cabin breeding sta bles at Clarinda,
owned by Hon. William Butler, were
discovered to be on fire. When dis
covered the fire had made such head
way that it was with hard work the
horses in the barn were gotten out,
and as 1t was one team of work horses
were cremated and one other animal
quite badly burned. 1t was only by
hard work, also, that adjacent resi-
dences were protected, there being
quite strong wind blowing at the
time. The loss to Mr.. Butler is
estimated at s., 900, besides the several
years of hard work expended in build
ing up the same. The insurance on
the property is $1,000. 1t is thought
the fire was the work of an incendiary.
n. J. johnson, well-known citizen
of Morning Sun, was found dead in his