Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-10-11

and entered one of guilty. Both were
gamblers.
The expert employed by the Wood
bury county board of supervisors to
| investigate the printing bills, has filed
| a number of new affidavits in special
cases, showing overcharges of the
| Sioux City Tribune in bills rendered to
the county. This brings the total
amount of the overcharges to the pres
| ent time to over $4,000. He is still
making Investigations. The Citizens
| Association has also filed an amended
petition in one of the suits to GUST
members of the board for alleged
bribery and corrupt practices. In this
petition Supervisor Epps is accused of
illegal action in allowing certain bills,
and is directly accused of receiving a
brlbe for the passage of a certain bill.
The discovery has also been made that
the attorneys which the board have
retained to defend them in the inn
parchment proceedings, are also all
employed by the board to defend the
county in the bond and injunction cases,
and insist the charges for attorneys
fees in these county cases have been
made so high that they will cover their
services in defending the members in
their individual cases. The citizens
committee may look into this matter.
Robbers entered the State bank at
Mediapolis and blew open the vault
and safe. They underestimated the
power of the explosive used and every
thing in the interior of the bank was
wrecked. The safe contained SIS, 900 in
gold coin, $500 in paper currency, $500
in silver specie and 81, 600in Mediapolis
school district bonds payable to bearer.
The paper money was blown to minute
fragments and ground into the mortar
that fell from the walls; the gold and
silver coin was battered and bent, and
twisted and torn, the robbers got
probably $4 900 of it. $1,000 in gold
and some silver was recovered from the
debris on the floor and from the crevices
of the shattered safe into which it had
been blown. OF the twenty-six bonds
nineteen were recovered only slightly
damaged; the remainder were carried
off or blown to pieces, probably the
latter. On the shelves in the vault
were mortgage notes and deeds to the
value of $4,000 many of these were
torn to Shreds. The directors of the
bank assembled at once and, after a
careful consideration of the status of
affairs, they adopted resolution to
the effect that the loss the bank had
sustained be made good from its
accumulated surplus.
The First National bank at Brooklyn
was burglarized few nights ago, but
not a great amount was realized. The
bank is located in quite an exposed
position, but some time after II o'clock
the back window was pried up with a
jimmy and the opera Cion begun. A
portion of the tools were secured from
q neighboring blacksmith shop and
were left behind. The vault doors
were drilled and blown open, but the
time lock safe containing eight or ten
thousand dollars resisted their efforts.
They were unable to get sufficient
explosive in the crevice around the
door to blow it out, SO had to contert
themselves with the contents of the
vault. When the assistant cashier, N.
II. Wright, entered the bank the next
morning he found private papers of all
kinds scattered over the floor to the
depth of several inches. The burglars
secured Postmaster Sharps stamps,
fifty of the 10 cent, 400 of the cent
and 800 OF the s cent variety. The
bank lost $50 bag of pennies and four
SIS bags of small change, SO that the
burglars secured only about 800.
Two strangers who have been loafing
around town for the past two days are
supposed to be the guilty parties, and
it is thought they are the same ones
who broke into places at Victor
recently.
Fire which started in A. D. Morse's
livery stable at Abel burned the barn
and contents, with a loss of about
$4,000. A strong wind was blowing
from the south and the opera house
block was soon on fire Bailey's dry
goods stock was destroy | at loss of
$25,O 900, with $4,000 insurance. The
grocery firm of Row & Book suffered
loss of $4,000. Tees restaurant
burned and his household goods were
also destroyed; loss 50, 900, with no in
surance. Next to go was /. G. Lam
bert's restaurant building and house
hold effects, worth 81, 900; no insurance
reported. G. w. Campbell's merchant
tailoring establishment sustained a
total loss, including one brick and one
frame building, valued at $4,000; no
insurance. At this point the fire
| jumped across the street to the Masonic
| Temple, which is a three-story struct-
ure, occupied below by G. Roland's
general store. The damage to the
Masonic Temple and Roland's amounts
! probably to 50, 900, with no insurance
reported. The opera house was en-
tirely destroyed. 1t was u two-story
double brick building valued at so, 600
and there was only $4,000 insurance.
J. G. Roland's loss on his two-story