Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-10-18
NEWS FROM over IOWA

moving family from Everly to Esther
vile.
Mary Washington and Kittie Kay,
charged with robbery, were sentenced
at Burlington to eighteen months in
Anamosa penitentiary.
Fred Motley, prominent resident
near Sperry, was instantly killed in a
runaway, his neck being broken. He
leaves a widow and five children.
CT P. Kenyon, a local drug man, and
Ottumwa and Chicago capitalists have
formed a new wholesale drug company
with $75, 900 capital, which will begin
business in Ottumwa soon.
Robert Metcalf, a 15-year-old boy,
fell under a Milwaukee freight train
upon which he was stealing ride, and
had his right leg SO badly crushed that
amputatiOn was necessary.
A valuable bay mare and a new
buggy were recently stolen from the
barn of Simon Jepson, farmer living
six miles southwest of Nashua. The
thief is supposed to be a tramp.
At Oskaloosa James Kelley and
Frank Braden pleaded guilty to bur-
glarizing Rev. Mr.. Kirkham's house,
and were sentenced to six years in Ft.
Madison. Both men are strangers in
the city and took their sentences hard.
The Chicago Great Western railway
has presented $50 to Emma Jacobs.
She is years old and the daughter of
a German farmer living between
Dubuque and Lamont. September 26
while hcrding cattle near by she dis
covered a bridge on fire and tagged an
approaching train.
EX-Sheriff John Coldren, leader of
the democratic forces at Iowa CITY,
was found dead in an alley on the west
side of the Iowa river in that city.
The cause of death is great mystery.
He ate supper as usual, was very well
and happy, and gave orders about his
business and the campaign about an
hour before he was found.
The Crescent Macaroni Company, of
Chicago, has bought the macaroni fac
tory at Davenport, and will at once
take possession of it and operate it,
largely increasing it's capacity. 1t has
been in successful operation two wears
The company is composed of Chicago
men, has just been incorporated for
the purpose, and is capitalized at
$4,000, paid up.
Joseph Leonais, the first white man
to settle in Sioux City, after lapse of
thirty"eight years, has taken out his
first naturalization papers. When
Leonais first located in Iowa he built
a log cabin on a lot near which the po-
lice station now stands. He is a
Frenchman and was one of the en-
ployes of the Hudson Bay company
who came up the Missouri river in
1912.
At the Sioux City Interstate Fair
Online's great performance in the at
tempt to beat his record of 2:O74 was
a feature. The track was fast and
scarcely breeze was blowing. Chand-
Ter drove Online, and the runner
(CheerfuD was driven by Ed Geers and
acted as a PAGER. The first quarter
was made in :32, the second 1903, the
third in 1885; and the mile IN 2:O4,
breaking the worlds four-year-old
pacing record.
The new annex to the convent and
orphan asylum of the st. Francis Order,
connected with st. Mary's church of
Dubuque, was dedicated recently by
Rev. Father Johannes with appropri-
ate ceremonies. Although a German
institution, orphans of all nationalities
are admitted. The asylum was found
ed 1878, in a log cabin, with thirteen
orphans. 1t now has series of thir-
teen buildings, which give home and
shelter to 100 children.
One of the most startling political
sensations that has occurred in the
state for years was the suicide of w.
ID. 1ngraham, clerk of the district
court of Des MOines county, and can
didate for reelection on the democratic
ticket. lngraham had served the
county for two years and had just en-
tered a hot political campaign for re-
election when the tragedy occurred
Since his denomination charges have
been made against him by his political
antagonists of misuse of public funds
1t was stated that his bondsmen had to
make good a shortage of 81, 900 a year
ago and that last month he was ordered
by the court to pay over to the county
treasurer So 900 cash bail which was
forfeited. This, it seems, he was I'M
able to do, but is charged with having
appropriated other bail money to pay
this SO, ZOO previous to his nomination.
His inability to straighten his accounts
so preyed on his mind that he took his
own life by shooting. The suicide took
place in the vault of his office.
The Collins livery barn at Fort
Dodge burned with contents, includ-
ing seven horses. Loss, SO ,OOO
The Rev. Mr. Baxter, of Knoxville,
who achieved great celebrity couple
of years ago in the sensational trial in
which he was the defendant while
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