Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-12


was, however, finally gotten under
control. Fire was later discovered in
second warehouse and cellar of the
store, which points to incendiary.
Burglars entered the b., C. r. & n.
depot at Iowa City and secured about
Sl2 belonging to an employee, and two
overcoats. They also entered a saloon
near by and made away with box of
| cigars and three bottles of whisky.
The overcoats were found later in
wood yard two blocks from the depot,
and beneath them were three fat hens,
which the thieves had stolen and
slaughtered
A Webster City dispatch says: An
object lesson on the additional penalty
feature of the mulct law was given in
this city last week. There have been
no open saloons in this county, but for
several years the boot logger and
''hole-in-the-wall' keeper have flour
ished to a greater or less extent. When
the new law went into effect several
of the Joints" were closed by the
property owners, and the ''drouth' has
continued with increasing severity
| ever since. Last week a raid was made
on a Joint in the basement of the
Grand Central hotel and quantity of
beer and whisky confiscated by the
! sheriff. The vendors were arrested
and the tax of 5000 levied against the
two buildings used for the hotel.
For years an enormous colored
woman known about town as Diagonal
Mary, has frequented the business
streets of Des Moines at all hours of
the night. A few evenings since she
and another colored woman were driv-
ing about in an open hack, making
night hideous with their hilarity. Of
ficer Tom Stevenson arrested them.
Mary wasn't at all put out about it and
politely invited the officer to get into
the hack, which he did, and then she
gave her coachman orders to drive
about the city. The horses were put
to good speed and it was half hour
anyway before the kidnapped police
man could induce them to let him out.
When he did they went peaceably to
the station while the officer lodged the
jokes and sallies at his expense by
patrolling the alleys the rest of the
night.
i After Il desperate hand to hand fight
with a burglar at 1 o'clock in the morn
ing the proprietor of a Council Bluffs
grocery store captured his man. The
burglar proved to be Lee Foreman, son
of one of the pioneers of the city, and
until his son impoverished him through
his profigacy one of the wealthiest
men in town. The confederate of
Foreman was Ed Baker, son of another
old citizen who had been forced into
bankruptcy. Baker was captured a
few hours later. Foreman was caught
in the store and defended himself with
a cheese knife, and the plucky mer-
chant beat him into insensibility with
the butt end of revolver emptying, it
after the flying Baker. Foreman was
seriously and it is thought fatally in
jured. Since the arrest half a dozen
other burglaries have been traced to
the young men.
The Small poX at Pacific Junction is
now about at an end. The whole num-
Der of cases was thirty-siX and all have
died or recovered except four children
of Caleb Fisher, who are getting we'll
There are twenty-five cases of variola
and eleven cases of varioloid. Twenty
| five of the cases were vaccinated after
exposure, and of these eighteen re-
| covered and fourteen are believed to
/ have been modified by vaccination;
| four died. The number of deaths was
nine and of recoveries twenty-five, be-
sides the Fisher children, who will re-
cover. c. b. Ault was employed by
the authorities to bury the bodies of
some of the victims. He said he had been
| vaccinated and was not afraid; but he
took the disease and died in three days,
the victim of his own folly. The in
teresting point in these figures is the
demonstration as claimed by scientific
men, of the fact that vaccination after
exposure generally modities the dis
, ease.
From the latest reports obtainable it
appears that the holders of preferred
claims against the Cass County Bank,
which failed last year at Atlantic, will
not receive over % to 80 per cent of
their claims. Indeed, it is claimed by
some that after the expenses of wind
ing up the affairs of the bank, that
there willanot be anything left even
for preferred claims. This state of
affairs is unequalled in the history of
banking in the state, or even of the
United States. 1t is claimed by some
that this complete cutting of the assets
of the bank was only made possible by
the action of some banks in advancing
money to them on every scrap of col
lateral they were able to scrape up,
making the banks who thus cashed the
collaterals generally at a big discount
secure in financial sense, but not in a
moral sense. The action of other banks
in thus furnishing money to them made
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