Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-28

without awakening any of the family,
of money and left the house without
being discovered. No trace of them,
so far.
At Waterloo few days ago John
Hogan, one of the most important
witnesses for the state in the case of
Charles Adams, who is charged with
the murder of Stephen Howard, drop
ped dead while eating his dinner. He
was on the witness stand few days
prior to his death. He had previously
testified that Adams told him he struck
| Howard with a club after he had
knocked HIM down. When put on the
stand, however, he appeared to be
badly mixed up and also complained of
being sick.
Just as Lon Miller, well known cit
izen of Glidden, was going to board No.
3s, an east bound freight at Carroll,
for Glidden, two men held him up and
relieved him of $57 in cash and his
| watch and chain. One of the men
| showed a revolver at Mr.. Miller's face
while the other one did the relieving
act and secured all the valuable pos
sessions which Miller had with him at
the time. AS the deed was perpetrated
in the Northwestern freight yard, and
the night dark, Mr.. Miller could not
recognize who his assailants were, but
thinks them to be local talent high
waymen. No further clue has been
obtained yet which would indicate who
they are.
A sad accident occurred few days
ago by which John Schubert of Pleas
ant Valley met with injuries from
which he died. He was digging well
and j. r, Wiley was at the windlass.
The bucket had been filed with
dirt and water and was within a couple
of feet of the top of seventeen-foot
well when it caught on the curbing
and was unlocked from the rope.
Wiley called to the unfortunate. man
below who threw up his hand in time
to ward off the full force of the bucket,
but not enough so but he sustained in
iuries sufficient to cause his death.
The rope was lowered, when Schubert
put his tools in the bucket and was
hoisted from the well. He did not
think he was hurt badly, but went to
the house to lie down. In short time
he was unconscious and remained so
until his death. He was 80 years old,
unmarried
The greatest fire In the history of
Sioux City destroyed property to the
value of about $500, 900. 1t started in
pile of rubbish on the platform of
of the Western Transfer and 1mple-
ment company's warehouse and in an
hour the great iron building, four
stories high and covering a full quar-
ter block of ground, with over 500, 900
worth of implements and carriages,
was heap of ruins. The fire spread
to the plant of the Sioux City Linseed
Oil company and big elevator with
100000 bushels of fax in it was de-
stroyed. Every piece of fire apparatus
in the city was at work but there was
no such thing as controlling the fire,
as the wind blew gale all day. The
fire was only controlled in time to save
the main buildings of the Linseed OIL
company, including the mill, but not
till the loss to the company had reach
ed 100000.
According to Clinton dispatch, two
cases have been filed with the county
clerk of Clinton county for trial at the
April term of court, that will be watch
ed with interest all over the state, as
they will determine the priority of the
mulct tax and may decide the consti-
nationality of the law. In one case
the city of Clinton is made defendant:
in the other, Clinton county. The two
plaintiffs, one local building and loan
association have mortgages on two
pieces of property occupied by saloons,
the mortgages having been given be-
fore the passage af the mulct law.
These mortgages have been foreclosed,
and they ask the court to en1oin the
defendants from collecting the $500
mulct tax until the mortgages are salts
fied-or to establish their priority
Eminent legal talent has been retained
by both sides, and the case will doubt
less go to the supreme court in any
event.
A west-bound freight train on the
Chicago & Northwestern broke in two
at Denison. The front part of the
train stopped at the station and the
rear end came crashing into the front
half, ditching several cars of merchan
disc, coal and empty box cars. Ar
unknown tramp. who was stealing a
ride, was taken out of the wreck
mangled in a bad manner, especially
about the lower limbs, but the doctors
think he will survive. No otner per.
sons were injured, as the wreck did not
! interfere with the engine and the way,
car, where all the trainmen were
stationed. AS the catastrophe occurred
inside the switches, the sidetracks were
used to let trains by and no delay was
caused to trains. The loss to the com
pany will be quite heavy and NAV