Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23

| Miss Bush, school teacher, secured
| Judgment against R. V. Danforth be.
| cause of an assault made upon her by
| defendants son.
THE expert accountant who has been
examining the books of City Clerk
Manville and Treasurer Schneider, OF
Lyons, found an error of SO, 900 in the
latter's books. Its disbursement was
discovered, but there are no vouchers
to show where the money went, they
having been destroyed. Aside from
this, the report showed shortage OF
5000 by the two books. The doctoring
of some of the vouchers was conclus-
lively shown on the face of them
PROFESSOR NEwKIRK, the Murray
school superintendent whose immoral
conduct with his pupils has created a
great scandal, has been voted out OF
his position by the school board. At
the trial Newkirk admitted his lecher-
Gus actions and his own evidence was
clearly against him. Newl<irk feels
highly indignant at the boards de-
cision and declares he will shake the
dust of Iowa from his feet in a few
days. Professor Lain has been chosen
to the position.
IT is said peculiar cattle disease
has broken out on a farm six miles
north of Burlington. Six fine steers
died in short time from the disease.
The symptoms are almost like hydro
phobia. The animal is taken suddenly
with foaming at the mouth and loses
the power of swallowing. 1t charges
wildly around and finally falls into
fit and lies in a comatose condition.
then suddenly springs up and goes
through the performance again. Death
ensues after day of this suffering.
TIE assignee recently sold the assets
of the d. T. Hedges estate held by the
Union Loan and Trust Company of
Sioux City at the time of the failure.
The notes and mortgages against the
Hedges ranch in the south part of the
county, amounting In all to 100000,
were sold to representatives of the
Credits Communication Company for
S62, 900. A large number of mortgages
and notes on lots in the city were sold
at prices merely nominal, as the
mortgages will never be paid and the
purchasers get the property.
A SEDUCTION suit was being tried in
an Ottumwa justice court when the
plaintiff, a good looking young woman,
became so exasperated at Samuel
Smith for declaring that he had illicit
relations with her, that she knocked
him off the witness stand and then
tainted. After the minions of the law,
by the use of smelling salts and cold
water. had restored her, and George
Wilson, another witness, was testifying
similarly to Smith, she attacked him
with a chair and belabored him vicious
ly till the officers rescued the witness.
ACCORDING to an Independence dis
patch, formal notice has been given
that the Gedney hotel and opera house
will be closed June l. The street car
will be stopped and the track taken
up. -Four years ago, after the SEN
sational performance of AXtell and his
sale for S1O5, 900, C. w. Williams built
this block at a cost of something over
$500, 1000. At the same time he put in
the Rush park and Independence street
car line. which runs to the hospital
for the insane, two miles from the
city. The hotel and opera house form
solid brick block, and are claimed to
be the finest in the state. When
Williams failed these enterprises were
taken by the creditors, who have since
lost money in an effort 20 run them.
The home of Sherman Warrick, ten
miles east of Oskaloosa, was recently
the scene of a terrible affair. Mrs.
! Warrick administered poison to her
three children and then swallowed a
dose herself, dying from the effects on
the following day. A neighbor who
discovered the dying mother and her
children said that the mother had
called her children about her knee, a
baby girl scarcely a year old, and two
boys, one 5, the other 3. After kissing
them goodbye, she gave each a large
slice of bread spread with rough on
rats mixed with maple syrup. Waiting
till she saw her darlings in the agonies
of death she swallowed the remainder
of the box. She had mad an unusually
serious quarrel with her husband.
THE grand lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen held an in
teresting session at Fort Dodge. The
election of officers for the ensuing year
resulted as follows: Grand master
workman, w. r. Graham, Cedar Falls
grand foreman, H. Michelstetter, Siou2
City; grand overseer, R. l.. Tilton
Ottumwa: grand recorder, b. F
Rehkopf, Des Moines; grand receiver
William Wilson, Washington: gran'
guide, c. il. Churchill; grand watch
man, d. #. Dolan; grand trustee, O
4 Hartung; grand representatives, l.. q
Rowland. A. w. c. Weeks and p. S
Toyvla The GRAND recorders repOr