Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-02
news FROM over iowa


The celebrated Geiger-Payne breach
of promise damage suit is now on trial
at Mt. Ayr.
A little girl named Schinzel was
crushed to death by an electric car
at Burlington.
Cora Smith-McCamley was sentenced
at Des Moines to Imprisonment at
Anamosa for life for numbering her
father.
DR.. Jeffrey Martin. one of Clinton's
leading physicians, has brought suit
for 81, 900 damages against the Daily
Age for SANDER.
2 Burglars went through the safe in
the Winterset postotiice and secured
about $3.50 in cash and about 500 in
stamps. No clew.
The Clinton census takers have com
pleted their work making Clinton's
population 1900, a gain of nearly
1000 in five years.
Richmond, the wrecl1er of the Union
Building and Savings Association, of
Des Moines. is now on trial in the
federal court at Council Bluffs.
At meeting of Keokuk business
men, preliminary steps were taken for
the organization of company to put
in cheaper telephone system.
At a recent election Clinton and
Lyons both gave majorities for a
proposition for consolidation of the
Oil was discovered on the farm of
Edward Holland, two miles south of
Monroe, while the owner was digging
well. The oil appeared thirty feet
below the surface.
Des Moines police discovered fence
in the house of Pike Lynch, and re-
covered a lot of carpet, silks, etc. q,
recently stolen from dry goods stores
in Stuart and Des Moines.
Walter Strange, ex-supervisor of
Woodbury. county, was acquitted at
Sioux City after a trial lasting ten
days, in which he was charged with
obtaining money from the county on
false bills and other irregularities
while in office.
A dispatch says that c. w. Rowe,
county treasurer of Poweshiek county,
has been missing since the Goth; that
an investigation of his books reveals a
shortage of S35, 600 and that it is
believed that he has left the county
with the Doodle.
Governor Jackson has pardoned two
men from the Anamosa penitentiary-
Perry Bell. young man sent from
Tama county for one year for burglary,
and Bert Spencer, from the same
county for the same otfense and sent
for one year.
Mrs. D. A. V. Brum baugh, living
eight miles north of Guthrie Center on
a farm, took poison with suicidal
intent. She was successful. Mrs.
Brumbaugh was about IS years old and
leaves a family. No cause for the
rash act has been reported.
Clark Howard, a stock buyer at Jolly,
nine miles north of Rockwell City, shot
himself three times with a revolver,
the third shot killing him instantly.
Dependency caused by losses sustained
in the shipment of hogs is supposed to
have been the cause of his rash act
The funeral ceremonies over the
remains of the late ex-senator Wilson
were held at his home in Fairfield.
( All business was suspended in the city
during the afternoon and the business
houses were draped in mourning. Many
prominent people were in attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Wahle, of Daven-
port. recently went to Chicago to
nurse a sea who was suffering with
smallpox. The son died and the
parents returned to Davenport. A few
days ago Mrs. Wahle was taken down
with the disease, and is now in a
hospital.
At the state meeting of the Repub-
ican League Clubs at Des Moines the
following officers were elected: Pres
ident, F. R. Conaway; secretary, E. w.
Weeks; treasurer, Col. Frank G.. Let's
The selection of delegates to the
national convention was left to the
executive committee.
1t has just leaked out that Treasurer
Rowe, of POweshiek county, before
decamplng, not only stole from the
auditors Office the bond he gave, but
he also tore from the record all
references to it. 1t is question as to
the effect this will have upon the
enforcement of the provisions of the
bond.
d. Jones and Oscar Derry, each about
20 years of age and living about six
miles from Knoxville, were about to
rob clothing house in that city when
night Waterman took Derry in and
he confessed An effort to capture
Jones proved futile as he knocked the
Waterman down with a brick and
escaped.
The Griswold bank robbers were
sentenced to four and five years in the
penitentiary.
At o'clock a. m. fire destroyed six