Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
NEWS FROM over iowa


Ed Wadsworth, one of Fontanelle's
best hardware merchants, has made an
assignment.
The Miller & Phelps mill at Fort
Dodge was totally destroyed by fire,
with loss of $4,000.
Lorens Zenffert. a well known flour
merchant, died at Burlington, aged 60,
leaving a widow and six children.
Mrs. Samuel Anderson, who was so
horribly butchered at Independence by
her insane husband nearly two weeks
ago, has died.
A Council Bluffs dispatch says that
Rock Island engineers may strike
because of grievance which the com
pany refuses to adjust.
Rev. DIR. Dennis Murphy, former
Keokul1 pastor and well known Iowa
Methodist minister, died suddenly of
apoplexy at West Liberty.
The discharged police officers have
fled specific charges of corruption
against Mayor Hills of Des Moines,
and the council is investigating.
Inform alton has been received from
Washington confirming the report that
the internal revenue Office will be trans
ferred from Burlington to Davenport.
The residence of c. w. Cook, seven
miles north of Odebolt, was totally
destroyed by fire, the occupants barely
escaping with their lives Loss, about
$4,000.
The officers and directors of the
defunct Cass County Bank of Atlantic
were re-arrested few days ago on
new indictments. Each gave bonds
for 81 900.
The jury in the Reams murder case
on trial at Mason City, brought in
verdict of manslaughter. Realms was
accused of killing his wife and pleaded
self-defense.
sudden stop was put to the case OF
the Union Mill Co. VS.. Lorenzo Suffert,
on trial at Burlington, by the striking
down of Juror j. L. Pugh. He was
prominent farmer.
1t is reported that two well-known
residents of Rickardsville, Dubuque
county, traded wives recently with the
consent of the latter. Their names
could not be learned.
Minnie Hoeft, the young girl ar
rested at Creston for stealing SIG from
ID. j. Miller, was tried in the Union
county district court and sentenced to
the reform school by Judge Towner.
The will of the late Samuel c. Bever,
of Cedar Rapids, has been broken by
the contestants, his three daughters,
the supreme court having affirmed the
decision of the lower court setting
aside the will.
While working near saw mill,
cross cut during the storm, E.. f. Sell
lev, prosperous farmer living near
Alden, in Hardin county, fell onto the
machine and was seriously and prob
ably fatally hurt.
The big building at Morning SIM,
occupied by Mckinley & Gavin. hard
ware, Morning Sun News, and num-
Der of lawyers offices, was burned.
Loss about 5000. The News loss was
total Insured about half
Horace Gage, claim agent for the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids &, Northern,
is authority for the statement that the
Chicago & Northwestern has bought
the Winona & Southwestern and will
extend it from Usage to Mason.
The story from Abba, printed in
Chicago and other papers about the
finding of a stone giant 20 feet long
near Centerville, is pronounced a
fake of the first water, there being
absolutely not the slightest foundation
to it.
In the case of the state of Iowa
against l.. f. White, convicted in the
Warren county district court for
forgery, the defendant was sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary, but
will appeal his case to the supreme
court.
Last November, d. M. Chiselm was
run over and killed by a Toledo,
Peoria & Western train at Keokuk and
his 2-year-old son hurt. The son, by
his mother, has now brought suit
against the railroad for 81 900 personal
injuries damage.
A remarkable phenomenon of the
recent cold spell was snow storm at
Burlington without a single cloud in
the eky. The mercury was 16 below
zero. The moisture in the air CONCEAL
ed into snow flakes, causing the phe-
nomenon.
Pension Agent George NJ. Van Leu
ven, who is in prison at Anamosa. is
said to be critically i'll with the dia-
bctes, and the president will be asked
to pardon him at once. The prison
physician asserts that prison life will
kill him.
The Marshalltown glucose works
have shut down, throwing 400 men out
of employment
An Iowa City dispatch says: The old
building in which the Iowa territorial