Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

| A slight frost was observed at Hampton Sat
urday morning. The mercury was down to AZ
degrees
| Miss Cora Little, of Grand River, was kicked
| by vicious horse at Leon Sunday evening and
fatally injured.
] Jesse Davis, who Is wanted at Rockville, Ind,
| for attempted wife murder, was captured al
! Abba, Iowa, last Monday.
| William Nelson, of Clarion, who has been i'll
for a long time comtted suicide Monday morn
| ing by cutting his throat with a razor.
! The merchants of Boone have entered into an
agreement to close their places of business at
0 o'clock p. IN. during the year commencing on
July /.
! While fooling with lawn mower the other
evening Robert Gibson, of Boone, had his hand
caught in the machine in such manner as to
! lose finger.
| j. Ii. BeSter, a workman employed in the
| Holman brick yards at Sargent's Bluffs, near
Sioux City was instantly killed saturday by
failing dirt which covered him up.
| The Waterloo Courier is confused as to the
| situation in Hardin county. ave have read no
newspaper account, it says, "of an editor elop-
| ing or being arrested for nearly IL week"
The grand lodge of the Iowa Good Templars
| will convene i'll Dubuque the last Tuesday III
August. The training school will convene
the Friday preceding the grand lodge SEES
sion.
| Three young lads, sons OF highly respected
| citizens of Waterloo, left town recently TO see
the country. one OF them is reported to have
! had so in his possession 1t is believed they
| have gone 10 Chicago
| Alvin Bliss, u farmer living near Cedar Rap
] ids, was arrested Friday morning for raising "a
cheek OF $II.GG given by I. Nj. Sinclair Il Co. to
Slli.GG lie was bound over in the sum of $500.
lie plead poverty as an excuse.
A masked robber Tuesday held up Mrs. Au-
| guSta Ware, daughter of the millionaire, Chaun-
| cey Lamb, Oh one of the leading residence
streets of Clinton, in broad daylight and eScap-
ed with her purse containing Il large sum of
| money,
The Milwaukee and St. Paul depot and
| freight house, Northwestern depot, Case q
| CO.'S agricultural nipple ment warehouse, De-
! mOur & Cook s hardware store, and the Clinton
County Advertiser were burned Monday morn
ing Loss $4,000,
| The depot belonging to the Chicago, Iowa &
| Dakota railway company at Eldora junction
| burned to the ground Thursday evening. The
building was two-story frame structure, cost
ing about 81 200 The origin OF the fire is I'M
known. IL was partly insured.
The corner stone of the new temple at Marion
was laid Thurday afternoon with appropriate
ceremony. The address WAS mad9 by Grand
Master Hall, of Iowa City. Short addresses
were also made by Grand Secretary Parvin,
Gen. George w. Jones, of Dubuque, and others.
Incorporation papers were fled at Council
Bluffs Monday by the Iowa Harrison Telephone
and Construction company capitalized at $780,,
coo. The incorporates are all local men and
| have purchased the exclusive right to construct
and operate the Harrison telephone in this
state
| John Chandler, a farmer residing twelve
miles northwest of Fairfield, was found in the
public highway Thursday night in an uncon-
sciOus condition. No bruises can be found on
his person, and he has not recovered sufficient
ly to enable him to tell how he became in this
condition.
The annual retreat of the arch diocese of
Dubuque closed last Friday. 1t was the most
successful retreat ever held. AT the close $685.
600 subscribed for the erection of a theologi-
cal seminary in Dubuque. The construction
will be commenced at once and the building
will CO.'S $4,000 when completed.
Sheriff Wylie, of MuScatinc, Iowa, ar
rived at San Francisco, Cal, last Monday with
eXtradition papers for Henry Johnson. 1t is
alleged that johnson, while treasurer of the
county, embezzled $4,000 and fed to Hawaii.
He arrived there year ago He was brought
AZ. int,
genCG.
Miss Amy Harris, who attempted suicide a
week ago last Sunday at Winterset with an old
! hand saw, and who succeeded in severing her
windpipe, died Sunday morning and was buried
Monday afternoon. During the time she lin
gered she was unable to swallow anything and
although conscious she did not show any signs
of suffering,
/ The State Bar Association completed its an
nual session Saturday. Resolutions were Of
J fered by the committee providing that a
student shall be able to show he studied three
years before admission and an English educa-
ton as an equivalent to high school course
was amended so as not to go into effect until
two years after its pass age.
Newton is undergoing considerable excite,
ment caused by the attempt of several men to
drink case OF beer in box car. The station
agent ordered them out and had to knock one
of the men down shortly after in self defense
The city marshal took hand in the game and
dubbed one man and had fist fight with an
other. Several arrests followed.
A sensation was created ythe disappearance
of w. b. Lysle, a prominent society and bust
ness man, of Sioux City, Monday. He was in
the employ of Igerson 4 West, a commission
firm, and an investigation is being made of his
accounts on the theory that he was short. 1t is
also reported that woman was the cause Of
his departure. His wife thinks he is insane.
The Credits Communication company, which
practically owns the stock yards at Sioux City
has completed arrangements to open new
stock yards bank September 10 to take the
place Of the Union Stock Yards State bank
which wOs swamped during the financial crash
of 1893 The new organization will be capital
lied at 100000 and deal exclusively in cattle
paper
At 4:30 Tuesday afternoon the Stake House al
Jefferson was in ruins destroyed by fire started
in the kitchen. There was no insurance on the
| hotel a q Tha nolicy held nv the pronrjator ex