Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-14
NEWS FROM over iowa

plosion of gun while hunting rabbits
near Lenox.
j. M. Casey, for eight years judge of
the district court of Lee county, just
entering on his third term died of APP
poplexy at his home in Fort Madison
on the 9th.
James Storey, Sioux City cattle
speculator went to Omaha with five cars
of cattle, for which he received $1,000.
He has not been heard from since, and
his friends fear foul play.
The big stock barn of Jeff Phillips,
and contents, at Cedar Rapids. were
completely destroyed by fire. Loss,
$1,000: insurance, $4,000. Assertion,
three-year-old trotter valued at 81 900,
was burned to death.
Governor Frank d. jackson has par
doned Harvey Price, sent from
Buchanan county to Anamosa prison
for three years on the charge of
attempting to commit rape. He came
to the prison February /, 1894.
Miss Bessie Fuller, whose home is in
Cedar Rapids, died at Dubuque from
burns inflicted while lighting fire
with kerosene Her clothes were en-
tirely burned from her body and her
hair and eyebrows also burned off.
Superintendent Hartman, of the IL
linois Central road, met with serious
accident at Dubuque by falling through
-, 10 g If
fee His leg was placed in a plaster
cast. He will be laid up for some
time
Judge A. n. Hobson's beautiful home
at West Union. one of the finest in
northeastern Iowa, was damaged by
fire, the loss being fully covered by in
surance. 1t is supposed to have orig
mated from an overheated furnace
chimney.
A Manson dispatch of the 9Th says:
Last night the thermometer registered
81 degrees below zero, the coolest we
have had for several years. The city
water works are frozen solid and
Manson would be in a precarious con-
dition for fire
While digging a well on the farm OF
j. T. Tenninger, near Clarion, gold
was discovered at the depth of 140 feet.
1t was found IN veins from three to six
feet in depth. Mr.. Tenninger intends
to commence work as soon as he can
make arrangements.
Ex-President Yetzer, of the defunct
Cass County Bank has been confined
in jail at Atlantic in default of $1,000
bonds, pending appeal to the supreme
court, he having been convicted of
wrecking the bank. Ex-Vice President
Dickerson secured bondsmen.
State Senator Isaac w. Baldwin died
at his home in Cascade on the 9th, of
dropsy, aged 60 years. He was until a
year ago owner of the Cascade Pioneer,
and was forcible writer and power
in Dubuque county politics. He was
the first mayor of Cascade. His wife
and eight children survive MN.
A petition in boots" consisting of
300 men, marched to the city council
uctlluS dI q lS" AlS dSo
and succeeded in defeating an ordi-
nance which obligated the city to offer
no subsidy for a high bridge across the
Mississippi at the northern limits of
the town. The ordinance was offered
by the owners of the high bridge down
town and obligated them to sell to the
city at cost.
Ackley has damage suit on hand.
DIR. c. D. O'Brien, one of the leading
physicians, has brought suit for s., 900
damages. When the water works were
being tested recently. the horse that
the doctor was driving became fright
ened at a stream of water coming from
the hose, and ran away. The doctor
received serious injuries at the time
that he now asks the town to compep-
safe him for.
Dubuque dispatch: The construction
of the new propellors for the Ericsson
has been altered from the original
plans. The plans called for propellers
making 42O revolutions per minute.
The preliminary trial trips have shown
that this speed was too high for safe
ty. The new propellers will show an
increase in pitch and size and a reduc-
ton of revolutions 1t is expected
that gain of one knot will be made
by the change.
State Commander George A. New
man, of Cedar Falls, and Adjutant
Chase, of Des Moines, went to Clinton
one day last week to confer with the
citizens committee in regard to mat
tiers pertaining to the &. A. R. encamp-
ment to be held here May and 8. A
meeting was held at the Revere House,
at which plans for work were adopted
and the duties of the various commit
ices were laid down. The business
men of Clinton have taken hold of the
matter and will endeavor to make the
meeting the pleasantestuever held.
In the federal court at Keokuk John
Krewson was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment and fined 81 ZOO, and S.
i. Lusha to eight years Imprisonment