Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
IOWA STATE NEWS.

Jane Allison, aged sixty eight, |
pioneer O, Clinton, was drowned in tn,
Mississsppt Thursday by the capsizins
of u skiff.
Ida, the two-yeA r.old child of I. Q
Slavan, was trample> ! TO death at kol
and Friday, by horse while playing
in his fathers yard.
At Davenport Eddie Benedlxen
aged eleven years, was struc. oy al
engine while driving over a CT >osslhe
on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids aho
Northern road Thursday. He wa
fatally injured.
At Cedar Point Saturday aften on
the four Cherry sisters, who have
gained much notoriety on account of
the unique entertainments they give,
cowhIded the editor of the Tribune of
that place. He had published an arti-
Gle in his paper at which they took Of
tense. An were arrested and each fined
$40 and costs,
Perhaps the oldest woman ever sent
to an American penitentiary arrived
in Anamosa last week in the person of
Mrs. Everett, of Dubuque, who is n
years old. Her crime is that of abor.
ton and she has a sentence Of eight
months. This is her second term for the
same oifense. She served her first sen
tence of six months in 1885, when she
was 81 years old.
Mrs. James S. Clarkson, wife of the
Iowa politician, who is occupying
cottage on Ceder Avenue, Hollywood,
New Jersey, is recovering from run
away accident which occurred Thurs
day. The horse ran away and over
turned the carriage. Mrs. Clarkson
was dragged several feet. She was
carried to her home in an unconscious
condition. Mrs. Clarkson is still unable
to raise her left arm, but aside from
this, has fully recovered.
Thursday as the family of Joseph
Trease, of Kellogg, were at breakfast,
with the exception of two young boys,
aged seven and eleven years, the older
of the two got out of bed and playfully
getting the shotgun said to his brother,
off you don't get up will shoot YOU"
and pointed the gun at the younger,
when it was discharged, taking away
the entire head of the younger boy.
At Ripley's resort, four miles west OF
Lake City, on last Sunday, Mack Rip
ley, brother of the proprietor, made a
dive from the steamboat into shallow
water, striking on his head in the
gravel with such force as to almost
completely paralyze him, and from the
effects of which he died Friday. Mr..
Ripley was an employe of the Chicago
an Northwestern railway. He was q
member Of the l. o. o. F., under the
auspices of which he was buried. He
leaves wife and several small chill
dren.
Saturday afternoon Post0fllce lnspec-
tor Stuart and several assistants arrest
en- Patrick CORN, Robert Evans, Chas.
Burch and Lawrence Guinan at a Chica-
go hotel'o the charge Of having sent a
large number of green goods circulars
through the mails In the last two weeks.
The party was caught while making a
deal with Inspector Mercer, who was
suppo sed to be an Iowa armer with
$500 cash to trade for green goods. He
was aided by friend, Walter j. Will
son, of Corning, Iowa, who had receiv-
ed one of the circulars. While the
prisoners were being taken to the sta
ton CORN tried to pass package to a
confederate, but Inspector Christian
drove them away at the poiut of his
revolver. All were committed to
jail.
A case was tried in the district court
at Council Bluffs Friday involving the
title of 1926, 900 worth of city and farm
property that has a greater public in
terest than its simple financial phase.
For nearly forty years Stephan Dunn
was familiar figure in Council Bluffs.
He was a tailor with good business
tact and in the course of years had
accumulated great deal of property.
He had family since the earliest
recollection of him here. He died in
1887 and the property was divided. A
month or more ago lady rs years old
drifted into town and called upon
County Attorney c. G. Saunders. She
said her name was Jane Ann Miltner
Dunn, and that she was the wife of
Stephan Dunn; that she was married
to Dunn in Montreal, Canada; lived
there with him until three children
were born, then removed with him to
Cincinnati, where they lived until 1856,
when Dunn took his three boys and
came to Council Bluffs. That was the
last she ever heard Of him or her boys.
She was taken sick and sent to hos
pital and when she recovered she be-
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