Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-06
NEWS AND COMMENTS.


Council Bluffs was discharged Monday
after being out almost four days. The
jury stood nine to three for conviction.
County political matters are up and
coming In Cass county. Three gentle
men have announced their willingness
to serve as a candidate for recorder on
the republican ticket next fall.
Stanhope Register, who is on trial at
Boone for the murder of the despoiler
of his daughter, is making a strong
case of self defense and the general
opinion is that he will be cleared.
The Anita Republican intimates
that disbarment proceedings would be
the proper reward for the Cass county
attorney, who is said to have secured
damaging testimony against Isaac
Dickerson, by promising his influence
toward securing pardon for wintess
j. 9. Yetzer.
A bill has been introduced into the
state assembly to provide series of
circulating libraries for use of smaller
towns throughout the state. The plan
proposed to ship these books from
town to town at certain specified inter-
walls and to furnish them free to the
people, with merely fees enough to
provide for transportation and loss.
We do not consider the pi opposed bill
wise one. In the first place it will be
too expensive for the results obtained.
In the second place the fee charged.for
each book would, in these days when
standard works may be had for few
cents, neutralize the advantages Of the
library. Again, the books subjected to
such usage would be very short lived,
and the library would need constant
additions of new books. Public mon
ey can certainly be invested much
more effectively and proftably than in
this questionable library scheme.-Red
Oak Express.
A rather amusing incident happened
yesterday that furnished short season
of sport to those who had nothing else
to do but watch the outcome. 1t seems
that farmer had the misfortune to
break the tongue of his buggy some
time. ago while in the city. He was
in a hurry to get home, so he prevailed
upon city acquaintance to loan him
one until he could repair the damaged
property. Days have grown into
weeks and weeks into months and the
borrowed property was not returned
Notwithstanding the frequent requests
by the owner to do 30. Yesterday
the owner of the long lost tongue
found the borrowers vehicle standing
in front of one of our business houses.
A large. sized and full-grown idea en-
terered his head. 1t took him but
few moments to get monkey-wrench,
unhitch the horses and carry away his
property. The loss Of the buggy pole
didn't cause the farmer as much dis
comfort as the prying eyes of the
crowd when he was ready to start
home and found his buggy tOnguless.
-Grinnell Herald.
Saturday afternoon a cold blooded
murder was committed in Carroll
county north of Manning. The vic
tim was jew peddlar and the motive
was robbery. The murdered man took
dinner at a farm house about four
miles north of Manning. In about an
hour afterward his dead body was
found by boy who was driving his
cattle to a well, near a vacant house,
for water. When the boy first saw
him he thought the peddler was drunk
and notified some of the neighbors.
When they arrived they saw that the
man was dead, having been shot in the
back of the neck with shot gun. He
was evidently killed instantaneOusly
for he was carried to the house from
where he fell, distance of about a
rod. AS the man had no money or
watch on his person when found it is
evident that robbery was the only mo-
JlNC WuiCI lhfC lhuuICo viz
iend to commit so unprOvoked a
murder. The dead man was identified
as b. Levich of Des Moines. There is
no clue to the murderer, but a suspi-
cious character seen around Manning
for several days is thought to be the
guilty party.
At this time procedure on the revis-
ion of the code is chaotic. The work
has been divided haphazard among
various committees to digest and re-
wise, after which it will come before
the two houses, there to be again I'M
der fire and to be loaded down with
provisions. 1t is hardly probable that
through this process it will be finished
in manner to meet the approval of
deliberate minds after close scrutiny.
In the confusion aud clashing of di-
verse interests it is subject to jangle
that will entail untold trouble and ex-
pense upon litigants. If the work can