Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-03-16
IOWA. NEWS.


the Farmers Loan and Trust company
of Sioux City, and after thirty-iye
years Of business in one building II
will be removed April /.
A Webster City dispatch says that q
banquet will in all probability be given
to Adjutant General Byers when he
comes to that city to muster in the
members of Company c. The muster
ing in of the new company will include
about 80 per cent of the old company.
The republican state central commit
tee decided upon August 8 as the date
for the coming state convention and
upon Des Moines as the place, the
citizens of Des Moines putting up a
certified check for $1,000 to guarantee
the completion of an auditorium cap
able of seating 1000 people in timo
for the convention. On the final ballot
the vote stood Des Moines, six:
Sioux City, four, and Davenport, one
There was great rejoicing in Oska-
loosa over the report from Washington
that an appropriation OF $4,000 had
been made by congress for a public
building in Oskaloosa. Flags were I'M
furled and people ran hither and thith-
er like they do on the Fourth of July
Measured by Oskaloosa and Mahaska
county people, Congressman Lacy is
the biggest man in the United States
today, as 1t was due to his tireless
Morts that the bill was passed.
Thomas Apland, a prominent mer-
hant at Kalo, attempted suicide by
taking laudanum. Apland has occa-
tional periods of i'll health, at which
lines he is very respondent The other
light he suffered recurrence of his
bid trouble. and rose to take some
medicine. Finding no relief in this,
probably in a fit of desperation, he
drank from bottle of laudanum. AL
most Immediately afterward he re-
pented of his act and told his wife o!
what he had done, and by vigorous
work he was saved.
Thornton Whitaker Hayes and Mrs.
Lettie Hoffman of Marshalltown, who
are the grand children of Captain
John Whitaker of theAmerican revo-
lutlonary army, have information OF
wealth to come to them from England.
Rev. Whitaker of Denver, Colo, In
forms them that Captain Whitaker In
1776 obtained from a Tory resident OF
the American colonies the assignment
OF large amount of English consols
which were then and still remain in
the custody of the Bank OF England.
1t has developed that John Gilbert
who Drained his wife and children al
a small town not far from Emporia
Kas., and then flew to that city and
was arrested, was married to the
woman he murdered in Hamilton
county and lived before his departure
in Cass township. three miles north
of Webster City. He was considered a
good-for-nothing fellow, and had very
few friends. The murdered woman
was a sister of Mrs. Fred Allen. who
still lives in Cass township, and has
been Frustrated by the news of his
crime.
The people Of Clinton are rejoicing
over the appropriation made by con-
gress of 100000 to be used in the
erection of a government building
there. Beside this, $4,000 have been
appropriated in the river and harbor
bill for improvements of the river al
that point. The city will cooperate
with the government in the removal
of the sand bar at that place and the
result will be a beautiful park two
miles in length along the river front
The levee will be used as a dumping
ground, and here the immense bar
will be placed.
Suit has been commenced in the
United States circuit court at Council
Bluffs against the Union Pacific Rail.
way company for $4,000 damages by
divide Wen, as administrator of the
estate of the late William Rohan, who
was killed in the wreck at Silver
Creek, Ne5., October 26 of last year
The suit for $4,000 brought by Ad-
ministrator Wien in the state court will
be dismissed. 1t was in connection
with this estate that an effort was
made by the parents Of the dead man
to have Wen ousted as administrator
his appointment having been made or
No application of a woman claiming
20 be the widow of the dead fireman
Judge Smith, after ruling that the wo.
mans claims were without foundation
retained Wien as administrator.
Post No. II, G. A. R., Clarinda
passed the following resolution: Re.
solved, That it is with feelings of re.
greet and shame-yes, with bitter in.
dignation, that we learn of the actor
of the board of control who have in
charge all of our state institutions, il
advertising for bids, and letting the
contract to the lowest bidder, for the
burial of our comrades who served in
the union army during the grea'
American rebellion, and in so doinl
have classed the boys who wore the
blue during the dark days from 1856
to 1866 as common paupers. Shame OF
the individual or class of individual.
who will so far forget the debt o.
love and gratitude we owe to these
brave boys who by their deeds of bray
cry and valor on the field of battl,
have made it possible for us to enio,
our homes. of peace and plenty in thi!
God-given land, while they have beer
less fortunate. and by combinations O.
circumstances have been compelled Il
seek homes in our state institutions
furnished by generous and loyal peo
pie, and now in less than thirty-fv,
years after the close of the war. a!
they come to the closing scenes of lif,
they can look forward with blissfu
anticipations to pauper's burial.
General ]. b. Lincoln, late brigade
general in the United States voluntee
army, was, in accordance with an &C
ton taken by the board of trustees
reinstated professor of military scienc
and tactics in the Iowa State Agricul
tural college.
Company NJ, Seventh United State
mmunes, arrived last week from Ma
ron, Ga. after being mustered out il
that city. OF the eighty members O
the company but fifty returned, tn
remainder having married down sout
and decided to locate there. The com
pany complains very much of the treat
mpnf given Ii hN tho rhitn r,nnrlo %