Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-05-04
IOWA NEWS.

were seized at Ottumwa by Deputy
Collector Vest, because the revenue
stamps on the boxes which contained
them were counterfeits. Charles Bing.
ham owned the cigars. He bought
them of William Jacobs of Lancaster,
Pa, claiming to know nothing OF the
quality of the stamps.
Word was received in Marshalltown
of the death by asphyXiation, at the
Brunswick Hotel, Minneapolis, Of Cap..
Samuel Fullerton, of Green Mountain.
a wealthy old sea captain, IS years Of
age, who has made his home for a
number of years with his daughter,
Mrs. Robert Coates, two miles west Of
Green Mountain church, on the old
George Pegg farm.
The boycott placed by the labor I'M
ions upon the Grand opera house in
Sioux City has been raised and all diff
ferences have been satisfactorily set
tied. 1t is several weeks since the
stage employees of the opera house
went on a strike, and the management
Immediately employed non-union help.
Then followed the boycott of the la
Dor unions of Sioux City, which was
strictly adhered to by twenty-five diff
ferent organizations. Finally, it was
decided to arbtrate the differences,
and w. H. Bastian, editor of the UE-
ion Advocate, was chosen arbiter.
Rev. Elmer Everest, who recently
died in Council Bluffs, was rs years
old. He was a retired Congregational
minister and a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. The remains
ta1ypn n Grin Mr
was born in Peru N. Y, and was mar
ried to Miss Anna Mary Fort, daugh-
ter of Ex-Governor Fort, of New York.
September 6. 1866. He filled pastor
ates in Brooklyn, New York and
Moores, prior to his marriage. After
his marriage he went to Illinois as
home missionary, and continued as
such throughout Illinois and Iowa
until his voice failed him, while
preaching at Belle PLANE, Iowa in
1880.
The executive council Of the state of
Iowa of the year 1894 was responsible
for the irregular mode in which the
census of 1897 was taken and that the
greater portion of the excessive cost
which was entailed upon the state of
AO"d ny lCdSOu vi Tic ldCl lHdl Tic
census was not taken according to law
was caused by the action of the coun-
Gil. This was the ruling of Judge
Holmes at Des Moines and virtually
wins the case for Mcfarland and his
bondsmen. Nearly all the money which
the state claimed was spent wrongful
ly was expended in this census in the
work in the secretary's office in max
inc tho q ct ha Of
the assessors there, instead of permit
ting the auditors to make them as the
law required.
An Atlantic City IN. j. dispatch
says: Representatives D. B. Hender-
son Of Iowa announced his candidacy
today for the speakership of the ma
tional house of representatives. To an
Associated Press reporter General
Henderson said: LAS the silence of
Mr.. Reed and the information from
many quarters clearly indicate that he
will again be candidate for the speak
ership and as the Iowa delegation is
in favor of my candidacy have decid
ed to enter the race" General Hen
derson has received assurances of cor
dial support from every member Of
the Iowa delegation and from repre-
sentatives-elect in other states. He is
much gratified at the information that
reached him today. that his Iowa col
leagues will meet in Des Moinos next
week to perfect the details of his cam
paign.
H E. Laux, alias John Brennan. and
believed to have a dozen other aliases,
and a clever crook, who has been Ope-
rating over the western country for
some time, was arrested at Cedar Rap
ids and has been turned over to the
authorities of Newton. On Wednesday
Brennan, Burlington, la. Calling on
brennan, Burlington, Ia. Calling on
Frank Failor, a prosperous farmer
near there, he bought $1,000 worth of
Shorthorn cattle and contracted for
$4,000 worth to be delivered in the
fall. He claimed to be the owner of
a big ranch near Holdrege, Neb.. and
when he went to Newton he drew
draft on the Holdrege bank for the
purchase price of the cattle and $50
more, stating he had run out of rea-
dy money The cashier did not like
the looks of things, and telegraphed
to Holdrege and found he was fraud.
He followed the fellow up and he was
taken this morning while eating his
breakfast.
The dispatch from Des Moines pub
lished in the papers announcing that
Robert l.. Daley of company l., Fiji
,ty-first Iowa, had died of his wounds
received in battle before Calumpit ap-
pears to be without foundation. In
,Quiries addressed to the Des Moines
morning papers elected the informa-
ton that the dispatch had first ap-
peared as a special from Council Bluffs
in the Capital or that city, an after
noon paper. No cablegram has been
received announcing the death of Dali
ley, neither was any such dispatch sent
from Council Bluffs to Des Moines
Judge Walter I. Smith of the district
court telegraphed to Adjutant General
Byers asking him to find out by what
authority the Des Moines papers had
published the dispatch. Adjutant Gen
eral Byers wired back as follows:
Reported death of Robert Daley was
a special to the Capital from Council
Bluffs. Seems 10 be without founda-
ton"
Lieutenant Sisson Of the First Ne
braska, who was killed recently in the
battle of Calumpit, was born in Shelby
county. His parents lived on farm
in Polk township eighteen years ago
and were known by many people.
A corps of engineers is at work in
a valley running north of Sioux City,
and the men are laying out line of
railway for some purpose or another
They decline to say by what road they
are employed, and the railway men Of
Sioux City deny all knowledge of the
intention of the survey. Some are
of the opinion that it is the Chicago &
Northwestern, intending to connect