Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
IOWA NEWS.


c. c. Hunt, of Montezuma, has is
sued a circular letter to the chess
players of Iowa. relating to the for
nation of state association. A meet
ing is to be held at Grinnell April Il.
Mrs. Laura Denny, executor of the
estate of Thos. Denny, has brought suit
in the district court at Webster City
against the Northwestern railway for
$4,000 for the death of her husband
at Belle PLANE. Iowa.
The state university of Iowa and the
state university of Nebraska will hold
track meet in Des Moines the COM
ing summer, and probably play a foot
ball game here in the fall, if the prop
er encouragements are offered.
Thos- Hardie a resident of Dubu
que for fifty-four years, died last week,
aged 80 years. For the past thirty-six
years Mr.. Hardie had been secretary of
the board of education and previous
to that held various important posi-
lions.
G. A. Barbour, manager of the Bos-
ton Store of Oskaloosa, went to Of
tumwa, where he was summoned to
appear before the United States COM
missioner. 1t is understood that he
neglected to stamp perfumery, and GER
tain proprietary articles before selling
them, and the revenue collectors were
advised of the fact
1t has been discovered that the men,
bers of company B. of the Fifth bat
terry, Iowa volunteers, raised in Bur-
lington for the Spanish war, but w;;:cn
did not get further than the camp at
Des Moines, are entitled to an extra
months pay under the recent act Of
congress. The battery will get in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
Claude Lyle, a clerk in a drug store
at Clear Rapids, was found bound and
gagged in the prescription room. He
said that two men held him at the
point Of a revolver, robbed him of $72
and escaped. Later in the day when
closely questioned by the authorities,
he admitted he did the work himself.
He returned the money.
A Logan dispatch says the three
young men who beat an old man nam
ed A. Schivalier into insensibility and
then left him to freeze in a cold barn,
as reported a few weeks ago, have
been indicted by the grand jury and
their bonds fixed at $4,000 each Suits
have been brought against the parties
for damages in the sum of $2,0Oc from
each and also against their parents
for $4,000 each.
The dairymen of Sioux City are
talking Of getting up a state organiza-
ton for mutual Pre-. lection and to Sc
cure legislation. This idea is the re-
suit of investigations in Sioux City
as to the existence of tuberculosis In
the herds of the city. This investiga-
ton has resulted in large number of
cows being killed by order of the au-
thorities. The dairymen complain be-
cause no provision is made in the stat
utes for reimbursing them for their
loss.
Some sensational charges were made
in the district court at Sioux City in
the trial of the case of Franz Kosak.
charged with accepting a bride when
acting as a juror. Kosak about six
weeks ago made a signed confession,
and now, when placed on the witness
stand in his own behalf, after demand
ing trial, charges that the states at
torney and the chief of police of Sioux
City frightened him into making the
affidavit. He says he was told If he
did not make it that ne would be pros
ecuted, and that he was led to believe
it was only to be used against the
man who gave him the bride and that
Kosak was not to be prosecuted at all.
The general opinion is that Kosak told
the truth in his affidavit and not in
court.
A sad accident occurred at the home
of Joseph LingScheit, a prominent
farmer living south of Cherokee which
resulted in the death of his daughter,
Lena Rosina, aged IS years. Louis
Lingscheit, a brother of the young
lady, aged about IA years, had gone
to the river hunting. and on his way
home extracted the shells from the
gun, but on reaching home had re-
loaded it to shoot some sDarrows
around the barn. On going into the
house the young lady playfully took
hold of the gun, saying I'm not afraid
of it." The boy said to her, ITS load
ed" and raised the hammer and fired
the gun. The charge entered the Ierr
side of the young lady's chin, splitting
the roof of her mouth and lodged in
the base of her brain. killing her in
stantly.
Mrs. Annie E. George, who Is on
trial at Canton, O., for the murder Of
George d. Saxton, brother of Presi-
dent McKinley's wife, has taken the
dispositions of Sioux City men to be
read at the trial. 1t appears that in
1892 Saxton and Mrs. George met III
Sioux City. She was then living at
Canton, S. D., securing a divorce from
her husband, and Saxton came from
Canton, O.. to meet her. They regis
tered at the Booge hotel as George D.
Saxton and wife, Canton" This she
is now trying to prove TO the jury in
the celebrated case in the effort 20
show that Saxton had deceived her
and that perhaps there may he miti-
eating circumstances in her favor.
They certainly were in Sioux City and
occupied a room over night, and now
she wants it known.
John Kratz of Onawa was bound
over to the grand jury by Justice Ross,
charged with assault with intent to
commit murder. Henry Kratz, his
father, was given nominal fine, and
Frank Kratz was put under bonds to
keep the peace.
M. ]. Golden, who for the last eight
years has been station agent at Ona-
wa for the Northwestern and Elkhorn,
has been promoted to succeed A. w.
Eberhart as travelling agent for the
Northwestern road. He will have
northern Iowa as his territory. Mr..
Golden is succeeded by Frank Reed,
who has been cashier in the office of
tho Elkhorn at Fremont.
At Lehigh a jealous lover vainly at
tempted to shoot his sweetheart and
then killed himself.
The relatives and friends of young