Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-13
IOWA NEWS.

The disease is believed to be conta-
gious.
The coal vein discovered on the farm
of John T. Miller, three miles north
of ERADICATE proves to be good quail
ity and about three feet thick.
A tramp, who was beating his way
on G. & N. w. freight train, collided
with bridge at Dakota City and was
killed. He was trying to climb the side
of the car, and the bridge being very
close there was not room enough
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Lum, old res
idents of Camanche, were driving near
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad
track near Clinton when their team be-
came unmanageable, dashed on the
track and they wer. struck by train
and both killed.
The building committee of the state
university awarded the contract for
the completion of the new collegiate
building to Contractors Warren Rob-
erts & Co., of Chicago, at their bid Of
$l5S,S50. The building will cost when
completed s1S5,OO0.
The dead body of an infant child
was found in the bottom of a well on
the place occupied by T. J. Marshall in
Oskaloosa. County Physician Cone
says the babe was born Of a negro
mother, but that its father was evil
IDENTIFY white man.
Two men giving the names of Cooks
by and Miller, held to the grand jury
in sums of $500 each for robbery COM
mitted at Center Point a few nights
ago, sawed out of Jail at Cedar Rapids
before being taken to the county jail
and made their escape.
Word has been received from Chair
man Hancock of the republican state
central committee that Lne date for
the state convention has been changed
from August to August on account
of the former date conflicting with the
state meeting of the Knights of Pyth-
las, to which order many workers be-
long.
At Carroll the grand jury returned
an indictment against A. w. Swender
for assault with intent to commit muir
DER and in default of $4,000 bail he is
in Jail. The assault was made on At
torney F. NJ Powers, who conducted
divorce proceedings against Swender
two years ago. The feeling of the COM
munlty is against SWender.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed in the United States district
court by Wade Curry of Council Bluffs,
claim agent of the Milwaukee railway.
His unsecured liabilities, consisting in
the main of borrowed money he SChed-
uled at $2590.72. His assets. he says,
consist of 500 worth of ordinary wear
ing apparel, which he claims as exempt.
The citizens of Sioux City are anx-
ious to secure the extension of the c..
M. & st. P railway from Rockweu City
to Storm Loke and Spencer. A commit
tee of prominent business men has been
selected to visit Des MOines soon and
confer with the Commercial Exchange
in order to secure the cooperation in
inducing the Milwaukee people to come
that way.
Judge Shiras, in the federal court
at Dubuque, decided that under the
bankruptcy act innocent third parties
can hold their securities. The court
holds that mortgages cannot be COM
PEELED to yield up the possession OF
property in their hands which passed
into their possession before proceed
ings in bankruptcy were begun, by an
order entered in a summary proceed
ing. The decision is considered one of
the most important under the law.
State Treasurer Herriott has filed
a protest with the executive council
against the railroad assessment just
made. He insists that the assessment
made against the Northwestern road is
not high enough and that it is an injuS-
tice TO people in all Iowa counties
through which that road passes. The
other members of the council filed an
answer to Mr. Herriott in which they
attempt to show that it is nothing but
a piece of political buncombe on his
part. 1t is likely to produce a political
sensation.
F. P. Sifford and family have re-
turned from Eagle Lake, Texas, They
arrived last week, bag and baggage, in
Guiding the steam threshing outfit
They shipped from Lohrville to Texas
on Wednesday, November "a, 1897, and
the lesson they have learned should
be of equal benefit to all those of our
people who are so dissatisfied with ouI
long winters as to be forever threat
ening to move to a warmer climate. >
Once in the south the poetry of the
thing begins to wear off after trying tC
raise a crop. No big fat steers in sight;
no great big porkers to market. Stand
UP for Iowa.
Stephen Nj. Marsh, one of the best
known attorneys of Northwestern 10
wa. is dead. He has been in falling
health for several years, and it car
not be said that his death was unex
pected For nearly thirty years he ha:
been regarded as one of the ablest law
vars in the west. For eight yeare hi
was public prosecutor of the Fourth
judicial district, and for one long tern
was county attorney Of Woodbury.
county. His associates say the he is
sacrifice to the rights and liberties O
the people of the northwest; that il
the years he held official positions h
oyerworked himself TO such an eXten
that his health and mind became i'm
paired.
DR.. Frederick Lloyd of Iowa Cit,
passed away last week. Over a yea
aso he was knocked down and rul
over by a team, and since that time ha
been failing, but the direct cause O
mis- death was grip.
The remains of Private Will Rudsill
company C, Forty-ninth Iowa, VIII
died at Havana, arrived in Cedar Rap
ids for burial. The G. A. R., ex-mem
bers of company c, and other organiza
lions attended the funeral, a large con
course following the remains to tn
grave. Private Rudisill makes the sec
ond Cedar Rapids boy to die of ty
phoid fever since the breaking ou
of the war.
The call has been issued for the dem
ocratic state convention to be he'll
In Des Moines Angus. 16.