Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

The republican state central COM
mittee met at Des Moines and decided
that the state convention to name del
egates to the national convention
would be held in Des Moines May 10.
r. @. Cousins win act as temporary
chairman.
Sioux City dispatch: A liquor de-
cision of interest to all Iowa has been
handed down by Judge Gaynor in the
district court in Sioux City. He holds
that every saloon that has disregarded
the mulct law can be closed, and that
any citizen can proceed against any
saloon. All the saloons in Sioux City
have violated the law.
Christopher Bauer, a Garfield town
ship, Plymouth County farmer, was
killed a few nights ago by his
brother-in-law, Earnest Meyers, at the
latter's farm in Rutland township,
Woodbury. county. Meyers quarrelled
with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Dora
Bauer, and struck her. Bauer inter
fered and Meyers severed his jugular
vein with pocket knife. Meyers was
arrested.
ii. c. Fuller, well known farmer
living about three miles north of Ne
vada, attempted to commit suicide a
few days ago by taking laudanum.
He took the poison at Nevada and over
estimated the dose, so that it failed to
kill him. Prompt medical assistance
soon put him out of danger, although
he is still under its effects. Domestic
troubles are supposed to be the cause
of the deed.
At Des Moines recently the nomi-
nations for the new field officers of the
Fifty-frst regiment, in the Iowa Ma
tional Guard were made at a meeting
of the captains and line officers at the
Slavery House. Seven companies were
represented by their officers and three
more by letter. so the meeting is fairly
considered to have represented ten out
of the eleven recognized companies
of the regiment. 1t was the unani-
nous sentiment of the meeting that
General Lincoln should be chosen
colonel of the new regiment. Aside
from General Lincoln. those at the
meeting voted to support for majors,
Captain +. II. Bennett, of Company II,
Captain w. c. Mentzer of Company ID.
and Captain William Il. Widner Of
Company /.
Des Moines dispatch: A. d. John
son was arrested by Detectives Il. 4.
johnson of Des Moines and L. Il. Car
rington, of st. Louis, just as he and an
alleged brother giving his NAM rs
Olaf B. Anderson were taking the
Rock Island train for Omaha. John
son is believed to be one of the most
notorious swindlers in the United
States. The immediate crime upon
which his arrest was based was the
forgery OF Sc, 500 in checks against st.
Louis banks. He apparently gave up
when the great array of evidence Sc
cured by the detectives was made
known to him and agreed to go to St.
Louis for trial without demanding the
issuance of requisition papers. He
left for st. Louis In charge of Detective
Darlington. IL the detectives are cor
rect, johnson has operated in all the
principal cities of the United States,
working number of games with
equal facility, but so far as known he
has been living here quietly with his
wife and 3-year-Old daughter. The
various aliases under which he is said
to have operated are A. i. Johnson,
Olaf b. jacobson, Henry NJ. Preston.
Charles T.. Brown, Charles w. Brown,
A. /. Wood, o. B. Peterson and o. Is.
Anderson. His operations are sup
posed to have Melted him hundreds Of
thousands of dollars, and although he
is but IS yt-:s of age he is rec.soned
one of the smoothest men in the
protess!cr.