Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1885-12-31
IOWA CONDENSED.

clothes wringer
Burlington's improvements during the past
year foot up over 100000.
The new pipe organ for St. Patrick's church
in Dubuque, viii cost 81 300.
A Dubuque lady named Mcclure scored her
Tooth birthday on Christmas
Five hundred tons Of coal are taken out dali
| ly at Wilson's mine near Lehigh.
Charles Newton of Calliope, will receive
! hereafter
Waterloo has been selected as the place for
the next meeting Of the Iowa sheriffs' conyen-
ton to be held in July.
The rumor that the Chicago & Northwestern
| road would move their division headquarters
| from Hawarden to some point farther west is
without foundation.
| The Clinton police made a raid on the saliva
tionists the other night as they were parading
the streets making discordant music, and ran
the whole army into the cooler.
The town council of Orange City has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the keeping Of bill
lard or pool room in the same block with a
saloon; also providing that saloons shall abol-
ish screens and blinds ON windows, and run as
| openly as stores.
] Charley Lyle, of Montgomery county, raised
900 bushels of potatoes this season from three
acres of ground. This at the rate he sold them
| would bring $227 or $7566 per acre, and he
was able to DO all the work himself, except a
small outlay Of $780,
Christmas festivities were observed at all the
| public institutions Of Iowa.
A meeting Of citizens of Waterloo was held
in the interest of the proposed Waterloo, De
corah & La Crosse railway and fund was
| raised to assist in the survey. This line win
unquestionably be built from some point near
| La Crosse TO junction with the Diagonal at
or near Waterloo. 1t is stated that Il. T. VIII
son, of New York, the owner Of the Diagonal,
is heavily interested in the project.
At the regular meeting of.the governors
| greys In Dubuque thirty promised to go to Des
Moines to join the military escort to Governor
| elect Larrabee on the occasion of his inaugu
ration. More may go. The greys viii leave
| there January 18th, and will be gone day and
| half. Transportation aud subsistence will be
furnished by the state.
Ralph Potter, young and unmarried stock
dealer of Waverly, Bremen county, who had
been drinking, suicided by taking laudanum.
William Poehlman, aged SO years, commit
ted suicide at Davenport in a desperate man
ner. Mounted on box, he adjusted a rope,
| cut the veins in his wrist with razor, and
then kicked away the box. The body present.
| ed CHASTITY sight when found. He had been
on protracted spree and committed the deed
while in q fit of despendcncy
A lamp upset by by a little child of J. II.
Bruby, came near causing disastrous fire at
Hospers
A petition has been filed for an injunction
against the International Distiliery at Des
! Moines for the manufacture and sale of liquor
contrary to law. The petitioners are J. E.
| Pearson and S. j. Longhran, citizens of Des
| Moines, the former prominent prohibitionist
and lawyer, and the latter the editor of the
State Journal in that city. Hon. Lewis Tod
! hunter of Indanola has been retained as the
| attorney of the petitioners in the case. 1t is
| proposed to make this test case. For some
| time the question OF the right of these parties
to manufacture for export purposes has been
banded back and forth by the newspapers Of
the State and still remains unsettled. One side
claims that their right to manufacture for ex-
port is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution
and that Safe Legislat---Hs are not competent
to make laws control g. The other con-
tend that the questse , control is one for
each State to settle ap nat the Federal Gov
eminent has no right to interfere.
An Ottumwa lad named Porter George was
killed while coasting a few days ago Some
one In spirit of fun threw timber across the
track and the boy was struck just above the
eyes, cutting bad cash and INJECTING injuries
from which he died two days later.
The case against Mrs. Nellie Long, charged
with assault with intent to kill Mrs. Susie Gray,
at Creston, was tried at Alton, and the jury
returned a verdict of assault with intent to
commit great bodily injury.
A quantity of cheese was sent in from Britt
to the State Board of Health for analysis, on
account of five families having been poisoned
in that vicinity, said to have been caused by
eating of the cheese. Prof. Shearer, OF Des
Moines, has been given part of it, and the
other has been forwarded to New York for ex.
pert analysis. The results will be made known
hereafter.
Citizens Of Elliott have organized literary
society which starts off with very 1attering
prospects Of successful series of entertain
ments during the season. Permanent officers
have been elected and constitution and by
laws adopted. Among the exercises viii be
music, declamations, ESSAYS, select readings,
and discussions.
Several tons of dressed poultry came down
from the north through Tama City, billed
through to Boston, few days ago. The ex-
press charges on the shipment amounted to
over $500.
1t is thought the Prospects of finding coal
in the vicinity of Tama City are very lattering,
and measures are being taken by the citizens
to test the matter
Emerson E. hosner OF independence, Iowa,
has been recognized by the Interior Depart
ment to practice before that department.
The Pension Office has appointed Isaac W.
Martin, of Des Moines, to succeed DIR. Spencer
| NJ. Rice, as q member of the Board Of Medical
| examiners at that place.
A new pension board has been established at
Clarinds, Page county, Iowa, to consist of
Drs. w. Fl. Vance, E. Eckman, and A. j.
Salts.
The residence Of J. c. Elwrlck, near Carson
was totally destroyed by fire recently.
A crazy individual who halls from Nebraska,
and from papers found on his person is believed
to be L. s. Kempell, was captured at Council
Bluffs. He stated to the officer that be was
en- route to Washington to kill Cleveland, in
order to rid the country Of the democratic
party. He was heavily armed and had con-
siderable money. 1t is believed he is from
Sidney, Neb In case his friends do not come
for him he win be sent to the asylum at Mt.
! Pleasant
A fire in Keokuk damaged the stock and
building Of VIM. Blom, commission merchant,
to the extent of from 81, 900 to 5000. Insured
to the extent of $4,000.
The frame building In Newton occupied by
the steam dye works was destroyed by fire 1t
was an old landmark of that city, being the
old Clifton House Of thirty years ago.
About twenty years ago, Mr.. e. T. Bar
num commenced the manufacture Of wire and
IRON work in Detroit, employing at that time,
less than ten men. In 1870 the establishment
gave employment to over four hundred men,
and four years later segen hundred men were
employed. In 1882 y joint stock company
known as the f. T. Barnum Wire and Iron
| as.I