Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-11-04
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several months to complete the work.
By figuring on its school population, Water
loo makes out total population of 5000, and
counts on free mail delivery by 1890, at the
same rate Of increase as it has had the past
two years.
The State officers of the Iowa w. c. T. u.
are as follows: President, J. Ellen Foster;
corresponding secretary, M. ]. Aldrich; re-
cording secretary, Anna L. Mahin; treasurer.
M. J. Davenport.
The next synod OF the Presbyterian Church
OF Iowa will be held in Keokuk in the fall of
1887. There will be at least $50 delegates in
attendance, and the gathering will be an &C.
clesiastical body of Importance.
Miss Mary Vance, of Burlington, has re-
ceived her appointment as missionary, and is
assigned to duty at Toxic, Japan,-Irobably
the most desirable of all foreign fields. She
will sail In few weeks from San Francisco.
William Lensar, Twin four miles north of
Vail, lost two young cattle recently The
cause of t err death is unknown, but it is at
tributed by some to poisoning from smut
which they got by feeding in the corn fields.
Z. They appeared perfectly well at night and
were found dead in the morning.
A Council Bluff, ri pa.cu SAYS: A train
consisting of two baggage cars and eight day
coaches arrived over the Milwaukee Oct. 80,
bringing 400 NJ Drmons enroute for Salt Lake
Jity. There were fonr fferent races among
them, English, Irish, Scotch and Scandinavia
ans.
A gentleman whose home is but hundred
feet from an electric lamp tower in Davenport,
the light of which falls Enthusiastically upon
h tic HnNrn arla 10 II
ordinarily only bloom in the day time open in
the night and that the morning glories W II I'M
close in the night in few minutes after the
tower lights brighten the air.
The Keokuk q Western railway was incor-
porated at KeC kuk Nov. l, TO purchase and
operate the VI ssouri, Iowa & Nebraska. This
line runs from Keokuk to Van Vert, Iowa
rhe incorporators are T. De Witt Cuyler,
Felix I. Hughes Thomas TEACHER and G. II.
Candee
a. Several head OF cattl. died near Whtmore
.ecent m on being opened to find cause of
Heath it was found their stomachs were lned
with mud taken in with the water they were
'Orced to drink.
The c., NJ. g. St. P. boys on the Council
Bluffs u Ottumwa div on, presented l.. B.
8eardley, III 'ir superintendent, with a dia-
nond stud worth in the neghborhood Of
$500.
VIM. VOL, PROSPEROUS farmer living near
Rockford, mysteriousH disappeared recently,
and having about $50 n his prison when he
disappeared, his friends fear foul play.
An old fellow recently came into the police
court in Marshallown n teri tlv inebriated
nudit on. In explanation to the Judge, he
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sad he had a bottle. l shall vote for that
man, judge"
The Foster block, in Des Molnes, was sold
on Monday for the sum of $4,000.
The Kossuth county board of supervisors
will submit 10 the voters proposition to ap-
propriate SO 600 for soldiers monument.
The Iowa City Driving Park association,
having capital of 5000, filel articles of in
corporation with the secretary of State.
The post mortem held on Mount Pleasant
COW showed that she had deposited in her
liver handful of small brass washers, eight
shingle nails and one two-inch brass brad.
Britt wants an artesian well.
Council Bluffs is overrun with street ia.
kris.
Burlington is at present the healthiest city
In the State.
Subscriptions are being made to secure
Touring mill at Mapleton.
A gang of footpads are making life weary
for the good people Of CreSton.
well-known Cedar Rapids physician, who
iss grown old and absent-m minded in his zeal
Jus application to his profession, recently dis
;urbed the appetite of whole tea party,
which he was attending, under mental pro-
est. He had just laid open a cream puff with
knife, and was watching the development
If matters when the professional habit swept
,ver him and he said, in an authoritative tone.
"Laudable, prognosis favorable. Dress with
favored po--" Just here considerate friend
diverted the doctors attention TO q possible
fracture in one of his own ribs by the pro.
nounced interposition Of an elbow. and order
ed a homogeneous biscuit for the bewildered
medical man.
John Gardner, a highly respected citizen
living one mile north of Gilmore City, COM
mitted suicide October %, by cutting his
throat with q razor. Deceased was about IS
years old.
The Clinton Waterworks Company has de-
: ,ided to sink an artesian well to supply tho
city system, instead of from the river.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern roads
nave commenced passenger depot at Clinton
TO cost $1,000.
Albert Blair, a lawyer of Polo, Linn county,
Iowa, was brought before United States Com
missioner Hobbs of Dubuque, Oct. 49, on the
the charge of violating the United States pen
sion laws by exacting illegal fees. The law
a.. aha. tha,, G,,a
dollars for procuring pension. Blair 1t is
claimed exacted 50 20, of which SIS was paid
He was bound over for trial at the next ses-
sion of the court.
Cheyenne (Wyo.) special says: Special
Agent Bowers has been here for week, and
it has transpired that his instructions from
his department are to arrange with the
large cattle owners OF Wyoming for tho
leasing OF extensive tracts OF land they
have fenced in, or the sale by the govern
ment OF the land outright. The special
agent has been making extended trips
throughout adjacent sections with men
holding large amounts OF government land.
His instructions are said to be confined
not only to land actually fenced, but also
to land held as ranges.
Inc Atlantic Distillery company Will feed
100 cattle this winter.
Storm Lake at present is absolutely without
Dire protection, and & 'rous effort is be ne
made to have waterworks established in that
city.
few weeks ago 13-year-old boy named
Blair ran away from his home in Cedar
Rapids. He lad nothing to complain of, but
le wanted adventure A day or two since his
parents received telegram announcing that
he had fallen from fire ght ira n on which he
vas stealing ride in Illinois, and had one
leg so baily crushed under the wheels thai
ami utatIon was necessary. His mother al
once started to nurse her wayward boy or be
1t his bedside when he should die.
Pra,rr ires have done much damage in
Pocah,ntas county this fall.
A Carroll county farmer has eight hogs
left out of 300, after visitation Of porcne
cholera