Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-09
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A Sioux City dispatch Of Dec, 2, ssys: One
thousand acres adjoining Sioux City on the
north were sold for 500 COO 1t contemplates
a belt line and cable car road to be organized
The building of four new roads next year
prompted the purchase.
The iowa branch Of the American Train
Dispatchers met at Cedar Rapids Dec 1, and
el, cted E. W. Titus, Marshalltown, president;
G. II. King, Des Moines, wee president; NJ
A. Baker Keokuk, secretary, and w. +. Dox-
an. Cedar Rapids Frank Horton, Des Mones;
J. A Barrett, Belle PLANE, executive commit
tee.
George James, of Clinton, has been found
guilty of passing counterfeit money and SEN
Fenced to the renitentlary for one year.
The Stock Breeders Association, recently
held at Mason City, before adjourning passed
the following strong resolutions In regard to
pleuro pneumonia; Requesting Congress to
take measures for the slaughter of every In
fected animal and to pay the value of 9
same; to absolutely prohibit the importation
Of any cattle from infected districts; to estab-
fish quarantine against Chicago, and to re-
quire thorough dlsinfection of every stock car
coming into the State. They also ask the
Governor to call an extra sessionsof the Legis-
hture If any case Of pleuro pneumonia be
found within the borders OF the State before
the next Legislature meets, to take action on
the same.
Typhoid malaria is becoming troublesome
disease at Des Moines. A family named Reed
had FIVE of its members down with this mala
dy. The wife and one sister died within a few
moments of each other.
The State superintendent Of public instruc-
ton has notified teachers to prepare themselves
for an examination under the new law con.
corning the effect Of narcotics and stimulants
on the human system. The law provides that
"the county su! erIntendent shall not after the
first day of July, 1887, issue certificate to anv
person who has not passed a satisfactory ex-
animation in physiology and hygiene, with es-
pecial reference to the effects of alcoholic
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the hu
man system; and 1t shall be the duty of the
county superintendent, as provd by section
iii, to revoke the certificate of any teacher
required by law to have q certificate Of qualii-
cation from the county supernten1 lent, II the
said teacher shall fail or neglect to comply
with section of this act, and said teacher
shall be disqualified for teaching In any public
school for one year after such revocation, and
shall not be permitted to teach without com.
pliance.
Dung printer named William Burns was
waylaid, bound and gagged In a most brutal
mann'r at Luca' on Saturday evening, and re-
lievcd of his money and valuables. He was
then thrown on a barbed-wirc fence, and when
fou III was hanging to q barb In an uncon-
sc!0us state.
Hattie Rawson, beautiful young lady of
Atlantic has been sent TO the insane asylum.
The story OF her mania is somewhat sadly ro-
mantle. She was engaged to marry a young
business mao of Council Bluffs. III health
forced bin TO go west early in the spring.
Charge of climate proved of no avail, and on
the 10Th of October she attended his funeral
at his late home. From that day her mind be-
gan TO decay. She is twenty-three years of
age.
The depot and hotel owned by the Rock Is
land Co., at Avoca, was totally destroyed by
fire on the morning of Dec. 4. 1t is thought
to have started from a defective fue in the
west end of the building used as the depot. d.
W. Rockhold, proprietor Of the hotel, loses a
larLe part of his goods, but has insurance to
the amount of $1,000. There was no insur-
anca on tie building so far as known.
.OleomargarIne seizures are becoming quite
common in and around Dies Moines.
The jury in the Kelly murder case at Chart
ton returned verdict of guilty and fixed his
punishment at Imprisonment for life.
A prisoner in the Polk county jsil made a
break for liberty one day recently, but ran
against 1.-THE blarsted shotgun Of the sher-
it,"
The widow Of John RYAN, Of Wapello, has
brought suit against H. Howey, drrg list, for
$4,000 damages, for selling her husband liq-
uor, from the effects Of which he fell out OF
his wagon and killed himself.
The youngest scion Of Geo. Johnson's FAM
ly, at Cedar Rapids, two years of age, pulled
the cork of bottle he had found and filed
his mouth with carbolic acid 1t didn't kill
him, but his mouth is raw, his throat blistered
and his stomach very tender.
A DOMESTIC in the employ of March,,
family recently used machine oil for lemon
essence in stirring up cake. The old man
saw nothing wrong with the cake, but the
rest Of the family called for the family physi.
cian few times during the following twenty
four hours after supper.
SEVEN divorces were granted at the late
session Of the district court in Clarke county.
THE little two-year-old child of Jacob Hof
fert, of Manila, met with horrible accide nj
recently. A kettle OF boiling water was set
ting on the floor and the little fellow In his
Hay ran backward and tumbled into IT, He
was scalded from the abdomen down to his
feet The skin on his legs peeled off and
rolled down like taking off pair of stockings
The child lived about "a hours
II acking house at Ottumwa kills about
30 hogs per day and employs 200 men.
Davenport celebrated seventy births, fifty
weddings and thirty funerals during Novem-
Der.
The ordin auce shutting up the barber shops
of Sioux City on Sundays has been declared
invalid.
A young man of Creston answered an adver-
tisement and enclosed so cents for a receipt to
cure the appetite for liquor. The other day
be rsceived the following prescription: "Quit. !"
THE board of supervisors Of Carroll county
have made a settlement with the bondsmen OF
w r. Ruggles, defaulting ex-tressurer, VIII ,
Skipped the country some years ago. The
brarl threw off all interest charges ami &C.
cepted a Of the amount of the judgment
and the COSTA sum amounting to sos, 40 So
There are Is men on his bond, and If they
shoulI pay equally the pro rata share would
br Si,560T2.
The Musquakie Indians, whose reservation
Of 1900 acres is situated about three niles
west of Tama City, number 400
Five desperadoss were run in at Marshall
town. All were provided with revolvers, fuse
and burglars tools.
About sixty head OF hogs and 464 head OF
sheeo is the sun total loss to the farmers of
Osceola county from the late blizzard,
Three hundred and fifty car loads of farm
produce-alI but twelve of which were grain
have been shipped from Ashton during the
last three months by the farmers Of osceola
county.
The law and order league of Sioux City, is
torn with internal dissensions and dissolution
is imminent The retirement of the luscious
coctail to executive secrecy is the handspring
Of the disturbance.
All transportation companies in Nor
folk, Va, are ordered by the mayor to sus-
mend work SUNDAY ba rroasnu al unda