Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-03-18
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December received letter postmarked Chey-
enne, Wyoming, in which the writer asked the
assistance of the department in finding tho
rightful owners Of $40 enclosed. The letter
is signed from Christian,n and states that
in 1854 or 1865 the writer stole letter from the
Peru, Neb., postofce containing $40, and
again in 1866 or 1867, while temporarily in
charge of an express car at North Platte, Neb.
u letter containing Sl25 was handed him for
transmission by a soldier stationed there.
From this letter he took 500. mailing the let
ter with the balance OF the money. Although
| twenty years have elapsed since the theft was
committed, the postal authorities have at last
succeeded in finding the rightful owner Of the
$40, and payment to Enoch Riggles, of Plum
| Hollow, Iowa, has been ordered. Further ef-
forts will be made bv the department to find
he owner Of the $780,
There is good deal of interest being taken
Northwestern Iowa in the proposed railroad
between Sioux City and Des Moines. A recent
issue of the jefferson Bee says that the cit
zens of that place are preparing to extend very
hearty encouragement to the new road. II
| mentions two or three townships in Greene
county that are prepared TO vote a tax for the
road, and says that Ida Grove is about to do
the same. There are fine indications that this
road will be built giving Des Mones direct
| connection with Sioux City.
| Henry Hnber, miner employed at the Och
| leschlager coal mines north OF Ottumwa, was
struck BY freight train on the crossing OF the
| C., NJ. d st. P. tracks and Second street, at
the west end Of the city. Both legs were
crushed and his body badly bruised. He was
picked up by the police and carried to the city
hall, where he died. lie leaves wife and two
children. He is supposed to have been intox.
icated at the time.
The Ottumwa Courier says the c. NJ. & St.
Paul Railway company Railway company will
be throwing dirt on the proposed extension
south of there inside of three weeks
Hiram Grant, while picking up coal on the
| Northwestern track at lama City recently,
was run over by the cars. Both legs were
crushed. lie will die
John Dunnegan, of Grand Junction, was
stricken with paralysis recently, and has been
unable 10 speak since. Mr.. Dunnegan resided
in Keokuk for thirty years.
The miners Of Boonsboro, numbering about
$50, are out on a strike rather than accept
reduction from ~ cents a bushel to cents,
the summer rate, March LIST instead Of April
| LIST.
A few evenings ago the dead body of an old
man named Gramblett living eight miles north
of Winterset was found by his neighbors.
He had neither friends nor relatives In the
community.
An unknown man was found upon the track
of the c., NJ. 81 st. P road at Charles City, ina
erribly mangled condition. When found one
| of his arms was torn of or nearly so, both
heels crushed. and he was otherwise fatally in
| jured.
Jacob L, Myers, one of the signers of the
call for organizing the democr attic party In To-
wa in 1S40 is hearty, hale man. and is en-
gagged in the practice Of medicine at Fairfield.
He has steadily maintained his democracy,
without variableness or shadow of turning.
Dan carp, of Elliott, surrendered to the
sheriff and confessed to having been the prin-
cipal acting party in a recent forgery commit
! ted in that neighborhood. The forgery con-
sisted Of two notes, amounting to S525, which
were disposed of at slight discount.
One of the oldest soldiers now living who
served through the rebellion is David Averill,
of sibley. He was born In Westminster YER
mont, February 6, 1893, where he lived for
many years. He went west, and early in the
war, enlisted in company A, Thirty-seventh
Iowa, served through to the end, and is a
strong, healthy man.
The Charles City Marble Co. have placed
their articles of Incorporation on record at the
state house. The incorporators are s. F.Fsrn-
ham, C. G. Bishop, Edmund Austin, J. s.
Trgg, A. c. r. spriggs and E. D. Bishop.
young man named Walters was killed at
jefferson, Bremen county, by the oyerturnng
of a load of wood, on which he was riding.
Joseph ]. Fuerth, wholesale dealer In liquors.
of Carroll, has failed. He had on hand when
| closed out stock roughly estimated to be
worth "a 600, and attachments to the amount
OF 50, 500 have been placed upon it, and more
are reported to be coming.
Davenport firemen have organized relief
association.
Clear Lake wants Touring mill There is
only one mill of any consequence within ra-
dius Of twenty miles.
1t Is understood the Bohemian oats swim
oilers took 5000 worth of notes from farmers
in Pleasant township, Lucas county, in the
past few days.
The city of Muscatine is much disturbed re-
garding whether she has the right number of
Aldermen, and whether those she has were
properly elected.
Jordan Lawyer, farmer of Lacon. ILL.,, on
his way to Nebraska with stock, was run down
by an engine in the yards at Burlington, and
instantly killed, his body being cut in two. He
was about thirty-iye years OF age, married but
has no children.
A company has been formed in Council
Bluffs for the erection Of a 100000 hotel.
Mrs. Sarah ]. Moore, postmstress at Taylor
Pottawottamie county, is SO years of age and
enjoys good health.
Nora Maddox, servant on farm near Red
Oak, committed suicide recently BY taking
strychnine in fit OF insanity.
The canning company at Council Bluffs ex-
pect to use the product Of five hundred acres
OF sweet corn and three hundred acres Of toma-
toee this year.
Articles of Incorporation have en- filed with
.hs secretary Of state as foil VS. The Ke bl,
Floral and Seed Company, OF Oskaloosa. Cap
Ital, 100000. The American District Tele-
graph Company, of Council Bluffs, with cap
tal of SIS, 600, to construct and operate tele-
graph lines and In adjoining states. The
Farmers Mutual Home Live Stock Associa-
ton, of Vinton.
DIR. A. J. Ellis was killed by the cars three
miles west of Des Moines on the afternoon of
the 9th. He was Is years of age and native
Of New York
Some days since an entire family in Dubuque
county were taken seriously i'll. Their illness
was thought to be from eating pork sausage,
and TO determine the matter piece of the
sausage was sent to the city for analysis. Two
physicians, doctors Mcngis and Greene, COM
pleted the analysis and found the meat alive
with trichinae in numbers sufficient to cause
sickness but not death in a strong person. So
far no deaths have been reported among those
who partook of the infected meat, but all are
extremely i'll.
Mark A. Jones, about 40 years of age was
arrested in Davenport for bigamy. At pre-
liminary examination he was held in bonds OF
40 thousand dollars, In default Of which he
vas lodged In Jail.
COL Robert Percyal, one OF the Oldest and
BEST known lawyers on the Missouri slope died
In Council Bluffs March 9th from1a stroke of
apoplexy. He was sixty years OF age.