Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-02-25
IOWA CONDENSED.

Humboldt and Dakota City, whose corpora.
tions are contagious, are making efforts to
unite under one city government.
Edward Fisher, while coupling cars at Reset.
Ia, was caught between the bumpers and In
stantiy killed
| Geo. E, Grow, disabled soldier Of Corning,
has just received $500 back pension to tighten
the labors of his old age.
| Mr.. ALI. Utter, of Hardin county, has just
| received So 600 back pension and will get $12 50
| per month hereafter.
| Anna is the name Of new postofice recently
| established in Buena Vista county.
Independence is agitating the question 81
| procuring water works.
The steam fouring min Of Carter Il Heron,
at Eockridge, Jefferson county, was destroyed
by fire. Feb. 20. Eoss. 5000: no insurance.
few days ago Benjamine Whitehouse and
John Ray were hunting near Lucas, and by the
accidental discharge of Rays gun Warehouses;
arm was SO badly injurned that it had to be
amputated.
Five striking miners were arrested In Abba
and were bouhd over to the district court for
| having made threats against the lives Of men
| who took their places III the mines at reduced
rates,
A valuable team Of horses was killed at
Sioux City, being buried by about ten tons Of
| earth from falling bank. Several worlmen
narrowly escaped with their lives.
Among the souvenirs which Hon. Charles
Aldrich purchased ON his recent trip to Lon
don, is a book over two hundred years old.
1t is ''The Life of Christ" by Jeremy Taylor.
A boy at Cedar Falls was nearly killed while
hanging to a sleigh, the tongue of another
sleigh struck him in the temple and crushing
| in his skull.
L. D. Jorden, of Main township, Linn county,
recently sold thlrty-fve walnut trees, standing
in the grove on his farm, for $500 cash.
Isaac Coaker, about So years old, formerly
living near Webster City, drew $500 from the
bank, Sept. 22nd last, disappeared, and has
not been heard Of since. He left young wife
with whom he had ALWAYS lived happily. TIE
cause OF his disappearance is mystery.
The thousands Of people In Central Iowa
who are personally acquainted with Rev. DIR.
A. j. Kynett, formerly of Dubuque, will be in
terested to know that the charges of dIshon-
esty in connection with the Methodist Church
extention fund recently made against him
have been pronounced untrue.
Judge McHenry held in the case of the city
of Winterset VS.. DR.. o. G. w. Adams that the
law of the state authorizing city ordinance
imposing license on itinerant doctors, does
not apply to practitioner who has fixed resi-
dence in this state, even though he travels
around from town to town in the practice of
his profession.
David W. Blackburn died at Keokuk, Feb
18th. He was conductor on the first road
built north Of Keokuk, now owned by the Bur.
lington route, from 1851 to 1881. At the latter
date he was elected County Treasurer, and at
the end of his second term an examination Of
his books showed he was short about ST., 5000
suit, pending ever since, has been continued
on account of Blaekburn's bad health, the last
continuance being last week.
H. L. Brown, a prominent man at Anita,
was publicly cowhided ON the street recently
by Miss Grace Hendricks, for alleged Islander.
Miss Hendricks is one of Anita's respected and
honored young ladies. Miss Hendricks is q
relative of the late Thomas A. Hendricks.
In the Office of the Secretary of State has
been filed the articles Of incorporation of the
Tama Water Power company, Of Tama CITY.
The incorporators are B. w. Hall, c. E. Hays,
s. j. Tyler, James McClung and James W.
Willett. The Iowa Firemen's Association, of
Des Moines, has also filed its articles.
The Dayton Grove school house. north of
Lexington, Washington county, burned few
nights ago from fire which caught from de-
fective fue. The building cost $500; it is q
total loss, and there was no insurance.
The Corning Gazette says that there is
man now serving q life sentence in the Iowa
penitentiary, at TT. Madison, who was found
guilty of killing man for curslng Abraham
Lincoln and hurrahing for jeff Davis. He has
been In the pen niLeteen years.
The First Baptist church at Denison burned
&c the ground on Sunday evening, the 14th. 1t
Vas valued at 1909 and insured for $1,000 1t
was built IN 1866 Rev. Avery, the pastor, lost
ais library and papers, and the entire Sunday
Ghool library also burned.
Creston is anticipating the building Of
ia;ge and elegant new depot during the COM
M, summer by the G., B. d Q. r. r. company.
fle present depot does not begin to meet the
demands Of the travelling public
An Iowa Breeders Bssociation has been or
ganized at Burlington.
Council Bluffs is getting ready to withstand
an assault Of the Salvation army.
Murray, Clark county, has curious family
Of nine people, four Of whom are pronounced
slbinos.
Mrs. John Martin, an elderly lady In Fair
deld, was SO terribly burned few days ago
by her clothing taking fire from .gnited coal
oil! that she died in few hours after the &C
-ident.
collins, Story county, is rejoicing over
splendid fve-foot vein of coal discovered
short time since. Just north of Grand juno
zion, within the past two weeks, Mr.. E. Ii.
hilman has struck five foot vein at depth
of l50 feet.
=. NJ. Spears, Auditor of Fayette county,
was reelected last fail. An examination of
his books shows him to be defaulter to the
county, and the office has been declared vacant
and another person has been installed as
County Auditor.
The citizens Of Nashua are excited over the
mysterious disappearance of Ralph Hazlett,
who was supposed to be somewhat deranged.
Ills cap was found near an air hole in the river,
but his body has not been found and there are
doubts as to his being drowned.
Mr.. Daniel Campbell, of Monona county,
the noted Greenback leader, has received word
OF his appointment as Commissioner of Indian
Affairs at Sioux City, succeeding Mayor Ma
gee, who has held that position since 1873.
Mr.. Campbell says he received the appoint
ment unsolicited and will decline it without
regret.
There is considerable excitement at Dunlap,
N Harrison county, caused by the arrest of one
Calvin Bunce for stealing twenty eight head
VI fat steers from the feed yard of w. and B. f.
Carpenter, three miles south of Dunlap, and |
selling them to parties at Panama. Although |
the theft was committed about the middle of |
December, they were not missed until recently. |
Diligent investigation resulted in the appre- |
tension Of the party named above. His broth |
er who has gone to the eastern part of the |
state will also be arrested as an accomplice. |
The party the cattle were sold to suspected |
everything was not right from the fact that |
they had been driven very hard and that the |
parties were wishing to take half price for
them. The buyers refused to pay more than
$3.50 down, the balance amounting to about
$1,000 in all, to be paid later. On the strength |
d the forthcoming money the prisoner had |
purchase a livery barn and many other things |
,H credit, and then turned around and mart
gagged them to other parties. The worst fea-
lure of the affair Ia the fact that Runce had a