Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-30
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS.

The packing house in Atlantic Is clos
ed and closed permanently. so far as the
late management is concerned. The rea
son assigned was the difficulty in getting
in hogs, but with prices away down on
account of the supply being greater than
the demand. there is possibility that
larger establishments have induced the
Atlantic packers to quit. 1t may have
been case of certainty in hand against
the contingent fluctuations in trade.
The telephone line between Mason
City and Nora Springs has been accepted,
giving Mason City extensive telephone
service. A subscription of about $780,
900 was raised by the citizens to com
plete the work.
In 1885, John e. Jack. former deal
er in pianos, and who committed numer-
Gus forgeries throughout the West over
the sale of instruments, was committed
to Joliet prison, for crime committed
in Harvard. Ill., The sheriff of Van Bur-
en- county, lay in wait at the doors of the
prison Wednesday morning, Dec %, for
his release. as his term of eighteen
months for forgery. was about to expire.
Jack was released at o'clock and was
about to sniff the air of liberty when he
was bounced upon by the sheriff and car
ried off to answer to several charges Of
forgery pending againft him in this State.
Frank Woods, . brakeman, while max
ing coupling at Westboro, one after
noon recently, slipped and fell across
the track under the moving train. two
wheels running over his body. He lived
until about7 o'clock in the evening Mr.
Wood had been on the run but few
days, having taken the place of the man
that had a thumb taken off about week
ago.
The Iowa Granite and Marble company
of Des Moines failed for $4,000. -
At Creston, E. F. Augenstein was
thrown from horse by the latter fall
ing, and was dragged two blocks. Three
ribs were broken and internal injuries
that will perhaps prove fatal.
Mr. Surfing, 70 years old, was riding on
load of lumber, when the team ran
away and killed him, near Danburg. He
lived at Mondamin.
The Hartley State Bank has filed arti.
cles of incorporation with the Secretary
of State. Capital, $4,000. Incorpora-
tors-Mary E. Colby, Frank Patch. John
W. Cravens, F. r. Patch and J. F. Cra-
vens.
While the ladies of the Perry Relief
Corps were holding bazaar and festival
at that place recently, a sneak thief in
vaded their quarters and distracted the
The Perry Chief. of q recent date says
the Fl. Dodge road, has taken contract
from the Milwaukee road to deliver to
them at Ruthven. thirty cars of coal every
day. for three years. The coal comes
from Knoxville Junction.
James Saltz, who murdered his wife
two years ago in Jones county with a
hammer, has been sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life by Judge Giffen, after
pleading guilty of murder in the second
degree. The public feeling is that he
ought to be hung.
The man who blows out the gas
reached Dubuque one night recently. He
was from the interior and stopped at the
Merchants Hotel In the morning he
came down feeling very ill., and com
planned that the room smelt badly. In
vestigation showed that he blew out the
GAS on retiring One of the windows
icing partly open saved his life.