Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-04-29
Gov. Larrabee has re-appointed Mrs. Max

More building is being done at Dubuque
this season than ever before in one yen
A lodge Of the Knights Of Labor with
membership Of forty, has been organised at
Carroll,
Orange City, Sioux county, Contains thofe
miles Of sidewalk than any town Of its size in
the state.
The city council 81 Keokuk has appfopriat-
ed 5000 for the improvement OF the parks Of
that city.
The Council Bluffs Herald is of the opinion
that 81 900 900 worth Of new buildings Will be
completed in that city before November 1st
Cedar Rapids is to vote May 4th, on the
question Of bonding the city to the amount Of
$4,000 for the purpose Of sewerage.
The entire Bltner family In Audubon county
was saved from death by the recent cyclone
| by going into cave. The house was blown
/ to atoms.
The valuation Of the incorporated town Of
Calliope, Sioux cottnty; Is $4,000, which is
$1,000 in excess Of the assessment Of last
year.
Pilot Grove, Lee county, is in tumult over
the whereabouts of one of her young ladies.
There was recently stock buyer in that sec
ton dealing in sheep, who represented him
self as being extremely wealthy. He bought
some sheep in the vicinity and made the ac-
quaintance of widow and her daughter. The
daughter WAS school teacher, and he induced
her to abandon her profession and accept 10:
sltion Of ''clerk" in one Of his banking houses.
The lady has been gone over two months and
| nothing has been heard from her.
The District Convention Of County Superin-
| tam 90 a h.lJ 4. "a.
the 18th and 10Th Of May, has been changed TO
meet at Mt. Pleasant on the same dates
At Burlington the other day, Charley wy
man, with small rifle broke 963 glass balls
out Of 1000 which were tossed from the hand
at a distance Of fifteen feet.
| In the xecutIvc session of the Senate April
Goth, the nomination Of the postmaster at
Marshalltown was rejected.
| Iowa Falls will build a $40, 900 school house
this summer, and the B. c. & r. Railway Com
pany VIII build new round house.
W. Z. Alderman, who attempted suicide in
New York, has returned home to Ackley with
his father and mother
| Circuit court at Concord, Hancock, has
closed, Judge Clclaud presiding. The case
of Hancock county vs.. Wray ct al on treasur-
er's bond, was transferred to the Winnsbago
county court. The deficit has all been made
| good by Mr.. Wray except about 81 900, and 1t
is said that as soon as the loan papers can be
| approved that this amount will all be paid In,
the change bs!ng taken to get littl. time. II.
this is done the case before the grand jury will
| probably be dismissed.
| Daniels, the man who brutually murdered
Elliot, at Eagle City, Hardin county, was taken
| before the insane commissioners and pro-
nounced insane, and was taken to Indspend-
ence.
States Inspector of mines, Park c. Wilson,
has rendered his resignation to Governor Lar
| rabee.
| H. A. Gilman, superintendent of the insane
hospital at Mt. Pleasant, In his last quarterly
report shows the following number OF public
patients in the hospital at the dates given be-
low: January 49, 1886, 604 February Is, 1885,
612; March Is, 1886, 623.
| West Union, after expanding s109.4 40 in an
effort to secure the soldiers home at that place,
has given the project up.
| John N. Matheney died at Keokuk aged 81
years. He had been resident of Keokuk for
forty years.
petition is In circulation at Marshalltown
to get the saloon men imprisoned there out Of
/ jail. Their families are suffering.
A Cedar Rapids man who sss been resident
| of Iowa for thirty years, SAYS he never saw
| vegetation and foliage advance as rapidly as
| 1t has this spring.
| At Council Bluffs, Tom Conway and his wife
| entertained some friends at their home and
! opened key of beer. melee occurred and
rot had mt In tbo bao
| surgeons care. The police arrested several Of
| the party.
The annual meeting Of the Iowa Music
| Teachers association will be held at Des Molnes
| ON May 4, and 6. TIE circular says: 1.-THE
| music teachers should all feel an interest in
the workings of the state association. Only in
this way can the real work Of the association
be accomplished The benefits Of the orgaai-
| cation are for all, not a few. The various
committees are working hard to make the May
meeting grand success"
special from Washington, D. c., says:
SIN the case Of the United States against w. |
A. McGrew, Of OttumTa, the papers have been |
examined at the treasury, and it appeared that |
no one was loser bv what seemed to be Mr.. Nc |
Crews neglect, and there was no criminal in |
tent. Attorney General Garland, acting on |
the information and instruction ordered the !
case dismissed. Mr.. McGrew is cashier Of the |
first National Bank Of Ottumwa and was char |
ged with irregularities"
A Crawford county man has invented corr |
husker, for which he has been offered $50, 900. |
He refused the offer wanting royalty IN adj |
dition to the $50, 900. The husker is built on |
the plan of binder. The stalks are cut of |
with a sickle, and run through a set Of CORFU |
gated rulers which do the husking, stripping |
the car of corn clear OF all husks. |
On January 26 the station agents on the DIFF |
ferent Iowa railroads met at Cedar Rapids and |
organized the Iowa branch of the National |
Railroad Agents association. The object Of |
the association is to render the railroad COM |
panes the best standard of agents by improv- |
ing the quality of their services, to maintain |
by legitimate means in = manner that shall be |
satisfactory to our employees, just compensa- |
ton of services rendered, and to prevent all
strikes, combinations and ciques, and to as
sist worthy members in obtaining employment |
and extend to them pecuniary aid in case Of
sickness and other troubles. The next meet |
ing is to be held at Fairfield. May II
Ex-Chicf of Police Oliver c. jackson Of
| Sacramento committed suicide on April Is, by |
Tor the act than his term as chief of police has
just expired and he was defeated in his efforts
| to secure Prediction, The deceased was the
son Of sam ID. Jackson, who was resident Of
| Council Bluffs early in the sixtics
Bishop Perry of the Episcopal church says:
''The chuica is in amore prosperous condition
in Iowa to-day than it ever has been. That
SO IN every particular. Why, when came to
this diocese a little over nine years ago there
were only four or five churches in the state free
OF debt, and one OF those was st. Johns church
in Keokuk Since then there has been erected
thirty new churches and forty churches have
| been freed from debt. In addition TO this we
now have one Of the best church colleges In
| the west at Davenport"
Mrs. Frank Scroggy, living about four miles
from Waterloo attempted to poison herself and
husband by putting laudanum in the coffee,
which they drank at breakfast. She told her
husband what she had done soon afterward,
and by the administration Of antidotes fatal
effects were prevented. Mrs. Scroggy is thought
to be PROFESSIONALLY insane.
1t is reported that Tom Kelly has made