Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-04-29
IOWA CONDENSED.

| The business streets of vinton are be mac
adamised.
The penitentiary at f. Madison Is 10 be
lighted by electricity.
| There have been no open saloons at Red Oak
| for several months.
Claus Stolley has been 4 resident Of Daven-
port for ffty-nne yeas
The court house at Davenport is to be torn
down to make room for the new structure.
Work will at once be begun on the new ma,
chine shops Of the Sioux City and Pacific road
| at Missouri Valley.
IN. Sinclair & Co., the Cedar Rapids pork
packers, donated $500 worth of pork to the
cyclone sufferers at Coon Rapids.
David Duke of Richland, has been indicted
for the crime Of manslaughter, In killing DR..
Barton last fall, at RIchland.
The city cotincil at Grinnell has appropriat.
ed 81, 200 for the benefit of the cyclone suffer.
ers at st. Cloud and Sank Rapids, MINI.
A new postofice by the name of Woodbine
has been established in Cedar county There
is already one postofflee of that name In Har-
| rison county.
prisoner In the penitentiary at Fl. Madi-
son, tired OF leading convict life, ended his
days by cutting his throat and was buried In
| the prison graveyard
Frank Whitney, OF Atlantic, has offered the
| Rock Island road gift Of twenty acres OF
land at Anita, If the company viii move its
| machine shops and division station from Stu
| art to thst place.
Anna Nevin, young GIL employed In the
koolpn mill ar Daysnrnrt, had hor ban1
| caught in the yog wheels OF a machine which
she was operating, and twas SO badly crushed
| that portion VI It had - be amputated.
The delegation Of YAH citizens who went to
Dubuque to protest against the removal of
| Father Linehan from the Catholic parish at
that place, were successful, and that gentle
| man will remain there, much to the gratifca-
| ton OF his people.
The case Of Father Jaen, who was suspended
from the exercise OF his functions and, from
, the pastorate Of church at Lyons, and who
sues Bishop Hennessey for $4,000 damages
comes up on appeal by plaintiff at the present
term Of the supreme court at Dubuque.
Charles E. Jarvis, young man 10 years OF
age, met with a sudden death at Burlington
recently. He left his home and walked rapid
ly up an activity to catch street car. A sud-
den and violent fit Of coughing resulted from
the exertion and a hemorrhsgc of the lungs
ensued. The young man fell upon the street
bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth,
and in few minutes he was dead
1t has been decided to commence work at
once upon the completion of the Catholic Ca
thedral at Council Bluffs. A part of the church
property has bces sold and sufficient funds
have been guaranteed to warrant the COM
mencement OF the work. This cathedral
when completed, will cost 100000.
John Stewart, a well known citizen Of Coun.
ell Bluffs, has been appointed as guard at
the Fl. Madison penltentiary. He owes his
appointment he says, to the fact that Potta-
wattamie county having so literally patronized
that institution is entitled to some representa-
ton in an official way.
A discovery of mysterious nature was made
BY workmen who were tearing down an old
hotel building at South English. In the chin
ney below the stovepipe hole they found three
thigh bones one supposed to be that Of a man
and the others Of a woman. The building was
erected thirty-one years ago, and during that
time has been occupied by very suspicious as
well as good people. 1t /. thought by old cti-
zens that many crimes and dishonest schemes
have been concocted there, and that If the
house could talk It would tell some startling
stories. Other bones have been found in equal
ly mysterious places
Under Warden Martin all newspapers were
excluded from the prison at Anamosa. This
order Warden Barr has revoked, aud he will
allow the prisoners to road all the newspapers
they choose to send for or that their friends
choose to send them. The change was receiv-
ed with great rejoicing by the eonvicts.
A. w. johnson, q Pottawattamie county
farmer, signed an agreement to act as agent
for an Illinois pillow company. The document
a few days afterwards turned up In Council
Bluffs bank as a note for $3.50, and he was
compelled to pay it. He is now looking after
the agent who induced him to sign the agree
ment.
The house of John Kohl, of Fort Dodge, was
burglarzed few mornings ago of 1926 in
money. Mr.. Kohl and wife were absent when
the robbery was committed. Their daughter
Lizzie was up stairs at the time but supposed
that the pounding which she heard, was being
done by some member of the family.
The articles of Incorporation Of the Sioux
City Conservatory Of Music and School of Art,
with capital stock of SIS, 900, were filed with
the secretary of state.
In the House April 10Th, Mr.. Frederick, OF
Iowa, introduced bill locating branch for
disabled soldiers and sailors for Minnesota,
Nebraska, Dakota, and Iowa, at Marshalltown,
Iowa 1t authorizes and directs the board Of
managers Of the home for disabled soldiers
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suitable point within distance of FIVE miles
of the city Of Msrshslltown upon tract Of
land of not less than 200 acres within three
months after the passage of the bill, provided
the purchase price Of the tract of land shall be
advanced and paid by the citizens Of that STATE,
that the work shall be begun within six months
after the passage of the bill, and approprating
100000 for the construction of the building.
Iowa members, April 10Th, introduced bills
in Congress as follows: By Mr.. Henderson,
authorizing the construction of a
railroad and wagon bridge by the
Chicago, Burlington 81 Northern
Railroad company across the Mississippi river,
at or near Dubuque, Iowa; by Weaver, pen.
sioning Hannah L. Wilson and Julia A. Cor
nell, and removing the charge Of desertion
from the military records of George w. Moss
and Nicholas Holt; by Lyman, amending the
pension laws by increasing the pensions of the
soldiers and sailors who have lost an arm or
leg in the service to SIS month; by Holmes,
granting pension to Uriah French; by Hep
burn, pensioning John s. Carus and NancyJ.
Cline; by Conger increasing the pension of
Clark Boon to $24 month.
A Burlington hen Matched two chickens from
one egg.
Calhoun county has He'll slough and
Tough Head lake.
The citizens Of Marcus are all busy digging
cyclone caves.
An effort is being made to organize Y. NJ.
G. A. at Cherokee.
The skating rink at Alton will be converted
into college building.
ON. Glass, of Cedar Falls, talks Of building
a paper mill at TT. Dodge.
Baskerville expects to get Touring mill, q
tow mill and creamery this year.
Robert Q. johnson, of Center Point one day
recently, killed sixty-tive snakes In one den.
Spirit Lake Is situated upon the highest point
OF land in the state 1t is 1850 feet above sea
level
During the quarter ending Anril 4 Fairfield