Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-05-13

salesman VINO JO0k MS lie at Fort Dodge
few days since left life insurance estimated
at $1,000.
The move for eight hours is meeting with
some opposition among the Knights of Labor
in Des Moines.
Judges, Brewer, Shiras and Love will occupy
the bench at the sessions Of the U. S. courts
in Des Moines this month.
The counsel fer Auditor Brown completed
and filed their answers to the articles of i'm
parchment.
The auditor drew warrant amounting to
81, COG for the State Normal school.
The bar in the Kimball House, at Davenport
will soon be a thing of the past
The Ottumwa Courier says: A strong eff
fort is being made to locate the next demo
cratic state convention at Council Bluffs.
On the Sth while Herman Paulson, boy
10 years of age, was blowing on the farm be-
longing to his father, John Paulson, five and
half miles north of Minden, during a terrific
thunder 81 I'm tn. tightening sruck and killed
him, together with both horses.
Secretary of State jackson has sent ont to
the clerks of the courts in the State of Iowa
advance sheets of the acts and resolutions of
the Twenty-fr General Assembly, compris-
ing 10S chapters of the $50 that were enacted
at the session. These advance sheets are for
the accommodation and convenience OF the
courts OF the State, as many of them are in
session and might be seriously embarrassed
without some means Of referring to the new
enactments.
Col. Ralph Bell, of Webster City, few days
ago, celebrated his eightieth birthday. Mr..
Bell has been a resident of Webster City for
the past % years, almost a quarter of ccntu-
~. During this time he has seen the town
grow from A frontier hamlet (or settlement)
to busy and prosperous little city of 5000
people.
The 12-ycar-old son of Frederick Harnegal,
residing near Franklin Centre, Lee county,
was standing near a field roller and stepped
UPON the roller, gathered up the lines and
started the team. The traces were slack and
the lines tight, and in consequence he was
pulled off the roller and crushed to death.
Mr. C. H. Riley, of the firm of Riley Bros,
| of Creston, went to his place of business,
placed coat on The floor, laid down on it, put
the muzze of a revolverin his mouth and dis
charged it. He leaves o wife and two children.
ISOLATION recently in session at Iowa City, DR..
f. Rogers, of Ottumwa, was elected president,
and DIR. j. B. Montfort, of Fairfield, sccreta-
~. Cedar Rapids was chosen as the place for
the next annual meeting. The association
was largely attended, and the sessions were
| full Of interest.
The city council of Sioux City has passed an
ordinance fixing saloon licenses at S25 per
month. Since the prohibitory law went into
effect the saloons have been paying no license.
There are about one hundred saloons in the
city.
The Milwaukee company is at work on its
line from Defiance to Sioux City. The Sioux
City and Des Moines commenced grading from
Sioux City, the work on the line extending
from that city about twenty miles. 1t is sad
that nearly one hundred miles of this proposed
line is practically located, and work is expect
ed to commence along the whole route at an
carly day. The Northwestern will build its
Kingsley branch to Sioux City, and also its
| Map!eton branch to Onawa, thus acquiring
two new lines of entrance into Sioux City.
| This cOmpGnj will also extend its Lake City
branch to Wall Lake, instead Of Sac City, as
has been predicted, and there form junction
with both the above lines.
| Gen p. II. Sheridan has accepted an invi-
tation to be present at the Soldiers reunion in
Creston in August next.
| A meeting of the executive committee of the
First Iowa Cavalry Association was held at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April Is, 1856. 1t was de-
cided to hold the trcnnial reunion of the as
ISOLATION at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 81,
| - 81 ~, Of tbo iTnn mt
invited. A circular, giving full information as
to railroad rates and hotels and programme,
will be mailed about August 20.
Twelve years ago, Simon Shaulls, of Orange
township, Black Hawk county, planted some
maple trees, and this season he made from
thcm24S pounds of sugar and eight gallons of
molasses.
The body of the unknown man found on
the banks of the Boyer river, near Council
Bluffs some three weeks since, has been idcnti.
fed as that of Morgan d. Persinger, Of Onawa
who left home the night before Christmas.
He leayes wife and three children.
The annual meeting of the. state board OF
health will convene at the old capital building
Des Moines, Tuesday, May IS. Business of
Importance will come before the association
for transaction, and rather lengthy session
| will probably ensue. The new medical prac
tlce act constitutes this body as board of
examiners for practitioners, and rules govern
ing the course to be pursued are now in pro-
cess of formulation by Secretary Kennedy and
Assistant Secretary Andrews, subject to APP
proyal by the board in assembled meeting.
| The state board meeting occurs the day pre-
ceding the converting of the state medical
society, which will assemble on the 18th
| instant.
The Soldiers home commission convened at
Des Moines on the 4th, and on the 25th ballot
located the home at Marshaltown. The vote
stood six in favor of Marshalltown and five in
favor of Dubuque.
The second annual reunion of the Seven
tenth Iowa infantry will be held at Leon, De
catur county, August 10, II and IL. The sec,
rotary, Mr.. W. A. Doan has the post office adj
dress Of $50 survivors Of the regiment, and has
sent notices TO all requesting their presence
at the reunion. Ample preparations have been
made to welcome and accommodate the boys
ON their arrival at Leon, and it is hoped all
will respond to the call.
Matt Joyce, one of the pioneer merchants
Of Emmetsburg, was shot and fatally wound
ed by E. j. Larkin, city marshal. The trou-
BILE between them grew out of an account
Joyce claimed Larkin owed him, which was
disputed. Hot words passed between the
two men, when Larkin pulled revolver and
shot Joyce. The ball passed through his hand
and entered his head just over the eyes.
Larkn has been lodged In the county jail.
Grave fears are felt for his safety, mob vlo-
lence being threatened.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the leased lines of the B., Q. Z IL n. railway
company met at Cedar Rapids and re elected
the directors of the same roads as last year.
OF the three roads-the G. r. Il c., the J. G.
Il W., and the G. r., /. +. q NC. J. Ives.is
president; j. G. Brocksmit, vice president;
W. P. Brady, secretary; 8. S. Darwant, treas
urer; and IL. +. White, chief engineer. The
officers are the same for. the G. ID. u NJ, ex
cept the treasurer, who is II. II. HOLSTER
The entire expense for the commission for
locating the Soldiers Home was 1862, So Tht
tour Of inspection cost the state nothing, a
the commissioners paid for the use of the Pull
man coach and the railways furnished trans
portation free.
The White Breast Coal and Mining com
pany Of Ottumwa, having stock capital o
=tn 400 Gla1 artiolao of IN I'll.