Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-04-12
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stringent measure and one which few
nit holders are made responsible for all
illegal sales. under any circumstances,
and for the second violation the certii
cate of registration is revoked. The party
purchasing the liquor for an illegal pur
pose is also liable to fine Of not less
than SEQ for any false statements or sign
ing a fictitious name to the application.
The Clark bill to prohibit pools and
trusts and other combinations to increase
the price of the necessaries Of life, passed
both houses by large majority. Here
after any agreement or understanding be-
tween dealers in any commodity to main,
tain any certain prices will be unlawful
and punishable by Q minimum tine of
$500.
The Senate has passed a bill grantinga
bounty of cents per pound on all sugar
manufactured in the State. The sum OF
$4,000 is annually appropriated for a
term Of five years for this purpose. 1t Is
believed the capitalists will undertake the
manufacture of sugar on large scale
both from cane and beets, and the more
sanguine predict that this bounty will
enable the State to manufacture enough
for home consumption. A large sugar
mandatory will be started at once by
capitalists at Muscatine.
The members of the bar will have oc-
caSion to remember the present House of
Representatives for many a day. The
farmers, who comprise majority of that
body, came loaded for lawyers, and all
sorts of bills restricting the privileges of
the bar have been proposed, and some of
them passed. The number of peremptory
challenges in criminal cases was reduced
to ten on each side. The defendant is
now allowed twenty. The bills to re.
street the time Of lawyers in making their
lcas and to compel them to pay for
copies of the court docket. were lost.
A postoffice has been established at
Middleport, Clarke county. Elizabeth Por-
terfield postmistress.
The articles of incorporation of the
Branch Elevator Co. of AvoCa, with a
capital strck of S24 COO, and also of the
Home Loan & Trust Company of Cedar
Rapids. with a capital stock of $50, 90 have
been filed with the Secretary of State
The machinery in the new Fowler
packing house at Sioux City was tested
An,;I opI wnrlynb lilo a oh orpo The
house has capacity of 5000 hogs and
1000 beeyes day.
The Cedar river at st. Ansgar. has
! been rising fast ond is now higher than
for several years. A wagon load of men
and boys in attempting to cross a small
tributary April 5, were washed down by
the stream and four of the boys and the
team were drowned. The names of the
drowned are Frank Bundy, Isaac Lans-
from, Frank Bahmes and Andrew Gold
berg. The high water has damaged con-
siderable mill property also.
A good deal of excitement was created
at Waverly last week by the refusal OF
The postoffice to transmit the Independ'
ent" through the :mails, owing the OBJ.
scene character of the alleged confession
of Mrs. Billings which it contained but
/ the paper finally got through in mutilat.
ed form, by cutting out the Objectionable
! columns
A special from Kansas City, April 5,
says: John d. Clements. of Perry. Iowa.
buying property here, was robbed Of
81, 800 while going down an elevator by q
deft movement of the crowd following
him up.
Mt Pleasant is being sorely afflicted
by the appearance Of scarlet fever in {
malignant type in several families. Botf
of the daughters Mr.. Thornton Bird were
stricken down. and the younger, Mis-:
Lola, bright and lovely girl of four
teen years, died. She was niece o.
Mrs. Senator Woolson, and was gener
al favoritc amoung the young people o
that place. Some other cases are report
ed, and much apprehension is felt as t,
the spread of the disease.
Burlington boasts Of a red-headec
negro.
A cable street railway threatens tn
slumbers of Sioux City.
Burlington will have new Methods
church. to cost about $3S. 900.
The Central Christian church of De
Moines has purchased a lot and will cree
new house.
An Atlantic paper says that no industr.
coming to the front faster In tina
section than the breeding of fast horses.
I The Dcs Moines Y. NJ. C. A. will cree
building of its own costing. with the lo
$4,000. Several THOUSAND dollars ha
,lready been pledged.
The miners of Des Moines have re
turned to work. compromise of ~
cents being agreed on by all instead @
the 10 cent reduction asked by tn
operators.
The articles Of incorporation OF the Mi
souri, Valley Electric Light Compan
have been filed with the Secretary of State
The capital stock Of the company
$4,000.
A young man signing himself John +
Bernard and claiming to represent Ii
Diebold Safe and Lock company, was a
rested at Waterloo, April 3, charged wi,
having forged the name Of c. W. Go
burn, local merchant. to note. I'll
bank cashier paid the note, but imm
date inquiry revealed the forgery an
Bernard was captured when just about
leave town. He was committed to Jail
default Of bail.
j. p. Trigg, NJ. D., of the Rockford
Iowa, Register, recommends the folloy
ing new specific for hog cholera Sciel
titic men are expected to know all
these things: When the cholera gets
among your hogs, IL you will get up
2:l0 H. m. the third Friday after the fl
moon. and chase the hogs four tim,
round the lot. against the sun. catch Il
smallest black SOW pig in the lot. cut
inch of her tail. put ii in bottle of ale