Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-06-07

ueaIers III tnlS locality. AS IL Is uoW
every industry is suffering to no
mean extent. J. Turner & Co., wholesale
coal dealers, who in the past month,
have handled 1890 cars Of coal, mostly
Iowa, are compelled to stop handling it,
it being cheaper to ship from points
outside the State. In shipping from here
the rate to Canton. Oak, is rs cents
cheaper per ton than it is from Inwood,
Iowa, the first station this side. The same
is true of commodities shipped into the
State. The present arrangement is so
detrimental to all Iowa interests that it
cannot long stand.
Philip Hoffman, aged 45 years, well.
to do resident of Lyons, who was engineer
of the saw mills of David Joyce, shot
himself in the breast June IA, with both
barrels Of shotgun while temporarily
insane. He will die.
The miscreants who made the cowardly
assault on the party Of young people as
scmbled in their hall at the Iowa Agricul-
tural College week ago are on the road
to justice. The faculty acted very wisely
in the matter and did not make any hasty
eXpulsions, but left the matter entirely to
the civil authorities. The guilty parties,
fearful of apprehension, caused to be cir
culated among the students a petition ask
ing the Board of Trustees to Danish the
secret societies from the college, but com
ing from the source it did and the fact
that the Board does not meet until Sep.
TENDER, placed a damper ON their ardor.
The mistrusted ones were closely watched
and late Saturday night the county sheriff
called at the college and took them in
custody.
The articles of incorporation OF the
Webster Butter and Cheese Company,
capital stock 10000; of the II. f. Bran
mer Manufacturing Company, Davenport,
capital stock $50, 600, and of the Cooper
alive Implement and Hardware Company,
Of Creston, capital stock $35, 900, have
been filed with the Secretary Of State.
Mrs. Barbara Willis of Dubuque, com
mitted suicide June 4, by drowning in the
River She was seen to throw herself
into the river, but was dead before as
Instance could reach her. She leaves a
husband and two sons.
Scarletina, scarlet fever and small pox
are said to be raging in central Iowa. The
State board Of health are taking every
precauton to prevent the spread Of the
disease.
The articles of incorporation of the
Ogden Iron works of Council Bluffs, were
filed with Secretary of State Jackson on
the Goth The capital is $50, 900 and Berry
Ogden, Thomas Officer G. f. Wright, G.
B. Waite and John p. Weaver are the in.
corporators.
Plans and specifications for the new
government building to be located at Des
Moines, Ia, have been submitted This
| will include the marble work and finish
ing, iron stairways, painting, glazing
floors, plumbing, etc. The bids will be
opened at Washington June a.
The count of the State assets show that
the total of warrants outstanding was
1924, III. 80, and that the total cash on
hand was $50, $3.50. 90, making the State
debt $23S, 3s3.37 States, as well as in
dividuals, once in debt find it hard sled,
ding to get out, and Iowa is no exception
to the rule.
The class and graduating exercises OF
the Dallas high school were of a high
order. They occurred on the Goth and
date the closing of the school year.
There were reported to the board Of
health at Davenport the past month six
teen cases of diphtheria, three of scarlet
fever and one each of measles and typhoid
fever.
The proposition to build court house,
not to exceed in cost S35, 900, submitted
by the Board of Supervisors to the cleo
tors of Buena Vista county. was carried
by small majority. The vote at Storm
Lake was 1926 for, with none against
| This is unanimity.
Four new factories are assured to Des
Moines. They will employ 500 men.
The annual convention of the Iowa
State Sunday School association will be
held at Dubuque June IL, IS and IA.
Mrs. P. O'Malley. wife Of a wealthy
farmer living six miles north Of Red Oak,
was found dead June I. She had become
deranged from grief over the death Of 6
son. and committed suicide.
| rrl,o .ou,, ,,,orahoI Wort Crouo or
rested four men June 2, who are supposed
to be the burglars who broke into cloth
ing store at Glenwood. Missouri. The
burglars effected an entrance by boring
and blew up the safe'with powder. They
secured quite lot of goods and about $50
in money. 1t is said that the men arrest
ed were gorgeously arrayed in the lost
goods.
The plans and specifications for new
Catho Ole school at Boone are now open
A $50, 900 building will be erected
Articles of incorporation of the Mis-
souri, Valley Canning Co., capital stock
s15, 900; and the Hawkeye Dat Meal Co.
Of Des Moines, capital stock. $40, 900; ant
Of articles of the Hartman Kitterer Mil
linery Co., Of Odeboldt. capital stock
$50, 900, have been filed with the Secre
tary Of State.
At the University investigation in lows
City, May 80, Regent d. N. Richardson
Of Davenport, occupied the stand, ant
said while he was abroad the alleged dea
was made in the Twenty first Genera
Assembly to get the University appropria
ton in consideration Of discharging thu
prohibition professors. He was satisfied
there was not word Of truth in tn
charge. He read affidavits from severa
of the regents that the charge was untrue
and letter from Governor Larrabee tina
as far as he knew there had been no suct
trade Richardson said the professors
had been removed partly because they
had been too active in politics, partly be
cause they had become too old and fo
other reasons that the regents had Ion!
recognized. There was no prohibition il
the matter so far as the regents wer'
concerned. Hinrichs asked the committed
at the close of Richardson's testimony TO
an attorney and the committee Informed