Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-12-20
Gov. Larrabee has notified Col j..

elect from the 18th district. The reason
Tor not accepting the Senator's resigna-
is said TO be the probability of an extra
session OF the Legislat nc,
Twenty-four suits were entered in
the District Court Mt Davenport recent
ly against the Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad by Attorney General
Baker In the name of the State OF Iowa.
The charge Observation-Disclosures rates
and the allegation, which bears the
names of Wadsworth & Co., wholesale
dry goods; Van Patten and Marks,
Wholesale grocers; Robt kasse, whole
dry goods and Roddewig, Schmidt &
Co., cracker manufacturers, alleges
s., 900 damages on each OF the twonty-
four suits, amounting in the aggregate
TO $1,000 and cites instances whore
it Is averred the road has charged so
much per hundred pounds on certain
articles named, while the legal ratio
was only specified amount Suits of
n similar character are to be commence
ed by leading jobbbers at Dubuque,
Burlington and Cedar Rapids against
tho roads with which they do business.
a collision OF regular freight train
with stock train occurred on high
bridge between Clifford and Eldora
Junction. One of the engineers was
thought TO be fatally hurt, and five per-
sons seriously.
At Gilman John Brooks, was remov-
ing the stone from an old we'll, in Or
der that the well might be dug several
feet deeper. When about twenty-three
feet down, the we'll apparently caved
in from all sidos at once, burying the
unfortunate man under several feet OF
! earth. Help was at once summoned
and in about an hour and quarter
the man was reached, but was found
to be cold in death. He leaves vito
and family TO mourn his loss, all OF
whom are in limited circumstances.
1t is reported that Menchek, King
Of Shea, instigated by tho Italian Gov
eminent, which has supplied him with
| arms and ammunitions, has rebelled
against King John of Abyssinin, his
father-in-law. Abyssinia is in very
| disturbed state.
The report is current at the clubs
in London that Lord Salisbury has do
ternined to place his resignation as
Premier in the hands of the Queen in
consequence of tho criticism which has
been evoked from the English and In
dian press by his contemptuous refer
ence to Mr.. Naororii as black" man.
Great surprise is expressed that so OK
perienced adiplomat and parliamentary
Ian as Lord Salisbury should have ''put
his foot into il" Mt this iuncture when
the letter-writing proclivitics of Sir
1-Saclvillc-West have occasional the
Cabinet so much annoyance; while tho
| friends OF the latter hail the affair as
demonstrating that Il prime minister is
as likely to be caught mapping as an
ambassador.
Tho Western Iowa Horticultural so
ciety, In its thirteenth session at COun-
Gil Bluffs, elected the following officers:
President, s. w. Wilson, Atlantic; vice
president, w. X. Toilet, Malvern ;secre-
tary and treasurer, George Van Houten,
Lenox; assistant secretary, L. o. Will
liams, Council Bluffs.
The grand jury in Page county has
returned indictments against every bill
lard hall in the county for keeping
gambling house. The indictments
were made on the theory that the loser
OF a game of billiards by paying the
bill was gambling.
Governor Larabee has appointed DR..
Beardsley to represent Iowa on the
Committee OF Civic Organizations at
| sIlc
County Superintendent Haney, OF
onion county, has resigned. He will
90 to Philadelphia to take the manage
ment Of the S. w. Haney & Son vinegar
works. The board of supervisors ac-
cepted the resignation ard elected ex-
Superintendent c. b. Stayt TO all the
vacancy.
A company with capital Of one
hundred thousand dollars, composed OF
Sioux City, Omaha and New York
capitalists, has been organized TO build
pontoon bridge across the Missouri
river. An ordinance has been intro
duced In the city council for franchise
and bridge similar to tie ono at
Nebraska City will be built in the
spring.
The body of Jas. Murphy, plon-
eer citizen Of Adair county, was found
within a mile OF the home OF his son,
Cyrus, a few days ago. Several years
ago he had removed with his wife to
Kansas and was returning to see his
children in Adair county. He had
been subject to fits Of heart disease,
and II is supposed the excitement
brought on by the prospect OF meeting
his children caused one OF his spells,
and he died in Sight of his sons house.
He was eighty years OF age.
Harvey Leonard, Of Davenport, aged
rs years, is dead. He was one OF the
oldest settlers in that part OF Iowa,
coming in 1887. He had been Street
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