Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-02
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$40, $40, 3l3.57. the apount twelve months
previous being s4l, us, 065. so. The losses
paid by the local mutual fire companies
amounted to $7i,, 04iS2 and the other
expenses were 49,. 096516. Regular Iowa
companies paid Sio1 ,S45.O7 in losses in
1897. and outside companies paid $l,419,
00S.67. The regular life companies paid
in the same time $56a 334S1 in losses
The amount at risk by these companies
Jan was SIS, 955, 2Oa.
Hon. II. A. Wonn died a. his home
near BelGnap. in Davis county, few
days ago and was buried by the Masonic
fraternity, of which he was an honored
member Mr.. Wonn represented his
county in the Iowa Senate one or two
terms and has served often in public
capacity, and always to the satisfaction
OF his constituents He was an honorable.
| upright citizen, true friend, and his
death will be sincerely mourned by many
personal friends throughout the State.
Chicago papers chronicle the issuance
of marriage license to Senator w. S.
Knight of Dubuque, and Miss CAN'T, of
Chicago.
A bridge is to he erected at cost of
$3.50 across Turkey river at Elkader,
Clayton county.
| Fletcher Woolsey, formerly AdjutaDt
Of the nth Iowa. afterwards and for
some time chief clerk in the business
house of General Bussey, at st. Louis,
but for the last ten years resident OF
Bloomfield, went to st. Louis last March
to dispose Of valuable book he had COM
piled. combining interest, wages and
weight tables, since which time nothing
had been heard from him, until few days
ago when. in answer to inquiries set on
foot by his friends, it was found that he
| had fallen down stairs at boarding
house and broken his neck, and was
buried in the potters field.
Chairman Beardsley has selected Gen.
James NJ. futile to be Temporary Chair
man of the Republican State Convention.
Centcrville has organized an agricultur-
al and stock company and will have a
fair this fall; capital stock, $40, 900.
The nineteenth annual report Of the
Auditor of State on Insurance has been
issued. The report is the largest ever
Issued from the Office. covering $50 pages.
Ii shows a wonderful increase in the in
surance business in the State.
| Cn,rotoru Cbayor rn,nr,, ,bot thoro
will be a larger attendance, from all in
dications, this year than ever before at
the coming State Fair. More entries
have already been made than were made
last year, and he has just sent out 0,000
invitations to persons who will respond
| literally by attending. The good crops
will cause farmers generally 10 make the
meeting a sort of jubilee.
The twenty-second Iowa reunion will
| be held at Iowa City October and next
and all members of the Twenty-first,
Twenty.third, Twenty fourth, Twenty
eighth Iowa and Eleventh Wisconsin
regiments are invited to be present and
join them in grand Brigade reunion, as
| the guest of the Twenty second regiment.
This reunion was originally called for
August 90 and 90.
The man whom Sheriff Mooney captur-
| ed at Burlington, Iowa, not long ago, on
the charge of having killed Chas. Sharp,
at Manila. last August, has been dis
charged from Jail on motion of County
Attorney Talley. The witness who
promised to come and testify did not ap-
pear
Suits have been commenced against the
Rock Island road by shippers in Newton,
in which they will seek to recover from
the company sums equal to the rebates
it IS alleged were allowed to certain ship
pers. The firms bringing such suits are
Cook & Wheeler, Vaughan & Loughran,
A. Carrier, F. A. Eaton, Mobcrly Bros.
| ]. Ii. Lounsberry, B. w. Blackwood.
HixSon Bros. The papers allege that be-
tween 1879 and 1885 the company allowed
rebates to the following firms: j. L.
Patton, Curtis & Manning, West g.
| Weaver, Hanson & Miller, W. r. Man.
ming. Many Of the suits are for heavy
sums.
A severe storm passed through the
north portion of Benton county Saturday
evening, July 81, doing considerable
damage Hail fell to the depth of three
inches in places, it is said A school
house west of Tracr was totally demolish-
ed and scattered to the winds. Houses
and barns were unroofed, and hogs, cattle
and other stock persisted. At Reinbeck
q cloud burst and did considerable dam
&c. Crops suffered greatly, being driven
out of sight by the hail. The storm was
about two miles in width.
A four year old son Of Mr. A. Hullsizer,
living four miles south of Humboldt, had
his left leg cut off just above the ankle
by a mower. lie was playing in the hay
field.
In Grundy county the recent Storm
track was about five miles broad, where
il ragged with the most fury. In this path
growing grain was utterly demolished
Only bare stalks remain where stood fine
fields of corn. Several large barns were
blown to pieces and much stock was
killed. The damage will amount well up
into the tens of thousands.
George w. Smith, the 10.year old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w. Smith, of
Davenport, was drowned July %.
Judge George G. Wright, of Des
Moines, President of the American Bar
Association, will deliver an address at the
meeting of the Association at Saratoga
Springs, August Is.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the Secretary of State Of the
Davenport Mercantile Co., capital stock
$4,000; Wapello County Loan and Build
ing Association. capital stock 81 500, 900
and the Po,tawattamie County Abstract
Co.. capital stock SIS. 200.
James Ormrod. Sheriff Of Franklin
county, died at his residence in Hamp-
ton, July %, after a long illness. Mr..
Ormrod was universally liked and his
death casts a gloom over the entire com