Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-12-13

Over 500, 900 has been paid out for
butter, eggs and poultry at Manson
since January l.
The telephone company has COM
menced placing tho immense cables
which viii supplant the hundreds OF
wires which line the business portion
of Des Moines.
The Iowa Soldiers Monument CON-
mission, appointed by the Twenty
second general assembly, will meet in
Des Moines in u few Gays to take the
initiatory steps for the erection OF the
monument on the capital grounds.
VIM. Miers. German farmer near
Spring Hill. Warren county, committed
suicide by cutting his throat. He had
been respondent and seemed to fear
that he might come to want. The high
water in juno had damaged his crops
great deal, although he was fairly
well-to-do, having 40 acres OF land.
stock and other possessions,
The chemist Of the State Board Of
Health reported the result OF his ex-
animation OF the headcheese that made
% many people at Brush creek, Fay
site county, sick. He discovered the
presence OF tyratoXicon resulting from
early decomposition. About thirty
persons were poisoned by eating the
hcadcheese, and some were very sick,
but all have since recovered.
Near Storm Lake few nights ago,
on the Illinois Central railroad, brake
man Ed. Wright, while sitting in the
cupola of Conductor Walkers freight
caboose, noticed some parties in a
buggy who fired with rifle, the ball
striking Wright square between the
eyes, CHANGING on the skull, and com.
ing out at the back of the neck. The
curious part of the affair is that few
days ago while Conductor Walker was
sitting in the same place on his train,
passing the same spot, persons In
buggy fired at him, but fortunately
without effect. The supposition is
that somebody is laying for Walker,
and mistook Wright for the Conductor.
Robert Gill, young man who came
to Sioux City few months ago from
Storm Lake to take position with the |
Fidelity Loan & Trust Company, has |
been missing since Thanksgiving day. |
| His books are all right, and it is fear
ed that he has suicided, rs he has been
melancholy for some time. His room
mate awoke one night just previous to
his disappearance to find him sitting
on the edge of the bed swapping a re-
volver at his head, evidently trying to
get up courage to shoot himself. Hi
father is wealthy physician Of New
York city.
Creditors Of T. +. Fisher of Austin. |
| Mimi, attached the boot and shoe
stock Of M. A. Allen, OF Mason City,
Iowa, for SIS, 900. Fisher had sold his
stock to Allen short time before.
Scarlet fever is epidemic at Cedar
Rapids. having made its appearance in
nearly all quarters of the city. Mos
OF those attacked have recovered, bu
several deaths have occurred, and rigid
quarantine Of all infected places |.
strongly urged.
Hunter, the man shot by the consta.
BILE at Arcadia, Carroll county, died.
A sharper is operating in the south.
eastern counties Of the State who goes,
round to private houses selling littlo
packages of colored soda, put up il
red flannel sacks, as a preventive oil |
coal oil lamp explosions.
The flowing well recently discovered |
at Tripoli continues to DO the wonde'
Of the section. 1t sends forth fifteei
barrels of water per minute, which /,
Of a blush tinge and strong odor.
Christopher Hanley, who was SEN
to the Independence asylum from
Greene county eighteen months ago
escaped from the asylum two month";
ago, and has been working for farmer
in Black Hawk county. Hanley claims
that he was sent to the hospital on
trumped up charge to got his property
away from him.
DR.. Kennedy OF Des Moines, IL
speaking of the general health Of tn,
State says that the cases of diphtherio
are rare now, and health condition l.
very good in spite Of tho old and un
favorable adagc about an open winter.
The Sioux City corn palace has beer
RACED to the ground and the last Of il
has disappeared.
The great revival closed in Daven-
port with monster meeting ATTENDED
by 1000 people.
The average daily attendance OF
pupils at the Creston public schools
during the past month was 1872.
John Multi of Le Mars, while sl1at
ing, went through the ice'into five fee
Of water and remained there for al
hour before he was rescued.
The bill to quiet tho title OF settlers
to the Des Moines river lands in Iowa.
passed the House.
Miss Bmma Bernard, 16-year.
old girl living near Clarion, ha,
been assisting in gathering corn thi,
fall, hus,ting on an average sixty-scveD
bushels per day.
A distressing accident is reported
from Shueyville, johnson county, al
the home of J. Ii. Kephart. A servan'
in the employ OF the family was using |
concentrated lye and left the can con
tanning tho same on the chair, where
twin children, eighteen months old,
obtained IL and drank OF it. Both died
within two days from the effect.
Work has been commenced on $l5,- /
600 hotel at Sheldon.
The State bank of Manning has been