Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-07-05


week. A mad stone was applied to the
wound II adhered for several hours.
and it is thought the boy is out of dan.
ger.
1t will be of interest to old soldiers
everywhere to know that Colonel Milo
Smith, commandant Of the Iowa Soldiers
home. has issued an order as follows
"An old soldier who is admitted as an
inmate to the Iowa Soldiers home, who
is drawing a pension of s. month or
more and has no dependents to whom it
should so, is charged the cost price of his
clothing. Ii he draws less than IS ne is
In no case does the home appropriate q
cent Of his pension money. but controls il
and pays it out in small amounts rs called
for. But in case the inmate has depend
ents, friends or relatives he can send any
or all his pension money to them and
everything will be furnished him at the
h ONE.
The Iowa wheelman will make grand
bicycle tour, leaving Grinnell July H.,
and going through Marshalltown, Eldora,
Iowa Falls, Webster City, Fort Dodge.
Humboldt, Algona, Emmetsburg and
Esthervillo to Spirit Lake In time for the
Iowa State regatta, July o.
The ossian Creamery Company have
filed its articles of incorporation with the
Secretary of State. The capital stock il
s5,0 O9. The articles Of incorporation OF
the Iowa Investment Company, Of Iowa
Falls, capital stock $4,000 have also
been filed.
The Governor has appointed Mrs
Coggeshall Of Des Moincs and Mrs. N. T.
Bemis of Independence, delegates to the
National Prison Reform Congress which
meets at Boston July 18th.
Marshalltown Times Republican says:
Thomas Mcbride, an old soldier, who
came to the Home from Jackson county
poor house, ran away Monday and
| started for Clinton. He was found last
evening on the Central Iowa track. He
had been struck by the pilot of an engine
and his body badly crushed. He was
taken to the Home, where he died last
night from his mi uries Mcbride was 70
years of age and veteran of Company
Fl. First Kansas infantry. He was "out
Of his head" at times. and he wanted to
go home. The home authorities had
notified the railroad people not to let
him on the train. He had started out to
walk and is supposed to have been
sitting on culvert when struck. The
police had been notified and were looking
for him in town.
-Muscatine had five weddings in one
day last week.
Horse thieves are drumming up big
trade in jefferson.
The Atlantic district Methodist camp
meeting will be held at Crystal Springs,
August 7 to II.
Local creamery men at Waterloo are
confident of securing the meeting OF the
State Dairymens Association for that
place to be held next November.
The law in regard to temperance
| teaching in the public schools is being
complied with in the Charles City schools.
1t is matter of daily study, and is part
| of every examination.
The directors of the State fair this
year make the following rule: "All
| propositions for games of chance inClu-
| ding wheels and sales Of pools for races
| will be rejected by the society. Gambling
of every nature and form will be excluded
| from and about the fair grounds"
The dates for holding the Eastern
Iowa Veterans annual convention are
announced for Sept I'd, 4th and 9th in
Clinton. Arrangements are being made
to receive and care for many old soldiers
and others who will be there.
The body of an unknown man was
| found in the Missouri river at Sioux City,
| July I'd. It was that of man apparently
| from 45 to so years of age, but had been
in the water so long that it was un
recognizable.
| Colonel Warner, Agent for the
| Omaha and Winnebago Indians at the
reservation just below Sioux City. on the
Nebraska side of the river, states thai
about one hundred of the Indians have
died with measles during the past foul
months. The disease broke out early in
the spring and spread with frightfuI
effects. There are only about thousand
Indians on the reservation.
/ "A New Hampton saloon keeper sold
beer in the original package as shipped
in the bottles. In proceedings brought to
enioin, Judge c. 7. Granger holds that
it may be sold when it has been import
ed from other States, the manner of sale
and the purpose for which the liquor is
purchased must be regulated by the State
laws n
| "A curious accident happened to b
lady at Ackley few days ago. When
she arose in the morning her false teeth
had disappeared She had no recollection
of removing them during the night. She
searched the bed, took the covers of and
shook them, looked under the bed anC
finally got up and looked all over tn,
house. Then she felt a burning ant
gnawing in her stomach and concluded
she had swallowed them. Her symptom;
became alarming and she was about t.
send for doctor, when the lost set of mas
ticators was found between the feather
and straw ticks, and the stomach trouble
at once. ceased
A BULLET IN HIS BRAIN.