Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-04-26
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invented.a new system Of short hand.
which il Is claimed can be learned in
ono-half the time required by the old
way.
The executive Committee Of the Iowa
State Amateur Association met at Cedar
Rapids, April u.s. and decided to hold the
regatta at Spirit Lake July "a and %
The Fort Dodge wheslmen have or.
gauized a club.
Three Illegal voters have been fined $50
each at Pocahontas Center,
The Polk county grand jury indicted
two constables for receiving brides.
The State has released to Davenport for
81, 900 all interest in the island formed by
accretion in the Mississippi.
Sioux City claims to be the one and
only corn palace city of the world,
1t Is said that charming view OF
Lake Michigan may be had from a hill
top in the latest addition OF Sioux City
on the east.
The ddsFcllows OF Kcokuk are pre-.
pairing for a parade aud celebration Of
their sixty.niuth anniversary on the
Goth Of April
1t has been found necessary to erect a
lrestle landing on the Nebraska side Of
the river before transfer Of freight can be
made at Sioux City.
Fort Dodge is To have grcin elevator
with capacity for l00, 900 bushels.
Muscatiue has a mechanical genius
who has constructed handsome violin
out Of Iowa wood. Musicians call II q
fine instrument.
A Muscatine barber has boon sentenced
to the pcnitcntiary, where he has been
given the position OF tonsorial artist 70
the inmates. Onesof the rules OF the
institutions, however, is that he is forbid
den conversation with the occupants OF
his chair, This is hard. For refined
cruelty Iowa is still several laps ahead Of
the res, of creation.
Ida Grove has button factory.
The measles are plentiful in many
NORTHWESTERN towns.
Des Moins is reaching for shoe
factory employing 600 hands
The next annual encampment of the
G, A. r., will be held at Burlington.
Papers throughout the State are pre-.
dieting another very dry simmer"
Miss Downy, the noted evangelist, is
wrestling with the templer a Sioux
City
Burlington is wreathed in smiles since
the bill passed the Senate giving her a
federal building.
Regent Burrell, of the Iowa University.
has accepted an invitation to deliver the
annual Grafton at the University of Kan
sas on June 5.
A State convention Of Republican clubs
in Iowa will be held at the opera house
in Des Moines on Wednesday, May 2, a,
II o'clock a. In.
The many new manufacturing indus
tries recently added to Des Moines and
| in prospect, have given wonderful i'm.
petus to the growth and prospects Of the
| city. Although the city has grown rap.
| idly in the past, there has been nothing
like an initiation of values, and real estate
Is to-day much cheaper than in any other
growing city. Shrewd investors have
| not been slow to see the great advance in
| value that is certain to come with the
growth of the manufacturing and business
| interests, and the city Is thronged with
strangers seeking investments The nu.
| merous railroads entering in the place are
arranging for excursion rates to the city
on all their lines.
A sensation was caused at Sioux City,
April Is, by an accidental discovery Of @
mans dead body in the Arensdorf brew
cry. 1t proved to be Albert Hilb, one OF
the warchmen who were on duty the
night Prohibition Minister Haddock was
was assassinated. By Hilb's side lay the
revolver Of John Arensdorf, the accused
slayer of Haddock. Opinion is divided
as to whether 1t is case of murder or sui
eide. Hilb is said to have been the dis
solute son in-law of wealthy Milwaukee
lumberman.
| Mayor Rohrer, of Council Bluffs hal
announced his policy in regard to tn,
saloons. His officers will not interfer,
with the saloons that pay promptly
fine of $50 each month. Those that dc
not pay, will be closed up. Under Thu
arrangement it is evident that there will
be about fifty saloons in the city.
The CONTRACT has been let for the cree
ton of the new Des Moines Cotton mil
which must be completed July LIST.
will contain all machinery required TO
the manufacture of 10000 yds. of olotl
per day and will employ 500 persons.
A Davenport merchant exhibits
flower two feet long. 1t is from the um
brella plant, and is larger than an ele
plants ear. The odor emitted is unbeai
able.