Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-29
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Hotel Colfsx at Colfax Springs has
suspended business.
About $50 are enrolled in the Craw-
ford county normal.
Muscatine boasts that it has local
novelist and nineteen local poets.
A caving bank at Davenport caused
the death of VIM. Book. laborer
Maengo people are discussing the
possibility of sinking an artcsian
we'll.
Mrs. Kosenka ofHampton committed
suicide by hanging on the night OF the
2lst.
Prof. Andrews Of the State Univer-
sity is summeriug in the Sandwich
Islands.
At Coon Rapids Vim. Laws barn
was burned on the night of the 2lst.
Loss $500.
Charles Ford, hotel proprietor of
Algona, died suddenly of heart disease
on the goth.
The Tribune says none of the large
factories of Davenport could be bought
for any price
Mrs. Fred Barmaster was seriously
injured by being thrown from buggy
near Fairfield.
o. c. Morton, an old railroad con-
ductor of Clinton, has been sent to
tho insane asylum.
Wallace Redding Of Griswold was an
rested for selling forged check OIL
w. II. Brown of Atlantic.
In the Boone county normal, Miss
Deborah Brenton won the prize schol
arship offered by the Dcs Moines col
lege.
The residence of A. Jewett, with its
contents, burned at Chillicothe. Iowa
caused by an oil stove explosion. Loss
81, 800.
DR.. C. A. Lccch, of Keokuk, has
been appointed commissioner of the
circuit court of the United States by
Judge Love.
7. J. Carleton, of Creston, was ar
rested at Council Bluffs, for attempting
10 rob man named Harness, of Glen
wood, OF $40.
Joseph Ubring, at Sioux City, ended
a two weeks spree by taking big
dose of laudanum, and the coroner re-
turned a verdict of suicide.
Hoag's Touring mill at Manchester
burned Aug. Esd, with the electric
light plant. Loss 100000; no in
surance. Supposed to be incendiary.
Mrs. Hirsh of Jefferson township
Dubuque county, died on the 81 st inst.
from the effect of an injury received by
jumping from wagon during a rum
away.
The largest horse in Iowa, and
probably the largest in the United
States, will be exhibited at the state
fair. He is years old and 81 inches
in height.
VIM. Meyer, Farmland near Car
roll, suicided by blowing his head off
with n shotgun. A love affair was the
cause. He was young man of excel
lent habits.
Edward Dryer, II Webster county
farmer, while loading lumber into his
wagon, was thrown under the wheels
of his wagon and his neck broken,
killing him instantly.
Jennie Hemer and Mrs. Shepard,
deaf mutes, were promenading the
track at Dubuque when they were
struck by the Diagonal express and
dan gerously injured,
Articles of incorporation OF the
Medical & Surgical Sanitarian com
pauy, of Red Oak, were filed with the
Secretary of State by J. II. and Hamil-
ton White, with capital stock oil
100000.
Earl Palmer, the man who was shot
by Rev. +. ID. Helmick at Nicola, died
of his wound on the afternoon Of Aug.
goth. Helmick is in custody, and
public sympathy at Nicola seems to be
against him.
The speed races at the State Fair
will be further increased in point OF
sttractiveness by the presence of Lur-
line, who will give exhibitions on
Tuesday and Thursday, dividing the
time with Axtell.
Louis q. Bostedo, of Atlantic, the
the inventor of the Bostedo package
carrier, has sold all rights and patents
on his invention for 100000 to a
Chicago firm. Mr.. Bostedo is shrewd
young man of about so.
James Holloran, an engineer, was
killed in the yard of the Diagonal
railroad in Des Moines, August 18th,
while switching cars. lie was % years
of age. and has mother living at
Port Huron, Mich.
Duncan, the man bitten by "a rattle
snake near Muscatine, has spells OF
chickering's of the mouth and dartlng
out his tongue like a snake. He at
tempts to bite his attendants. Fears
are entertained regarding his recovery.
Philemon Goblet, clerk in Harlan
Bros drug store in Des Moines, was
suifocated by the smoke and fumes
from an explosion of chemicals for the
making Of red fire, which was stored
in or near his bedroom over the drug
store, on the night of August 25th.
He was about twenty-five years OF age,
and a young man OF excellent charac.
ter. His life was insured in New
York company, payable to Miss Belle
Carver, OF Sioux City, TO whom he was
engaged TO be married.
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