Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-21

Ieter Ion, du Olu dtFIulH rtSlucut
Of Council Bluffs, was found hanging
in n grain house few mornings ago.
He had committed suicide, and leaves
wife and several children.
In Pottawattamie county the board
of supervisors have been asked to pay
bounty for the destruction of gophcrs.
Farmers claim they are becoming a
source OF great trouble to them.
Mrs. George Myers, of Kcokuk fell
from a chair on which she was stand
ing and fractured her hip bone and her
right arm. AS she is so years of age,
it is not expected that she will live.
State Superintendent Sabin has re-
ceived reports from the superintend-
ents of schools in sixty counties of the
State. The reports show an increase
in attendance OF $500 over last year.
Davenport has an ordinance requir-
Ing all wagons weighing, with load,
more than 6. 800 pounds, to be equipped
with broad tires. The object of the
ordinance is to save the brick paving
rs much as possible.
In the trial of Emanual Nelson, at
Newton, for murder, the jury after
being out about twelve hours, returned
verdict of manslaughter. Nelson
stabbed Thomas Archer to death in a
drunken quarrel last July.
While Mr.. Conway, at Fairbank,
was using circular saw, making q
500 revolutions minute, it flew to
pieces, parts flying twenty rods and
going through barn. OF three men
seriously injured, Robert Wright died.
Blacksmith Evans, a farmer near
Williamsburg, had his barn burned,
together with eight head OF horses,
twenty tons of hay, 500 bushels of corn,
800 bushels of oats and all his harness.
The fire is supposed to be Of incendiary
origin. Loss not known.
The board OF trade of Dubuque are
trying to raise loan of 100000 and
eighty acres of land for a company
which offers to establish a watch fac
tory there with a capital of 100000,
employing six hundred hands and
making $50 watches per day.
Mrs. John Passmore, wife of a
farmer living four miles cast of West
Liberty, committed suicide by severing
an artery in her arm. Long continued
sickness had impaired her mental
faculties, and during temporary aber-
ration of mind she took her own life.
d. w. Van Antwerp, of Masonville,
is the victim of a. drunken row. A
few nights ago - was missed from
home. Search was instituted by his
wife and he was found lying in a eel.
lar, with the sixth vertebr8 of the
neck broken and spinal cord nearly in
two.
The sheriff of Winneshiek county
was beaten over the head with a re.
volver by a Bohemian whom he was
attempting to arrest for the burglary
| of j. HI. Hangs store at Spellville.
The sheriff's wounds are not serious.
The prisoner escaped.
An accident which will prove fatal
to Westbrrg farmer, James Fore.
man, occurred on the 18th. A team
attached to lumber wagon ran fol
several blocks and threw the occupant
! against the paved walk, causing Sc.
we're cuts about the head. He cannot
| live.
Coal has been found on the farm Of
Charles Doty, two miles west of Clarks
vile. 1t was struck by j. II. Thomp
son while drilling we'll and at /
depth of about thirty feet. Mr.. Thoml,
son thinks the vein is of good paying
thickness and says it is of the bes
bitumlnous.
Prisoner John O'Brien, sentenced by
| Judge Gilchrist to the penitentiary al
| Anamosa for nine months, escaped
| from Sheriff Barr and his assistant a
Cedar. Rapids, while enroutc to Ana
mosa, by slipping his handouts off and
| quietly walking away. O'Brien's where
abouts is at this writing unknown.
F. ID. Alderman was married al
Marion. Nov. Sth, to Miss Louisa Dor
sey. Next day requisition was for
warded from the sheriff OF Ogden
Utah, requesting Ackerman's presence
at that place on the charge of horse
stealing. The bride does not want tc
lose her chubby so soon and has haG
him habeas corpused.
On the evening of Nov. 10th Fred
Gillett, son off prominent merchant tai
lor of Des Moipes, while crossing the
track of the Chicago & Northwestern
road in that city on a tricycle. was rur
over by the cars and almost instantly
killed. He was about II years of age
bright and promising boy, and hi'
tragic death was a severe blow to hi
parents.
Thos. Riggs died at Onawa from the
effects of morphine. tits not positively
known that he took it with the inten
ton of committing suicide, but al
indications are that he was tired o
this world and deliberately ended hi
life. Medical aid was summoned, bu
nothing could save him. Mr.. Riggs
was an industrious and we'll liked
man, aged about 80 years. His only
/ enemy was libuor and its kindred &C.
compartments. No one suspected
that he had intentions of destroying
! his life.
Mrs. Hanks, living near .antril, ;
station on the Chicago, Burlington 4
Kansas City railroad, about forty mile.
west OF Fort Madison, committed sui
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