Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-02-28
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Gowric.
Hay is a drug on the market at
Forest City.
Smallpox has again appeared at
Ainsworth.
What Cheer has foundry, but no
one to operate it.
A Le.,igh.yosttass was fined IS for
misbehavor IN aEarch.
Dennis Gillian, an old and respected
citizen of Dubuque, is dead.
A new postofiice has been establish
ed at Foster, Monroe county.
Preparations arc being made for the
execution Of Barney Kennedy in Du-
buque.
Abel had fire in which Deputy
| Sheriff Diddy lost a good barn and a
| horse.
OF sixteen life diplomas held in the
State, hreo are held by teachers in
Boone.
| Six citizens have absconded from |
Onawa in the past week, leaving cloud
ed regulations.
The scarlet fever epidemic has about |
ceased at Tama City and the public
schools re-opened.
Dubuque capitalists are now engaged |
in developing project to erect fine
new opera house.
| The necessary $1,000 has been sub
/ scrbed in Monticello to secure con-
densed milk factory.
George McClosky, proprietor Of a
lunch counter in Clinton, has been i
fined $3.50 for selling whisky.
Mrs. C. w. McDade, OF Menlo, died
on the 18th inst from lock-jaw, which
was caused by fall striking on the
face.
The new Methodist Episcopal church
at Cherokee is said to be the finest
edifice of the kind in northwestern
Iowa.
Mrs. Martin Haines, of Burlington,
was severely injured by jumping off
street car when the horses became
frightened.
At the dedication of the new Metho-
dist church at Springdale an indebted
ness of s., 900 was paid. The church
cost 81 900.
| The Washington Star mentions Col.
Swords, of Iowa, as a possible candi-
date for United States Marshal for the
District of Columbia.
Two bodies have been stolen from
the cemetery at La Porte City recently
and the mayor is after the ghouls, who
are said to be physicians.
An effort is being made at Council
Bluffs to organize another electric light
company for the purpose of putting in
Brush electric light plant.
The Telegraph says that Dubuquer
| shipped 1,100cats and 200 dogs to
Dakota, where the animals are wanted
to exterminate ground mice.
Judge Ney, at Independence, refused
TO enjoin the American Express COM
pany from delivering liquor shipped
e. o. d. from another State.
Geo. Z. Roberts, Iowa's State
Printer, is about.to put up handsome
new residence at Fort Dodge at a cost
of six or eight thousand dollars.
| A gymnasium has been fixed up in
the basement of the Eldora high school
building and supplied with boxing
gloves, dumb bells, Indian clubs, etc.
| Red Oak is getting ready for a boom.
A board OF trade has been organized,
new canning factory is to be started
and other enterprises are in prospect.
II w. c. Franklin, of Marine, Ia, has
lost four children by scarlet fever with
in two months, three OF them within
nine days. The family is now child
less.
II Geo. Wallen, wealthy stock dealer
of Hamburg, Iowa, while looking after
his stock in the cars at Creston, was
run over by switch engine and in
stantly killed.
/ A brute at Burlington named Butler,
while drunk handled his little boy so
roughly that he broke one of his legs,
after which he thrashed the boy until
he was almost dead.
| Patrick Noonan, laborer at Clinton,
while going TO his room in the second
story of his sons house, fell from the
top OF the stairs, and received injuries
which caused his death.
The residence of James Henderson,
ST., burned at Algona. 1t was total
loss; insured for 81, 500 on the house
and furniture in the Hawkeye Insurance
company of Des Moines.
| j. L. Foreman, pioneer merchant
of Council Bluffs, was closed by the
sheriff on the 21st, upon attachments
issued by local and eastern creditors.
Liabilities about $4,000.
| A Lyons girl refused to dance with
a couple of young fellows who were
under the influence of liquor, and in
revenge they burned a set of furs which
she had worn to the ball.
4 The designations of President Ew-
ing, Professors j. r. Wilson and g. r.
johnson, of Parsons college. have been
| rendered, and accepted, to take effect
at the close of the college year.
/ Florence Hurley, Cedar Rapids
girl, who has been in Omaha two
months with her mother and sister,
became infatuated with a young man
who afterwards deserted her, commit
ted suicide by taking morphine. It is
feared Mrs. Hurley will lose her rea-
| SON.