Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-10-10
IOWA Condensed ITEMS.

The Iowa rolling mills, recently
burned at Burlington, will be rebuilt.
Marshalltown's mortality rate for
the past year was little over l per
| cent.
The Republicans of johnson county
nominated DR.. NJ. Young for Repre-
sentative.
Fearful prairie fires are raging in
/ Palo Alto county. There is terrible
destruction.
AL. johnson, of Border Plains, had
four fingers of his left hand taken Off
in cane mill
The barn and storage warehouse of
Henry Krim of Lyons was burned on
the 1st. Loss, $4,000.
J. H. Chamberlain, living near
Humboldt, died from injuries received
from a vicious bull.
A child of John Ozier, living near
West Side, drank concentrated lye with
| prooaoly ldtal euect.
A Villisca gentleman, Mr.. Kennedy,
was struck by a train at Malvern, and
probably fatally injured.
About one hundred survivors of the
Eighteenth Iowa Infantry attended the
three days reunion at Osceola.
Mrs. l.. o. Robinson, late of Indiana,
Methodist evangelist. is holding
meetings st Burlington.
An American eagle measuring nine
feet from tip to tip of wing was shot
by John Ellis near Muscatine.
John w. Harmon, of Lee county,
was accidentally shot by companion
while hunting. He will recover.
Annie Mcclure, fifteen-year-old
girl of Cherokee, ran away from home
and was found by her father in Omaha.
! The Democrats of jefferson county
nominated John Bell for Representa-
tive, and endorsed the State platform.
The Peck We'll Augur company at
Storm Lake, has assigned to w. C.
Wilson. Assets and Liabilities not
known.
The Democrats in Senatorial con-
vention at Rolfe nominated William
Thompson, of Humboldt county, for
Senator.
George w. Perkins, farmer of
Fremont county, was nominated for
State Senator from Page and Fremont
counties.
The Republicans of Des Moines
county nominated Geo. III. Lane for
Senator, and r. B. Foster for Repre-
sentative.
Grandfathers Howe and Arthur, both
over ninety years of age, were present
at the funeral of little grandchild in
Webster City.
Elder Vandewalker, who has been
pastor of the Christian church at Lis
comb, for two years, has accepted q
call to Gearing.
At the Senatorial convention for the
Winneshiek- Howard district A. X.
Bailey was nominated to succeed
Senator Converse.
The leading hotel at Little Sioux to-
gether with a saloon building and a
/ doctors office, burned to the ground on
| the night of the 4th.
Seven horses, four sets of harness,
forty tons of hay and large barn be-
longing to Charles Steffen, near Aston,
were consumed by fire.
w. III. Gillis. one OF the witnesses
| in the Billings trial, was brought all
the way from Texas to give testimony
and wants $15G mileage.
The Sisters of Charity at Dubuque
have purchased 100 acres of beautifully
| lying ground on Summit Hill. Dubuque,
for the location of a convent.
/ A fire in j. H. Queal & Co.'s west
side lumber yard in Des Moiues on the
night of Oct. 9th caused loss amount
ing to $25, 900; insurance $4,000.
Rev. /. L. West, pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Fort Dodge, has
received a call from the church at
Winona, Minnesota, and will probably
accept. ...
Mrs. S. M. Jennings, proprietor OF a
Creston Laundry, and A. w. Davies, a
prominent salesman OF that city, eloped
and Mrs. Dayies is in pursuit of the
couple.
VIM. Likes, who was shot by his
son-in-law, A. w. Clarke, at Des
Moines, Thursday evening. Oct. Sd,
died on the night of the 4th. Clarke
is in Jail.
| c.. A. Dearborn, a brakeman on the
Iowa Central, was run over by the cars
in the yards at Mason City and cannot
live. Both legs were cut off. His
mother lives at Usage.
Mrs. w. II. Campbell, formerly Miss
Amber, who occupied the chair OF
English literature IN the Iowa Wesley
an University for nine years, died at
Pueblo, Colorado, on the goth ult.
Union County Fair closed after three
days of the finest Iowa weather and an
exhibition that will compare favorably
with any in the past ter years. In the
stock department the exhibits were
superior to the past.
Frank PETER, arrested for fatally
stabbing John Gathers at Marshallto ~n
on tho night of September 2ith, had a
preliminary examination on a charge
of murder and was held to await the
action OF the grand jury. Mrs. PETER
was released.
The Waterloo water-works plant has
been disposed OF to company COM
posed OF the bond holders, for $685..