Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-05-16
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS,

cents bushel.
Dubuque people gave Kate Shelly a
purse of $3.50.
Burglars stole goods worth $500 from
Louis Cohn & Son, Maquoketa.
Clinton would like to have the order
of Railroad Conductors building.
The State prohibition convention
will be held in Cedar Rapids June 6.
The residence OF Matt Ewart at Ewart
burned with most of its contents. Loss
IS, 900.
Walter Boss. formerly of Boone,
was killed in railroad wreck at
jamestown, Dakota.
Secretary Donnan has called meet
ing of the Iowa Jersey breeders at
Davenport, May %.
Belmond offers bonus of IS, 900 for
the location of a manufacturing estab-
lishment in that town.
Forty acres of potatoes have been
planted on the state farm at the Inde-
pendence insane asylum this year.
Miss Matte Wagner, formerly of
Sac City, was an Oklahoma boomer,
and succeeded in securing a claim.
The artesian we'll at Boone will go
down very soon. 1t is proposed to
drill 1000 feet, II water is not struck
sooner.
Henry Wyatt, of Hull, widower
aged sixty, was married recently to
Miss Montague, of that place, aged
sixteen.
Superintendent Tom b. Miller, of
Clear Lake, has accepted the superin-
tendency of the schools at Dillon,
Montana.
The Diagonal station agent at Mel
bourne was robbed of $85 in express
money, $25 in railroad money and a
suit of clothes.
The Tana county bank, at Tama,
has closed, l.. Carmichael & Company
making an assignment. L. Merchant
is the assignee.
Mary Cleary, Council Bluffs girl
Of Is, attempted to commit suicide by
drowning but was taken out of the water
and resuscitated.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has
rendered its decision in the case of
Chester Turney and affirms the decis-
son of the lower court.
1t is reported that DR.. Bulls, at one
time lieutenant governor of Iowa, has
been appointed, or is soon to be APP
pointed, postmaster at DEBORAH.
Four cars were derailed on the Chi
,ago, st. Paul & Kansas City railroad
near Ravenwood and smashed COM
pletely. No one was seriously injured.
c. M. Pinkerton, principal of the
Perry schools, has been appointed one
Of the board OF visitors to the United
States West Point Military academy.
Prof. Chas. A. White, formerly of
the State University of Iowa, and also
State Geologist, mas been elected
member of the National Academy of
Sciences.
The Dunlap Reporter advocates the
boycotting by the young ladies of that
city of all young men who gamble,
drink Intoxicating liquors or play base
ball on Sunday.
Henry Van Wrinkle, of Walnut town
ship, Jefferson county. will be a cripple
Tor life. He was trying to sell gun
10 a neighbor and it went off, wound
ing him in the knee.
Thomas Perrett, brother OF Commo-
aore Perrett, of Chicago, a pioneer of
Mason City, and one of its mostpromi-
nent figures, died at his country home
1t Rock Falls May 18th.
The remains of an infant recently
born, was found in field near Rock
lale, Dubuque county. The babe was
wrapped in a copy of an anarchist pa
per published in Chicago.
The body of drowned man found
recently in a Clinton lumber yard was
identified by Mr.. MCGOWAN, of Full
ton, as that of his brother, who dis
appeared some time ago.
The new creamery. at Boone is in OPP
sration and is receiving good patron
age, both from the merchants and
farmers. 1t is capable of turning out
| 600 pounds of butter per day.
The Unitarian conference at Sioux
City adopted resolution favoring the
systematic teaching of morals in the
public schools, providing that such
teaching be kept free from scctarian-
ism.
A fellow fresh from the country was
the loser few nights ago OF $500, all
going up in friendly game of cards,
played between Boone and Marshall
town on a Chicago & Northwestern
train.
John Forester, near Alta Vista, lay
down on the track May 18th, while
drunk and was run over and killed.
On tho same day and in the same place,
while in the same condition, VIM. No
lan's team ran away, threw him out
broke his neck.
Miss Mary Havelin was arrested at
Carroll as the mother of the babe found
on the steps of the Catholic parsonage
at Boone. She broke down and con-
fessed all. Before bringing the babe,
which was five weeks old, to Boone,
she had been to the converts in Coun-
Gil Bluffs and Des Moines, but they re-
fused to take it, and fearing the same
at Boone she resolved to leave il on
the steps, thinking the Sisters would