Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-06-13
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS.

on the 5th inst.
Iowa college holds an annual "field
day. devoted to sports.
The Postal Cable company have To-
Gated an Office at Cedar Falls.
Holstein raised SAT- in four hours
for the Fourth Of July celebration.
An Atlantic man is shipping blood.
ed chickens to Washington Territory.
John Knapp, one of the Oldest set.
tiers of Benton county, died on the
9th.
Two young ladies living near Sioux
Rapids have charge of 200 head of
cattle.
w. II. Neizna, of Waverly, claims
to be the slayer of Kingsley. He is
insane.
The June session of the federal
court does not assemble at Keokuk
until the 2Sth.
c. c. Hodges, of Shenandoah, has
been elected principal of the Grand
junction school.
Cedar Rapids has raised 1900 for
Fourth of July celebration and will
make it $4,000.
A big flow of gas and water from
Jefferson's new we'll is exciting the
people of that locality.
Lewis Lubin, seventeen-year-old
boy, was drowned in the canal at
Keokuk a few days ago.
Perry will pipe the natural gas from
Dawson at a cost of about SIS 900, the
work to be commenced at once.
The little village of Neville has
raised $l75 for 4th Of July celebra-
tion-a dollar for every inhabitant.
Over four hundred delegates were
in attendance at the State Sunday
School convention at Cedar Rapids.
The house of Gus Ehlers near
Boone, was struck by lightning on tho
night of the 9th and badly wrecked.
w. T. Bristol, farmer living two
miles from Schaller, was instantly
killed June 9Th while blasting rock.
Cows are dying in the vicinity Of
Eldora. The cause is supposed to be
from the poisonous myrrh is the pas
lures.
Denison will have musical conven-
don during the second week of July,
under the direction of DR.. II. B.
Palmer of New York.
o. Ii. Watkins, a Hardin county
youth, has invented machine for
binding grain with straw. A patent
has been applied for.
j. S. Wylis of Davenport was cleo
ted President of the Coal Dealers asso-
citation of the northwest at its fourth
session held in Chicago.
Z. ID. Steadmau treasurer of Benton
county, has resigned and the board OF
supervisors appointed Alex. Runyon oil
Shellsburg, to the vacancy.
Capt. Charles Stuart, the founder
of Stuart, Iowa, died near Osceola,
Ill.,, June 9th. He was born in Gale
donia county, Vt, June Z, 1926.
A mad dog gotinto drove of hogs at
the Churchill farm near Davenport.
and bit number of them. Now tho
hogs are going mad by the score.
In Mahaska county farm house &C.
cupied by G. w. Ankeny and owned
by Mrs. G. w. Arnold, burned to- the
ground. Loss 500, insured for $500.
The Commissioners of Pensions on
the 9Th inst, appointed the following
pension board at Wapello, Iowa: Drs
II. Cowden, L. B. Powers and Frank
L. barrow.
The suit of the American Finance
Co. against the Mason City & Fort
Dodge Railway for 1925, 900 for viola
ton of contract, was dismis sed in the
United States Court at plaintiffs cost
At Bancroft lives a family named
Kinney, in which there has been six
deaths during year, five of them
having been from diphtheria. The
father deserted his family few weeks
ago.
Among the Iowa postmasters ap-
pointed by the President on the 9th
were the following: William A. Hun
ter, Belle Plaine; Henry H. Reed,
Brooklyn; Allen L. Underwood, Mon
tezuma.
Lightning struck the barn of John
Enebeck, farmer living near Spirit
Lake, and burned it down. There
were three horses inside and they were
struck and killed. The barn was in
sured for $500.
A Mrs. Darling, living in Perry,
made an unsuccessful attempt at sui
eide with Rough on Rats" on the
evening of the 9th. She was discov-
cred in time by one OF the neighbors
to prevent her scheme from working.
A widow named Mrs. Gertrude Sharp
of Muscatine, departed on a sad mis-
sion to Johnstown, Pa, having learn
ed that her father, mother, three
brothers, two sisters and her own son
had been numbered among the victims
Of the terrible accident.
A posse of eleven men rode into
Preston Saturday, June LIST, and divid-
ing into three groups, two of which
were headed by local pastors, they
made an active search for liquors,
finding it at Hullermaun's, Specht's
hotel and Scott's saloon. Permanent
injunctions are now standing against
Specht and Hullermaun, and 1t will
likely go hard with them as we'll as