Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-28
Mt. Pleasant asylum is receiving an
unusual number of insane patients.

unusual number OF insane patients.
| A Creston dispatch says Kline COM
pleted his forty days fast, and now
claims he received further instructions
from the Almighty to cease speaking
for the same length Of time; hence
three hours after finishing his fasting,
he closed his mouth, and no persuas-
ion will prevail upon him to desist.
A special from Pomeroy, Iowa, says
Mabel Tenora, aged seven, the daugh-
ter of Charles Tenora, who lives eight
miles north OF Pomeroy, met terrible
death by her clothes taking fire from
a match, with which she was trying to
set fire to grass near the house. When
discovered her clothing was entirely
burned from her body, which was
literally roasted.
Four arrests We're made last week
of bootleggers at Emmetsburg, for vic
latingSthe prohibitory law. Two of
them, Pete Doris and win Fender,
were sentenced to serve forty-iive days
each in the county Jail. John Murray,
who had been indicted at the last term
of the court by the grand jury, was ar
rested and lodged in Jail. His trial will
take place in April.
| Slrs. II. w. Barrett, at Boone, was
poisoned by eating cucumber pickles
which had been made in tin pan. The
acid of the pickles combined with the
lead used in soldering the vessel, and
the result was a very dangerous mix
ture. Her gums were partially eaten
away, and for time she was in crit
ical condition, but is considered out of
danger at present writing.
Manly Clifford, aged seventy-two
years, died at his home in Knoxville.
Mr. Clifford was born in New York.
The most of his early life was spent in
Fayette county, Indiana, on farm.
In 1S4S he came to Iowa and settled
near Monroe and engaged in farming,
moved to Knoxville in 1870, was one
of the prominent stock holders and
officers of the Knoxville National Bank.
Geo. Roebuck, at Rock Tails, who
sustained loss of $4,000 by fire on
his premises, now offers reward of
$500 for information that will lead to
tho arrest and conviction of the persons
guilty OF the crime. Several buildings
in that vicinity have recently been
burned, and it is thought to be the
work of some incendiary. The insur-
ance companies and citizens will swell
the reward offered by Mr.. Roebuck.
A boy named Olsen, some fourteen
years old, living at Stilson's Switch,
was accidentally shot by his older
brother. 1t seems they were hunting
and while creeping through the grass
the gun was accidentally discharged
the charge striking the younger lad in
the lungs, from the side, and being
only two or three PAGES away il tore d
large and CHASTITY hole. 1t is though,
he will not recover.
| Another flowing well was struck a
few miles east of Waverly, at the depth
of 175 feet. The force of the water
was so great as to throw a 500-pound
drill out of the hole. 1t spouts six.
inch stream nine feet high. 1t is the
sixth flowing well there within radius
of three miles. In the same vicinity,
however, Mr.. Meyerhoff is having a
well drilled at his creamery, and the
drill at last accounts was down zoe
feet with no indications of water.
The Northern Iowa Normal School,
at Algona, closed its winter term March
22nd. Upwards of one hundred stu.
dents have been in attendance and it ii
noticeable that the grade of students
now coming from all over Northern
Iowa is very high. The term has il
every respect been grand success, ant
the prospects for the spring term, which
opens April 2, are very encouraging
The people of Algona are supporting
this school literally, as they have done
for three years.
The governor has appointed ex-Sen.
ator James Harlas as commissioner tC
represent the state of Iowa at the cen.
tennial celebration of the inauguration
of George Washington as the president
of the United States, to take place in
the city of New York April 80, 1889
The appointment is in lieu of John A,
kasson, resigned. The assistant com
missioners are j. b. Grinnell, Grinnell
ID. N. Cooley, Dubuque; II. S. Fairall
Iowa City; Loran w. Reynolds, Boone
F. Y. Whitmore, West Union; L. A
McMurray, Webster City.
Eli Hawkins started from Oskaloosa
to Ottumwa with two car loads Of hogs
via Abba. The train was a long one
mostly loaded with grain and live
stock. When near Avery and on 6
long down grade the train parted, the
engine going ahead with seven cars
The rear end of the train, consisting Of
about twenty cars, had reached speed
of about forty miles per hour when il
caught up with and crashed into the
front part OF the train, hurting almost
the entire train into one mass OF broken
and crushed cars, grain, and dead and
living hogs and cattle. Mr.. Hawkins
was in the caboose and was, with
others, badly shaken up, but none Of
the occupants were injured to speak
of. All Of his stock was either killed
or crippled, and he returned home
without completing his trip.
The Eleventh Annual Tournament Of
the Iowa State Firemen's association
will be held at Council Bluffs, june IL,
IL, IS and IA, 1889. The firemen and