Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-01-24

The charge has been made mat tho
Davenport & Dakota Railway company
had not laid any track In Iowa the
past year and to ascertain tho truth OF
the statement, GOVERNOR arrabee wrote
to ID. r. nj. Williams, tho contractor
OF the road and got reply that they
had laid S2l miles Of track and that
the road would be built clear through
to Dakota this coming summer.
The death of Conductor II. Patt h.
one of the oldest railroad conduct ors
In Iowa, occurred in Chicago on Sun
day, Jan. IS. For the last 20 years
his homo has been in Des Moines and
aud he brought the first train that ever
came into that city. He was 81 years
Of age.
Simultaneous with the organization
of the White Caps in Marshalltown is
the forming of band of men into a
body Of Red Caps, the workings Of the
latter order being just tho reverse OF
the White Caps. They intend to watch
for the first outbreak OF the first mon
toned order, and II they make their
appearance will make II warm for
them.
The burglar who shot Capt. VIM.
Hamilton, at Denison, has been in
dicted by the grand jury.
The Mason City & Fort Dodge rail
road company has dcfaulted on $685.
900 interost on It's bonds which are
held by the New England loan &
Trust company, to the amount OF 3d.
100000. The bonds are secured BY
mortgage.
Mr.. Joseph Kelley, one of Iowa's
early pioneers and founder OF the
flourishing town of Charles City. Ia.
died at an advanced age at that place
January 18th. He is supposed to have
been the first white man who visited
tho Upper Cedar valley and was known
by the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin.
The Exchange bank at Dubuque has
made an assignment Nominal assets,
SAC, 900. liabilities $40, 900. The assets
are estimated at rs per cent.
The Southern Iowa Poultry associa-
ton will hold show at Charlton Jan.
so to Feb. 2. The interest is better
this winter than 1t has been for years.
A band OF burglars were captured on
the 14th at Van Horne after they had
robbed Schrader's store. The Same
fell' VS. had robbed store at Blairstown,
Jan 2.
Richard, son of Henry Clay, at New
burgh, Marshall county, was caught in
the shaft of grain elevator there and
instantly killed. His neck was broken
and his body terribly mangled. He was
single man.
Articles Of incorporation OF the
Mcneil Cable Co., OF Oskaloosa have
been filed with Secretary jackson, the
capital stock being 100000; also Of
the Sioux City and Nebraska Trans
portation Co., capital stock, $4,000;
Shenandoah Mutual Loan association,
$500, 900, and the Reimcrs & Fernald
company Of Davenport, $4,000.
Father McMahone, for several years
past ice-President OF St. Joseph's
Catholic College in Dubuque and
teacher OF the class in philosophy, died
at Mercy Hospital OF consumption, aged
IS years.
The Iowa Farming Tool Company,
of Fort Madison, has substituted petro-
leum for coke as fuel in their furnaces.
The process consists in burning atom
lied petroleum. 1t is the first firm to
Introduce the system into Iowa.
One thousand cars OF ice will be
hauled to Ottumwa over tho Fort
Dodge branch Of the Rock Island from
the lakes ut Ruthven. The ice is for
Ottumwa dealers, who have come &c
the final conclusion that the crop In
the river this winter will be failure
Scranton has q man who scatters
shelled corn on the ice surrounding ar
air hole, and then by delivering ar
incarnation OF nonsensical gibberist
charms the fish TO tho opening where
he knocks them on the head while
they are trying to get the corn. He
captured string OF thirty, among then
a twenty-five pound pike, in that man
ner recently.
G. d. Lawrence, prominent farmer
near Fairfield, was struck by the engine
of fast mail train and instantly kill
ed. He was about seventy years O
age.
The new M. Z. church at Rockwell
has been completed and dedicated. i
cost $500.
| There Is some talk Of the location o
a largo watch factory at Mason City
DR.. E. James, the noted chiropodis
OF Des Moiues, is announcing to thu
world a new revelation, which he say
he has received. 1t is nothing les
than great destruction among TIT
nations OF the earth in 1890 or 1892 "a
the longest" He says he has beel
called upon to warn the people OF thi
coming destruction, and he Is quit
earnest in his appeals to the people
He backs up his claim with numerou
scriptural quotations. He publishe
an elaborate circular setting forth tn
particulars OF the visions which hav
come to him, and signs the name "ReV
Professor Z. James. the Prophet"
sioux city Protests.
Sioux City special: A committee Q
Sioux City stockmen and packers lei
this morning for Chicago, to confe
| will, tl,a ,,nanaoars of tha wastarn roads