Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-15
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
A board OF trade has been organ ized
at Boone.


overdose of laudauum taken to induce
sleep. ...
Walter p. Pillsbury, of Oskaloosa,
has been appointed cadet to the mil
itary academy.
The general society of the Sweden
borgians was formed at Norway, Ben
ton county, on the 10th.
The election for a court housestax in
Wayne county, was defeated by ma
jority against the tax OF 172.
A: Cedar Rapids T. M. Bowen, a
contractor, dropped dead while sitting
in a chair transacting business.
Ed. Ferguson, Sioux City printer.
is forger and fugitive from justice.
Gambling was the cause OF his down.
fall.
A young man named Corey accident
ally received severe gun-shot wound
in the arm while out hunting near
Muscatine.
Henry Smith, confined in the jail at
Eldora, broke Jail week ago, but was
captured. Again he escaped and is
still at large.
A. +. Wheelock, an old soldier and
G. A. r. man, died at Algona, Aug.
9Th. He was at one time county audi
tor OF Kossuth county.
Theo. Stratton, single. aged forty
five, hanged himself in Jackson town
ship, Crawford county, few days ago.
No cause assigned.
The annual reunion of the Iowa State
Association of Mexican War Veterans
will be held in Des Moines, September
3rd and 4th, during the State Fair.
A Des Moines man, who is described
as tall and fine-looking, with heavy
mustache, attempted suicide at Spirit
Lake on the 18th. The shot failed.
Carlson, the man who burned the
Sac county court house about a year
ago, has gone crazy, and has been
transferred from TT. Madison to Ana
mosa.
John Howard, Of Willetsburg, Pa,
was seriously injured by an incoming
train at Burlington. Both legs have
been amputated and his recovery is
doubtful.
The last Grand Lodge of Good
Templars voted to hold it's meeting
this year in Dubuque. The Executive
Committee has changed the place of
meeting to Fort Dodge.
Lon Bodell, a young farmer residing
near Dayton, Webster county, was
thrown from the back Of mule he
was riding and his foot catching in the
stirrup he was kicked to death.
Joseph Simmons, teamster in Des
Moines, committed suicide by hanging
on the 10th. He was IS years OF age,
served in the Crimean war, and also
in the Union army during the rebell-
ion.
West Burlington is all astir over a
wedding sensation. A prominent So
ciety lady was to have married n young
man from Upton few days ago. On
the wedding day the young man disap-
peared.
Harper Clingman, one Of the Wa
verify excursionists to Cedar Rapids,
was killed on the Bear Creek bridge
above Palo. He was hanging on to
the platform when his head struck the
bridge.
Secretary Shaffer is much pleased
at the prospect for some good speed
ing at the coming State Fair. For the
FIRST time in the history OF the asso-
citation all the classes are filled at the
time of closing the entries.
f. B. Conger, farmer who resided
about FIVE miles mol thwest Of Earlville,
fell from a haystack and received in.
juries from which he died soon after.
He was sixty-four years Of age and one
Of the early settlers of the county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson, wife OF
Ex-senator John w. Henderson, OF
Cedar Rapids, died Aug. 18th. She
had been an esteemed resident Of Cedar
Rapids for a quarter OF a century. Her
illness has been of ten years. standing,
caused by cancerous growth in the
stomach.
Arrangements have been made by
the State Fair managers, to have Ak
tell, the noted Iowa horse, trot against
time on Tuesday and Thursday of fair
| week. He will be exhibited on the
grounds and track twice each day but
will only trot for speed on the days
designated.
At Mrs. Brewster's boarding house
in Carson seven boarders were taken
suddenly ill with symptoms of poison
ing. Medical aid was at once called
and after working all night with the
patients they were pronounced out OF
danger. 1t is supposed the vanilla
fia-oring in the pastry is what caused
the trouble.
Joseph l.. Anderson, of Montezuma,
has died in the insane asylum. A few
years ago Col. Guiles went through
that place with his wonderful circus,
noted especially for the number offrauds
connected with it. Anderson lost 1925
in trying to "buck the tiger" and this
so operated upon his mind that he fin
ally went crazy.
The Swedish citizens of Iowa and
adjoining States will celebrate the two
hundred and fifty-first anniversary oil
the first Swede settlement in America,
at Boone, September IA. Delegations
and visitors will be in attendance from
many places outside the State, while
| naarlu avery town inside the Iowa line