Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-01
The barns Of NJ. H. Donelson. about

by Lightning and burned to the ground. |
The barns were filed with hay, grain,
farming tools and about 5000 worth of |
wool. Loss, $4,000; insurance 81, 400.
in Farmers Mutual of Boone county.
G. S. Toliver, a prominent attorney
at Jefferson, presented a draft for col
lection on one Of the leading merchants
of the town. Tho latter became en-
ragged and struck Mr. Toliver near the
temple. He is now in very precar-
ious condition and his life is despaired |
| of.
The janitor of Iowa College, Mr.. !
Barker, was struck by spent rife |
ball in the side, while riding bicycle
on the campus. The wound bled freely |
but it is not dangerous. The shot was
fired by one of party of boys who
| were shooting small birds near the |
college grounds.
Miss Cora Birdsall suicided at Mason
City, by taking three grains of strych-
| nine. She was TO be married next |
month to George Decker, of Pittsburg.
Pa, but q report reached there that !
he had given his devotions to another,
which is the attributed cause for the |
act. Her relatives reside at DEBORAH. |
The walls of the Attorney Generals
rooms will in few days be adorned
with likenesses of all of the ex-At-
torney Generals OF the State. The |
Executive Council has taken COM
mendable action in helping to immort-
alize all ex-State officers by hanging |
their pictures on the State House walls. !
Seven cars loaded with cattle out of
the middle of a cattle train jumped the |
track at Ottumwa, and rolled into the
ditch. Ten cattle were injured and !
killed. The train was just leaving the |
city with two engines to pull up the |
grade and was making only eight miles |
an hour, and the cause of the accident |
is inplexicablc.
George Mcintyre, brakeman on
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids Il North
ern railway, was shot in the stomach |
Saturday night, July 9th, at Greene,
and MORALLY wounded by Ed Filings
worth. Mcintyre and three compan-
ions tried to force an entrance into the
house occupied by Ellingsworth and
his wife Minnie. All parties are under
arrest.
The Osceola Democrat reports thai
the contract for broadening the road
bed OF the Des Moines e. Kansas City
railroad. and Strengthening the curves
and reducing the grades has been let
to VIM. Byron, of Alton, Iowa. 1t is
said large force of men and teams
will be put to work at once, and that
steam shovels will be employed in the
heavy cut near New Virginia.
The early settlers of Dubuque county
held their annual picnic July 25th at
Twin Springs, thirteen miles north OF
Dubuque. Two thousand people were
present. Mrs. John Burns, of Du-
buque, the first white child born in
Iowa, A. Levi, the first Mason in the
State, and Gen. Geo. W. Jones, the
first United States Senator from Iowa,
were among the notables present.
Judge Il. S. Wilson, the first Judge in
what is now the State of Iowa, made
the speech of the day.
Harry Sherman, one of the parties
at Sioux City, indicted for the murder
of ReS. Geo. c. Haddock in August,
1886, but who was discharged after
the failure to convict John Arensdorf,
was brought into prominence again q
few days ago by a petition filed for di-
vorce by his wife, who charges extreme
cruelty and adultery. She alleges that
| he has acted like brute towards her,
| and that many times she had 10 flee
from home in the middle OF the night
to save her life. She asks $1,000 ali
mony.
Judge Preston has granted tempo
rary injunction against the grand lodge
of Iowa, A. +. and A. NJ. restraining
that body from putting into effect the
the legislation adopted at its last meet
| ing concerning the Ccrneau branch.
Scottish rite. The latter claim to be
the only true Consistory in Iowa and
retain Col. Clarke, Congressman Reid,
j. +. Duncombe and Judge Creston as
counsel. The case will be tried ut the
| October term of the district court to
make the temporary injunction perma-
nent.
Wesley Elkins, arrested on suspic-
ion of having killed his father and
| stepmother on the night of July 18th,
near Edgewood, Clinton county. has
confessed to the crime. He says he
got up at 8 o'clock in the night and
shot his father through the head. His
stepmother got up to make light and
he struck her down with club. The
boy is only IL years old, and yet Cir
cumstances corroborate his statement
and it is believed to be true. He made
the confession to Judge Hatch and has
been sent to Jail.
Married, in Sioux City, July oath,
DIR. A. b. Stroch, aged fifty, and Har-
riet NJ. Hurbird, aged twenty-eight. |
About three months ago DR.. A. b. |
Stroch and Mrs. Harriet NJ. Hurbird |
eloped from Milan, Erie county, Ohio,
coming towards the West. DIR. Stroch |
was one Of the leading physicians Of
that part Of Ohio. Mrs. Hurbird had |
for husband one OF the ablest OF !
Milan attorneys. She left two children |
with her husband. Within one week |
Mr.. Hurbird had been granted divore
from his faithless spouse.
Near Logan, while Mr.. Myrtle, a