Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-21
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A collar factory is among the con-
templated enterprises Of Council Bluffs.
The salary of the Supreme Judges
of Iowa is $4,000 per year, payable
monthly.
The dedication of the new Presby-
terrain church at Lake City will occur
on the oath inst.
A new Methodist church has been
dedicated at Leon. 1t cost $4,000,
and is fully paid for.
In Jefferson the vote on issuing
bonds for new school building stood
229 for to "a against.
A barn and valuable team, the
property of Thomas Bride, burned at
Mason City, having been fired by
tramps.
Judge Loofbourow, whose home has
been at Atlantic for twenty years, is
going to remove to Salt Lake, Utah, to
reside permanently.
The members of the Dubuque La
dies Literary association are wrestling
with the problem, "Who are the twelve
greatest women in history?
Frank and Norman Hiet, aged IA
and ID, disappeared from their homes
near Mason City, March 18th, and no
traces of them can be found.
John II. King, of Dakota, formerly
II well-known member of the Iowa
Legislature, is a candidate for Assist
ant Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
At the close OF the NJ. Z. revival at
Cedar Falls the new converts were
asked to stand up, and over 500 re-
sponded and many more were absent.
Hon. John A. Kasson, of Iowa, heads
the commission to represent the United
States in the conference to be held at
Berlin in relation to the Samoan diff
Guilty. ......
On Monday, March 18th, there were
seven alarms of fire in Centerville, all
in different parts of the city, and oc-
curing from II o'clock TO 9 o'clock at
night.
The Congregational church at Allan
tic will celebrate the completion of its
twentieth year on April IA and 10. In
all these years the church mas had but
one pastor, Rev. +. G. Hill.
John Prize, young Scotchman liv-
ing with his parents near Churdan,
twelve miles north of Jefferson, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
No motive is known for the deed.
There are said to be at least 271
widows residing in and near Iowa City.
1t includes many who are there tempo
rarily to enjoy the advantages of the
State University for their children.
C. A. Bishop, Des Moines member
of the bar, has been appointed by Gov.
Larrabee District Judge to fill the va
cancy caused by the promotion OF
Judge Given to the Supreme bench.
The grand jury indicted three per-
sons or firms in lama for keeping
gambling houses, just at the close Of
the great religious revival in which
over two hundred persons were con-
verted.
Tn societies of Christian Endeavor
OF Dubuque, Delaware, Jackson, Jones
and Linn counties will hold their third
annual conference at Anamosa April 2
and 3. Prominent workers are ex-
pected to be present
A religious enthusiast at Bridge
water, Adair county, has been preach
ing and fasting for forty days and
nights and closed his term of fasting
with splendid supper. He has
created much interest and excitement
at the place named.
Hans Erickson, plasterer, fell from
the sixth floor in the new Metropolitan
block at Sioux City, distance of 70
feet and at last accounts was still
alive. The physicians say no bones
are broken, but internal injuries will
probably cause death.
The remains of John Boorman were
found in the railway yards at Clinton
badly mutilated, an engine having pass
ed over the body. 1t is thought that
the man had been murdered and his
body placed on the track to cause the
thought that he was killed by the cars.
Herman Rohleder, young man
about twenty years of age, met sud-
den aid terrible death at Amos Bolick's
grist mill, in Dubuque county. He
was working around the machinery
when he in some way got caught in
the swiftly flying belt and was instant
ly killed.
Fire at Sheldon destroyed Corwin's
implement house and Mandersheid's
billiard hall. Corwin's loss was $1,000
| WIN llRHb luouFduCC. hdlucIouCiu .
loss was $4,000. The G. A. r. hall
suffered to building and furniture 3d.
700. The fire is thought to have been
incendlary.
n. B. Christensen, living near Coin,
committed suicide by jumping into a
we'll. The day previous he carried the
chain for surveyor Hartford and to all
appearance was fully sane. Some seven
years ago he was in the asylum. He
was about forty-five years old and
quite a well-to-do farmer.
Private advices were received from
Pasadena, California, that Hon. A. S.
WEIGH, late President of the State
Agricultural College, died in that city
March 18th, after long and tedious
illness. Mrs. Welch comes home with
the remains Of her husband, by the
way OF Kansas City and Council Bluffs,
and the funeral takes place from the
| College on the arrival at Ames,