Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

one OF the vaults in the new court
house in Sidney, Iowa, Sept. 18th, the
roof gave way and buried two men by
the name Of Tompkins and Nichols,
who were working in it at the time.
Tompkins was perhaps fatally injured,
while one of Nichols legs was broken.
Among the exhibits at the Ida county
fair was map of Ida county Sx42 feet,
each township two feet square. Tho
sections are made alternately OF corn,
rye. oats and barley, the names Of the
townships of millet seed, and the wa
ter courses OF flax seed. All is covered
with glass and encased in beautiful
frame.
At n meeting OF the Sioux City Rap
i'd Transit Co., IL was decided to pro-
coed Immediately with the building OF
an elevated railroad. The line at
present will be little over mile in
length. That city has now the only
cable road in Iowa, and in six months
will have the only elevated road west
of New York.
Fire broke out, Sept. 18th, in the
carriage factory Of Mcdowell 4 Co..
Clinton, and completely destroyed the
same with nearly all the contents. The
frame buildings composing the factory
were insured for 5000, all they were
worth. The stock destroyed was valued
at $50, 900 with but $4,000 insurance.
Two other small buildings burned,
making the total loss $40, 900. The
total insurance is $4,000.
The Union brewery at Ottumwa has
been converted into a canning factory,
and the Courier says that 800 to $50
bushels of tomatoes are taken in every
day, and $4,000 cans are put up daily,
The farmers get 20 cents per bushel
for tomatoes and at this price make a
good thing off of them. The factory
commenced work August 10, and'have
put up 100000 cans. The factory
will put up peas in June, and cucum-
bers later in their season.
The DEBORAH Republican says there
was brought to that Office an ear of
corn which is a curiosity in its way,
being at the stem end and for about
half its length composed of field corn;
then CONSTRUCTED part from which to
the end is an ear of pop corn. The
fields of pop corn and field corn are
about twenty rods apart, yet the pollen
was blown from the field OF pop corn
to the other field, became fertilized,
and thus caused this peculiar freak,
instead of the intermingling of kernals
which usually occurs.
The large barn on the farm OF j. ii.
Seager, near Gilman, Sept. %, caught
| fire and burned to the ground with
| nearly all the contents. The fire
originated in the silo, into which Mr..
| Seager had been pressing large guam
titles OF grass for curing purposes.
| There were about 175 tons of hay, l.
200 bushels of oats, 800 bushels OF
corn, farming utensils, harness, ETC.,
in the barn, which were consumed
with it. Mr.. Seager's loss will foot
up to about $4,000, upon which he has
81 900 insurance.
The democratic state central COM
mittee organized by the election OF j.
j. Dunn, of Dubuque, chairman; Thorn
as III. Lee, of Red Oak, secretary; and
Sam Cohn, of Muscatine, treasurer.
Charles ID. Fullen, who has been sec
rotary the past two years, was also a
candidate for chairman. but was de-
feated by one vote. A resolution in
structing the chairman to open head
| quarters at Des Moines was adopted,
and it is expected this will be done by
October /, and that the campaign will
be opened not later than the ilrst Sat
urday in October.
The body OF dead man was found
in the northern part of Council Bluffs
on the evening of the 18th. He was
found by the Coroner to have been
murdered as the skull was fractured
in half dozen places. The left arm
was broken, and the flesh torn from
his fingers. Near the body laid piece
OF hard pine scantling four feet long
covered with blood and hair. The only
information obtained is the statement
of the round-h house men that they heard
q man scream, followed by number
OF heavy blows late on tho night Of
the 10th and that the sounds came
from the place where the body was
found
The State Veterinary Surgeon, DIR.
Stalker, has filed his annual report
with the Governor. The condition OF
live stock during the year has been
such as to involve no noticeable loss in
the State at large. DR.. Stalker says
the act OF the Twenty-first General
| Assembly restraining the introduction
of cattle capable of introducing Texas
fever. has much lessened the ravages
of that disease. No case of the fever
has been reported in 1889. Chambers
! among horses has called for the most
frequent examination. Even this is
slowly decreasing. The State paid
the veterinary surgeon and his ton as
sistants during the year 81. S30.73.
The opening OF the corn palace at
Sioux City took place on the 23rd,
John M. Thurston, of Omaha, deliver
ing the Grafton. The palace of 1889 is
as great an improvement over that OF
1888 as was the latter upon the origin
al palace OF 1887. 1t has frontage
of 2S2 feet and a depth Of 120. The
finest artistic effects OF decoration have
been wrought out in the interior by
the ladies of Sioux City, who effected