Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-01-31
IOWA Condensed lTENS
There is movement to build a $50,
900 opera house in Ottumwa.

900 opera house in Ottumwa.
DR.. w. ID. Stillman, prominent
physician, died at Council Bluffs, aged |
SO years. He attended case Of ma
lignant erysipelas and was inoculated
with the disease in the first finger OF
the right hand and blood poison
ing set in. Carbuncles formed on the
right arm, which resulted in his death. !
He was a lecturer and permanent ex-
aminer at the Homeopathic Medical
college at Iowa City.
p. j. Brady and his wife were taken
to Jail at Alton on an indictment by |
the grand jury for selling Liquor con-
trary to law.
A white Cap Committee" at Clin-
ton have posted conspicuous notices on
the business streets warning all drunk
en- wife beaters to leave the city within
fifteen days.
Thomas T. Howard, real estate
dealer at Sioux City was arrested,
charged with having sold j. C. Cum
mings of Duluth. forty-acre tract
within Sioux City to which he had no
title. He has been found guilty and
was sent to jail
The reports TO the State Bard OF
Health indicate that there are no cpl
denies of any kind in Iowa. There
have been one or two cases Of small
pox at Council Bluffs, but they have
been carefully quarantined. At Shelby .
two cases of scarlet fever are reported,
the contagion having been brought
from Marine by children who had just
recovered from the disease.
A new feature Of the Iowa liquor
fight at Burlington, was the filing Of
articles OF incorporation under the
Christian Temperance Union OF the
First Iowa congressional district, with
the avowed intention OF destroying by
all legal means the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors.
Henry Gillespie, the colored man at
Sioux City who attempted to take the ,
life of his former mistress, Nellie
Evans (white), with razor, was sem
fenced by Judge Lewis to seven and
half years in the Fort Madison peni-
Tertiary. Gillespie expected eight
years and the impression of the COM
munity was that he would get ten
years. Nellie Evans, his victim, is
recovering as fast as possible.
Judge Darius Seeley, a Howard
county pioneer, died recently.
The residence of j. II. Pringle, at
Scranton, burned to the ground.
The debt of them E. church. S., $50,
at Sheffield, has been liquidated, or
provided for, by subscription.
A lodge of Scottish Rite Masons has
been organized at Sioux City. Seventy
Eve Masons took the degree.
A couple OF poker sharks, one white
| anu one COloFeu' VIC lhilHcu bho opore
of Mechanicsville and Upton out OF
S4OO.
Burlington is to have an electric fire.
alarm system to cost 5000. Twenty
stations, or boxes, are to be establish
ed at first.
Another meeting OF the executive
committee OF the A. o. U. w of Iowa
will be held at Waterloo February 18th
at which time it is expected that the
position Of that branch of the order in
regard to the upremi5ts will be settled.
Over $50 students are enrolled in
the Normal College at Dexter. 1t is
hourishing as never before.
James Callahan, the millionaire of
Des Moines. recently made transfers of
immense tracts OF swamp lands in Cal
houn, Sac and Carroll counties to
b mixer Wisner. OF Eldora. The pur-
chase price amounted to nearly one
hundred thousand dollars.
The sound OF the hammer has been
heard in Missouri Valley all this win
ter New buildings are going up on
every hand, and contractors are busy
furnishing estimates on others to be
commenced when spring opens.
Menlo has been excited over a shoot
ing affair. Eek Colbert and Henry
McCune, with their pals, went outside
If the town to have a fight. McCune
Drew revolver and shot Colbert in
the arm. McCune then started to
escape, but was arrested about three |
miles away.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern railroad is filling an order
for l 900 cars of ice. 1t is cut at Spirit
Lake and loaded by steam power.
There is movement to organize an
anti-tobacco society at Onawa.
The Masons at Fort Madison arc
talking OF building a Masonic Temple.
Ottumwa church people have con-
Guided to do away with all services in
the churches Of that city ether than
divine service. In other words the
festivals and other kindred schemes
for raising money for the church must
go.
W. B. Wiley has ,ocgun a suit for
$4,000 damages against the Davenport
| electric street railroad. October 2Sth |
his little daughter, two and half
years Of age, was knocked down by
one OF the cars, and died from the in
iuries received. He claims the driver
Of the car was criminally careless.
sac Cay mas raised surncient money |
to rebuild the court house which was
burned there last August.
| A new creamery company has been
organized at Mason City. 1t will in
troduce the centrifugal system OF cream