Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-04-11
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committed suicide at Tama by hanging
himself with strap in wood-shed
near his home.
VIM. May was arrested at Newell
for violating the postal laws by using
thirteen cancelled stamps on thirteen
letters, all of which were mailed at
the same time.
The b., G. II. & N, at Montezuma,
reached a depth of PSI feet in its search
for water and now has $50 feet Of that
valuable fluid. A vein of coal was
passed through, but as TO its thickness
nothing is known,
The harness shop and clothing store
combined of Mrs. Nj. Desmond, at Cas-
cade, took fire and was we'll Quilted be-
| fore the fire was gotten under control.
1t was partially insured. The origin
| Of the fire is unknown.
Tom Dubord and Stuart Leonard, at
Creston, were found guilty of selling
liquor. Judge Wilson, OF the Super
Tor Court, fined Dubord $500 and Leon
ard 800. The Mayor is determined
to suppress the traffic if possible.
Hydinger's livery barn at Hamburg,
burned, consuming large quantity of
hay and five horses. Old Jap and
Fred, the old reliable and well-known
1 ibI,S h, ,l.>,,
burned. Loss, $4,000; well insured.
Row. Charles Hurd, whose suicide is
mentioned in London cablegrams, was
the son of the late Dr. Hurd, a we'll
known Baptist clergyman who held
pastoratc at Marshalltown and at Bur-
lington. His step-mother resides at
| Marshalltown.
The Secretary of War has detailed
Lieut.. George w. Reed, Fifth Cavalry,
to succeed Lieut.. Calf as military in
structor at the State University. Lieut..
Reed is an Iowan, was appointed to West
Point from Des Moines, and graduated
at that institution in 1888.
An unknown young man entered
disreputable house in Council Bluffs
and fatally shot Kitty Edwards and
then sent q bullet through his own
| head. He was q boardless youth and
so far as known stranger in the city.
No cause Tor the decd can be learned.
Miss Bertha Klein, aged II, and her
| brother, Russell Klein, small boy,
and a Miss Taylor were boating on
Spirit Lake, April 9TH. The boat was
accidentally upset. Bertha Klein was
drowned, but the others were rescued.
The body was recovered next morn
| ing.
| Natural gas was found at the depth
of 80 feet on the farm of Jacob Taylor,
| five miles east OF Nevada, sending forth
sand and gravel. 1t was lighted and
burned readily. The light of the flame
illuminated the surrounding country
and the result is Nevada is aglow with
| excitement.
The corner stone of new Catholic
church at the monastery Of the Trap
pist Monks, twelve miles from Du-
buque, was laid April 9TH. The cere-
mony was performed by Bishop Hem
Messy, assisted by number of clergy
men. About 1000 people were pres
ent from Dubuque and the surrounding
country.
Mr.. Curian, agent for the Catholic
orphan asylum of New York, passed
through Dubuque with over fifty
orphans, principally girls between five
and eight years. They were destined
for Northwestern Iowa, where homes
have been provided for them with
Catholic families.
Daniel Hogan, q farmer at Buck
Grove, a railroad station nine miles
northwest of Manila, was fatally burn
ed while trying to save the contents of
his barn which had been set on fire by
a passing engine. In his efforts to get
| the stock out of the barn, part of it
fell, burning him SO badly that he has
since died.
James Scars, member Of the Coun-
Gil Bluffs fire department., died from
brain trouble induced by excessive
smoking of cigarettes. Three months
ago he was the strongest member of
the department. For two weeks he
has been insane. The day he was at
tackled he had smoked ten boxes of
cigarettes.
Charles Hoffbauer, a saloon keeper
in Davenport, against whom tempo
rary injunction prohibiting him from
selling liquor was issued a few months
ago, was fined $500 for violating the
injunction. Hoffbauer was committed.
This is the first instance in Scott coun-
ty of imprisoning saloon keeper UNI
der the prohibitory law.
On the evening of April End ter
rible gale struck Emmetsburg from the
northwest and did considerable dam
age. Peter Reither's slaughter house
was burned to the ground, together
with six fat cows. Loss about 5000;
no insurance. Mr.. Deblat's sheds,
barns and all his grain and some stock
were consumed by prairie fire. Loss
$500.
Yankton merchants are resenting
Sioux City's successful efforts to have
the signal service station removed there
by boycotting wholesale houses. One
jobber has received word from large
customer at Yankton that business re-
lations would be severed. Other job
bers are informed that Yankton mer-
chants will hereafter do business else
where. The signal station has been
located at Yankton for fourteen years
and people feel very sore that it is to
be removed.