Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-14
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS

Manila and Denison are to be con.
nectcd by telephone.
The franchise OF the Keokuk Water
Works company has been forfeited.
Mrs. George II. Camp was severely
injured in runaway at Council
Bluffs.
The citizens of Charlton are forming
stock company for the establishment
of a canning factory.
A little child, the daughter of Mrs.
John treers, of Muscatine, was badly
burned with hot lard.
Henry Bertram, living near Musca-
tine, picked a second growth of red
June apples off his trees.
The ladies of Davenport have pre-
scented the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION with II fine piano.
Two horses valued at $1,000 have
died whiting the pasttwo weeks. They
belonged to Mr.. Petit, of Sioux Falls.
Rev. G. w. Snyder, OF the English
Evangelical church of Davenport, the
oldest resident minister of the city,
has resigned.
Burglars made an attempt to rob the
office of the Clinton Herald, but were
unsuccessful. They were thought to
be strangers in that locality.
While playing "tag' on the way
home from school, Nellie Brown, u
10 year old Charlton girl, fell and
sustained fractures of an arm and leg.
The Farmers Cooperative society
Of Meservey, Cerro Gordo county, filed
articles of incorporation with the Sec
rotary of State. Capital stock, $500.
Thomas Maloney's stable in Ottum-
wa caught fire in some mysterious
manner and the building and contents,
including two mules, were totally de-
Stroyed.
In u fall from a haystack at East
Export, George Porter struck the up
turned handle of a pitchfork, which
entered his abdomen, causing a wound
which may prove fatal.
Oscar Linquist, aged 5, was run
over by street car at Sioux City, and
fatally injured. He tried to cross the
track ahead of the horses and the car
passed over his abdomen.
Governor Underwood, of Kentucky,
grand sire OF the sovereign lodge of
Odd Fellows of the world, will take
trip through the State this month, Wis
iting all the principal cities.
Reports from Duluth are 1.-THE effect
that many citizens of Minnesota, Iowa
and Indians have been taken in by
real estate sharks, who laid out
cheap plot near Minneapolis and sold
lots at high figure.
Large rewards are offered for the ar
rest and conviction of the incendiaries
who started the fire at Rock Rapids
few days ago. The rewards amount to
800, and the damage done by the fire
is estimated at $4,000.
Mrs. Juber, of Pleasant Hill, died
November l., aged LOG years. She was
born in Quebec county, Canada, and
was of French descent. She retained
her mental faculties and was strong
and active until a short time before
her death.
Physicians estimate that from July
1st to date there have been over $50
cases of the prevailing fever--typhoid,
malarial or catarrhal, as it is by diff
ferent ores pronounced-in Rock Rap
ids and vicinity. Comparatively few
have been dangerous.
Joseph Godolfo, an old resident of
Dubuque, rs years of age, went to the
office of prominent physician to be
treated for an ailment by the applica
ton of electricity. During the opera
ton he became unconscious, and was
removed to his home, where he died
early next morning. 1t is tho ught the
shock was too strong for him.
A Sioux City mother who has reared
family to healthy maturity says
breathing the atmosphere OF gas
house for few minutes will absolutely
cure whooping cough. She has
never known it to fail. In one very
obstinate case two visits OF perhaps
twenty minutes duration each were
necessary to effect a complete restora-
ton.
The Governor is in receipt OF the
third annual report of H. d. Sherman,
State Dairy Commissioner. 1t is
lengthy document, treating of butter
making, creamerles, oleomargarine
and the various laws pertaining to the
introduction of the latter product in
the State. There were only four re-
tail licenses issued in this State and
those expired May1.
Brakeman Brownell of the Central
is mysteriously missing from Marshall
town and his post of duty, and four
men with whom he had an alteration
are in custody charged with threaten
ing his life. The quarrel was regarding
his position on the road and the men
swore he should not go out on the run
alive. No clue to his whereabouts can
be obtained and foul play is suspected.
One of the interesting features OF the
biennial report OF the State Board Of
Health is series of meteorological
tables showing the amount of rainfall
by months in the different cities OF
Iowa for period OF years. The table
for Des Moines begins with 1879, and
the total amount OF rainfall each year
is as follows: 1879, $3.50; 1880, ST.
%; 1881, 55.9l; 1882, 1857; 1883, Al
70; 1884, 34.2S; 1855, $500; 1886, 30
II. 1887. 24.G3: 1888. LIS.