Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-05-09
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convicts during April.
The two-year-old child OF A. >.
Nicholas, living at Cherokee, took
drink OF carbolic acid and cannot live.
There were thirty-one deaths in Des
Moines during the month of April, one
oeing 81 years old and another 75
years.
The State Printer, Geo. II. Ragsdale,
and the new State Binder, Otto Nelson,
sook possession of their respective
Offices May LIST.
The store of N. j. Young at Epworth
was burglarized and 5000 worth OF
iewelry taken. The burglars came to
Dubuque on a stolen hand car.
Geo. Bennett, who was Drum Major
OF the 37th, or Graybeard Regiment
of Iowa, during the late war, died at
Dubuque, May 4th, aged eighty-two
years.
F. L. Thompson, alsa6ng merchant
of Hamburg, has made IA signment.
Liabilities $1,000; aasets $4,000.
Failure attributed to too much credit
business. -
A number OF route agents running
into Mason City, were informed that
their services for Uncle Sam were no
longer required. Those who have been
removed are Hisloh, Elliott, Cain and
Root.
The order of Conductors of the |
United States are to build headquar
Ders building in Iowa this year, worth
$3.50, 900, and Cedar Rapids and Sioux
City are already bidding right lively
Tor it.
VIM. Nolan, aged fifty-four, com
mitted suicide May Sd, at Fayette, by
shooting himself. A letter directed to
dis son stated his intention to kill him
self, and assigned domestic trouble as
the cause.
Early on the morning of the 4th u
barn in Oskaloosa was discovered to
oe on fire. 1t was totally destroyed
and a team of horses in it persisted.
Loss 81 900. The fire was undoubted-
~ incendiary.
The outlook for Missouri Valley is
most promising. Building is going on
vt rapid rate. The business pulse is
auickening daily, especially as that
fertile valley was never known to yield
even poor crop of corn.
Greenfield suffers from disastrous
Ere on the morning of the 9Th. Six
business houses on the southwest cor
Ger of the square were burned. Loss,
s35, 900; only partially insured. The
origin was undoubtedly incendiary.
The report of the Institute for the
Feeble Minded at Glenwood has been
fled with the State Auditor. 1t shows
that for the month of March there
were 400 inmates in the institute and
$4,000 was appropriated for their sup
port. .~ --ra-r.-a.-.-.~--.s..--
Mrs. Bentley, bride of a week,
committed suicide by taking strychnine
At Maquoketa. Dependency was the
cause of the rash act, her husband
having left her the day he was forced
10 marry her. His whereabouts are
unknown.
The death of S. Masters. an architect |
Of Burlington, occurred in that city on |
the 4th, supposed to be case of sui
eide by morphine. He was thirty-five |
years of age, and leaves wife and
iour children. His life was insured |
Tor 81 900.
Lizzie Coughman, of Oskaloosa, was
sentenced by Judge Lewis to nine
months in the penitentiary for passing
bogus orders on several merchants,
she pleading guilty to the Indictment |
Of forgery. Inordinate love of dress
led to the crime.
Captain Tom Forbush, well known |
river pilot of Dubuque, received a
voucher for $4,563 back pension, with |
s36 per month in the future. He be-
longed to the Third Iowa regiment, |
served through the war and was shot |
twice through the body.
Sunday, May 9Th, was a great day
for the Lutherans in Sioux City. The |
new Trinity Lutheran church, which
has just been completed at a cost of |
s12,500, was dedicated. The church |
Is plain but pleasing in its outside APP
pearance, but in its interior fittings and |
finish it is little gem.
Kittie Edwards, keeper of bagnio
In Council Bluffs, who was shot by the I
COY John Nolan, April 9th, died May
9TH. She CARRIED q bullet in her brain |
for month and Notwithstanding the
tact that she lost four ounces of brain,
was conscious and able to sit up the
greater part of the time.
A son of Lars Larson, living Just
across the Big Sioux from Sioux City,
in Union county, Dakota. shot himself
through the head with revolver, in
ficting wound from which he died
before medical aid could be summoned.
He was looking into the barrel of a
weapon and turning thecylinder, when
1t was discharged.
About the first Of April fellow claim
ing to represent nursery at Fl. Dodge,
went through the western part of Sac
county selling fruit trees and shrub
berry. He didn't require cash until
delivery, but each purchaser signed an
innocent looking contract" payable
in TT. Dodge when the goods were de-
livered. or course the contract was
virtually promissory note, the fellow
secured the signatures of at least 100 |
responsible farmers to paper reDresent-