Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-04-25

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handsome court house was built In
1882.
j. Nj. Burke, for many years a prom
inent citizen OF Dexter, and closely
identified with its interests, died April
18th, in his 9th year.
Two Presidential appointments OF
Iowa postmasters were made on the
10th. L. n. Pace, Shenandoah, and
j. Maxon, West Liberty,
DIR. Kirby, at Boone, convicted OF
bigamy, has been sentenced to two and
half years in the Anamosa prison,
and has been taken there by the the
sheriff.
Work has been commenced on a
$4,000 pavilion for the Council Bluffs
ChautaG qua Assembly, commencing
June 18th; $40, 900 will be expended on
the grounds before that date.
II. r. O'Neil, Sheriff of Fayette
county, was thrown from his sulky,
April 10th, AID taken up as dead, but
after few hours he regained con-
seriousness, and it is hoped his injuries
are not very serious.
As the train going north on the Iowa
Northern railway April 10Th, was pas
sing near the Star Coal and Mining
Company's mine, three or four miles
north of Colfax, three year old child
of miner named Carlson was run
over by the cars and killed.
M. +. Sheldon, c. & N. w. night
switchman, while making coupling
at Belle PLANE, was caught and killed
instantly. He leaves u wife and many
warm friends TO mourn his loss. The
body was taken to New York for burial
He was formerly conductor.
At the last term of the District Court
held at Humboldt, +. S. Franks, a
druggist at Livermore, was granted a
permit to buy and sell Intoxicating
liquors. This is the only permit that
has been granted in the county under
the new law, though there have been
several applications.
Local officers at Waterloo claim to
have discovered the headquarters of a
gang of "bootleggers," as the sellers
of liquor in bottles are called, in that
city that has been working all the
small towns in that section. While
one man is on the road another re-
ceives the liquors.
Nose Hollingshead, prisoner in the
Jail at Leon, attempted suicide by
shooting himself, April 10th, He was
found by the sheriff onthe floor wound
ed in the head and left breast, but the
physician pronounced the wounds not
fatal. He was on trial in the district
court for some crime.
Andrew Jacobson, janitor Of the
Public School building at Onawa for
the past ten years, was found dead in
the basement of the school house the
other day. The cause of his death is
supposed to have been heart disease.
He was sixty years old and leaves a
wife and four children.
The Boston Tea Company, until re-
Gently one of the strongest commercial
firms in Council Bluffs, doing whole
sale and retail grocery business, was
closed for invoicing for three days and
finally went into the hands of the
Sheriff on an attachment for $4,000,
issued by Eastern creditors.
Nicholas Hansen, of the firm of Han
sen 81 Linehan, died at Dubuque,
April 18th, aged fifty-four years. He
had been in business there on the
levee for thirty years, and leaves a
fortune of 100000. He was never off
the levee or out of the city but one
week for more than quarter Of CEN
fury.
In the case of brakeman Joseph Dix
on VS.. c., st. p. & X. c. r. r. Co., at
Dubuque, a verdict of $4,000 damages
for plaintiff was returned. The plain
tiff, brakeman, was walking back of
the engine in the yards at Elma during
the night when the engine backed up
and took off one of his legs at the
ankle.
A very sad accident happened in the
family of Mr.. John Ingram, near
Laurel, by which his little daughter
Anna, aged about three years, lost her
life. She was playing about and run
ming past the stable door just as her
brother threw out fork full of refuse.
The tines of the fork entered her head,
and it is supposed one of them pierced
the brain. She died next day.
Robert Shideler. of Manson, who
was seriously burned on the 5th inst.
while trying to save his wife, whose
clothes caught fire from spark from
his pipe, and who despite his efforts
was burned to death before his eyes,
died April 18th after thirteen days OF
terrible mertal and physical suffering.
He was seventy-two years old, one of
the earliest settlers of Calhoun county,
and had been member OF the Masonic
fraternity for fifty years.
A county seat war is now brewing in
Monona county which promises to be-
come very heated contest before the
finish. The Onawa faction proposes
TO bond the county for $4,000 for a
new Court House at Onawa. The Ma
pleton faction proposes to donate a
$4,000 Court House if the voters of
the county will relocate the county
seat at Mapleton. Mapleton undoubt-
edly means business. Ten leading bus
mess men have subscribed 81 900 each.
The balance will be raised in short