Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-14
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bushels OF corn last month.
The citizens of Winfield are rejoicing |
because they have new opera house.
1t is reported that the G. A. r. post |
/ at Manson will build a hall OF its own.
Mrs. Philip Otterbein, one of the
old residents of Cedar Rapids, died on
the 7th.
Several citizens of Bonaparte, have
received threatening letters from |
White Caps.
Richard Butcher, one Of the oldest |
residents of Wapello county, died at
Edyville on the 4th inst.
Cherokee, is to have water works.
The citizens voted a tax Of 5000, to
be issued in 500 bonds.
| 1t is believed that the contemplated
Defiance and Harlan branch of the Mil
waukee road will not be built.
Mrs. o. d. Morris, at Atlantic whose
husband committed suicide four, weeks
ago, has been adjudged insane.
The erection I a Catholic school
building is among the contemplated
improvements in Vail this spring.
The Union Pacific Railway Company
is going to build line to connect Lake
Manawa with Council Bluffs and
Omaha.
A great revival has been going on
in the Congregational church at Du-
buque. Fifty new members have been
added recently.
A blue-eyed boy baby, aged one
week, was abandoned on the doorstep
of Lyman Wright and wife at Atlantic
q few nights ago.
Mark Kelly, former resident OF
Hardin county, and later publisher of
the Edmond Times in Kansas, has mys-
toriously disappeared.
A college of cookery, conducted on
the experimental plan without teach
OF, is the latest addition to Burlington's
educational phalanx.
M. X. Avery, wealthy farmer and
stock raiser of Cerro Gordo county,
died suddenly at Garden Prairie, Ill.
The cause is unknown.
A malignant type of dyphtheria has
broken out among the students at The
DEBORAH institute, as a result of which
the school has been closed.
Nathan Bennett, aged 90 years, died
in Atlantic March 4th. He beat the
drum at Nauvoo, Illinois, when the
Mormon prophet, Joe Smith, was kill
ed.
A young man named Charles Dick
ey, residing four miles northeast of
Oskaloosa, committed suicide by hang
ing. He left a letter saying he was
tired of life.
Mrs, Martha NJ. ellison, one of the
old settlers Of Marion county, died
March 9Th, at the residence of John L.
Wright, two miles north of Knoxville,
aged 10 years.
Luther Gear, an aged farmer six
miles south of Dexter, hung himself a
few days ago. He had been demented
for three months on account of bad
real estate deal.
Miss Mollie Hough, a teacher in the
Cedar Rapids schools, has resigned
her position and will be married on
the 9th to Mr.. Wampler, prosper
Gus farmer living near Marion.
The Board of Regents of the State
University elected DR.. Littig, of Daven-
port, to the Chair of Anatomy made
vacant by the resignation Of DR.. Clapp.
A medical class of forty-two graduated
The dead body of August Jeske,
aged nearly sixty, was found by his
family hanging in woodshed. He
was subject to fits of dependency. He
leaves wife, two sons and one daugh-
ter
George Wilson, in Plymouth county,
was found dead in his house with re-
volver by his side. He was a bache-
1 lor and lived alone. He was despond-
ent because he was subject to eyileptic
fits.
The jewelry store of Tucker brothers
of Brooks was entered by burglars on
the 5th and goods to the amount of
$500 were taken. Suspicion points to
three tramps who were seen in the
town.
A Mrs. Sneider, Swedish lady of
Prairieburg, was foud dead in her house
on the 9th ult, by some OF the family
on returning home from milking.
Heart disease is supposed TO have been
the cause.
A man named Myers, who had been
arrested at Abba for stealing from a
freight car, was shot by a deputy sher-
iff at Winterset who was trying to re-
capture him. The extent of his injur-
les is unknown.
Riley Bristol of Shelby county was
thrown from his horse against barb
ed wire fence and so severely injured
that his complete recovery is doubtful.
1t is feared permanent injury to the
brain may ensue.
Robert w. Cole, one of the pioneers
of Sioux City. died suddenly Of heart
disease. Mr. Cole was also one Of the
pioneers of the Black Hills, going dur
ing the rush in VI, returning several
years later. His age was so.
Father Quigly, the Oldest Catholic
priest probably in Iowa, died at Mercy
Hospital, Dubuque, aged ninety-one
years. Father Quigly had been a
priest for the past sixty years, having
been ordained at Merryworth College,
Ireland. He was for thirteen years
connected with the Mercy Hospital al