Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-07-18
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS.

pho SCO oouHty iuStltutS.
G. M. S. Spooner, of Iowa, has been
appointed postoffice inspector.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to rob the Farmers & Traders Nation
al Bank at Oskaloosa. July 18th.
Governor Larrabee has received an
invitation to be present at the opening
of the Creston Blue Grass Palace,
August 22.
A heavy hailstorm visited Greedy
township, Adair county, Saturday
night, July 18th. A great deal of grain
was destroyed.
Small pox is reported at Clinton, the
patient being railroad man, the brother
of the conductor who died recently
from that disease. ''''
Lisbon A. Dox, of Keokuk, has been
rendered an important position on the
Geological Survey at Washington, by
Secretary Noble.
A man named Peterson was seriously
injured, near Mondamin, by train on
the Sioux City & Pacific. 1t is thought
he cannot recover.
The divorced wife OF Mr.. John Hop
ey, at Atlantic, has filed notice OF a
damage suit for $4,000 against Mr..
Hopey for alleged SANDER.
The Des Moines district M. Z. camp
meeting will be held at Colfax, Aug.
9th to 10th. Rev. w. II. w. Rees
will have the meeting in charge.
r. Becroft of Council Bluffs is exhib-
iting freak Of nature. being five
kittens fully developed and all grown
together, making only one body for
them. They appear perfectly healthy.
The body of Fritz Burns who COM
mitted suicide ten miles from Davenport
was brought to town on the 10th. He had
been crossed in love and hanged
himself with a handkerchief from a
barbed wire fence.
Theodore Nelman and wife, who
were among the earliest settlers oil
Iowa, celebrated their golden wedding
at their home in Bellevue July 10th.
Representatives of four generations oil
the family were present.
Applications for injunctions under
the prohibitory law were filed July IS,
against nine saloon keepers of Daven-
port 1t is reported that applications
for injunctions against seven of the
most prominent saloon keepers will be
made soon.
The following new Iowa postmasters
have been appointed: Brush Creek,
Fayette county, o. M. Osborn; Charles
ton, Lee county, e. r. Wolfelbarget;
Forest Home, Poweshiek county, M. j.
Smith; Hastings, Mills county, James
Grieg.
An accident occurred on the Bur-
lington road Sunday morning July IA,
two miles from Nichols. The train
was only an engine, baggage car and
coach, and the latter went off the track
rolling over on the side. Fortunately
none were badly hurt.
Burglars entered the store of John
Gillaspie at Bevington Sunday night
July 14th and succeeded in carrying of
quite an amount of goods, consisting OF
cigars, tobacco, suspenders, silk han
kerchiefs, cove oysters, etc. They
made good their escape.
A great fire occurred in Atlantic,
Sunday morning, July 14th. Three
buildings belonging to DR.. Nichols,
were virtually destroyed. A barber
shop, Christensen e. Sterder's general
store, and Jackson's shoe store were
in the buildings that were burned.
The report of the Boys Industrial
school at Eldora for the month Of June
shows 500 boys in attendance, while
the Girls school at Mitchellville has
10S girls. The amount of the warrant
issued for the support of the two insti-
buttons during this month was $4,013.
A stock train on the 20" road was
wrecked at Clarinda by running on
a stub switch. Seven cars of cattle
were piled into a heap, No one was
injured save 7. f. Conley, head brake
man, who sustained fractured claw
Gle. Several of the cattle were Grip
pied, but only two killed.
The famous 3 year-old stallion Axtell
trotted mile again in 2:154 July 18th
at the st. Paul driving park. This is
the same he made at Minneapolis, but
as the track was heavy on account of
rain the last day, and is slow track
anyway, this feat is considered great
err than he accomplished before.
A terrible hail-storn passed over LIE
Mars, on the night of July 14th. 1t
was about fourteen miles long and two
wide. In lie Mars it destroyed thou
sands of windows and every garden in
town. Many farmers lose their entire
crop. Several large fields OF corn are
pounded into the ground, not more
than six inches of stalk being left
standing.
A strange case of hallucination is
reported from Parkersburg, near which |
place the daughter of a German minis |
ter by the name of Paul, is wasting
away over the insane idea that her
father is dead. A few weeks ago she
dreamed that he was killed by run
away, and more recently the family
horse did run away and smashed up a
bicycle which was in the buggy, but |
the father was not there at all The |
girl saw the accident and imagines
that the bicycle was her father, and
insists that he is dead, although several |
weeks have elapsed since the smash |
m She saams all ,.iuht On 9TH al, ,,,a d L