Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-01-24
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS


clan.
Z. f. Ennis, dealer in general mer-
chandise. at Holstein, has assigned.
Liabilities $40, 700 to $4,000
Sid Yarns, of Spirit Lake, marketed
seventy head of fat hogs of his own
raising in one day.
Nearly all the farmers in the north
western part of the State are holding
their corn for better prices.
Ottumwa has two professional rag
pickers, who make a fair salary by rak-
ing over ash heaps and dirt piles.
The marshal of Oxford junction was
fined $40 and costs for neglect of duty
in not arresting the violaters of the
prohibitory law.
The board Of supervisors of Potta-
wattamie county has offered 81, 900 re-
ward for the discovery of coal in pay
ing quantities in any portion Of the
county.
And now, having got almost the
earth In the way Of manufactures, Fl.
Madison asks the Santa Fe to build a
branch line from that city to Nauvoo,
Illinois, in order to open up additional
territory for trade.
The annual meeting of the Iowa
Knights of Labor will be held at Mar
shalltown, Feb. IL. w. I. Wright of
Oskaloosa, is State master workman
and Edwin Perry, of the same place,
grand Secretary.
Fl. Madison is booming town, but,
Judging from the local columns of its
newspapers, 1t Is fast becoming a tough
town as we'll. A week scarcely passes
that three or four men are not held up
and robbed or else sandbagg ed by foot
pads.
Manchester parties have recently Or
ganized a company to deal in real
estate, lumber and minerals in Arkan-
sas. The capital of the company Is
$50, 900, and they have over 10000
acres of good land in that State. The
new company is known as the Iowa
and Arkansas Land company, and
Charles Paxon, the vice president OF
the Delaware county State bank, is its
president.
An Adel county man has discovered
that three forties in Dallas county have
never been patented by the Govern
ment. He has RENTED $l.25 per acre
for the tract to the general land office,
and he present occupants and sup
posed owners are liable to have some
difficulty in retaining possession. 1t
is said that there is other land in the
county which has never been patented.
A young woman at Montezuma has
been fined 500 and sent to Jail for
thirty days on n charge of stealing
towels, napkins and various articles
from the Carroll house in that city.
J. w. Kendall, the injured brakeman
at Creston, died. L. E. Wells, the
other brakeman who was seriously hurt,
could not stand the reaction after the
amputation of his limb and died also.
Word has been received of the death
Of Judge w. j. Jeffries, which occur
red at his home in Mt Pleasant. The
deceased was judge of the circuit court
for two terms, and of late years was
quite prominent as Democratic poll
tician.
The Governor has offered reward
of $500 for the apprehension of the
murderer of George Hair, who was
killed IN the premises of John Kelley
in Center township, Pottawattamie
county, Dec. II, 1888.
By the removal of Cato Sells to Vim
ton that place becomes headquarters
for the Iowa division of the Sons OF
Veterans, Mr.. Sells being colonel COM
handing the division.
An Establishments for the manufacture
of mouldings, blinds, etc.. is about tc
be built at Denison.
W. H. Chaplin is under arrest In
Dubuque for obtaining one dollar under
false pretenses.
A committee of the Burlington coun
Gil has deciden in favor of granting &
charter for an electric road.
A second death of smallpox has oc
CURED at Council Bluffs within ter
days. 1t was the four-year-old daugh
ter of NJ. l.. Compton.
Edward C. Pursel, dry goods NOR
chant OF Davenport, died from BLOOD
poisoning, resulting from the acct
dental cutting of an artery in the leg
The Missouri river at Sioux Cit!
froze over on the 18th. This is tn
first time in over twenty years that thu
river has not frozen till after Jan. Is
The Board of Supervisors of Potta
| WdJOduiiC Ooulpy HOS ohSiOo p-,OVV 10
ward for the discovery of coal in pay
ng quantities in any portion of thu
ounty.
Council Bluffs and surrounding town
are flooded with large quantities o
counterfeit silver coin OF a very dan
gerous character. The denomination
are dollars and fractional pieces. 1t /
believed the mint Is located eithe
in Council Bluffs or Omaha.
w. NJ. Desmond, United States Mar
shall for the Northern District Of Iowa
has received his appointment as chic
of the detective service OF the Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul road. His head
quarters are to be in Chicago, and h
1 is to have force of twenty-six mel
under him.
In the savings banks OF Davenport
there were on deposit, January /, S.,
12S,094.57.
Woodford, the absconding station
AGENT Mt Sheff1eld has heep hea rd from