Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-10-17
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS

An epidemic Of pink-eye has appear
ed among horses about Denison.
Messrs. Quinn and McCook, grocers
at Cedar Rapids, have gone to the
wall.
John Ellis, of Little Sioux, dug up a.
potato in the shape of a complete hu-
man hand.
Cedar Rapids school teachers have
organized society for the study Of
psychology.
Burglars entered church in Fort
Dodge and stole a lot Of prayer books,
bibles, etc.
George w. Felt, a farmer near Wi
ota, has failed and his liabilities are
about $4,000.
A ditch that will drain $4,000 acres
of wet land in Woodbury. county is to
be constructed.
There are IS more pupils enrolled
in the public schools of Cedar Rapids
than ever before.
The Republicans of Henry county
have re-nominated Senator Woolson
on the 1,O40 ballot.
The Keokuk Bowling club opened a
series OF entertainments on the 9th by
an informal reception.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Rudd, Of
Council Bluffs, celebrated their golden
wedding on the 18th inst.
A threshing gang at Moreland ate
pies made out of a poisonous berry and
are in a critical condition.
VIM. Lowry, aged 20 years, of APP
panoose county, was taken to TT. Mad
ison to serve term Tor burglary.
At Dubuque few evenings ago
there was surprise party the MEM
bers of which were all deaf mutes.
The Democrats of Plymouth county
nominated Miss Carrie Byrne for
County Superintendent of Schools.
The depot at McCausland was rob-
bed on the night of the 9th of 800 in
funds belonging to the express COM
pany.
John T. Diggins died at Dumont,
from injuries received from falling
through trap door in a store at that
place.
The farmers in the vicinity of Bag
ley have raised SO much corn this
season that they don't know what to
do with it.
The comptroller OF the currency has
authorized the First National bank OF
Dunlap to begin business with a capital
Of $50,
j. L. Goodenow and wife, the first
settlers in the vicinity of Maquoketa,
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary recently.
A young man believed to be John
Rank was drowned in the river at Chi
cage. He is thought to have been
from Fort Dodge.
A little daughter OIL. B. Wadsworth,
of Council Bluffs. fell into tub Of
boiling water and was badly scalded
She may recover.
Three companies have asked fol
street car franc hi 30 at Dubuque. Two
of them represent electric power and
the other horse power.
Henry Kester, ayoung bridge build
er of Msrshalltown, had both leg:
broken while at work on the Contra
railroad near Oskaloosa.
On one of John Ovens farms neal
West Union an entire crop of hay ant
q stack of oats burned as o result o.
spontaneous combustion.
A farmer by the name of Russell,
seventy-five years old, was thrown
from a wagon by runaway and in
stantly killed at Dubuque.
At Blockton, Frank Eggleton was
was killed by the cars. He was &
brakeman, twenty-five years of age
and lived at Horton Kansas.
The Fort Dodge gypsum mill begar
operations a week ago. The mill ha:
capacity for $50 tons of finished
stucco per twenty-four hours.
The Commercial hotel Mt Manson
was totally destroyed by fire, Oct. 10Th
Loss 5000, partly insured. The fire
originated from cook stove.
"Gyp" Ryan, alias Whalen, one o.
the recently escaped robbers from the
Waterloo Jail, is said to b9 wanted In
Chicago in connection with the Smell
murder case.
An old woman in Dubuque imagines
she has $500 deposited in the different
banks, and makes life burden to the
clerks by calling around every day tc
see il it is safe.
Council Bluffs ladies are rustlers OF
nothing. Two of them undertook tc
raise 5000 to meet the indebtedness:
on the Episcopal church last spring
and have raised it.
Miller & johnson, bankers of Clay
Center, Kansas, have bought a con
trolling interest in the Commercial
National Bank, one OF the leading
banks in Waterloo.
L. S. Waterman, aged seventy years
at Conway, has been in the habit o
eating opium. A few evenings ago HI
took an overdose of laudanum, which
resulted in his death.
The Cedar Rapids Republican re
ceived the list of appointments mad,
at the M. +. conference at Iowa City
by telephone. The list consisted O
over a column OF names.
Mrs. Mary Pullens, OF Dubuque
placed her three little children in {
row on the river bank and then plung.