Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-07-04
IOWA NEWS ITEMS.

w. II. SUOper, an olu setticr dt
Sibley is dead.
They are about to introduce cleo
trio cars at Waterloo.
A series of public summer concerts
are in progress in Ottumwa.
-Laurens is building one ofthe larg-
est school Houses in Pocahontas coun-
ty.
A Wapello county man raised s.
800 pounds of wool, which sold for
1914. He has 900 sheep.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster has arrived
in the State and will spend the next
month in temperance work here.
Tho next meeting of the national
convention of the bureau of statistics of
labor is to be held in Des Moines
"A series of Sunday gospel meetings
will be opened inOkoboii park, on West
Okoboji lake, July z, and continue
through the season.
-HenrySullivan ofPocahontas coun-
ty, is brother of ice dealer Sullivan,
who is implicated in the Cronin MUIR
der at Chicago.
The Keokuk Constitution y emocrat
says b L. Frederick, late congressman
from the Fifth Iowa district, is driving
delivery wagon in California town.
w. b. Ramsey, sheriff of Lucas
county, was shot and killed and NJ. L.
Nafus, a constable, badly wounded,
while arresting an insane man named
McGinnis at Cambria, Wayne county,
June 28th. McGinnis is dead.
In the oratorical contest for the
Hyde prizes at Iowa college the follow
ing were the successful contestants:
Grafton, Miss Lyman, freshman class;
Miss Fox, sophmore, essay; Miss Brewer,
sophmore, Grafton. Each received
$40 in money.
DR.. Guthrie, of Dubuque, has been
elected to the chair of physiology and
microscopic anatomy in the medical de-
partment of the State university. He
is graduate OF the university and
was for two years assistant in the chair
of anatomy.
-"Iowa's Historic Capitol" is the
subject of highly entertaining article
in the Magazine of American History
from the pen of Miss Cora Dey, OF Iowa
City, daughter of Railroad Commits
sioner Dey. The young lady has just
completed her junior year at the State
university.
The call for outstanding State
warrants expired June 25th, and a
number were presented for payment.
The call was for $4,000, and this
amount, the last of the interect bear
ing debt of the State, ceased to bear
interest. The treasury is waiting now
for those still out.
AT the base ball grounds at Ida
Grove, at the conclusion of the game,
a crowd of men and boys climbed on
a dray. When the team started boy
about nine years old fell between the
truck and wheel, crushing him SO
badly that he died. No blame attaches
to any one in particular.
William S. Pray, a pioneer settler
ofWebster City, and man we'll known
and greatly esteemed passed from
earth June 2Sth after many weary
months of pain and suffering. He was
the father of Hon. Gilbert B. Pray,
Clerk of the Supreme Court of Iowa,
and of two other sons and one daughter
all grown to manhood and woman
hood.
The case of E. Bernhard, who was
arrested al Nevada on the charge OF
illegal sale sale of liquors, was dis
missed by Justice Smith, and the costs
taxed to the State. Defendant proved
that he was not selling liquor, but was
merely taking orders from private in
dividuals for his Chicago house, which
the Justice decided was no offense I'M
der the law.
The following appointments were
made on the staff of Col. F. w. White,
Iowa Division Sons of Veterans: Surgeon
DR.. r. M. Dewitt, Des Moines; Chap
lain, Rev. G. +. Devot, Marble Rock;
Adjutant, f. S. Miller, Waterloo; In
spector, S. A. Spellman, Ottumwa;
Mastering Officer, John M. Parker,
independence; Judge Advocate, r.
Shawvan, Denison.
"A Germand named Adolph Stiffin,
residing with his family nine miles
southwest OF Marengo, suicided June
9th by hanging. In letter written
at midnight he bid his relatives good
bye; he gave no reason for the act ex-
cept that his time had come. He was
about thirty-five years old, leaves a
wife and two children. He had been
effected with cholera for some time.
"A dispatch from Marshalltown
gives a strange report of the death OF
Charles johnson at Spirit Lake. Mr..
johnson, of Marshalltown, we'll known
as the agent of the State X. P. Insur-
ance association, died suddenly at
Spirit Lake on the evening Of June
oath. He had been sick week but
had improved so much that his wife,
who had gone there to nurse him, re-
turned to her home at Marshalltown.
Being notified of his death, she went
after the body, but was not permitted
to see 1t, the report being started that
he died of smallpox. She claims that
directly after her arrival parties there
fired the building in which johnson
died and that it was burned, body and
all. She charges the attending ply.