Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-02-28

citizens have formed u syndicate, rep
resenting $40, 900, for the Importation
Of carriage horses. Parties have start
ed for France, where the stock will BIO
| purchased.
w. H. Van Dyke, one Of the pro-
prietors of the Minnie Douglas Opera
company, by the death of his uncle In
Butler county, Iowa, has fallen heir to
$4,000. The property does not come
into his possession until 1892.
S. +. Higgins, who abscondcd from
Bevington, Iowa, has been arrested in
California. He was agent OF the U.
S. Express Co., and. Jan, 10, disap-
peared $4,000 short in his accounts
with the company.
It is stated that milk train will
soon be put on the Central road be-
tween Dubuque and Dixson to supply
the condensed milk factory at the
latter place with. milk purchased along
the line between those two points.
Lorene, the three-ycar-old daughter
1 of Jesse Hull, at Boone, was playing
with a lighted lamp and in some way
set fire to her clothes. She was fright
fully burned, not a spot on her body
escaping. She did not recover con-
seriousness.
Charles Buser, a married man of
Burlington, had made all arrangements
to take unto himself another wife, in
the person OF Miss Laura Van Wrinkle,
of Ainsworth, when his wife appeared
upon the scene and put stop to the
proceedings.
Six Council Bluffs boys were arrested
IN a cave which they had dug and into
which they carried the results OF raids
on chicken coops, stolen fuel, u stolen
stove and other things. The three
largest were held and the others sent
home on account OF their tender years.
A religious crank is creating "a sem
sation in Corning and vicinity by
preaching and fasting. He has an idea
that the Almighty has called upon him
to fast for forty days. His name is
Krine, and he lives eighteen miles
north or Corning, just across the line
in Cass county.
A company of six mounted White
Caps visited the residence Of young
man named Michael Carney, in Du-
buque. They secured their man and
he was tied by the wrists to q horse
and carried off. Carney managed to
escape while being dragged up the
street, and eluded pursuit. What was
intended to be done with him is not
known.
Burglars entered the Office of Toler-
ton g. Stetson, wholesale grocers at
Sioux City, blew open their safe and
secured SIG. The safe was Of modern
style and the burglars were evidently
professionals. Several clerks sleeping
! in the vicinity were not aroused by the
explosion. There is no clue to the
crackers.
The time for which the Traer dis
trict fair association had grounds leas-
ed has expired and the land has been
sold. Now the society is forced to get
ground elsewhere, and the executive
committee has issued an address to the
citizens of North lama, calling on
them to subscribe to the stock OF the
, association.
Jerry Hunt, a farmer, was killed by
the cars near Keokuk He was walk
ing on the railroad track and was over
taken by the train while crossing o
| bridge. The whistle was sounded, but
the man failing TO clear the track, the
train passed over him, mangling his
head and breaking several limbs,
causing instant death.
Fred Wiley, a 17-year-old youth,
was shockingly injured at Davenport
, the other day. He stepped on NOV.
ing elevator in the Stearns paint works
his foot slipped and his leg was caught
between the lift and the shaft, mang.
ling the flesh of the thigh and break.
. ing the bono so that it protruded. The
doctors declared it was the worst frac-
ture they ever saw.
The coroner's jury in the case Of the
death Of Margaret Ford, found dead al
Clinton, found that the cause of hei
, death was from the effects of blows re,
ceived at the hands of her husband
| and from subsequent neglect and recon-
mended that he be held for further pre-
liminary examination and was bound
, over to answer to the charge Of muir
, der in the second degree in the sum O
$4,000.
An attempt was made to murder j.
d. Alsop, Mayor of Dyersville, Du
buque county, on the afternoon OF Feb
, goth by the placing of an explosive il
, his Office stove. Mr. Alsop lighted &
fire and sat down to write. In few
minutes terrific explosion occurred
The stove was blown to pieces, the
windows shattered, but Mr.. Alsop wa:
uninjured. There is no clue to the
perpetrators.
Senator Allison presented the petit
, ton of Rev. james Hill and 46 other
citizens OF Cascade, Iowa, for liberal
pension legislation. Petitions OF citi-
zens OF Iowa for the passage OF the
Sunday rest bill were also presented
in the Senate by Senators Allison and
Wilson. Congressman Kerr presented
a petition OF citizens of Marshall county
for the submission of q Constitutional
Prohibition Amendment.
, 1t is now quite certain that Kennedy
the Dubuque murderer, will not be