Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-11-20
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS

Scarlet fever has broken out at
Wesley.
A new brass foundry is being built
at Dubuque.
Boone is now after barrel and
;firkin factory.
Firebugs are getting in their work
in Davenport.
Diphtheria has put in an appear
ance at Flagler.
Iowa residents OF Utah held re-
union at Salt Lake.
A Knights OF Pythias lodge has been
organized at humboldt.
Nearly $4,000 bushels OF potatoes
are in store at Storm Lake.
The new opera house ut Belle
PLANE was opened recently.
The honey crop in Iowa this sea-
son is far below the average.
Iowa promises TO do more railroad
building next year than FOR decade.
The Waterloo Courier thinks that
.ity is about ripe for packing house.
Thomas O'Leary, night switchman
at Fort Madison was killed by the
cars.
LThe new Methodist church at Mus
catine was dedicated a few days ago.
A movement is on foot in Clinton
TO. organize branch of the Y. NJ. c. A.
S. J. Max and John Lyons will es-
tablish paper at Inwood in the near
future,
Only one state in the union-Michi-
gan-produced more potatoes than
Iowa this. year.
Butcher Sitterly got himself into
trouble at Dubuque through harboring
alump-jawed steer.
John Handenshield, who was shot
by foot pads at Dubuque, is confined
TO his bed and may not recover.
Michael Mcmahon. of Monticello,
while out hunting was killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun.
The implement house of w. III. Nj.
c. Williams IL Co. at Lake View
burned on the 18TH. Loss, $4,000.
James Gaben, Lyon county man,
was sentenced to one year in the peni-
tertiary for stealing u load of grain.
The Lyons school board has made
arrangements TO furnish school books
to children at greatly reduced rates.
The Clinton Mining and Milling
Company. of Clinton, has been incor-
porated with capital stock of $780,
300.
Mrs. Snyder, of Missouri Valley,
while on her way to church lost u roll
bills amounting TO $3.50 from her
pocket
William N. Clayton. son of Hon. b.
T. Clayton, accidentally shot and
killed himself while duck hunting near
Macedonia.
Elmer Bealer, Burlington, Cedar
Rapids q Northern switchman, had
foot taken off while switching cars at
Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids lays claim to having
more beautiful women in proportion to
population than any other city in the
United States.
n,ln De- IL -
ticello, but lately of Dakota, was poi
soned to death by his wife. She mixed
arsenic with his food.
Mr.. Stephenson has sold his interest
in the Whiting Herald to w. j.
Thomas. of Mondamin, brother OF the
present editor of the Herald.
The efforts of the travelling men to
secure the erection of IL $40, 900 hotel
at Lake View haye proved unavailing,
and the project will be given up.
The loyal Irishmer OF Dubuque,
will eudeavor to induce Hon. VIM.
OBrien, M. p, to deliver lecture in
that city during his western tour.
The students of the Iowa Agricul-
tural college ut An,es presented a
very creditablo pro duction CT the
''Merchant of Venice the other even
ing.
\ commercial exchange has been
organized in Ottumwa, its purpose be-
ing to promote the manufacturing
mercantile and other interests of the
city,
A young man named Thompson,
braking on 20" freight train. was
killed while coupling cars at Basco,
III. He lived in Adams county, this
state.
A river carnival association has
been formed at Davenport with view
to the holding OF u grand river dis
play in 1891, similar to the one In
1890
The Muscatine journal will be 30
years old in December and will cele-
brate the event by issuing an eight
page paper ana looming new sui Oh
clothes.
About 200 of Uncle Sans 'jolly
tars" passed through Iowa for San
Francisco, having been transferred
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
squadron.
Geny Hope of Decatur county, was
arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal Duncan on charge OF
''moonshining" and taken to Council
Bluffs to plead.
The infant child OF Mr.. and Mrs.
o. L. T.. Larson. OF West Fort Dodge,
was scalded to death in horrible
manner on the 18th. The little one
was about 10 months old.