Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-06-12

burning which she received in gaso-
line fire q few days ago. The deccas-
ed was 80 years of age.
j. H. Duncombe, farmer living
near Duncombe, has lost four young
horses from hydrophobia within few
days. The ANIMALS seemed to suffer
intensely, biting themselves and tear
ing their flesh in a terrible manner.
One of the horses was bitten by mad
| dog about month ago, and had sue
| ceeded in biting the other three before
the nature Of the malady was discov-
cred. The rabid canine was killed by
COW which he attacked but did not
succeed in biting.
Thomas Sutton, the l5.year- old lad
who has excited such great interest at
Dubuque by his abstinence from food,
died on the 9th. He had existed for
ninety-six days without having taken
particle of food or nourshmcnt OF
any kind except an occasional tea
spoonful of wine, and for thirty days
not even that. He could retain moth
ing on his stomach, and had no desire
for food. His disease was paralysis
Of the throat and stomach, caused by
an injury TO the spine. He was re-
duced literally to skin and bones.
Catherine Roper keeps boarding
house at Farley. Recently her nephew,
VIM. Shoup, and young man named
Cook arrived there in search OF work.
Mrs. Roper found work for them and
they boarded at her house. At the
! close af the first week they told her
they had received no wages and gave
her their watches as security. At the
end Of the second week they secured
their wages, stole their watches, all
the money she had, $25, aud some
other articles and fled to Chicago.
They were followed by the sheriff,
who arrested them and brought them
back to Farley for trial.
Algona is having an experience in
! getting n we'll for her waterworks sys-
TEN. A six-inch well was sunk 1870
feet. when sand and water filed it,
and after several efforts to clean IL, it
was abandoned. Then n six-foot well
was begun near by. and now that is at
a standstill In quicksand at depth
Of ITO feet. The contractors have
made a steel shoe tho size of the we'll
and built on it brick and cement
wall, and loaded that with forty steel
railway rails, hoping to push through
the sand and shut it out. They are
also getting steam pump to get the
water out, so as to dig. Ten thousand
dollars in bonds will be issued TO COM
plete the work as soon as the well is
secured.
A month ago Charles Gratzmacher
was torn from tho arms of his newly
made bride and locked up in Jail at
Dubuque, charged with stealing team
OF horses from George Zollicoffer. His
trial developed a strange state of az
fairs. j. c. Underwood, OF Lena, Ill,
to whom the team was sold; John CAL
derw God, of Galena at whose livery
the team was kept over night, and
several others, positively identify
Gratzmacher as the man who sold the
stolen team. On the other hand the
keeper Of the toll-gate at Galena and
a half dozen other witnesses swear as
positively that Gratzmacher was not
the man who drove the stolen team
over the high bridge or who handled
them in Galena. Gratzmacher's fam
lily and several other persons swear he
was at home when the theft was COM
mitted.
G. II. Brack, member OF the Eighth
Iowa cavalry, in rummaging through
the old records OF Marshall county,
discovered among the proceedings OF
the board of supervisors in 1868 that
on December Z. of that year 1t passed
a resolution granting to every man
who should enlist after that date $3.50.
In January following the board passed
another resolution granting the afore-
said bounty to all who had entered be-
fore or should enlist fter that date, due
in $50 annual payments with 6 per
cent interest on unpaid amounts.
Brock accordingly filed claim for 1928
Che received $25 when he enlisted,)
the accrued compound interest for
over twenty-seven years, amounting
to over 5000. He further discovered
that it would take over $50, 900 to pay
the CLAIMS TO which the soldiers enlist
ing in that county are entitled.
Last fall the wife OF Afford Rice, OF
Fulton, son OF Mrs. A. S. Mckinley,
OF Clinton, died, leaving an infant
heritage TO loving husband. Mr..
Rice, Familiarity known as "Dan Rice"
let his mother take the babe, and the
other night he went to the 20" cross
ing at Fulton to take the limited to go
to Clinton and see his baby. He miss
ed the train, and in attempting to
catch freight which came after, lost
his hold, slipped beneath the wheels
and lost one foot in front OF the heel
and the other one was cut of above
the ankle. Before the reaction came
he picked up the foot entirely cut off,
founa his hat, and on the stumps OF
his limbs got to the sidewalk before
losing consciousness. A Waterman
got doctor, his friends were notified,
and next morning one leg was ampu-
tated at the ankle, the other about
half way to the knee. He is doing
fairly well now, and NAV pull through.
The Iowa Falls Citizen tells the fol-
lowing wolf story: Recently Mr.. Dill
lon went out in the field to an old