Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-04-03
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factory.
A commercial exchange has been
organized in Newton.
Sac county coal prospectors have
sunk shaft lis feet deep.
The Masons OF Mapleton have Or
ganized Royal Arch chapter.
The street car drivers strike at Fort
Madison has been settled and the men
have resumed work.
A fire at Storm Lake causing
loss amounting to $4,000 occurred on
the night OF March 9th.
Large elevators are to be put in at
Swaledale, Belmont and Clarion on the
line Of the Fort Dodge & Mason City
road.
The U. S. Senate has confirmed
Robert Waugh, of Iowa, as Indian
Agent at the Uinta and OuIay Agency
in Utah.
Jeremiah Avery, the Oldest register.
ed voter in Cedar Rapids, died at his
home in that city on the 23rd, at the
age of 81 years.
+. j. Dee, who was struck by
passenger train while crossing the
track with a team at Oltumwa, has
since died OF his injuries.
w. F. Wilson. switchman in the
railroad yards at Marion, was run over
by train and received injuries which
are expected to prove fatal.
While its mother was Misunderstanding
the other afternoon at Sidney, the little
two-year-old child of A. s. Travis got
hold OF bottle OF iodine and swallow
ed the contents, with fatal effect.
Ed. Meacham, an engineer on the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
road, suicided at Estherville on the
night of the 26th by taking arsenic.
Financial embarrassment is the cause
stated.
Gov. Boies has appointed j. J. Dunn
of Dubuque. for state oil inspector, and
the appointment was Immediately rat
fled by the senate. He was chairman
of the Democratic State Central COM
mittee last year.
The various medical societies of
Iowa will this year hold their con-
ventions as follows: Allopathic at Des
Moines, April 10; the Eclectic at Des
Moines, May p; tho homeopathic at
Sioux City, May 81.
A barn belonging to &. S. ID. Mason,
OF Viola township. Audubon county,
was destroyed by fire together with
eight horses and quantity of farm
machinery. The loss is about 81 800,
with $500 insurance.
The state auditor has issued a GER
tifcate to begin business to the Tama
County State Bank at Gladbrook.
Capital stock $4,000. The officers
are James NJ. Putnam. president, and
Chas. A. Blossom, cashier.
I. Hazard, young man living near
Cedar Falls, while wrestling with his
brother several days ago fell with his
stomach upon his brothers head and
has since remained in an unconscious
condition. 1t is feared his injuries
will prove ia al.
A strange bird was shot near Audu-
bon the other day. 1t somewhat re-
sembles u crane, but Is pronounced to
be not of that species, 1t is long
legged, long rocked, spare bodied
creature, with snow white plumage,
and is deep mystery to local natur-
alists.
Gov. Boies has made the following
appointments: j. II. Sovereign, Of
Atlantic. commissioner OF the labor
bureau, for the term ending March 81,
1892, to succeed Z. r. Hutchins; Au-
gustusC. Upper. of Usage, dairy com
missioner, for the term ending April
30, 1892, to succeed Mr.. Sherman.
Daniel e. Fernald, of the Randall
farm near Dubuque, was gored by a
Jersey bull and probably fatally injur-
ed. He was leading the animal out of
the barn when it turned on him and
pinned him against the fence, and
threw him over it. His body was
pierced by the bulls horns and several
ribs broken.
Phillip b. Bradley died suddenly at
his home in Andrew, Jackson county,
on the morning of March "a. of heart
failure. He came to the state in 1889,
and was prominent in its early history.
He was little over 81 years old at the
time of his death. In 1916 he was a
member of the state senate, and subse-
quently was secretary of the Senate.
Frank Fook, the Chinaman who shot
his employer, and himself, died in Du-
buque on the night OF the 9th. His
body was removed to the coroner's Of
flee where an autopsy was held by the
doctors. The other Cinnamon refused
TO bury Fools, because he was bad
man, went to Mclean church and
learned to read and writ, English. and
besides had his cue cut off.
In the district court at Keokuk, on
the 26th, Judge Casey in filming the
seventeen saloon keepers $500 for each
violation Of the agreement to stop SELL
ing liquors, said: The defendants hav-
ing sold liquor since the last term of
court in viola ion OF the condition upon
which the case was then determined,
il is ordered that said defendants pay
fine OF $500 and stand committed un-
Ill the fine and costs are paid.
The executive committee OF the
State Teachers Association met in Des
NIoines March 2Sth. 1t consists of +.
b. Cooper, of LeMars, J. I. Riggs,