Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-09-18

from Pulaski, September 10 II, 10 CHI
cago, consisting OF fourteen cars Of
cattle and four of hogs. X. p Ho.ch-
kiss shipped ten cars; F. Phillips FIVE
cars; n. Fox two cars; L. French one
car. The freight on the whole ship
ment will be over $1,000.
The claim of Mrs. A. c. Dubois, OF
Fort Dodge, against tho Central rail
road for damages resulting from the
death Of her husband in the Arlington
wreck last fall has been settled by
Claim Agent Head. Mrs. Dubois re-
ceives $4,000 and her $4,000 suit is
withdrawn. Mrs. Dubois husband
was an engineer on the Central and
was killed in wreck resulting, it is
claimed, from the carelessness OF an
employe.
1t is reported here today that an
order will soon be issued from the
headquarters OF the Union Pacific
Railway company directing the re-
moval of the company's freight trans
fer department from Omaha to Council
Bluffs. The evening Globe says the
report is well founded and that the
order will take effect as soon as the
new union depot at Omaha is CON-
pleted. Such a move will be quite
npn,,, f<,n Tornn;I pl,Ha
A policeman was called into the
Universal Ho tel, Clarkson street Chi
cago to take from the house two in
sane men who had been taken there
by strange man, who paid their
board and left them. The men are
William Kohn, so years old, and
Daniel Brown, 40 years old. They
were brought from Iowa to that city
with the intention Of sending them to
Europe, but they were refused passage
because of their insanity.
The Independence Driving Park
association has hung up nineteen
purses of $500 each for the October
races to be held October 90, 30, 24and
25. The classes are as follows: Trot-
ting-3 minutes, $50, 2:45. 2:40, 2:35,
2:30, 2:25, 2:20, and free for all; 2
year olds eligible to the minute class,
to the 2:40 class and free for all. The
success of the August meeting is
guarantee that the October meeting,
while not planned on so extensive a
scale, will nevertheless, furnish great
sport for lovers of fast horses.
The Executive Council have opened
the bids of the contractors who made
offers on the removal OF the granite
for the coping of the capitol grounds
from the cars to the grounds, the
building OF the concrete and brick
foundation and the placing OF the
stone in place. The bid OF j. r. Locke
was considerably the lowest. being
about 25 per cent less than the others
on most of the items and will be ac-
cepted. His bid for removing and
setting the stone is 81 '96696, and for
the foundation So, 800; 81, 7S6. 90 in all.
The.Webster County Apiarists' asso-
clation is the name of new organiza-
tion soon to be added to the county's
enterprises. The beekeepers of Web
ster county are now actively at work
upon the organization of the associa-
ton and hope to have il in shape to
make showing at the county fair in
October. 1t will have membership
OF about sixty men. who own some
where in the neighborhood of 1000
swarms of bees. The honey industry
in Webster is rapidly becomsng an
important one, and the proposed SO.
ciety is expected to give it fresh
impetus.
Governor Boics has commissioned
II. II. Wright, of Centervile, brig
adler general OF the First brigade;
W. IL. Evans, of Mont gomery county,
first lieutenant, and Joseph f.
Wheelan, OF Montgomery county,
second lieutenant OF Company X, Fifth
regiment; Alexander NJ. Linn, OF
Polk county, assistant surgeon, Third
regiment, with rank OF coptain: John
I. Motif, captain; Walter Jeffers,
first lieutenant, and William Z. Gill
more, Vinton, second lieutenant OF
Company Is, First regiment; John L.
Poston, Montgomery county, first
lieutenant, Company B, Fifth regi-
meut.
There were three sensational arrests
in Coon Rapids On the 11th. The
deputy sheriff served papers on Editor
Henry Of the Enterprise; Rev. Willis
Weaver and Constable Van AIKEN,
charging them with unlawfully break
ing into building formerly used by
one Ben Courtney as saloon. Court
ney claims $400 damages. The case
will be tried at Carroll term of court
Courtney claims that the parties had
no legal authority to break into his
premises. He further states that he
quit business on the passage OF the
Wilson bill and had only quarter
keg OF whisky there for his own use,
which the raiders carried off and
TO be destroyed.
During state fair week the electric
street car company in Des Moines
had seventy-fve men at work as con-
ductors and motoneers on cars. The
company before the fair had made
an order that every crew which got |
In full time from the time OF the be-
ginning OF the encampment till after
the fair, was to have IS extra. Out
Of the seventy-five there were sixty |
who got In full time and met with no
which cost the company any
thing. This gave them $3.50 apiece,
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