Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-29

| Wis, to Farley, Iowa. through Du-
buque. which will give direct connec-
TORS with Milwaukee. Three routes
! have been surveyed, and an official of
/ the road says that the branch will be
! built.
John Beard, aged 81, quarrelled with
Alex Shippy, farm hand on Minerva
Burko's farm near Jonesville. Beard
drew revolver and fired twice, the
shot lodging in the muscles of Shippy's
/ throat. He then shot himself in the
head and afterward cut his throat.
/ ShIppy is in a critical condition and
the Old man will die.
The following fourth-class post
masters in Iowa have recently been
appointed: +. NJ Beall, Spannon, Ring
gold county; Jesse Swan, Iconium,
Appanoosc county; l.. j. Abby, Knox,
Fremont county; Daisy Early, Vim
cennes, Lee county. The name OF the
postoffice at Quaker, Marshall county,
| was changed TO Hartland.
| The Southwestern Iowa Firemen's
association will be held in Corning the
second day of the Adams county fair,
Tuesday, Sept. %, 1899. This tourna
ment was arranged for this place a
year ago. The Corning firemen are
making extensive preparations for the
| event, and the purses will be 800
more than offered at last years tourn-
ament
The Old Settlers association of
Humboldt county is planning the cree
ton of a memorial log house, in which
the pioneers can meet annually and
talk over old times and appropriate
surroundings. George w. Bassett, of
Fort Dodge, has donated site near
Livermore, and an old fashioned, regu-
lation log cabin will be erected on it
this summer.
An uncomfortable appetite for strong
drink led to the death of o. T. Logger.
quist, merchant OF Gowrie. Logger
quist was an habitual drunkard, and
all the saloon men refused to sell him
liquor. He bought some lemon extract
at a grocery store and drank it straight
rs a substitute for whisky. The stuff
drove him crazy and he committed
suicide by cutting his throat with
razor.
John Quillian, q years old, employ
ed in the National Iron and Brass
works of Dubuque, left for Galena to
visit his parents. On arriving there
he stepped into the Alderman saloon
and while there engaged in an alterca-
ton with stranger, Vincent Ross,
aged 10 years. Ross left the saloon
and waited till Quillian came out. AS
the latter appeared, Ross shot him and
he died in ten minutes. Ross was im-
mediatcly arrested.
A company is being formed at Cor
rectionville for the purpose of engag
ing in the manufacture of pressed
brick. A very fine quality OF clay was
discovered near that place on the Lit
tie Sioux river, which on being tested
in Chicago produces the finest article
of pressed brick in the country, excell-
ing in many respects the famous brick
made at St. Louis and Philadelphia.
The company will incorporate with
paid up capital OF $4,000.
The little town OF Kalo, south of
Fort Dodge, has been wiped off of the
map by amlners' strike. month ago
Kalo was a prosperous mining town of
500 inhabitants. To-day it is reported
not dozen houses are occupied. On
May ist all the coal miners struck for
higher wages. The mine owners re-
fused the demand and shut down the
mines. The strike proved death
blow TO the town. Without work all
the miners were compelled to move,
leaving Kalo with empty streets and
houses.
The secretary of the National Farm.
ers' congress, Hon. B. +. Clayton, an
nounces that Council Bluffs has been
selected as the place for holding the
tenth annual session. The meeting
will be held August 26, ~, 20 and 80.
This body is composed OF the same
representation as the congress OF the
United States, and delegates arc APP
pointed by the governors of each state.
This will be the most important ses-
sion yet held. Ex-President Hayes,
Secretary Rusk and many other notable
men will be present
Nothing has yet been heard from
John Swanson, the section boss who
skipped from Sheldon few weeks ago
and deserted his wife and child. Swan
son had been on spree several days
before going. He took with him every
penny there was in the house, nearly
500, which his fragal wife had man
aged to save out of his monthly wages.
John was pleasant hammered and
good fellow when he was sober,
but when drunk was as ugly as whisky
could make him. His wife is an ami
able and respectable lady.
A Fort Dodge hotel keeper has con-
structed cyclone cave in connection
with his house. OF course it is intend
cd as an advertisement of the hotel; as
a matter of fact it is an unwise adver-
tisement to the world OF the false doc
trine that Iowa is an unsafe state in
which to live on account of dangerous
wind storms. Iowa is not afflicted
with these things any more than any
other state. The best thing that hotel
keeper can do will be to turn his cave
into milk-house and swear that he
intended it for that all the time.
The State Campmeeting of the