Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-04-24

name is Pantz.
Council Bluffs union depot is almost
an assured fact.
A mass meeting was held at Sioux
City to secure the location OF the Re-
publican State convention.
Burglars at Flagler robbed the de-
pot safe to the amount Of SOL.
The conference of the Latter Day
Saints at Lamont closed April 18th.
One OF the Oldest settlers of Lyons,
Philip Tr;tscheler, died Sunday, April
goth.
Private thcatricals are INDUCED in
by inmates of the Clarinda insane
asylum.
Hull has three graveyards and two
physicians. but is considered pretty
healthy.
SEX County Treasurer w. II. Ander-
son, OF Warren county, aged seventy
years, is dead
Wilkie Smith, of Parkersburg, has
confessed to forgeries amounting to
$1,000. He is in Jail.
The vote on relocating the county
seat of Union county will be taken at
the general election in November.
On Sunday morning April Goth, five
buildings were destroyed by fire in
Dysart. Loss about IS, 900; insurance
81, 700.
Willie Mills, seven years OF age, was
run over by an electric car in Des
Moines on the evening OF the 10th and
instantly killed.
A stock company is being formed at
Correctionville to work very SUPER
Tor quality of clay which has been
found near town.
Congressman Daniel Kerr, of Grundy
Center, has written letter stating
that he does not expect to be a candi-
date for collection.
2 Articles Of Incorporation have been
filed in the Office of the secretary of
State OF the Adair Butter & Cheese
association at Adair.
Adam Eckert fell from the top OF
car at Walnut and had his right arm
cut off above the elbow and his right
leg above the knee.
s In the oratorical contest OF the soph-
more class of Western college Addie
Ingersoll was given first honors and
Nellie Irons second.
Burglars broke into the grain office
of Tower & Ladd, at Mitchellville, aud
blew the safe open, outbound no money
to speak Of No clue.
A deaf peddler supposed to be w. H.
Osborne, from Union Mills, Mahaska
county, was killed by the cars at Boone
on the morning OF the 18th.
Crcston's new water works company
began the works in earnest April 21st.
The works and the electric light plant
will be in operation July 4th.
A Cedar Falls citizen drove fourteen
polecats out Of the cellar of his resi-
dence with an iron poker and is now
spending his time fumigating.
Major Day, of Dubuque, was struck
by brick which fell from the fourth
story of the new opera house and
knocked into the cellar. He will
recover.
Samuel Mullen and Emanuel Foster,
workmen engaged in moving an old
building at Charlton, were seriously
injured by the building collapsing and
falling upon them.
At Leuox, Iowa. Bertha Davidson,
aged six years, while playing around
bonfire ignited her clothing in the
blaze and before any one could reach
her was fatally burned.
2 In accordance with an edict of May
or Reed of Manawa, the city marshal
of Council Bluffs, closed the saloons at
Manawa. An effort is being made to
close the saloons entirely.
Vernon L. Everett, the Griunell
student who disappeared from Chicago
few weeks ago, is believed by the
detectives to have been insane at that
time and think he is still living.
Alleged white caps have sent a
notice to Rev. e. f. Stun 0, of Pome-
roy, that he is in danger of a visit |
from them. Threats Of public whip
ping and tar and feathers are indulg- |
ed in.
Mrs. Dixon, the widow OF the late |
j. M. Dixon, who will be remembered |
by many citizens OF Iowa as the blind
editor, died in Des Moines, April goth.
She leaves two children, a son and |
daughter
The barn, two valuable horses, much !
hay and grain, property of nj. jack
son, near Emmetsburg, burned to the
ground. The fire started from lamp.
Mrs. jackson was seriously injured. |
Loss 81 ,9OO.
Miss Murray and Mrs. Kohler were
walking home after tea in Wisconsin
opposite Dubuque when the former,
with laugh, fell dead on the road |
with heart disease. Mrs. Kohler was
paralyzed by the shock.
The body of Mrs. Amelang. who
disappeared from her home in Ottum-
wa, was found in the river two miles
below that city. She suicided while
temporarily insane. She leaves hus-
band and three children.
No clue has been obtained OF Vernon
l.. Everett, OF Grinnell, who myster-
iously disappeared from his boarding
house in Chicago two weeks ago. De-
tectives think he was decoyed away
for the purpose OF robbery.