Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-09-11


living six miles north west OF Lyons,
shot himself through the head. He
had been Il little unwell, and gave his
daugh'er.in.law $50, saying: "You
have earned this" said goodbye to
her children, and walked out behind
the smoke-house, when in a moment
she heard a shot and found him lying
with bullet hole in his head. He
was 70 years old last month.
The knitting factory was organized
at Carroll, Sept. 2nd under the name
OF the Acme Knitting company. Con-
tracts have been placed for machinery
costing 100000, and the work on the
building, 50x100 feet 3-story, will
begin at once. This will give employ
ment to 12j hands, mostly women.
They have now secured three large
institutions during the past thirty days,
making quite record for the enter
prise OF the town.
F. w. Scubner, who lives on the
outskirts OF Eddyville has been for some
time making extensive Improvements
on his barn and had italmost completed,
when it occurred to him that well
which was in the basement of the
barn would need cleaning. Fearing
there might be foul air in the well, he
took bunch Of hay, tied it to rope,
set fire to itand attempted to lower it to
the bottom. The burning hay had
only reached the depth of few feet
when an explosion occurred, throwing
the fire in every direction all over the
barn. The building was Total loss.
The quarterly examination OF the
state treasury was made by Governor
Boies Saturday afternoon, September
9th. The following is the summary
OF the condition of the treasury:
Debts, revenue on hand, $62, 6S3.51;
Agricultural college endowment,
1921, 1881; swamp land indemnity,
$19,242 SO; Agricultural college inter-
est, S222,75; total s403, 6S2. 80; credits,
debentures, bond fund, SIS, 800; mort.
gage bond, $304,840 deposits Des
Moines banks, S67,672.S1; cash S4,-
14S.12; warrants redeemed, f21, 521 81:
total, s4o3, 6S23O.
Arthur l. Flint, the well-known
merchant of Ryan, near Manchester,
committed suicide by shooting himself
with revolver. Mr.. Flint did not
make his appearance at breakfast, and
supposing he had oversight, some one
went to his room TO awaken him, but
he was not there. Inquiry was made
at several places, but no one had seen
him. A number of the men Joined in
the search, and his dead body was
found in the yard at The north side of
the barn. The body was lying on the
ground close to barb wire fence, the
neck resting on the lower wire. He
was only "a years of age.
In excavating for the reservoir for
the water works on the hill that over
looks the town of Humboldt the work
men found, fairly well preserved, the
skeletons of five persons, and as many
more of those peculiarly dark seams
that so surely indicate a thoroughly
dissolved body. The bones denote
very ancient cemetery. The teeth
were perfect in q couple OF cases, but
so worn us to indicate great age. The
skulls were filled with substance
principally clay and very hard, and
showed the veins as plainly as the
genuine brain. They lay upon their
sides and nothing foreign was found
with them except clam shells. They
were down about two feet.
Daniel Pierce, philanthropist of
Estherville, has donated four sections
OF fine land near that city for an
industrial school for boys and will
erect the proper buildings out OF his
own private purse. The purposes of
the school are as follows: Orphan
boys to the number of 500 will be
taken into the house and boarded,
clothed and educated free of charge.
After boy is fourteen years of age he
is allowed wages till he is dismissed.
No part of the boys wages is given
himuntil he is discharged orgraduates,
when he receives his four years pay.
The idea is TO take poor orphan
boys and give them "a home, education
and thorough training to farm work
better than the boy gets in the average
farm home. At the age of eighteen
the boy is presumed to be equipped
for life's battle, and with his four
years earnings, something like $500,
he is dismissed from the school. The
institution will be known as the Pierce
industrial school.