Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-23
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Clinton with death rate OIL one day.
Kate Shelley, the Moingona bridge
heroine. has entered the lecture field.
The Davenport gambling houses
have been closed by order of the may
or.
The national institute of Swine
Breeders met at Cedar Rapids on the
10th.
LeMars will petition the legislature
to establish a normal school in that
city.
Chief Kessler OF Davenport, has or
dered the gambling houses in that city
closed up.
Fire destroyed the Conway block at
Eagle Grove, together with most OF
the contents.
A franchise has been secured to build
a wagon bridge across the Mississippi
at Burlington.
A Bremen county dealer paid out
1913. 80 in cash to farmers for horses
during the year.
About $50 OF the old veterans in the
Marshalltown soldiers home are down
with the influenza.
Mayor Stewart, of Dubuque, has or
dered photograph and will use it in
his official business.
All the school teachers at Sanborn
are laid up with the influenza and the
schools are closed.
Three tramps were arrested in DAY.
export who had in their possession a
bolt of stolen cloth.
Over 900 persons signed the tenn
perance pledge during Francis Muir
phys revivals at Waverly.
Chicken thieves at Ottumwa go for
aging with wagons and generally re-
move whole coop at one swoop.
Cherokee is trying to secure the To-
cation in that city of boot and shoe
factory which will furnish employ
ment to 100 men.
The annual session of the State as
sembly OF the Iowa Knights of Labor
will convene at Marshalltowu, Tues
day, February IL.
Mrs. Mary Fiessler, OF Iowa City,
died OF congestion of the lungs, caused
by La Grippe, on tho goth. She was
an old settler of johnson, county.
b. Simpson, the forger, was arraign-
ed in court at Sioux City and pleaded
not guilty. He will be tried February
8, and his conviction is thought to be
certain.
The Birmingham Butter and Cheese
Manufacturing CO., of Van Buren,
county have fled articles of incorpora-
ton with the Secretary of State.
Capital stock, $4,000.
Clause Reissen, Jr., of Morgan, is a
very unfortunate man. Just as he was
recovering from the kick of mule he
was hit in the face by the hind foot of
horse and seriously injured.
Miss Emma Mershon, of Newton,
who has been studying to become a
prima donna at Milan, Italy, has given
up her cherished design and will soon
wed wealthy young Russian.
Levi Echel of Muscatine, has in his
possession the naturalization papers is
sued to his great grandfather, Henry
Eckel, by the supreme court OF the
province OF Pennsylvania on the Sth of
October, 1865.
{ r. b. Martin, of Webster City, has
discovered a process OF making brick
out of land plaster, by which he claims
he can make better article than the
ordinary clay brick at about one
third of the cost.
An unknown man committed suicide
in Chicago on the night Of Jan. 14th
by jumping into the river From pa
pers found on the body it Is supposed
the man was Erlc Olson. of Kiron,
Crawford county, Iowa.
Mrs. M. Zwart, of near Orange City,
attempted suicide. She went into a
stairway and fastened the rope above,
and then put a moose around her neck,
and stepped off one step. She will
probably recover, but her mind is
gone.
The Fl. Dodge judgment against
Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley
has been cancelled by the payment of
1892. II by those gentlemen. 1t was
the result of a failure of Nye and
Riley to keep an engagement at Fort
Dodge.
The grand jury of Sioux county re-
turned but two indictments; one against
the Milwaukee road for obstructing
highway near Hull, ten years ago, and
one against man named Phillips, at
Ireton, for changing the consideration
In note.
Sheldon is a clipper for town of
its size. The Mail reports the inn
provements for 1889 at $9S,O75. The
Mail, too, has passed its eighteenth
annual round in the ladder OF fame,
with the new year, and is well worthy
of the town.
There are 693 creameries and 164
cheese factories in the State. Della
ware and Jones counties have the
highest number of creameries, Al in
each. Blackhawk county shows the
largest product of cheese Of any county
in the State
w. II. Bennett, OF Council Bluffs,
left handsome and accomplished wife
and six-weeks'-old baby to elope with
prostitute named Morgan. He COW
nrad a,.orvtb;n,, with N hill of aala and