Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-15
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
lockwood has had a $1,000 fire.

lockwood mas mad q SI,UOU nre!
Ottumwa is talking brick paving.
Horse thieves are troublesome in
Cass county.
The boat club band of Burlington
has been reorganized.
OF eleven prisoners in the Monona
county Jail, six are under age.
Hans Berg, a Swede employed in
one of the mills at Clinton, is myster-
iously missing.
A building boom Is in progress in
Spencer with no prospect OF abatement
in the near future.
The Odd Fellows of Council Bluffs
are agitating the question of erecting
a $4,000 building.
Fine rains have fallen generally
throughout Iowa, and the crop pros
poets are very fine.
The location of the State Industrial
Institution for the blind is to be con-
teSteu IOF ny IOWA clVlce'
An incendiary fire in the southern
part OF Clinton destroyed nine wooden
buildings, entailing loss OF $4,000.
Hon. j. d. Gamble will be candi-
date for district judge in the Knoxville
district, position now filled by Judge
Ayres.
Lloyd Forgraves, gambler at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, was horse-whipped on the
streets by Lottie Clark. Jealousy was
the cause.
Hon. Robert j. w. Bloom, Of Han
cock county, is being mentioned as a
possible Democratic candidate for
Attorney General.
At Davenport, a man named Mueller,
in attempting to get off street car,
slipped and fell under the wheels and
was seriously injured.
The coal palace when completed will
have beautiful flower bed in front OF
it with bright posies planted to read,
"Ottumwa's coal palace"
In the famous Shipley-Edwards trial
held at Guthrie Center, the jury found
Edwards guilty of assault and battery
and he was fined 500 and costs.
The Anamosa penitentiary has at the
present time 20S couvicts and the Off
cial Investigation for the governor
found everything in good order.
Geo. Simpson plead guilty TO the
charge of forgery and was sentenced
by Judge Macy at Atlantic to eighteen
months Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.
The formal announcement OF Hon.
Silas Wilson as candidate for con-
gress in-the ninth district, subject to
the action of the Republican conven-
ton, is made.
At Dubuque Collector Lothrop re-
ceived $4,000 for liquor and tobacco
licences for the northern half OF Iowa.
About 10000 applications have been
received up to date.
John Melee has sued the city of
Dubuque for $4,000 damages. He
says he fell into an open sewer one
evening while returning home and
was permanently injured.
Judge Love has resigned his posi-
tion as chancellor OF the law depart
ment Of the state university of Iowa
and vice-chancellor Mccain has been
elected to fill the position.
Forty-ffve violaters of the internal
revenue laws from various parts of
Northwestern Iowa were indicted by
the grand jury and fined hundred
dollars each at Sioux City.
Joseph G. Reed, wealthy farmer
ofCompetine township, Wapello county,
suicided by cutting his jugular vein.
The loss of his wife, producing melan-
cholia, is attributed as the cause.
The coal palace directors have fixed
the date for the great industrial exhi-
bition in Ottumwa, September 16 to
November IL. The palace will prob
ably be located opposite the Q depot.
The condition of the state treasury
continues to improve. At the close OF
business May 10th the cash on hand in
the fund was $257 1880. The out
standing warrants were only $31, 406.-
16.
DIR. j. Hardman, member of the state
board of dental examiners, and one OF
the oldest, most widely known and
generally respected members of his
profession, died at his home in Musca-
tine, May 9th.
Ten or dozen cases of malignant
diphtheria are reported by the Wood
bine physicians. A large number OF
persons have been exposed. The pub
lie schools will be closed and the town
probably quarantined.
The Atlantic Messenger makes the
formal announcement that III. G. Cur
It's, of Atlantic, will be candidate for
the Republican nomination for con-
gress, subject to the decision OF the
Republican convention.
w. H. Forrest, business manager oil
the Davenport Tribune, has assumed
editorial charge also. Gen. Sanders
retires. Mr.. Forrest will make the
Tribune good paper. He is man
OF ability and enterprise.
AT DEBORAH a Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul train ran into buggy which
was crossing the track containing three
ladies and boy. One of them, Miss
Alice Glover, was fatally injured and
Mrs. Anna Sheets and son were badly
hurt.
Robert Nevis, a farm laborer, charg-
ed with numbering George Frank, Feb.
ruary oath last, was tried at Osceola.