Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-30
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now amounts to s12, 900,4
The college boys at Grinnen have
toboggan slide of their own.
The first death from influenza oc-
CURED In Fort Dodge Jan. 10th.
Emmetsburg has under way pro-
ject for establishing packing house,
John G. Scott, inspector of steam
boats for the Dubuque district is dead.
The electric light plant at Daven-
port is run by water power from Mo-
line, miles away.
1t is reported that Bishop Hennessy,
of the Dubuque diocese, is soon to be
made arch bishop of st. Louis.
Plans foi the new $4,000 court
house at Red Oak have been accepted
and bids will be advertised for at once.
Thirty-six fines were imposed In the
police court at Fort Dodge during 1882,
the total amount assessed being $500.
Several busldings were burned at
Fayette on the 22nd, causing loss
amounting to several thousand dollars.
special train of fourteen cars load
ed with ice started from Fort Dodge
for the South via the Illinois Central
Jan. oath.
Filth, bad air and water have been
the cause of the disease known at Clear
Lake as alt" which has carried off
many people.
Elmer Holquist. Fairfield youth,
while playing with an old revolver
snot himself through the head, dying
almost instantly.
An explosion of the purifier in the
gas works at Sioux City did $4,000
damage, and shattered all the glass
for several blocks around.
Charles, son of General George w.
Jones, ex-United States Senator, died
at the insane asylum at Independence
on the night OF Jan. 9th.
Judge Neye in the Dubuque district
court sustained the demurrer of the
defendant in the case of Father Jean
against Bishop Hennessey.
Governor Boies it is said will APP
point as his private secretary 5. L.
Bestow, the candidate for lieutenant
governor in the last campaign.
+. Nj. Lamar & Co., bankers and
grain dealers at George, have made an
assignment for the benefit of creditors
Assets $4,000; liabilities not stated.
There is movement for an addi-
tional building for the normal school
ct Dexter 1t is to be three stories
high, aud TO accommodate 100 stu
dents.
Articles of incorporation of the Du-
buque Electric Railway, Light and
Power Co. have been filed with the
Secretary of Stats. Capital stock,
$4O0,0 900.
A State convention of Iowa photo
graphers was held at Waterloo, Jan.
2ist, the main purpose being to secure
uniform prices, and protection from
imposition.
The Methodists at Mt Ayr have
Just closed a successful series of meet
ings, during which $50 conversions
were reported, and 90 members added
to the church by probation.
The State Auditor has issued GER
tificate to the Ainsworth Savings Bank
OF Aiusworth, Washington county;
paid up capital. $40, President, f.
w. White; cashier, E. A. Spaulding.
In suit at Clinton against the lum-
Der firm of W., j. Young & Co., for
$4,000 damages by the administrator
of an employee, killed by the falling OF
lumber pile, the jury returned a
OF $3.50.
John Mittlander, a Muscatine butch
or, slipped on the ice and fell on two
hulNOS NhlCu nC was lluR
in his pocket. The knives entered his
body causing wounds from which he
may not recover.
The new waterworks at Missouri
Valley were put to their first practical
test last week by the discovery OF
fire in fine residence. The building
was saved from destruction and every.
body is pleased. -
Another victim OF the caving OF dirt
banks at Council Bluffs, was Charles
Harris, who was, crushed beneath tons
of frozen earth on the 21st. He is the
eighth who has perished there in the
same way within two years.
Articles of incorporation were filed
by Schneider, Couchar & Westphal
company, of Dubuque, with capital
stock Of 800, 900. The business OF the
company is the selling OF hardware
and buying and selling of real estate.
Northern Iowa As being flooded with
what bankers pronounce the best imi-
tation of the silver dollar ever placed
in circulation. They have circulated
successfully and are very hard to de.
tect. There is no clew to the circula-
tors. 90 &##
Fred Tanner, the window smasher
at Marshalltowr, who on Thanksgiving
night demolished number of plate
glass store windows, was sentenced TO
one ear's Imprisonment on one charge.
II tho same penalty is inflicted in all
the cases it will mean ten years. i'm
prisonment for his nights fun.
John Carroll, Van Buren, county
farmer, living near Salem, was injured
in peculiar manner He was attack
ed by an angry ram and used pitch
fork to defend himself, holding the
tines toward him. A charge OF the