Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-22
IOWA CuNDENSnD ITEMS

nos OF a ncighbor.
The ladies of Storm Lake have or
ganized a boat club.
Mrs. Martin was fatally injured in
runaway at Lehigh, May 10th.
Tho Senate has confirmed Charles
+. johnson as postmaster at Clear
Lake.
J. p. Lewis, city assessor of Musca-
the. died OF old age and la grippe,
aged ".
Mr. and Mrs. +. w. johnson cele-
brated their golden wedding at Osceola
on the 18th.
An incestuous brute was convicted
at Rockwell City and sent to the pen
for FIVE years.
Boone artesian we'll has reached a
depth of 1867 feet and is the deepest
hole in the state.
While boring well near Pocahontas
recently pine log was struck at a
depth OF It's feet.
Two young men paid S25 each for
the privilege OF scrapping on the
streets of Danbury.
The Wilson House at Webster City
was damaged by fire TO the amount OF
$500 on the 10Th.
Only two of the stone piers OF the
Muscatine bridge remain to be com.
pleted and they will soon be finished.
At Woodburn on the evening Of the
18th pusher engine struck hand
car, killing section foreman Lawson
Morton.
Miss Ida Human, Keokuk girl, is
winning laurels as a reporter on the
Washington Post and other eastern
papers.
The other day at Des Moines the
Supreme Court examined and ad-
mitted class of % lawyers to practice
in that court.
A farmer By the name of Demmings
was killed by being thrown from his
wagon while on his way to Sioux City
from Neville.
A Marshalltowner suggests monu-
mcnt TO Father Clarkson on capitol
hill, funds to be contributed by men,
bers OF the Farmers Alliance.
The creamery at Rollins, Linn
county, burned, with an adjacent resi-
dence, and 1000 pounds of butter.
Loss mostly covered by insurance.
Granger & Son and Miller & Phelps
at Fort Dodge, will each build $4,000
bushel elevators this year. r. w.
Crawford G. Co., will build flax eleva-
tor.
It is assrted that the census enulner-
ator will not find an old maid in
Mapleton. Probably the spinsters in
tend TO hide under the bed when he
calls.
A new school building will be erect
ed in Guthrie Center the present sum-
mer The growth Of school population
makes an absolute demand for the new
structure.
Hannah Pettifer fifteen-year-ol old
Davenport girl, was married about a
week ago and is now seeking divorce
from her husband on the ground of
extreme cruelty.
Two freight trains on the Illinois
Central collided near Remsen on the
10TH The engines and several cars
were wrecked. Engineer Gardner
was badly injured.
Miss Belle Crawford, much re-
spected and accomplished young lady
of Miles, jackson county, committed
suicide by taking poison. No cause
for the deed is known.
Charles NJ. Powell, living east OF
Winterset, has been missing since May
Sd. He is 46 years old and an old SOL
der. His family are anxious for any
information about him.
The barn of Wendell Goet. near
Ely, Linn county, burned May 10th,
with seven horses and large amount
of grain and farm machinery. Loss
$4,000; insurance 81, 200. Incendiary.
Mrs. Geo. Schafer, who was so badly
burned at Muscatine while making
soap May LIST, died after suffering in
tensely. She leaves a husband and
eight children. She was forty years
OF age.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the Secretary OF State by
the Hawkeye Land and Investment
company OF Des Moines and the Farm
ers' Cooperative association OF Grand
Junction.
Gust Liehn, an orphan at Boone,
while attempting to crawl in an end
door of freight car to beat his way,
slipped and fell, the train passing over
his left leg and injuring his back. He
will probably die.
May Cox, stenographer, while
leaving the elevator in the Bolton block
at Sioux City, was caught and badly
bruised. The wonder is that she was
rot killed. Carelessness Of the eleva-
tor boy was the cause.
The city council OF Cedar Rapids
passed resolution ordering the city
attorney to prepare an ordinance for
the collection of license from the
original package establishments which
are now or will be established in that
city.
Ed. Brown is under arrest at Council
Bluffs, charged with attempted out
rage on Maggie Yancy, waitress in a
restaurant. Brown is OF the tramp
species, and took advantage OF the
girl while she was alone in the restau-