Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-03-13
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS

W. i"tuibA WING hu'O
been opened In Jefferson.
A lodge OF the Legion Of Honor has
been organized at Boyden.
A large addition has j~st been COM
pleted to Griswold's school building.
The expenses OF the Iowa fish COM
mission for the past year were ST.
061.65.
The Cedar Rapids base ball club has
been incorporated with capital stock
of IS, 900.
|, Lawyer Nj. L. Billings has been con-
verted to Congregationalism since his
arrival at Anamosa.
n. Everson. OF Marshall town, was
robbed of $3.50 while listening to Gov.
Boies' inaugural address. ~.
A soap factory and a broom factory
have been added TO Villisca's industries
since the first of the year.
The Jenkins Hay Rake and Stacker
factory at Fort Madison will be ready
for business in short time.
DR.. Appleton, of Gilrlan, has an
artesian we'll down some 700 feet. At
600 feet q vein of pure salt was struck.
Sol billiard, an indicted Griswold
saloonkeeper, suddenly changed his
location, leaving his bondsmen in the
hole for $3.50.
Mrs. Mary Jane Shaffer is suing the
city of Dubuque for $40, 900 damages
for injuries sustained by falling on II
defective sidewalk.
Judge tombstone, of Keokuk, is the
Oldest state legislator now living.
having bcen-a member of the Iowa
legislature in 1889.
John Whining, living at Sand Prai-
RE, had his left leg amputated in Chi,
cago short time ago, it being neces-
STATED by bone rot.
There is an apple tree in Mosalem
township, Dubuque county, seventy
five years old. 1t is believed to be
the oldest tree in the State.
Emmett county has sent more TO the
Dakota sufferers than any other county
of its size in the State, making the
rating according to population.
A young lady of Keokuk, hes been
placed under $3.50 bonds to await the
action of the grand jury on Il charge of
! sending an indecent letter through the
mails.
A humane Dubuque policeman found
an old horse dying in the street one
night and took it to the stable and
made its last moments comfortable.
He ought to be promoted.
A prominent Fort Madison stationer
was IL victim to the bogus express
package trick the other day, probably
the work OF an enemy. 1t cost him
81. The box contained sand. ..
l.. Payne, car repairer in the en-
ploy of the St. Louis, Keokuk & North
western railway, was killed at KeoKuk
by being caught between two cars.
He leaves q wife and two children. 81
A Jackson county citizen furnished
a government license and the money
for another man to use for a copart-
nership saloon, and he was arrested
for not having license for both par
lies.
A lady named Rowland living near
Belknap, went to call on her mother,
and shortly afterward said, "my head
feels as though it would burst" She
lay down on bed and died in five
minutes. r4 #.a
o. L. Schenck, brakeman on the
Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul road,
was run over by the cars at Rudd,
crushing both legs so that amputatior
is necessary. He is now in critical
condition.
The night express going east, due
at Bagley about 900 p, m. on the 18th
was saved from terrible wreck BY
the timely aid of the night operator
wso discovered three large timbers or
the track.
The B., c. Il. & n. round house ant
one engine was consumed by fire a
Marshalltown on the 10th. The fire
caught from stove in the house, the
engine having been in the house but {
few minutes. .sH.
A new Jail is one of the things need
ed in Hardin county. In the past six
years $1,000 has been paid out fol
boarding prisoners In the town o
Eldora alone. to say nothing of the
amount paid Hampton and Marshall-
town.
A meeting OF prominent railway Of
ficials was held in Keokuk to consider
the matter of union depot All the
lines entering that city were represent
ed by one or more officials, and the
general expression was in favor OF tn,
project.
Charles Beal OF Bancroft, was tyinG
horse to the manger when the ami
NAL suddenly >jerked Its head up
catching the young mans hand in 1
loop in the rope and cutting off tn,
fingers as neatly us if done with I
Ratchet.
A new achromatic telescope has re
Gently bees added to the apparatus o
Western Normal college, Shenandoah
The object glass is three inches il
diameter and there are two eye pieces
one terrestrial, power fifty times, ant
one celestial, power ITO times, will
sun glass.
Two little children of Frank Willard
near Albion, Marshall county, got hol,
OF can of lye, and the largcr on
threw quantity into the small one
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