Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-12-25
IOWA NEWS NOTES.

OANENPORr mas street sweeping
machine.
PoTTAwATTAMIE county's tax valua-
ton is $1S, 77o,599
Hon. A. HOOP. aged 80, a pioneer
OF Winterset, is dead.
PRocEErN$s have been begun to en-
join the saloons of Carroll
PLANS have been drawn up for
small packing mouse at McCregor.
The Ottumwa Democrat will have
society column edited by Mrs. Moore.
C. e. ALLBRooK of Eldora has pat
ented binding Irvine from prairie
grass.
Two recent fires at Grinnell were
caused by defective electric light
wires.
ELDoRA's new Young Mems Christian
Association building was dedicated
lately.
The tirst shipment of material for
Burlington electric street railway has
arrived
PAT CAHILL, pioneer of Pottawat-
tamie county, died near Weston, aged
6S years.
A LADIES military company has
been organized at Simpson College,
Indianola.
The mayor of Huntington has ordered
that the front doors OF saloons be
closed on Sunday.
THERE were 495 students enrolled
at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, dur
the fall term just closed.
The Iowa City council will have
poisoned grain scattered on the the
street to kill English sparrows.
JOHN X. STEARNs, president of the
Stearns' Paint compeuy and promi-
nent citizen of Davenport, is dead.
The Burlington census enume -at ors
are getting their pay from Uncle Sam
in time to buy Christmas presents.
The Burlington Hawkeye is in the
throes OF a 'beautiful snow" prize
poem contest, which it provoked itself.
OssAIN has mad dog scare dog
supposed to be rabd hes bitten a num-
Der OF persons and animals and there
is grave apprehension.
A German chemist interested in
beet sugar culture has examined the
soil about Muscatine and pronounces
it adapted to the growth of the beet.
JOHN WoLroRp, farmer near Cliff
land, was killed by Rock Island
train. lie was walking along the
track and being deaf did not hear the
train approaching.
THE new oat meal mill of III. Heath
at Fort Dodge is to be operated entire
ly Independent of the combine, Mr..
Heath having resigned his member
ship in the trust.
FoRTssTwo indictments were re-
turned py the grand jury at Keokuk
against saloons, gambling dens and
disreputable places. Each offender
was required to give 5000 bail
ATTORNEY GEIGER, representing A.
NJ, Sweeney & Son. nail manufacture
ers, of Wheeling, w. Va, who talked
nail factory to Sioux City and Council
Bluffs, is coqneting with Ottumwa.
AT Coin, sixteen miles southwest OF
Clarinda, occurred very destructive
fire. Eleven buildings and most of the
contents were con sumed The loss is
estimated at $15, 200, with $4,000 in
surance.
CHARLTON owns its electric light
plant. For the month of October,
after paying operating expenses and
interest on bonds, the plant yielded
1924, besides furnishing 102 street
electric lights Tree.
Mrs. WASHINGTON ANDERSON was
buried at Dubuque Dec. 10. She was
over ninety years old at the time of
her death, and it is claimed that she
was the last direct descendant OF the
family of George Washington.
THERE are 4l3 convicts in the Fort
Madison penitentiary. Twenty-Five
are IN for life. The oldest convict is
Joe Matthews, sent from jefferson
county twenty-three years ago for
killing his wife. He is 80 years DID,
AN Iowa artist, WILDER Resser. of
Fort Dodge, has Just had the honor o;
having two OF his pictures admitted to
the saloon at Paris. Mr.. Resser has
recently returned Is Fort Dodge, after
anumber of years study and WORK in
Europe.
The Salvation army at Keokuk pro-
poses to give the poor children Of
Keolsuk Christmas dinner. A can
vass of the town is being made by the
army to discover the needy, for whom
clothing and food will be solicited and
and distributed.
UNCLE JOHN ZIMBLEMAN, one of the
wealthy residents OF Boonesboro. and
owner OF the brewery there, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through
the head. The only cause that can be
assigned for the deed is fit of de-
spondency caused by i'll health. :
JOHN SAssMAN, who has just re
turned to Dubuque after competing
ten-month sentence in the Anamosa
penitenliary for breaking open and
robbing the poor box in st. Patrick's
church, is under arrest for breading
into st. Mary school house.
Mrs. LAwLEss, the keeper OF tent
boarding house for graders, at present
in Council Bluffs, boasts that she has
not lived in house since 1855, and
saws that n Gift of the finest mansion