Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-12-18
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS

$4,000.
Twenty-one electric clocks are rum
ming at Marshalltown.
Sibley's building improvements for
1890 foot up over $40, 900.
The new Julian house property at
Dubuque has cost 100000.
The new post Office building at Ce-
dar Rapids has been located.
A vein of coal has been struck in
Burlington While digging we'll.
Two recent fires at ..Grinnell were
caused BY defective electric light
wires.
Yardmaster Fish, OF the Illinois
Central, was killed at Cherokee while
coupling.
The Farmers bank at Fontanelle
has closed its doors. j. H. Hubert
is the assignee.
+. s. Thompson, wealthy stock
man of Mason City. was killed In Ari-
iona few days ago.
Manson has storage capacity for
100, 900 bushels OF small grain and
10000 bushels of corn.
mine of the substance from which
black paint is made has been dis
covered near Clinton.
2John Fellon, of Union, Hardin
county, is dead. He first came to
iowa in 1910 and was II years old. I
The jury in the Grnnell murder case
at Elkader returned verdict Of not
guilty after.a half hours elaboration.
Des Moines has a free circulating
library which is very popular. Five
hundred books were given out in one
day.
The electric light company at Keo-
kuk furnishes light for private fam
lily for 81 per moth and does the wir-
inc free.
The Business Mems association Of
Sioux City has sent its secretary and
committee east to look up the cost of
beet sugar plant.
The remains of union soldiers now
lying in the potter's field at Keokuk
are TO be taken up and buried in the
national cemetery.
Warren Keys. freight brakeman,
fell off the top of train near Corning
and was instantly killed. He leaves
wife and three childre
''Jack the Pincher." has resumed
business at the old stand in Dubuque
He pinches lone females until their
arms are black and blue.
Rev. r. G. McIlwain has completed
the fifth month OF the twentieth year
year of his pastorate of St. Johns
Episcopal church OF Keokuk.
Albert Jasperson. aged 10, OF For
est City, was killed while rabbit
hunting the other day. He pulled his
gun toward him by the muzzle.
Daniel Carpenter, an early resident
OF lama county, died recently at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Estella
Rice, in Chicago, aged IS years.
Hon. John H. ONeil. former we'll
known lawyer of Dubuque, fell down
stairs in Chicgo, fracturing his skull
aud causing death in a short time.
One farmer near Lawler has lost
ten head of cattle with hydrophobia in
the last few days Several other herds
are fiiicted with the same disease.
The Otumwa Coal Palace set the
slow folks of the east thinking. Pitts
burg proposes to have Coal Palace.
But secondhand ideas are failures.
The first hours solicitation for SUBJ
~scriptions to the proposed Carroll shoe
factory brought $4,000 and the CON-
mittee is satisfied the project is go.
The Western Iowa Horticultural so
ciety held Its meeting in Atlantic with
very large attendance. The dis.
play of apples was the finest over seen
in that city.
John Yaeer of Atlantic, was fined
5000 or an alternative of 200 days i'm
prisonment. for violating an iujunc-
ton restraining him from selling in
toxicating liquors.
The school board OF Cherokee have
made law compelling their teachers
not to marry for one year from time
OF contract. and il they do they forfeit
one months pay.
The county clerks over the state
find it difficult to make their vital re-
turns full because Of the neglect OF
physicians 10 return births and deaths
promptly to their offices.
The executive committee OF the
IOWA Sunday School Association met
in Des Moines few days ago. to ar
range for the annual convention to be
held in Mason City in June.
Gas from the we'll recently struck
on TIE farm OF Mr.. Lee. near Musca-
tine, is now being used for heating
and lighting purposes in the resi-
dences OF tho neighborhood.
The people Of Davenport did a very
worthy thing the ether day In giving
house and lot to blind fireman.
Ferdinand Giese. Why shouldn't the
example be oftener followed?
Rev. II M. Penniman, OF Chicago,
unanimously called to the pulpit OF
the First Congregational church in
Keokuk. has accepted the call and will
enter upon his work January l.
The expenses OF the state dairy
commission for the year ending Octo-
Der 1, 1890, were 81 ,3I2.4 40 leaving a
balance in the state treasury III 81.
667.6O. out OF the $50, 100000 appro-