Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-06-12
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS

Two barns burned near Humboldt |
on the 7th.
Conrad Wood, aged ~, was drown
ed at Dubuque.
A Sons of Veterans camp has been
organized at Iowa City.
Oscar Tibbetts, aged 20, was drown
cd at Sioux City on tho 7th.
Holstein and Correctionville are
talking telephone connection.
A buffalo calf was born in the 200"
park at KeolSuk the other day.
The creamery at Ida Grove burned
on the 7th. Loss $1,000; insurance
$4,000.
The Chronicle thinks the census
enumerator will find 1,400 people in
| Odebolt.
Work has commenced on the power
house for the Keokuk electric street
railway.
Nelson Joyner, aged fifteen, was
drowned while bathing in the river at
Waterloo,
The Newcomb rag carpet factory
has been removed from Upton to
Davenport.
General Greeley will establish To-
cal weather signal service Office at AL
gona, Iowa.
Washington is making great prepar.
atoms for the state encampmento of the
Sons of Veterans.
Dubuque county has voted to Issue
1925, 900 CT 4 per cent bonds to build
new court house.
The city council at Odebolt have Or
dered the removal of all barb wire fen
ces within the town limits.
Dubuque has offered 200 acres of
land to watch company in consider
alton of locating a factory in that city.
Fred Hinkle is under arrest at Fort
! Dodge charged with taking revenge
on neighbor by cutting off his cows
tails.
Z. B. Osborne, travelling man,
lies in critical condition at Belle
PLANE from the effects OF eating canned
corn.
Waldo Nj. Potter formerly editor of
the Davenport Gazette, has been NOM
mated for register of the Fargo, N. D.,
land office.
None of the six children injured by
the accident at the institution for
feeble minded children will die. They
are in the hospital.
The Ottumwa colored society is ex-
cited over the arrest of man named
Horn on a charge of attempting to
blackmail Rev. DIR. Thomas.
VIM. Buchanan, of Cedar Rapids,
died June Sth, aged SO years. He was
the member OF the Republican State
Central Committee from that district.
DR.. A. /. Hobbs, A. Nj. ID, now
of Denver. Col, has accepted the
deanship of the theological depart
ment OF Drake University, at Des
MONIES, Iowa.
A fast stock train on the Illinois
Central plunged into washout at
Ackley on the 4th, with seven car
loads OF cattle, and over one hundred
head were killed.
The sheriff of Des Moines county
offers reward of $500 for the arrest
of Eddie Witte, under indictment for
crime committed in that county, and
fugitive from justice.
A Burlington girl, Tilted in love,
knocked her faithless swain down with
q brickbat, on one of thepublic streets,
and then gave him an unmerciful
beating with horsewhip.
Charles Morrison, safe-blower,
and Steve Moore, forger, broke Jail
1T Oltumwa on the night of the 9Th by
prying off the bolt OF the cell door,
and escaped through a window with
the help of an accomplish.
The large barn of j. 7. Mccoy, Of
Harrison township, Boone county, was
struck by lightning and totally de-
stroyed, together with four horses,
FIVE cattle and twenty hogs. The loss
will reach $1,000, with $500 insur-
ance.
Near Hamburg several boyt went
into a creek to battle. One OF them,
Arthur Mohler, aged 16 years, was
taken with cramp and was drowned.
His body was recovered a few hours
after the accident occurred. He was
the son of a widow at Hamburg.
Thos. Barrett, an old and highly
respected citizen of Knoxville, was
instantly killed on the evening of the
Sd, near Swan, by the falling OF pile
from a bridge. The large timber fell
across his back, breaking the spine.
He leaves a wife with whom he had
lived 43 years, but no children.
| The presiding elder offered comnun-
ion at the African Methodist church in
Dubuque, and asked those not in the
full spirit of forgiveness to partake.
A divorced wife, her husband and her
old lady friend refused to partake and
the meeting broke up in free-for-all
I fight. The police arrested the hus-
band.
While two brothers named Cornell.
sons of A. p. Cornell, living between
Ossian and Castalia, were shooting
rats with breech-loadiug rifle the Ell.
der brother discharged the gun acct
dentally, the entire charge entering
the brain of the younger brother, who
is still alive, but not expected to re-
cover.
| A strange disease, that is battling
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