Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-02-27
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tile factory Is Oeing Oult AT Al
COMA.
An iron foundry is to be built a,
Schaller.
The artesian well at Glenwood is
down 1900 feet.
Hogs in the vicinity of Batavia are
dying from cholera.
An electric light proposition is being
considered at Spencer.
LeMars people are agitating the
question of creamery.
The new packing house at Emmets-
burg will cost $4,000.
1t appears settled that Western col
lege will be rebuilt at Toledo.
DR.. c. C. Parry, the eminent botan-
list, died at Davenport, Feb. 90.
Thirty-five people are employed in
the carriage factory at Anamosa.
Alderman William Coates dropped
dead at Dubuque Of heart disease.
A new Congregational church was
dedicated at Marshalltown on the Esd.
Dubuque will vote in April on a
proposition to build new court house.
Geo. Jamison's barn at Newport,
owa, burned few days ago. Loss,
$500.
Grapes Touring mill at Hamburg
with 1900 bushels OF wheat burned on
the Esd.
An effort is being made to organize
company to operate a creamery at
Ruthven.
There are twenty-seven creamerles
in Bremen county, seven OF which were
built last year.
Frank Green, of Hawarden, tried to
pass forged note for $3.50 and is now
fugitive from justice.
The Illinois Central depot at Newell
was burned with all its contents. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
OF the $50 inmates OF the MARSHALL
town soldiers home 200 were sick at
the same time with influenza.
The residence of VIM. Nickel, in
Clinton, burned with the furniture.
Loss $4,000; insurance 81, 800.
Patrick Kennedy, aged 35, Storm
Lake hotel clerk, is missing. No cause
is known for his disappearance.
The Record says Pocahontas county
is s14, 900 in the hole. aud thinks it is
about time to cut down expenses.
/ Improvements to the amount of $50,-
900 are to be made in Ottumwa's water
works system the coming spring.
Mrs. Higginbotham's residence at
Fairfield was burned on the 22nd.
! Loss 81, 900. with some insurance.
Active preparations are being made
at Marshalltown for the entertainment
of the firemen who attend the tourna-
ment
A number of cottages are to be built
by the G. A. r. of Council Bluffs to be
used as homes for the widows of
soldiers.
gun club has been organized at
Centervllle that proposes to see that
game is protected by enforcing the
game laws.
Herman Schroog, of Cedar Falls,
was thrown from pony he was trying
to ride, breaking his neck and killing
him instantly. -.-...
While playing in the railroad yards
at Clinton little son of John Bolt, a
section foreman, lost his life by falling
between the cars.
Ice men from St. Louis, Des Moines
and Perry arc gathering an enormous
crop from Lost Island lake, two miles
north of Ruthven. 1855
Frank Babcock, of the Metual Life
Insurance company, Des MONIES, has
been appointed receiver OF public
moneys for his district.
A leading educator has offered to
build $4,000 school building and
open a. college in Iowa Falls, IL the
town will donate the land
Several Webster county farmers
have been swindled by signing alleged
rec orders which turned up in the
shape OF promissory notes.
Obed Robinson's. barn at Wesley,
burned, on the 10th. In the barn were
a span Of horses and a COW and calf, all
OF which perished. Loss, $500.
A young man in Nebraska was re-
fused marriage license to wed his
mother-in-law and came over to Ona-
wa, where the ceremony was perform
ed.
The postoffice, five stores. black
smith shop. butcher shop, and two
dwellings, burned at Aurora. a small
village near Independence. Loss, S.
900.
The ice handlers at Storm Lake have
struck for an advance in wages from
$3.50 toss per day. The ice company
is importing men and teams from other
places.
Lafayette Wahl, formerly city mar
shall, OF Boone, has been arrested for
forging the name OF his father-in-law,
William Mcintosh, to notes aggregating
$4,000.
On the way to Clinton from Escana-
ba, for the Chicago & Northwestern
railway, are 200 cars of ice. They
have at present stored in Iowa about
$500 TONS.
The ice has moved out OF the river
at Dubuque and the river is now open
below that point, with ice running
heavily from above. The stage is
rapidly lowering.