Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-07-24
IOWA CuNDENSisD ITEMS

81 10 ah Dutl'bS toh'
Judge Lenehan, at Dubuque, has
issued fifty-fve saloon injun ,tions.
The wild man in the woods near
Keokuk continues TO create great ex-
citement.
A movement is on foot at Iowa Falls
TO secure complete system OF water
works.
The Little Sioux Savings bank OF
Little Sioux has been granted char
ter to do business.
Dick Smith, wanted at Rockport,
Mo-, for assault with intent to kill,
was arrested at Hamburg.
L. +. Hoffstatter fatally stabbed
Frank Kennedy, at Ottumwa, in a
quarrel precipitated by their families.
Frank and Albert Mayow are under
arrest at Hartley, charged with rob-
bling the depot at that place, May 7th.
J. ID. Cowan, prominent business
man OF Iowa Fails, was FRUSTRATED by
heat, and is in precarious condition.
While digging well near Wiota
natural gas was struck at depth Of
100 feet. 1t is not yet known what it
will amount to.
A three year-old child was found in
the woods near Castana the other day.
1t had been deserted and its cries at.
tracted attention.
AL. Griffin, the notorious vender of
original packages at Ottumwa, at
tempted to commit suicide with re.
volver and will probably die.
Myriads of Canada soldiers" took
possession of Muscatine the other
night, the air being so full OF them as
to obscure the electric lights.
The next Hardin county fair will be
held at Eldora on September to 10
inclusive. Tho premium list shows
that the premiums are large and varied.
> An eastern syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase OF the town site of
Peru, Dubuque county, with the in
tention of locating u lnufacturing
plant,
A despatch from Hastings, Mimi,
says That Miss Nina Mes nett died there
July 81. She was the principal OF the
North ward school OF Mason City and
very highly esteemed.
!, The Iowa Veterans association will
lbe the guests of the Benton County
Veterans association at their reunion
at yinton, August q and %. General
Gibson will be the orator.
A farmer named Funk, living near
Petersburg, had his ARA so badly
tnanglea by being dragged along q
barb wire fence by n runaway team
that amputation was necessary.
The college at Ames has opened
with larger enrolment than has ever
been known in the history OF the insti-
tuition. Class work has begun and
will continue until November 18th.
James Napier, aged IS years, was
detected at Chillicothe. Wapello
county, in a third attempt to wreck a
20" passenger train by putting an
iron bar on the track. lie was sent to
tho state reform school.
The nine counties about Ottumw
which will be represented in the coal
palace exposition, last year employed
in mines and mining operations $500
men, mined 2.6l5.0 5S tons OF coal and
paid nearly 100000 in wages.
The Coldwater cooperative cream
cry company claims to have made 81
354 pounds of butter from o'clock in
the morning to o'clock in the even.
ing one day recently, the largest
amount ever made in one day in the
state.
The Iowa Department of the Grand
Army OF the Republic have chosen as
bnC IOubC VI tU6
Lake Shore, New York Central. and
Boston & Albany on the occasion OF
The national meeting in Boston to be
held in August.
The birds are telling it around that
Prof. A. Rosenber. OF Wichita, Kansas,
is to be the new president OF Penn
college at Oskaloosa. He is man OF
large ability, and Professor Pearson
speaks OF him in the warmest praise,
and from a long personal acquaintance
with him.
Nora Springs has sensation. A.
ID. Strong has been arrested for run
ming away with the wife OF Mr.. Frank
lin, resident OF Rockford. Mr.. and
Mrs. Franklin were married about four
weeks ago. the latter being daughter
OF ID. Morris. The facts are yet to be
developed.
e.. Dennis, member of the City
council, OF Red Oak, and his family,
were poisoned by eating canned fish
and all came very near dying. Ply
sicians were working with them all
night. Mrs. Dennis is still seriously
i'll; the others are recovering. The
fish had been made poisonous by the
tin.
W. G. Castor, formerly prominent
attorney of johnson county, and for
many years resident of Iowa City,
while suffering from delirium tremens
at Oakland California, a few DAYS
ago, jumped from hotel window TO
the pavement below, distance OF
forty feet. An awning caught him
near the end OF his descent and he was
but slightly injured.
Carl Shcrin, a wiper in the Iowa
Central iouud-house at Mason City,
was attempting to mount moving
engine in the yard when, his foot
ali L. -.