Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-10-30
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other day.
A new electric light plant is being
put in at Sheldon.
A youth living near Greene tips TIE
beam ~ 70) pounds.
Burlington citizens are discussing
the building OF new city hail.
Counterfeit silver dollars have made
their appearance in Fort Dodge.
The big Crawford flax elevator at
Fort Dodge is nearing completion.
An Atlantic firm will ship 1000
bushels OF potatoes to the eastern
market.
The managers of the Des Moines
club talk of erecting n club house TO
cost 800, 900.
A possum was captured while MAX
ing u raid on chicken coop near Os-
kaloosa The other day.
A Nebraska City firm has secured
the contract for putting in system OF
wafer WORKS dI HafnoufS.
The next annual meeting of the
Iowa State Farmers alliance will be
held in Des Moines Oct. 20.
A 2-year-old child OF Vandeplate,
living two miles south ofSioux Center,
was instantly killed by runaway
team.
August Hartman, president OF the
German bank OF Dubuque, died Oct.
25th, after long illness, from Bright's
disease.
The criminal docket of the Clinton
county court was SO large that the
judge had to hold Sunday session to
clear 1t up.
The town of Rockford has decided
to have a system OF water works, the
vote resulting three to one in favor of
improvement
Hiram Loomis, thirty-seventh Iowa
infantry, an inmate of the soldiers
home, at Marshalltown, is eighty
nine years old.
Diphtheria is reported to the state
to the state board of health from Mar
Gus, Iowa. Several dangerous cases
have appeared.
The jury in the Boartz murder trial
at Council Bluffs, after celebrating
for eighty.five hours failed to agree
and were. discharged.
While carelessly handling shotgun
Joseph Ames, of Mt. Ida, Scott county.
bored hole as big as half dollar
through his right foot
Nels Olson miner, was terribly
crushed by falling slate in a Maple
Grove coal mine. near Des Moines.
His recovery is doubtful.
Maquoketa people are at work secur-
ing fund sufficient TO induce Francis
Murphy to go there and give them a
few talks on temperance.
Samuel NlcNutt, OF Muscatine, re-
Gently appointed consul to Maracaibp,
has tired OF his post and will resign.
He can't stand the climate.
SJohn Gibson, a resident of Red Oak
for twenty years, died on the oath
inst. of typhoid fever in his 73d year.
His estate is valued at $50, 0C0.
More than 5000 Odd Fellows and
Knights of Pythias followed the re-
mains of John Van Valkenberg to the
grave at Fort Madison, Sunday.
Mr.. CAM, OF Dubuque, shot large
timber wolf while hunting near that
city the other day, being the first wolf
seen in that city for many years.
The lama Indians received their
annuity the other day. The pay roll
contains 402 names and each Indian
received Sl2.79. The tribe is increas-
ing.
In an accident on the Milwaukee
road, near Chillicothe, Fireman John
Wright had his leg broken and Brake
man Mckinley suffered sprained
ankle.
In the annual game of foot ball be-
tween the students ~ot Iowa College
and the State University. ut Grinnell,
the former were victorious by score
OF II to
The new Central Christian church,
said to be the largest and handsomest
place of worship in Iowa, was dedi-
Gated with imposing ceremonies al
Des Moines Oct. 18Th.
j. McDermott brakeman on the
Ncrthwes ern, caught his foot in a
frog white cars were being switched
and had ii severed from his leg by a
car wheel. He lives at Moingona.
A new state bank has been organized
at Marengo, known as the Marengo
State Bank. The capital stock is
$4,000. President, b. Thompson,
and the cashier, n. L. Thompson.
Adjutaut General Greene has issued
general order No. 20, giving tabu-
lated statement of the standing and
percentages of attendanceof the vari-
Gus companies OF guards in the state.
The total attendance for the twenty
three days that the Ottumwa Coal pal.
ace was open was 1929, the average
daily attendance being 2,079 On the
day OF the presidents visit 9,165 tick.
cts were sold.
Articles OF incorporation were filed
with the secretary OF state, by the
Sioux City Electrical Supply company
capital stock $4,000. Articles were
also filed by the Maurice State Bank,
capital s25, 900.
George Delaney, yard master of the
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy al
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