Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-03-20
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export is overcrowded.
At Denison $4,000 bonds have been
voted to build u new school house,
Shelby county people are going TO
vote on new court house.
Cedar Rapids has voted to issue $40,-
600 bonds for high school building.
Sioux City has contributed $4,000
for purchasing seed wheat for Dakota.
Dubuque has hopes to secure type
writer factory with a capital of $780,
900.
1t is proposed to chop down the sal
aries of the city officers of Council
Bluffs.
A stock company is being formed to
start a Democratic daily paper at
Clinton.
Stanford Doud, of Eldora, claims to
have "second sight," by which things
are revealed to him.
Geo. II. Bal,ou, one of the best
known editors and newspaper men in
Iowa, died at Davenport, March 18th.
Fort Dodge Spiritualists will cele-
brate the forty-second anniversary of
spiritualism in America on the 2lst.
Mrs. Nancy Williams, widow of
Judge Robert Williams, who came to
Muscatine in the forties, died in that
city on the 18th.
Marshalltown citizens have subscrib-
ed the necessary amount of lucre to
carry on the expenses of the state fire.
men't tournament.
The jury in the Helmick murder
case tried in Council Bluffs, returned
verdict of not guilty after being out
twenty-one hours.
Geo. Mills, aged % years, was
drowned in Big Sioux river, IS miles
from Sioux City, on the 17th. He
broke through the ice.
Burglars went through the residence
of Mrs. NJ. T. Davenport, of Council
Bluffs, and secured two $40 gold pieces
and some valuable jewelry
The Gage Stove Works company, of
St. Louis, have settled upon Waterloo
for the location of its foundry. The
company receives bonus of IS, 900.
Corporate articles were filed with
the secretary OF state by the West
Bend Building Il Loan association of
Palo Alto county. Capital stock $780,
900.
Johnny Mcbride. a boy about IL
years of age, was stabbed in the left
hip ut Fort Madison in front of the
opera house, by a boy about two years
younger.
Mrs. McClOskev. the mother of four
children, was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary at hard labor, by
Judge Howat, of Clinton, for keeping
a house of ill-fame.
William Martin, member of the
Veteran Tippc canoe club and a resi-.
dent of Iowa for nearly Fifty years,
died near st. Charles, March 18th, of
disease of the kidneys.
A farmer named Eisel, living near
George, went 10 town the other night,
drank freely OF the flowing bowl, miss
ed his way while returning home, and
when found was in a badly frozen con-
dition.
The petition in the case OF the
Scottish Rite Masonic body-sometimes
called "Cerneau''-against the Iowa
Grand Lodge has been filed at Marion.
1t is in substance the same document
filed before.
Henry Kerwin, aged 40, of Daven-
port, was found in his hut with his
neck broken. Appearances indicated
that while intoxicated he had fallen
down stairs. His only son had just
been sent to the reform school.
The Cedar Rapids fire department
will celebrate It's twenty-frst ami
versary in an appropriate manner at
Greene's opera house, April 10th.
There will be toasts and speeches and
other appropriate exercises, the even
ing to be concluded with grand ball.
c. w. Williams. of Independence,
has sold to John Newman. of Elgin,
H., for $4,000, the 3-year-old colt,
Ballast, sired by Onward, Dam, Miss
Rcdmon, by Bourbon Wilkes. Indi-
vidually he is "a good colt and Williams
says he expects him to beat $50 this
season.
Garner was visited by u destructive
fire on the night of the 10th. Finch
Bros. hardware store and entire stock
was consumed. Loss $15,0O0 insur-
ance $4,000. Lathrop's drug store
burned; loss $4,000; no insurance.
John Wickman's law office was destroy
cd with its contents; loss $2, 900: no
insurance.
Mr.. George Burley, of Des Moines,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
against DR.. Smouse. of that city on the
ground OF carelessness and negligence
in administering medicines to Mrs.
Burley, who died from the effect of
medicine taken by the mistake OF some
one but the responsibility of which has
not yet been fixed.
}. w. Graham, a respectable farmer
OF Villisca, committed suicide by TAX
ing strychnine. He had signed sever
al notes for friends as security and was
going to be obliged to pay them, which
would ruin him financially, and so be-
came Respondent. His wife was away
from home at the time, and only ar
rived in time for the funeral.
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