Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-06-05

OF The Iowa Shcritfs' association will
be held at Spirit Lake, June Is and
10. All sheriffs, ex-sherifls, deputy
sherifs aud marshals are invited to
attend. The marshals association of
Iowa will meet at the same place in
joint convention with the sheriffs.
Articles OF incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state June End
by the American Bank Trust Company
OF Sioux City, capital stock 50, 900, 900.
By the Nassau House Company, of
Nassau, Kcokuk county. Amended
articles were also filed by the New
England Loan and Trust Company, OF
Des Moincs.
w. II. Hathaway, who has been
representing the Manual Musical Pub
fishing company of Chicago, left Ma
son City, going to parts unknown.
The officers think they have located
him in Colorado. 1t is understood
that he collected quite sum of money
from the sale of the Manual and skip
ped without making any account of it.
Osceola is in a great turmoil over
the electric light question. The coun-
Gil has entered into contract with an
eastern firm to place lights in the
town, and have agreed to take street
lamps that will cost almost $4,000 per
year. AS the city is now taxed TO its
full limit, many of the citizens are
wondering where the money is to come
from.
Two little girls aged and 10 years
daughters of Charles Isabel and Chas.
Mentzel, employed at the packing
house, at Cedar Rapids, attempted
while washing TO cross the Cedar riv-
er, but walked off the submerged sard
bar into deep water, and were drown
ed. The current is very swift at the
scene of the accident, and the bodies
have not yet been recovered.
The President has indicated his in
tention to veto the Sioux City public
building bill if it comes to him carry
ing an appropriation of $3.50, 900.
Congressman Struble must cut it down
to 100000 if he wants to get it
through. Congressman Kerr suffered
"a similar fate concerning his Cedar
Rapids building bill. Gen. Harrison
is economical and immovable.
At the Hayes and Platter sale at Red
Oak the raised seats in the tent gave
way, throwing about 800 men to the
ground and breaking mans leg,
who was presented with a COW by the
proprietors of the sale, which sold for
$3.50. Amos West was caught in the
fall and it was feared that one of his
limbs was broken, but luckily proved
not to be, and he was around next
morning.
Dina Green, a servant girl in the
employ of John Schoentger's family
at Council Bluffs, was probably fatally
burned by gasoline explosion. She
attempted to fill the magazine while
the generators were burning and the
vapor ignited. Her clothing was sat
urated with the oil and ignited. She
rushed out OF doors, but before help
could reach her, her clothes were
burned off and she was frightfully
burned.
The organization OF the druggists of
the sixth district was effected in Oska-
loosa May 9th, to be known as the
Des Moines Valley Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION. There were thirty-one
charter members and the officers
elected were: A. M. Waglcy, Newton,
president; VIM. Bradley, Beacon, vice
president; A. S. Udell, Ottumwa. sec
rotary; Ed. Franklin, Sigourney, treas
urer. Their next meeting will be
held in Ottumwa.
Sam Portcrfeld is one of the attend
ants for the Omaha and Council Bluffs
Motor company at the bridge, his sta
ton being on the Omaha side. 1t is
his custom to hand over the days re-
ceipts in bis dinner bucket. Recently
he put $50 in his bucket and boarded
motor train. Seated alongside OF
him was man who also had dinner
bucket When Porter6eld left the
train by mistake he picked up the
wrong bucket. The loss was discov-
cred shortly afterward, but no trace
of the man with the bucket and money
could be found.
During a storm at West Liberty,
Muscatine county, the other day, the
teacher of the public school kept the
children after school was dismissed ex-
pecting that the parents of some of the
smaller ones would call for them. The
two little sons of Otto Post slipped out
unobserved by the teacher and started
for home distance of two miles.
When they were within short dis
lance from home they found the road
transformed into a raging river. Both
fell down, and the eldest managed to
scamble to place of safety, but the
youngest, aged about six years, was
carried by the force OF the flood into
ditch at the side of the road and was
drowned.
On the farm of A. d. Gillespie, a
few miles northwest of Grinnell, there
is a flock of forty-six sheep that has
been continued for thirty-eight years
without much variation ia the num-
bers, young ones being added as the
old ones were taken out. Tho record
of this flock for three years is inter-
esting. In 1883 there were 40 ewes,
producing 81 lambs; in 1889, AZ owes.
bringing II lambs, and in 1890, As
auas with TX lamhc 90 bayi,. lo,,h