Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-01
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mt Emmetsburg.
Work on the coal palace at Ottumwa
IS to begin at once.
Work on the coal shaft at Esther
willie has been suspended.
Poltawattamie county is not in the
blue grass league this year.
The postof1ice at Maysville Franklin
county, has been discontinued.
A uniformed rank. knights OF Pyth-
las, has been installed at Boone.
Plans for this years blue grass pal
ace at Creston have been accepted.
Six tons OF creamery butter were
shipped from Pomeroy in one week.
A train load OF stock valued at $l2,-
900 was shipped from Harlan the other
day.
The foundry Of the header works al
Grinnell is TO be converted into pillow
works.
The Poweshiek county Jail has been
without an occupant for the past two
months.
The Sons Of the American Revolution
have perfected an organization at
Davenport.
There is family living in Musca-
tine in which five generations are
represented.
Three buildings at What Cheer were
destroyed by fire on the morning Of
April 2cth.
Ed. Hannah was arrested at Cedar
Rapids for stealing "a horse in Iowa
City five years ago.
Dubuque county will soon vote on
the issuance of bonds to the amount Of
S120, 600 to build court house.
Burglars broke the safe at Shaw's
picking works, Cedar Rapids, taking
$45 and fine collection of coins.
The estate Of Henry Nurre, who
was murdered at Browns station re-
Gently, has been appraised atsl47, 900.
J. A. Hastings, of Lester. had two
ribs broken and was badly injured
about the head by being tramplcd upon
by horse.
The semi-annual meeting OF the
Eastern Iowa Dental association will
be held at independence the second
week in July.
The two-headed calf record has been
broken at Waverly. An intact bovine
showed up at that place the other day
with three heads.
The Boone County Farmers ALI
ance will start three general stores in
that county this spring-at Boone,
Ogden and Madrid.
Bent Lyon, the 10-year-old son of
9th Lyon, of Webster City. was kick
ed in the stomach by a horse with
probably fatal effect.
While playing with q Ratchet the
little son of John Bliyen, of Columbus
junction, chopped his little sisters
thumb and forefinger off.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern round house at Waverly was
burned to the ground the other night.
One locomotive was ruined.
Governor Boies has chosen as his
private secretary Clifford ID. Ham, of
Dubuque. lie is the son of editor
Ham of the Dubuque Herald.
Three boys, each about Is years of
age were sentenced to the pcnitentiary
for one year each at Onawa for burg
larry committed during the past winter
Rice and Marx, charged with the
murder of Henry Johns, were arraign-
ed at Steamboat Rock and waived ex-
animation and were held in $4,000
bail each.
Wolves have not been so plentiful
in the Hawkeye state for years as at
the present time. The county audi
tors all over Iowa are doing rushing
business in scalps.
Building permits for improvements
aggregating over 800, 600 have already
been issued at Des Moines for this
year, and new building permits are
daily being issued.
Chas. Pierce, musician, was instant
ly killed while jumping from moving
train on the Burlington & Cedar
Rapids. His skull was crushed and
death was instantaneous.
The stock shippers OF the blue grass
region, in the southwestern part of
the state, are advertising that section
by gaily decorating stock trains laden
with blue grass stoc,; bound for the
eastern markets.
William Delap, at Burlington, in
dictcd for bigamy, plead guilty in the
district court. He has two wives liv-
ing and was about TO re-marrY former
divorced wife when he was arrested
and brought to trial.
George Woods was shot and instant
ly killed at Auburn, Neb., on the night
of April 25th by trap rifle connecting
with the money drawer in a store
which he was attempting to burglarize.
Woods belonged at Decatur, Iowa.
The board of regents of the State
University accepted the resignation OF
Thos. S. Wright as regent and elected
Carroll C. Wright to fill the vacancy.
The board will decide on location OF
the new building aud also reorganize
for the next two years.
Capt Strict, Jr., a saloon keeper,
and Agent Cowan, Of the Building and
Loan association, while riding at Du-
buque, quarrelled as to which shoLld
drive and both grasped the reins. The
buggy was overturned. Strict was
killed and Cowan badly injured.