Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-10-02

center OF the city TO the river, will be
built at once, passing the new court
house. The county board pays $3.50
for the privilege of tapping it for
court house purposes.
l Major Reed, of Waukou. super
visor OF the C nsus for the Dubuque
district, has force OF men at work
correcting and verifying the addition
u. lists OF names made by enumerators
employed by Dubuque. II is expected
that the population of Dubuque given
out from Washington as 80, 1i7 will
be increased ey 900 names.
Held up in broad daylight, robbed,
bound, bliudfolded and kept in custody
by three men travelling in a covered
wagon is an experience John Biddick,
a young man living in the country
near Red Oak, has just passed through
He met the men while on his way to
the coal banks. lie escaped from
them forty miles west OF Red Oak.
The sheriff Is after the men.
Brakeman +. l.. Barker, of the Di-
agonal road, was run over on the
night OF Sept. oath. while coupling
cars at Farley. He was following the
train, stepping backward, and fell into
a hole from which & tie had been re.
moved. He was brought TO Dubuque
and died shortly after being placed in
the hospital. He was n single man
81 years old, and came from Ohio.
Sept. goth the residence OF c. NJ.
Burnett, in Knoxville. owned BY Mrs.
S. X. Bellamy, was totally destroyed
by fire. The building cost when built
81, 500; insurance on building 81 900,
on contents 5000. Most OF the con-
tents we're saved. The fire is sup
posed to have caught in the roof. Mr..
Burnett was up early and built fire,
then went bacl, to bed and fell asleep.
The contract for a system OF water
works at Toledo was let to George
Cadogan Morgan, of Chicago. 1t Is
to consist OF a stand pipe, engines and
pumping apparatus, wells, hydrants,
and about two and quarter miles OF
main, to begin with. Inc entire sys-
TEN is to be completed and ready for
use by June 1, 1891, or sooner II pos.
sible. The entire plant is expected
to cost about $4,000.
Northwestern Iowa is being thor
oughly canvassed by agents Of Illinois
firms who are buying up all the sur
plus hay they can find. In Webster
and adjoining counties they have con-
tracted tor thousands of tons from
$3.50 to $500 per ton. The hay is to
be delivered at the nearest railroad
station where it will be pressed and
shipped TO the d. outh-strickeu districts
OF Illinois where the hay crop has
been total failure this year.
The state board OF health has in
preparation a pamphlet on Hog
Cholera; its Cause and Prevention
Extensive outbreaks OF hog cholera in
Iowa have suggested this pamphlet,
which is complied from the fourth and
fifth annual reports Of the National
Bureau OF Animal Industry OF expert
ments made a, the bureau. 1t is put in
conrcnicnt form for the hog raisers of
Iowa who have not access to the bulky
reports. The pamphlet has been pop
ulariZed.
Mareneo, Iowa, at last has an Or
ganized board OF health. For a long
time the city council neglected to Or
ganize as SUCH body. The state
board stirred them up several times
without success. The last excuse
offered was that no physician would
accept position as health officer.
Then the law was quoted 10 the coun-
Gil showing that they must have a
health officer even il it became neces-
sary to go out OF the township TO get
hin. A few days ago 4 letter arrived
stating that board OF health had
bee n organized with Mayor A. j. Nor
rison as president and DIR. William
Eddy for health officer
The simple minded widow lady,
Mrs. Brown, at Audubon was adjudg-
ed insane by the commissioners. The
poor woman was imposed upon by
numerous tricksters, who informed
her that she should get married, and
at the same time informing her as to
who would be a good "catch." She
believed their silly talk and bothered
several of the highly respected mar
riageable gentlemen by pressing her
claims for their hand in marriage.
Performance ceased 10 be a virtue and
she was brought before tho commits
sioners OF insanity with the above re-
suit. The lady, who is probably 3S
years OF age, has supported herself
and child by washing.
James Stearns. "a merchant at
Bladensburg, Wapello county was
killed by the cars near Ottumwa on
the morning of Sept. 24th. A man
named Peek, who resides two miles
south OF the city, was walking along
the Wabash track on his way home
and found S,earns lying between the
rails and apparently dead. He sum-
moned the patrol wagon aud the man
was taken TO the city hall, where he
expired in few minutes. A small
cut back OF one ear and bruised ankle
were the only marks of violence on
his body. The superstition is that he
was killed by Wabash passeng er
train, yet there is strong belief that
he might have been murdered.
A disastrous railroad accident occur