Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-11-06
IOWA CUNpENSGD ITEMS


Hamburg is to have new three
story hotel.
Dakota City horsemen have organ.
lied driving park association.
Ten dwelling houses are in the
course of erection at Ida Grove.
Thirty-five farms in Franklin coun-
ty contain over /, COO acres each.
Northern Iowa gram shippers still
complain oflimited shipping facilities.
The students OF Coe College, Cedar
Rapids, have organized u brass band.
The next sessiod OF the Iowa Grand
Lodge OF Odd Fellows will be held in
Dubuque.
A new state BANK has been estahg
lished at Maurice with capital stock
OF S25, 900.
In tussle with dehorned COW
Vernon Fleck, Of Lyons, sustained
serious injuries.
Several large bones supposed to be
the remains OF mastodon. have been
found near Muscatine.
Mrs. Ezra C, Miller, of Cedar Rap
ids, has been appointed member of
the worlds fair board OF lady mana
gers.
The Annual State Convention OF the
Farmers Alliance opened in Des
Moines, Oct. goth, with over 700 uele-
gates in attendance.
Patrick Hanley, aged 106, died at
Davenport, Oct. %. 1t is believed he
was the oldest person in Iowa. His
faculties were retained in wonderful
degree to the last.
A chemists mortar, made of some
kind OF white metal and bearing a La
tin inscription and the date 1867 was
found in IA mess of old scrap iron at
Dubuque the other day.
Allie Hoffman, a domestic at Cres-
ton, was severely burned in the face
and hands by catching fire from a
plate of gasoline she was using in
backing stove. She will recover.
Colonel Lincoln, of the State Agri-
, cultural college at Ames, has been
hard at work recognizing the cadet
corps under the new tactics soon to be
adopted by the war department for in i.
fantry.
Jesse Hutchins, farmer OF O'Brieu
county, shot himself through the
heart. Cause, domestic trouble. Tue
shooting occurred in coal house or
shed 10 the rear OF a law Office in
Sanborn.
Peter Hentges, a farmer living neal
lie Mars, after having big spres and
drinking a good deal, became tired OF
life, and taking an old army musket,
he tied string to the trigger and
pulling it shot of the top Of his head.
The Iowa City Republican was fifty
years old on October 20. The pub
fishers of that paper issued a neat and
attractive semi-centenuial edition OF
fifty pages which also contained full
and complete directory of Iowa City.
Court closed at Northwood, Oct
9th without having used the jury for
single trial. Judge Sherman, of
Mason City, presided. They are a
peaceable people in Worth county as
this fact plainly shows. There has
not been single criminal case on the
court docket for over four years.
G A farmer near Waverly, a Mr.. Mel
son, was found a few mornings ago
suspended by the neck from pole
placed across two beams in his barn.
He had used the rope of the hay car
rier as a means OF suicide. Nelson
was about fifty years old and leaves a
son and daughter.
Some one broke into the barracks
of the Salvation Army, at Mt. Pleas
ant, and destroyed over $50 worth OF
goods. They broke the musical in.
struments and cut the drum. Who
the miscreants are is not known, but il
they can be caught an example should
be made of them,
Allan Hampton had the misfortune
to have his hand caught between the
bumpers of two freight cars while
switching in the Chicago IL North
western yards at Marshalltown crush.
ing it almost to "a Jelly. He had just
begun work for the road, being a new
man in their employ.
Clarence KEGS, son of Rev. II. B.
KEGS, died at Harlan, Nov. 1st The
result of kick by horse. He had
gone out to feed and not returning
within a reasonable time, his mother
went to look for him, finding him be-
tween the horses, with his skull over
the right temple crushed.
Prominent capitalists OF Ottumwa
have commenced action in the distric,
COuIo CuJOiuiuS tuO ciVy cOuiiCik itoul
building two bridges across the Des
Moines river at the east and west OK
tremities of that city. They claim the
cost will make the city's Indebtedness
exceed the constitutional limit. Much
feeling is aroused.
So much comment has been made in
regard to the Nurre murder case that
the Clinton County grand jury has felt
itself called upon to make an explana-
ton to the effect that about sixty wit.
nesses have been examined touching
the matter, but that sufficient evidence
has not yet been obtained to justly the
indictment of any person or persons.
A suspended electric wire burning
where it should not in Young's upper
mill at Clinton, attracted the atten.