Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-12-04
IOWA Condensed ITEMS


The new Plymout county Jail at LIE.
Mars is nearing completion.
The residence OF Dan Cummins. at
Eldon, was destroyed by fire.
The new Congregational church at
Webster City will be dedicated in
few days.
The new Grace Methodist church at
Burlington, was erected sta cost of
$4,000.
Bremen county farmers have lost
thousands ofdollars by hog cholera
this year.
A boy named Althous, living In Du-
buque, was kicked by mule and, il
is.feared, fatally injured.
An Ottumwa small boy named Ed
wards while playing with a revolver,
put bullet through his hand.
3Tbe 1873 convicts in the Anamosa
penitentiary had their pictures taken
the other day for future references.
The little 5-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cntah, was burned
to death near Council Bluffs recently.
The Alta M. Z. church voted unani.
mously in favor of admitting women
as delegates to general conferences OF
the church.
The Methodist Episcopal church a.
Knoxville voted to admit women as
delegates to the general conference by
avote of Sc to Is.
A sheep was cremated IN the new
furcace OF the Davenport crematory
the other day, the experiment proving
entirely successful.
A warrant has been issued by the
auditor OF state to the Cedar Falls
State Normal school for $2,45o, to be
FUSED in making improvements.
The second annual exhibition of the
Winnebago County Poultry and Fan
Stock Association will be held at For
est City January 27, 20 and 20.
The Algoua district convention OF
the Epworth League wilt be held at
Webster City December 9 and 10.
About 100 delegates are expected.
The vote OF the Methodist Episcopal
church at Brooklyn, Iowa, resulted 81
for the admission OF women as lay del.
egates to 43 against, Very light vote
passed.
The people OF Defiance after endur.
ing two original package houses
patiently for long time at last rose
upon their dignity and commanded
them to go at once. They went.
President Ives has confirmed the
rumor of the lease of the Davenport,
Iowa & Dakota read to the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern, thus giving
the latter road an entrance into Dav.
export.
Miss E. j. Lapsley. aged so years,
was instantly killed at Sioux City. by
a Union Pacific freight train. Miss
Lapsley lived with her brother, j. J.
Lapsley, about two miles from Dakota
City, Neb.
Resolutions were adopted at a mass
meeting at Atlantic the other day by
the citizens that they would stand by
the temperance people who had been
instrumental in closing the original
package houses.
Mrs. Josephine Cox has brought
suit against the city of Grinnell for
1000 damages sustained on account
OF defective sidwalk in front of her
cottage. The city council refused tc
grant her $50 indemnity. Hence the
suit.
The crew OF Chicago & Northwest.
ern freight train found the dead body
OF man laying on the ties along the
track few miles west of Boone. The
body was that OF Henry Carlson, 8
young man who drove an ice wagon in
Des Moines.
The November report Of the Des
Moines board of health shows that
there have been seventy-four deaths in
the CITY during the month, of which
forty-three were males and thirty-one
females; twenty-seven were adults and
,forty-seven we're minors; eighteen died
OF diphtheria, seven of typhoid fever
and four Of consumption.
Andrew McElhenney, one OF the old.
est and largest landowners in Tama
county. has been indicted and arrested
on the charge of perjury in giving in
his property to the assessor. At the
September term Of court judgment was
found against him for large amount
found due to the county. The case
will doubtless be closely contested
one.
A grand wolf hunt has been arranged
by sportsmen about Ft. Dodge, to be
held Immediately after the first snow.
Large timber wolves have become SO
hume rous as to be troublesome of late,
and the hunters expect to do some
good as well as get some sport out OF
the hunt. About two score OF hunters
and as many dogs will take part in
Il affair.
A freight train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee st. Paul road encountered
huge rock which had fallen from the
bluff to the track, near Dubuqus, and
was almost completely wrecked. Inc
engine jumped over the obstruction
and alighted on the track. but twelve
cars loaded with grain were de-
molished. No lives were lost. The
loss will be over $50, 900.
Fort Dodge's free public library is
now permanent institution. At the
last rnaetin0 NJ tina eitv council an an.