Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-12-24
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

spencer people arc linking Oh having d
lodging house built in Chicago for use
by them during the worlds fair.
Mrs. Joseph Oliver eloped from Cher
olSee with Leonard Winters, taking
her little child with her and leaving
husband behind.
Edward Russell, formerly editor of
the Davenport Gazette, and for seven
teen years postmaster in that city, died
recently at Minneapolis.
Shellsburg voted to bond for an
$4,000 school house, and the citizens
celebrated the victory with bonfires,
brass bands and gun powder.
The steamer Ruby, laden with pro-
visions, left Dubuque for New Orleans.
1t is the first boat that ever left for
that port so late in the season.
Jessie Jastrumrslxie, Of Niles, Floyd
county, was kicked by a young rufiian
named Jordan and may die. She was
working for the Jordan family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Hatton, of Clinton,
long time residents, gcelebrated their
Soie'Nh "cUtiuS FtSNupy' MI fiiobtoAf
is a successful merchant of Clinton. l
VIM. Johns while blowing near.
Blakesburg,s had his neck broken by.
the pillow striking a stump and throw-
ing him, on his head. He died instantly.
The northeast quarter of Iowa ex-
ported last year s,900,36 pounds of
butter, as against 26,s74,2o4 pounds
for the other three-quarters of the
state. 80 ~ t-i1a
The Algona Jail has q prisoner who
is confined for selling mortgaged prop
erty. He is singer and has the rest
of the prisoners well trained in singing
Sunday school hymns. $3.50
At a recent session of the Iowa
Columbian Commission it was decided
to ask the Legislature to appropriate
$339,oo0 to properly carry on Iewa's
portion of the worlds fair. - rtog5
Charles d. Arms, of Sioux Rapids,
dropped dead in an apoplectic fit while
playing game of billiards, He had
eaten hearty supper half an hour
before and was apparently in the best
of health.
Charlie Smith, the Dubuque man
who left his wife and five children in
poverty and ran away and married
Sarah Olson, alpretty Swede girl, was
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary for bigamy. 'N'5.{ 3sHg iHs
John Alien, an aged colored citizen
of Fort Dodge, died. Aliens chief
claim to fame was the fact that he had
the biggest feet ever seen in that 10
cality. He wore number seventeen
shoes. Allen was over 80 years old.
John E. Walker, claim agent for the
Keokuk & Western railroad for many
years, died at Keol<uk after short i'll
ness. Deceased was engaged in rail
road work for many years and has been
connected with the Keokuk g. Western
in various capacities ever since the line
was built.
6 From careful estimate made by
different physicians. it is stated there
are five hundred cases of la grippe in
Keoluk. Many of the patients all
ments are of the milder sort, but there
are about 200 sufferers from the Rus
sian infection whose cases are pro-
nounceo genuine.
The jury in the Parnitzke case, on
trial at Keosauqua. after being out all
night, rendered verdict of murder in
the first degree and imprisonment for
life. The case will be appealed be-
cause Of an error in the drawing of the
grand jury. Parnitzke killed James
Warner the night of July 1.
A crazy man of Yinton named Dan
Bates, probably influenced by the New
York crank, demanded $4,000 from
DIR. C. c. Griffin of that city with the
threat of taking his life in, case of re-
fusal. He appointed meeting place
at the post Office and the sheriff inter
viewed him there. He has been taken
to the insane asylum.
Counties in Iowa have jurisdiction
for criminal offenses within 500 yards
of their borders, and the grand jury
has indicted seven saloon keepers and
four. bartenders in Cascade, Dubuque
county for violation of the Prohibition
laws. This is the third time in mo
Mans Land" Each previous one cost
the saloon keepers several thousand
dollars.
John Mitchell, of New Sharon,
started TO charivari with party
of young men. They had quantity
of whisky along and invited him to
drink, which he did He soon lost
consciousness and when physician
was secured he was dead. An over
dose of whisky, coupled with heart
disease, is supposed to have been the
cause of his death GE&
Ex-senator Harlan has again been
severely suffering from an acute at
tack of the grippe, complicated severe
ly by a return of the asthmatic trouble
to which he has for years been subject.
His condition has been such as to cause
much concern ON the part of his
friends, He has so far recovered as to
have passed the danger point, unless
he suffers relapse.
Harvey Pickens of Davenport went
to work for the Rock Island railroad as
switchman. Three days later he was
caught between two box cars in the
yards on the other side of the river and
fcarfully crushed. Though externally
showing no injury he was brought to
his home in Davenport and died while
begging his relatives not to cry for him.
He was twenty years of age.
Hlustrious Potentate Richards, of
Kalaba temple of the mystic shrine,
has issued manifesto calling a meet
ing in the city of the mobiles CT Decem-
Der 10. Great preparations are being
J made, as sixty of the uninitiated win
receive the degree. Owes 200 prominent
Masons will be in attendance and have
ordered special trains from Davenport,
Marshalltown and Burlington.
2 A captain in the regui Z army, at
present stationed in San Fra dcisco, has