Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-16
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS


Chaplain McCabe will conduct the
Ida Grove camp meeting.
The town of lie Grand in Marshall
county has been incorporated.
An enormous peach crop is antici-
pated in the vicinity of Keokuk.
F. Wcsp, farmer living near New
Hampton, Iowa. was fatally gored by
ball.
An artesian we'll company has been
organized at Keoluk with capital Of
10000.
The new high bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at Lyons has been thrown open
to the public.
The livery barn of Dan Probasea at
Dunlap was destroyed by fire, and II
horses persisted.
Ex-Gov. Larrabee's sightful eye is
wellagain. The statement concerning
its affliction was exaggerated.
The Wheel Scraper company at Mt.
Pleasant has been granted q charter
and will light Mount Pleasant by cleo
tr.city.
The S-month-o!d baby OF George b.
ker OF Villisca, was drowned in swill
pail whilc It's mother was out picking
cherries.
Ni,4Ar hoe IA.
place for the biennial reunion of the
2Sth Iowa. September l6 and II are
the dates.
There are 81 patients in the Clar-
india insane asylum and for the three
months ending July /, it cost $1i, 928
for their support.
The first Derby race ever occurring
in Iowa will be the Keokuk Derby, one
and one-eighth miles or Aug. II, the
opening day of the Keokuk races.
During the month of June the Fort
Dodge creamery handled PIP, 800
pounds of milk, for which they paid
the farmers 90 cents per hundred.
The Alliance grain company Gncor
porated) will soon have their new ele-
vator at Botna ready for use. When
done it will be first class elcvetor.
A number Of Burlington cigarette
smokers have sworn off and organized
an anti-cigarettc smoking association,
with severe penalties for the back
sliders.
When Van Amburghs circus left
Eagle Grove, several boys followed it
of. but the marshal overlook them at
Humboldt and induced them to return
TO their homes.
Mrs. Lidden and Mrs .Gustafson
were burned by the explosion of a
gasoline stove at Moingona, four miles
from Boone. They are terribly burn
ed and cannot recover.
The state auditor is calling upon all
the state banks TO rush in their month
ly statements, as it IS his intention to
embody them in his report which will
be out by September LIST.
G.. o. Wallace & Bro, auctioneers
at Dubuque, were bound over for at
tempting to collect the government
liquor licenses, representing them
selves US internal revenue agents.
ID. +. Kendall, a farmer living four
miles northwest Of Csc cola, committed
suicide by jumping into his well. Mr..
Kendall was highly esteemed Tenn
porary insanity caused the rash act.
At the excavation on the union de-
pot grounds in Kcokuk, an old rail-
depth OF three feet The track was
built by the old Des Moines valley
road.
The Cedar Falls Gazette says:
Mr.. Shaw, who is so years old. has
just raised and built barn without
help. 1t is large enough to accommo-
date his horse, carriage and a good
supply of hay"
The reunion OF the Eighth Iowa Cav
airy will be held at Moravia, Iowa
September IL and lS, 1891. The Nor
AVA people arc making the necessary
preparations to give the old veterans "a
warm reception.
The Seventh Iowa Cavalry will hold
their fifth reunion on the state fair
grounds al Des Moines August 81,
September / and =. All surviving
members OF the regiment are reques-
ted to be there.
An s-year-old son OF j. Bolglund, of
Ogden, was playing with revolver,
which he did not know was loaded.
He pointed it at his 6-year old sister
in play, when it was discharged, the
bullet entering her eye.
William Reed, a wealthy farmer of
Jackson county, went to Dubuque to
make a new will. Alter doing so ne
went home and died. His estate is
worth $50, 600. He had made u previ.
Gus will only short time ago.
Rev. c. p. Reynolds, we'll known in
Central Iowa, formerly located at
Newton, died recently at his home at
Toledo. He was minister in the
Methodist church and had great
many friends and acquaintance in
Iowa.
William Shinn, Viewer blacksmith,
was in Fort Madison and drank con-
siderable liquor He started for home
at night in a roadcart, fell out, his foot
catching in the stats of the cart, and
was dragged to death. He leaves a
wife and four children.
Two fatal accidents occurred at New
Hampton on the Sth. L. Wesp a
prominent farmer was injured by a