Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-09


to provide transportation to and from
the Worlds fair, and accommodations
while there, on plan by which per-
sons in any part of Iowa, desiring to
attend, can be sure of having the
means of doing SO When the time
cones, at reasonable rates, upon
small savings accumulated through
weekly deposits to be made in desig.
mated banks.
Charles Nicholson, the 13-year- old
son Of Charles Nicholson, OF Council
Bluffs, was drowned while bathing in
Spoon lake, near the Union Pacific
transfer. Quite number OF boys
were bathing with him, and several
men We're standing near by, but when
Nicholson was taken with cramps and
cried for help. none of them made any
intelligent effort to save him. The
boys IA her is constable here, and
was formerly fireman and well
known throughout the state as such.
The new union depot at Keokuk was
July lst thrown open to the public. 1t
is a magnificent structure, costing not
less than SIS, 900 and So, 00) to $25, 900
more for finishing and completion OF
approaches, eSc. 1t was brill Family
illuminated the night before symbolic
ing the beauty and grandeur that fol-
lowed at the opening. This will be the
grand outer door, for thc six rail-
ways entering that city. And it is a
pillar Of strength AMI beauty of which
the good people of Keokuk may well
feel proud
Foriy-nine cases OF beer, five cases
of whisky and eighty bottles of wits
ky, the property of a Peoria brewery,
were destroyed at Waterloo on the 9th
by the sheriff. The brewing company
perated an original package house
last summer and the goods destroye d
we're seized last October under the
provisions of the original package act
passed by the last Congress. The
| company eudeavored TO compromise
by paying the costs and shipping the
interdicted beverage from the state,
but no agreement could be made.
At the celebration of the Fourth.
held in Elkader. a saloon was opened.
Lawyer r. Z. Price visited the place
with the city marshal and closed it up.
Later Price and his son made another
visit and found everything quiet. On
their way home they were set upon by
an Infatuated crowd and were badly in
| jured. They were beaten and cut
with knives, but succeeded in getting
away, followed by the crowd, which
threatened to lynch them. They ran
into store which was barricaded
twas thought probable their injuries
arc fatal.
The city marshal of Des Moines has
made his report for the month of June
as follows: The patrol wagon made
30l trips, travelled Az miles AMI car
ried /, 100 persons; and the following
arrests and offenses: Assault and bat
| terry, z; assault with intent to commit
murder, 4; adultery, ,; burglary, /;
carrying concealed weapons, 5: public
disturbance, y; forgery, 3; fugitives
from justice, 3; fast driving, 3; dis
orderly room, &c; highway robbery, /:
intoxication, 80; indecent exposure,
/; larceny, 21; grand larceny, 5; from
buildings, 2; malicious mischief, 3
murder, ,; selling liquors, 5; threat
ening public offense, 2; vagrancy, 20
violating ordinance, ID; total, 26S.
The last bulletin of the Iowa weather
and crop service reports the genera
crop conditions very favorable. Hay
ing is progressing in al parts of thu
state. The yield is good. The harvest
of winter wheat and rye begun il tht
the southern counties and in many 10,
calitiej grain was all in shock. Tn,
oats crop bids fair TO be the best cvcl
grown. A heavy storm, accompanied
by wind and hail, recently, pa 5set
diagonally across the state from Cher
okee to Decatur counties, doing i'm.
mense damage to all crops and stock
in belt two to six miles wide. The
heaviest damage from hail was done
in Audubon, Adair, Clarke and Decatur
counties. The track of the storm wa,
nearly two hundred miles long.
The Des Moines Fire Insurance Com
pany has for several years occupied il
own building in that city, having beer
prosperous ever since its organization
4 One reason for its popularity has beer
the fair and gentlemanly bushes;
methods of its officers, as well as III
prompt and equitable adjustment o
losses. 1t is said to be tho only com
pany in Iowa which closed the veal
1890 without dollar Of unpaid losses
Such company is deserving of the
confidence and patronage OF the pub
lie. During the first six months o
this year it has written over one hun
bred thousand dollars of new business
and paid many thousands of dollars il
losses. mostly to Iowa farmers. d.
not send your insurance business on
of Iowa, when you have such com
pany composed of home people. Pat
ronize home institutions, and keep the
money for home investment.
A cyclone on the 1st dropped dowi
in Audubon county, at point abou
five miles southwest of Gray and abou
twelve miles northwest of Audubon
People in Audubon saw the cyclone
form and watched it till it disappeare;
in the distance. The storm struck tn,
house of Sam Garmire and badly in
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