Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-05-07
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
Ten thousand sheep were wintered

Win SlO,OOO capltal.
The Milwaukee people will build a
new depot at Ottumwa.
The warm weather has started re-
yival meeting at Ruthven.
Keokuk has offered inducements to
jelly plant to locate there.
Lenox is agitating the question Of
organizing a military company.
Lenox is agitating the question Of
organizing a military company.
The state Sunday school convention
will be held at Mason City, June 1918.
The next Democratic State Con-
vention is to be held at Ottumwa June
oath.
The Davenport Gas Light company
has been indicted for maintaining a
nuisance.
Work will soon be commenced on
the new Illinois Central depot at
Waterloo.
1t is very gratifying to know that
the state treasury contains $500, 099 Of
state revenue.
A little steamer makes regular trips
on the Cedar river between Cedar Falls
and Waterloo.
The Union Park association OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs will hold their first meeting
September ii.
James Osborn. q 13-year-old boy
living near Dewitt, was drowned
while in swimming.
st. Bernard dog was sold in Bos-
ton u few days ago for s., 900 to f. II.
Moore OF Melrose, ia.
J John Vaughn, delivery clerk at
Keokuk, was thrown from wagon
and seriously injured.
Brick haulers of Sioux City have
struck Tor 10 cents per thousand more
than they have been paid.
A violent school house war is raging
in Webster county over the position of a
school building set on township line
&. p. Laavin, u Clarinda tailor sui
cided by shooting himself in the head.
lie had been Respondent for some time.
BY the cuving of trench in which a
number OF men were working, Patrick
Lynch was fatally crushed at Burling.
ton.
Mrs. Caroline Erbrodt is dead at Fl.
Madison, aged 80 years. She located
with her husband in Lee county in
1856.
c. X. Kennedy, for II Years IN edi.
tor of the Nillisca Review, has retired.
The paper has been leased TO Ed F.
Davis.
Decoration Day win be appropriately
observed at Ida Grove. Col. j. II.
Keatley, of Sioux City, will deliver IN
address.
The Residence. of {. +. Myers. d
prominent Grain and stock buyer AT
Atlantic, was partially destroyed by
fire, loss $500 fully inSNred.
Rev. l.. G. Woodiord of Baskerville,
has been elected IA member of the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science of Philadelphia.
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Davenport bY Bliek Peters. one of the
oldest members Of the bar. against the
Demokrat for 500. 600 70, libel.
Maggie Davis. daughter of u well-to
90 farmer, near Charter Oak, took
strychninc and died in ii few minutes
No cause is given for the rash act
T.. ID. Macarthur, II saloon keeper al
Palo, became desperate over liquor
s@its brought against him and com,
mittcd suicide by shooting himself.
A flock u quail attempted to fly
across the river ut Keokuk and fell in,
TO the water. Boys who were near by
at the lime secured fifteen of them.
The railroad men and citizens O.
iawarden made purse of 5000 fol
the widow of James Perkins, the
brakeman who met his death Mt Iretor
recently.
&. L. Harvey, editor of the iourna
Of Ccntervillc, was very seriously hurt
by horse kicking him in the face
breaking his nose and bruising hi,
face badly.
Burglars broke into Frost's hardware
store at Maynard, and stole bctweer
sl00 and $500 worth of pocket cutlery
revolvers, etc. There is no clue e
the thieves.
Competitive examination was helt
at Spirit Lake for the selection of 1
naval cadet from that district Per
kins p l.. Pratt of Spirit Lake carried
off the honors.
George West, a miner, attempted t.
blLIdtE Uls WIG Nv cShblOOSd- III
then shot himself twice through In,
breast, dying Immediately. Th'
woman viii recover.
! The real estate transfers in Calhoun
county since January, 1891, have beer
the largest ever known in the histor,
of the county. thousands of acres bein,
sold to actual settlers in one week.
a dissolute character named JOSEPH
+. Brown in Dubuque attempted to xii
his wife He cut four deep gashes il
her throat and neck before being ar
rested. The woman is very low.
A week ago the journyman plumber
of Dubuque demanded of their employ
ers the institution of an eight hour da.
on May /. The demand was refused
ank twenty-five men are out on
strike.
Some miscreant attended socia