Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-06
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

"A new opera mousse at Alton IL near
y completed.
The gun club at Sioux City are after
violaters of the game law.
Cholera infantum is prevalent
among Burlington children.
Clara Washburn has been commits
stoned postmaster at Argyle.
A new brick plant in kcokuk will
turn out $4,000 brick per day.
Work on the rev college building at
Oelwein has been commenced.
Employees OF the Davenport electric
street railway will organize unicn.
The article named "B b." has been
condemned by the courts at Webster
City as beer.
The Central Iowa Homeopathic
association he'd its annual meeting at
Cedar Rapids.
Burglaries are becoming common in
Sheldon. Five were committed in one
night recently.
A man leaned up against Il hotel in
Keokuk the other day and went 10
sleep in rain.
j. I'm Bicks'er of West Dubuque,
mas we'll 533 feet deep, and it is not
an artisan we'll either
The governor has appointed Sam
uel Taylor commissioner of deeds in
Pennsylvania for Iowa.
Mrs. Matilda Henry, of Mont
rose, became violently insane and was
taken to the asylum.
For constantly getting drunk a one
legged Dubuque boy named Calvin
will be sent to the reform school.
, Nearly 200 cases of hoot and mouth
disease among cattle are reported as
existing a. Burlington and vicinity.
Peter Vogel, of Dubuque, while
cleaning revolver, sh-o himself, in
1icting ii painful wound in the leg.
? The farmers are building u new
Baptist church in D2dge township and
one in Marion township, Union county.
A dozen Emmett county farmers
will club together and buy a steam
thre5her and do their own work in
that line.
Grass hoppers are damaging the
oat crop about Waterloo. 1t is est
mated they will lessen the yield by ten
bu. hels per acre.
Corporate articles were filed with
the Polk county recorder by the Sha'-
FER Drug company of Mitchellville.
Capital stock, $4,000.
Mrs. Lou James, of Manchester,
wa thrown from buggy the other
dav by coiliding with IL wagon and
probably fatally injured.
The Davenport street ear company
sold one old mule that had served the
car company twenty-one years to u
colored man for fifty cents.
II. G. Wheeler Horace Boies and A.
J. Westflll have all announced their
intention of being pres ,nt at the Labor
day demonstra alton in keokuk.
Count arfeit quarters, halves, and
dollars are in circulation in Keokuk.
1t is thought the spurious coin was
manufactured not far from there.
The state auditor has issued certi-
cate to the Deep River state bank.
Capital S250,C0); pre- ident o. b.
Burgit cashier C.. f. Sweet.
The Farmers alliance of Harrison
county have put Il fall county ticket in
the fed. $. G.. Bartholomew is their
candidate for representative.
The Calvanistic sentiment has pre-
vailed at Morning Sun for number of
years, but Knights OF Pythias lodge
has just been organized, the first secret
socie y in the town.
Articles of incorporation were
filed with the secretary of state by the
Davis City Boating company. with a
capital stock of 1000, divided into
shares of $2j each.
A colored man is in Jail at Osl1aI 90 sa
charged with stealing a church at
Evans. He was one OF the trustees,
and negotiated a loan by forging the
names Of the other trustees.
A colt two days old fell down a
mineral shaft 140 feep at Dubuque,
Iowa. When drawn ont the colt
kicked up his heels and around
the lot as if he had enjoyed the ex-
perience.
Bott Bros. shoe store in Dubuque
was burglarized. Entrance was made
from an adjoining store. and thence
through skylight. The safe WAS
priei open AMI 1925 taken, together
with other valuables.
At the close of the retreat of the
Sisters of St. Francs, conducted at
the German Catho ic orphan asylum
at DubucU3, thirteen young ladies
were received into the order as nov
ces by Bishop Hennessey.
The 7-year-old son of John Stevens
1T Milton, was thrown from horse
and dragged about the field for several
hours by the halter strap, which was
tied about his wrist, before being dis
covered. He died in a few hours.
Herman Rangow and Mike Hubbard
nav 'iiSli piSliliilhuly
Algona on the charge of cutting and
stabbing Seymour Allen few weeks
ago. Justice F. NJ. Taylor held them
to the next term of court under ST.
500.
Charlie Wells. brakeman on the
Illinois Central gravel train, was killed
at Cherokee by falling from a fiat car
while side tracking train at the
gravel pit. He was terribly mangled
Deceased was % years old and unmar-
ried.
Attention, comrades OF the Thirtieth
Iowa Infantry, W Association: Our
annual reunion will be held at Kalona
Washington county, Iowa, Wednesday
and Thursday, August 26 and 27, 1891.
Yourself and family are invited to be
present.
Andrew Rudolph was drowned in the
ishnabotna near Carson. He was a
Dung Dane employed on section of
&c Rock Island road, haG been but IA