Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-13
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.


Action has been begun against the
saloonkeepers of Oskaloosa, Otley,
Sioux City and Cedar Rapids.
The postoffice at Morsman, Page
county, is discontinued. Mail for
that office will be sent to Braddyville.
The Fremont county board CT super
visors has raise the real estate assess
ments in nearly every township in the
county.
Fred Lukins u years OF age was
drowned in the Maquoketa while TAX
ing a swim. He worked on farm
near Dyersville.
n. w. Cram. a pioneer settler Of
Iowa, died at Nlitchellville. Polk
county. He was at one time may or
of Mitchellville.
John McCarten, prominent grocer
at Dubuque. was thrown from his
wagon In runaway, and died from
injuries received.
A new postoffice has been established
at Racie, Bremen county three and a
half miles southwest OF D.ckey, with
Hamon o. Potter, postmaster.
At the Republican senatorial cen
vention held in Emmetsburg, Abe
Funk of the Spirit Lake Beacon was
nominated on the first ballot.
The eleventh senatorial republican
convention nominated James II. Jami-
son for senator. The district COM
rrises CLARK and Warren counties.
A new postoffico has been establish
ed at Racie, Bremen county, three and
Il halt miles southwest of Dickey,
with Hamon o. Potter postmaster
Sister Mary Loretta of the Sisters of
Charity, disd in Dubuque at the
Mother Convent. She was a sister OF
Alderman and County Clerk Halpin.
The census Office bulletin for the
Roman Catholic church in Iowa
shows: Organizations. 425; values,
So, S34 400; commit ricants, 161, 6S4.
Ten thou aud dollars will be expen-
ded on buildings and improvements of
the Clarinda hospital as u result of a
warrant iss led by the state auditor.
4 De3 Moines woman while 1t driv.
Ing was stopped by Il ramp who de-
manded her money. She gave s. and
Il c tramp tipped his hat and wake
OF.
Tho tenth annual reunion of the
Iowa oX-Prisoners of Wac ASS lciation
will be held on the Stite fair grounds
Tuesday ard "Wednesday, Sept. 1st
and md.
The comptroller of the currency
h1s authorized the Mills county
national bank of Glcnwood to com
mence business with Il. +. Burlington
as president.
one eye man worked half a dozen
Clinton loariing houses for several
meas each by exhibiting II baggage
check and saying he would have his
trunk sent uT.
Highland Park college will open its
fail term with about one thousand stu
denis. This institution is Already one
OF TIL best equipped and most pres
porous in the west.
The c0mptrol or. of the Currency has
received an application from j. w.
Brown and as ociites of Sioux City.
TO establish the Commercial National
Bank of Sioux City.
The state veterinary surgeon. G.. A.
johnson of Odebolt, has examined the
cattle disease 50 prevalent in the state
and attributes it 10 the bacteria in i'm
pure and pond wate".
The reunion OF the famo,s Crocker
brigade will be held at Des Moines
Sept. 1924. The name Pro 5pect Park
where the reunion i TO b. held, will be
changed 10 Croker ParS.
OTIS Arno d. formerly a prominent
business man Of MarshalItown, com
mittcd suicide by shooting himself at
Pasadena, California. He was "a
bro !her of ey-State Senator Delos Ar
mold.
North Star Lodge No. ,. 4. +. &
A. NJ, ut Des Moincs, adopted reso-
lutions of respect to the memory of
past grand master Hon. Alex. Clark,
late ml.iisier and consul general 10
Liberia
Tracklaying of the Winona, Usage,
e. Southwestern Railway was finished
10 Osag3. andtho first passenger train
has arrived. The town people
all feel well over the compile
ton of the road.
The postofIice at Dayton was broken
into b. burglars aud tho safe blown
open, but the explosion awoke Milt
Andrews. who drove the robbers away
before they succeeded in opening The
steel money chest.
The state fair will be held from
August % to September 4 inclusive.
Soldiers day on Monday. August 81
and Tuesday, September /. On these
days all honorably discharges soldiers
Of the late war will be admit d free.
The four-year- old son of NJ. +.
Tcmpleton near Marion climbed upon
a tank containing some milk cans.
One Of the cans contained about ten
incheslo of water and the hoy fell head
downward into the can AMI was
drowned.
The Democrats of Polk county
nominated w. A. Park and J. w
Hill for representatives. Charles
Ashworth was nominated for sheriff;
B. ii. Barnes for treasurer; Miss
Olive McHenry for superintendent,
and r. p. Harris for coroner.
Two men giving tie names of G..
Spencer and VIM. Clark, we're arrested
at Eagle Grove, on the charge of
swindling David King out of 81, 600.
The man who got the money escaped.
They got the cash by inducing David
King who is a farmer to gamble.
The new government boat built at
Dubuque was launched few days
ago, in the presence of a large con-
course of spectators. The hull is of
quarter inch steel, 200 feet long, SO
feet beam, and 81 feet deep, with
fifteen Water-tioht commandments