Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-12-17
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.


a company is being formed at Des
Moines to manufacture paving brick.
A Lake City man kicked his son out
of the house because the latter did not
agree with him on religious matters.
Ed Thomas, Davenport saloon
keeper, died a few days ago in that city
and was cremated at his own request.
Patrick Martin, nearly 20 years old,
was killed near Kent by his team be-
coming scared at train and running
away.
A farmer by the name of Weber, liv-
ing in Jackson county, was kicked be-
tween the eyes by his horse, at Du-
buque, and killed
Over 700 fowls were on exhibition at
the 0debolt poultry show-more than
have ever been exhibited together in
Iowa at any one time.
Mrs. Tucker, who horsewhipped DIR,
Lambert at Farley, was acquitted on
trial at Dubuque, but the case is likely
to be appealed TO the supreme court.
J. Leigh secured a verdict at Dubuque
against George Kirby for $40 damages.
Leigh was out driving with young
lady, and Kirby's dog caused his horse
TO run away.
John J. Eagan, formerly conductor
on the Chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul
road, died at Dubuque under the oper-
alton of leg amputation. He was in
jured two weeks ago by falling from a
train.
Engineers are at work surveying a
line from Thompson to Estherville.
The road is to be known as the Chicago,
Iowa & Western, but is virtually part
of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern,
One of Swift's meat trains was
wrecked on the Milwaukee, cast of
Delmar Junction. Eleven cars OF
dressed beef were ditched. The west
bound train had to go to Clinton and
Dewitt over the Northwestern.
Thomas Mulligan, bachelor who
lived alone on his large farm in Spaul-
ding township, Union county, died aged
about sixty yerrs. Deceased was a pc
culiar man of few acquaintance and
his relatives are unlII 1wn. He leaves a
good estate.
Old settlers of Dubuque remember
Speaker Crisp as theatricl performer
who visited Dubuque in the ffties with
other members of his fathers family,
one of whom, May Crisp, is still in the
dramatic profession and played in Du-
buque last year.
The estimates of the secretary of the
treasury for appropriations for the ifs
cal year ending June 80, 1898, contain
items for improving the Mississippi
river from Minneapolis to Des Moines
rapids, Sl50,oOO; for Sioux City public
building, $4,000.
Mrs. Ann G, Coates died at the home
for friends at Davenport, aged SO
years, after Ga years of continuous
residence in that city. Her husband
was the first lumberman of that city,
and she was left with good estate,
but died penniless
The Hon. Il. L. Burton, judge of the
second judicial district, is lying at his
home at Ottumwa in a critical condi-
ton, suffering from a stroke of paraly.
sis. He was prominent candidate be.
fore the last Democratic convention for
the supreme judgeship nomination.
A young man named Inman was
caught at Keokuk gazing into one OF
the dressing room windows of the opera
house. The manager says actresses
when they visit that city have been an,
noyed great deal by that kind of peep
ing. and he proposes to prosecute In
man.
r. N. Kirk, travelling salesman fol-
the cigar and tobacco house of Shipley
& Co., of Chicago, committed suicide al
the Duncombe House, Fort Dodge, by
taking Trough on Rats" Kirk had
been in the city for "a week, and had
been drinking heavily. The body wa:
sent to his home at Englewood, Ill, TO,
burial
A hired girl in the employ of Mr.
Hurley, of East Fifth street, De.
Moines, became mother, and upo1
seeking for the child it was found in al
clubhouse, dead. The coroner has tal1er
charge of the matter and Il is likely
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