Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-12-31
VOL. VII


cago & Northwestern, fell from the
top of freight train going at high
rate of speed down the Moingona hill
near Boone. He was not missed until
the train reached Beaver, twelve miles
beyond. When found he was badly
chilled and frightfully injured, both
jaws being broken, bad wound in the
head, two ribs broken and internal in
juries. He cannot recover
Charles and Philmon Armstrong,
aged 10 and Is years respectively, were
arrested at the sand pits southeast of
Des Moines by farmer named j. w.
Largon, for the burglary of three resi-
dences in that vicinity. They had over
$3.50 worth of stolen goods with them.
They were turned over to the police
and sent to Jail to await trial. They
claim to have come from Bloomfield,
where their parents are said to reside.
A ghost story which located spook
upon the Thompson farm at Badger,
near Fort Dodge, and caused endless
excitement in that vicinity, has been
explained. A couple of jokers. in the
cellar, provided with long rubber
hose, through which they talked, pro-
duced the inexplicable sounds in differ
ent parts of the house. A sheet after
wards did duty as the ghost. When
the boys found what a commotion their
joke had caused they confessed.
A crisis in the affairs of the Swedish
NJ L. church in Burlington has been
reached, and upon charges preferred,
the pastor, A. Nj. Soderstrom, pro-
bationer in the northwest Swedish
conference, was adjudged guilty of
falsehood, frauds and treason, and sus-
| pended from his pastorate. The judges
| in the church trial were Revs S. Wag-
ner of Keoisuk and Gabrielson of Gales
| burg, Ill. Rev. John Bendit of Galva,
| Ill, presiding elder of the district,
| presided.
At the Cory mine at What Cheer,
| while Tommy Davis and three other
men were working at pillar of coal,
| premature blast occurred and burned
and injured Davis about the breast,
| anu dioo huiO oCoikO
and Streigl were tamping hole.
| There was sulphur in the hole. They
had about five inches of dirt on the
powder when it suddenly exploded, and
it is great miracle that all the men
were not seriously hurt, as all the coal
was blown out of its place.
Reports from the country districts in
Iowa, Missourirand Illinois show that
la grippe is prevailing to a serious de-
gree among farmers and laborers.
Physicians report the disease generally
to have deserted the cities for the
country districts and the results seem
to be proving as serious as they did in
the cities two years ago. The malady
has crippled a number of business enter
prises in Burlington. The entire night
force of the Western Union Telegraph
company in that city is in bed
w. w. Merritt was elected presi-
dent of the Montgomery County Fair as
ISOLATION at the annual meeting of the
stockholders held a few days ago,
| Henry Peterson, VIM. Cozad, William
Thomas, o. Z. Whitaker and Jacob
| Wolf were elected directors. The
treasurer's report showed the receipts
of the year to have been $3.50 and the
expenditures 5000, leaving a balance
in favor of the association of $40. This
was applied on the indebtedness of the
society, which is thus cut down to $40.
A young Swede girl, while going to
her home one evening recently at Des
Moines, was followed and viciously as
saulted. The man, whom the girl
thinks was a negro, trailed along close
behind her until there was no one in
sight, when he seized her by the shout
der and demanded her money. The
| girl told him she had none, when, with
an oath, he grasped her by the throat
and held her until she became almost
insensible. Then pushing her rudely
away, he darted across the street and
| disappeared.
The body of woman was recently
found in slough two miles east of
| Pocahontas. Coroner Pease proceeded
to investigate. 1t was soon learned
that Mrs Cody, sister of farmer of
that township, five miles east of Poca-
hontas, had, during the absence of her
brother, gone to a neighbours to get
some coal oil, and during the terrible
storm of that night lost her way and
persisted in slough. She was about 65
years old. Mrs. Cody had lived at
Havelock about three years, and was
highly respected by all who knew her.
Recently at Des Moines young
negro bootblack employed at the Slavery
house was rejected by colored domes-
tic with whom he had been keeping
company for some time, but who had
grown tired of his company. He went
to the house where she was employed
and as she appeared in answer to his
knock, he grabbed her by the throat
! and dragged her outside. shot was
fred and she fell to the ground. Sup
posing he had killed her, the discarded
lover turned the pistol upon himself
and inflicted fatal wound. The girls
wound is not serious.
A storm having all the elements of
summer hurricane struck the section
around Marshalltown one night re-
Gently, causing much damage. The
house of Andrew Oleson, of Marshall
town, was blown down, the debris
catching fire and burning. Oleson
was caught in the wreck and fatally
crushed. Many barns and outbuild-
ings were demolished and trees up
rooted. The farm house of Thomas
Huges, six miles southwest of the city,
was lifted up bodily and carried a
hundred feet, but not greatly dam
aged. The occupants escaped injury.
The passenger train which left Sioux
City one morning recently on the Omaha
road met with remarkable accident
AZ the edge of town, where it goes
through an immense cut. Just as the
train entered this, where the walls are
sixty feet high, a landslide occurred.