Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-06-11

the following order: II is now ordered
that in making up the docket for the
October term, 1891, the clerk shall
assign for hearing all cases continued
from the May term, all new criminal
cases, petitions for rehearing and cer-
tiorari proceedings and all other cases
filed in the clerks Office prior to Febru-
airy l, 1891.
There was considerable OF a sensation
in court in Dubuque at the trial of
twenty-six saloon keepers, by the read
ing of deposition made by L. j. AL
len, of Des Moines, who stated that he
had come there on three separate oc-
casions to obtain evidence against
saloon keepers. He deposed that he
drank liquor in each OF the twenty-six
saloons. His deposition was received
as evidence.
A phenomenal storm visited keokuk
on the evening June I'd. Lightning
struck the Holy Cross Episcopal
Church, cutting it in two, ruined the
apparatus of the Keokuk Electric
Street Railroad for some time, and
caused total damage OF about 50, 500.
Mrs. Edward Keith, recently of Chi
cago, prominent in social circles,
received an electric shock. 1t
was first thought she was dead, but
hopes are entertained Of her recovery.
Inventor Pennington, of air ship
fame, has been in Burlington arrang-
ing for the exhibitian of his invention
on July 4. He has a new ship in
course of construction at st. Louis,
with which, if negotiations are COM
pleted he will start from Burlington,
with five through passengers for Chi
cago some time during the afternoon
of the nations holiday. Pennington
while in Burlington maintained a
strict incognito, registering at the
Hotel Duncan as j. j. Pugh, Chicago.
State Fair visitors over Iowa are
subscribing wholesale for that great
Saturday paper, the Review, of Des
Moines, which gives each new yearly
subscriber before August 10Th, 1891, a
State Fair and grand stand ticket free,
and each subscriber can vote for one
person in his county, and the person
receiving the most votes in that county
will be given railroad ticket to Des
Moines and return, also fair and grand
stand tickets. This is great offer as
the Review is always 81 year, and
always worth the money.
The forthcoming annual meeting OF
the Iowa State Amateur Rowing as
sociation is attracting far greater in
terest than any of its predecessors and
all the different clubs are preparing
for it in way which argues well for
its success, The regatta will be held
at Spirit Lake on July 18th and 10th
and promises to be the best in the
history of the association. This will
be the seventh of the series of annual
regattas, which have steadily increased
in Importance with each succeeding
year until Iowa amateur scullers have
gained an enviable reputation all
! through the west.
There was an organized effort made
| by the striking miners to brighten
away the forty colored men at Car
bonado, near OskalooSa. One hundred
shots were fired, but no one was seri-
ously injured. Some of the colored
men had joined the union, but when il
came to doing without grub and the
promised allowance of $500 per week,
the Y resumed work-rules or no rules.
strike or no strike. Two houses were
badly riddled with bullets. The col
ored men and others propose to con,
tinue at work, and will defend them,
selves. Work at Fishville was resumed.
Excelsior and Beacon are still out.
There were 81 deaths during May in
Davenport; just one for each day
There were one each IRON diphtheria,
typhoid fever, dropsy, appoplcxy, con,
! gestion of the brain. nenrasthenia,
pneumonia, grip and suicide with
poison. There were three from con.
sumption, four from infantile convul.
sions, four from valvular disease OF the
heart. three from old age, and two
each from paralysis OF the heart, con-
gestiou of the lungs, influenza, and
| gastritis. OF those who died If were
males and II females; one was colored.
Also IA were native and IL foreign
born. The death rate for the month
is figured a. LOG per thousand. Ter
cases of diphtheria were reported,
eight of scarlet fever, one OF typhoid,
and two of measles.
A serious accident occurred june
I'd at Eureka Quarry. south of Earl.
1 ham, in which Conductor Perigo and
Brakeman j. Hanlcy and Henry Ware
and Station Agent w. ii. Lancaster Of
Earlham, were injured, the latter fatal.
! ly. Conductor Periyo and men wers
/ taking some cars of stone out of the
! quarry, and when approaching the
bridge on a sharp curve one of the
cars left the rail and striking the
bridge knocked some timbers out Of
place and turned over into the creek.
Three cars Of stone followed those o.
/ to the bed of the creek. and standing
on these cars were the four men above
named, who were all thrown into the
mass of stone and broken cars. Ian.
caster had both legs cut of and his
head and body badly bruised and died
the same night. The other three mer
are badly bruised and cut but will re.
/ cover.
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