Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-12-03
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Cnat says CEDAR Rapids can distance
any city in Iowa for 1891 prosperity.
A jack rabbit weighing twenty-five
pounds was killed near Odebolt the 9TH
Ter day
James Burwell, wanted for stealing
team of mules, has been arrested at
Brmley.
A wedding was recently postponed at
H4warden on account of the groom be-
Ing busy huslsing corn.
A moulder named Colgrove, employed
In Dubuque foundry, was seriously
burned by molten iron.
The .0nawa roller skating rink, which
is used as an opera house, will be con-
verified into feed stable.
The family of Barry Chesher, nsar
Rock Rapids, were poisoned by eating
colored candy. All will recover.
jefferson Odd Fellows have already
arranged for the observance of the an
niversary of that order on April &c.
A little Rock Valley girl wrote let
ter to Santa Claus and mailed it at the
postoffice, telling her wants for Christ
mas
John Curran left his team to stand all
night on the streets of Cedar Rapids
without feed or water. He was fined
500 and costs.
Henry Frahm has sued the Chicago
and Northwestern railway at Carroll
for damages for killing a lot of hogs at
Maple River Junction.
H. NJ. Morgan, the well known Sun
day school worker of Burlington, has
been appointed chaplain of the peniten-
tiary at Fort Madison. *
A crazy woman in the county iail at
Jefferson set fire to the building, but
the flames were extinguished before
much damage was done.
The supreme judges will meet at the
state house, December 18th and file a
number of opinions, which will close
court business until the January term.
One Underwood, colored man who
located at Rock Valley and claimed to
be professional horse trainer, suddenly
left the town and 5000 outstanding in
debtedness.
Hog cholera raging about Traer,
and many farmers have lost nearly 100
head each. Some unknown disease also
prevail among the cattle and several
head have died
A boiler in the Jewish synagogue at
Des Moines exploded at an early morn
ing hour. A considerable amount of
damage was done. The loss will aggre-
gate about 81, 200.
John Arblln. of Des Moines, an in
ventor of some repute, has secured
patent on an air ship made of alumni
mum, which, when completed, will cost
from $4,000 to 5000.
There are number of cases of scarlet
fever in Carroll, but with strict quaran-
tine enforced by the board of health
and precaution generally observed the
contagion is not spreading.
Smiths saloon in Council Bluffs was
visited by burglars recently and from
the knowledge of the building the burg
lars displayed they must have been well
posted. They secured about SIG goods
and cash.
Corn of Ottumwa, was found to be fit
subject for the insane asylum. His
mania took peculiar form. He
thought he was elected senator-at-large
from the United States
Diphtheria is raging in the north
part of Hancock county; five children
in one family have it in it's most ma
lignant form. Three children died re-
Gently in one family six miles north of
town, with the same disease.
A. c. Caffoman had narrow escape
from death the other day while driving
across the railroad track at Boone.
A train struck his wagon and literally
demolished it, but after turning several
somersaults into the ditch he escaped.
c. Adams asked the price of hay in a
Council Bluffs feed store and because
he protested that the price was too
high was struck over the head by club
in the hands of the proprietor, making
wound which required five stitches to
close.
Three or four hundred pounds of
snow slid off of the south slope of the
roof of the Mason temple at Davenport,
creating small panic among the pass
ers below. A lady was in the midst of
the avalanche when it came down but
missed being struck.
November 20 was the coolest Novem-
Der day, with but one eqception that
has been recorded in Iowa since 1878,
the thermometer Indicating 7 degrees
below. The exception was Novem-
Der 2S, 1887, when the Thermometer
touched 8 degrees below.
At a German dance at Cedar Rapids
early in the morning Ben Knuse and
Joe LANCE, young Germans of good
reputation, became involved in quar-
rel with Leonard and Nicholas Starke,
and fatally stabbed the former, while
the latter is dangerously injured.
The Walcott farmers who demanded
damages from the Postal Telegraph
Cable company because it had tres
passed on their fields with it's poles
have received awards by the appraisers.
The amounts allowed them, in all
cases, were less than the company
offered
The $1,000 appropriated by the last
congress for the dredging of Port Byron
harbor at Davenport has been expended,
but the work is not done, Efforts are
being made to have the appropriation
increased so that the work may be fin
ished and the bar that has cut the place
off from the river removed.
An interesting suit was recently de-
cided at Primghar. John Ploen agreed
to give Dick Gaurholt $50 if he would
secure him wife. Gauerholt found
Cherokee maiden to fill the bill and
the marriage was consummated. Ploen