Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-02

opinion on the weight OF authority IN
numerous other cases, although he
himself leans to the opinion that wills
written and signed with lead pencil
should not be admitted to probate.
John Cochran, of Council Blaffs,
joined the Holiness church, took a dose
of poison and then tried TO hang him.
self. The rope broke and when found
by neighbors he was raving like II
maniac. His wife refused to live with
him and left him about five months
ago. and it is thought he is crazy.
The last legislature reduced the in
tercst on school fund loans to six per
cent, supposing there would be no
trouble in loaning the money, but it
seems the farmers don't want ii even ut
that price. Floyd and several other
counties report large amount of
school money on hand and no demand
for it.
cyclone passed five miles south of
Milton, Van Buren, county, tearing
things up in terrific shape. The two
story brick house OF Mr.. Straight was
demolished. Trees were torn up by
the roots and carried away and crops
completely destroyed. The full extent
of the damage cannot be learned. No
fatalities have been reported.
A few evenings ago the business
men OF. Sioux City raised purse of
something over $500 for the Cherokee
flood sufferers. Sunday all the churches
took up collection for the same pur-
pose, which increased the amount to
$1,000, which was sent at once. A
general canvass of the city will be
made and still larger amount raised.
Ami II. Trask, a pioneer of Buchan-
an county, died at Independence, June
26th. His age was IS years, and he
came to Iowa in lS47. He went to
California in 1850, where he was en-
gagged in mining, but returned to Iowa
in 1850. He was the owner Of the
famous horse Sleepy John, sold for
$40, 600, then considered fabulous
price.
The terrible floods at Cherokee. will
be extensively illustrated in a large
edition of the Saturday Review this
week. Demands for copies are pour
ing in from all quarters of the state.
The Reviews special artist was the
first to reach the scenes. The papers
will be sold at five cents per copy or
three cents each for 100 copies or
more.
Money order business will be cstab
lished July l at the following postof-
fees in Iowa: Stiles, Davis county;
Peoria, Mahaska county; Harper's Fer
ny, Allamakee county; Hillsboro,
Henry county; Gowrie, Webster coun-
ty; Vandalia, Jasper rounty; Superior,
Dickinson county. Also international
money order business at Hubbard and
Story City.
+. Trott, OF New York city, who is
at work for the Children's Aid Society
of that city, arrived in Humboldt with
a company of children from that in
stitution. There we're eight boys and
two girls, ranging in ages from about
4 years to 10. He brought them for
the purpose OF securing permanent
homes for them. Another company
will come In September.
John Corson has been justice OF the
peace in Mosalem township, Dubuque
county, nearly twenty years and the
first case to come before him was up
the other day. Two or three times
during the progress OF the trial he adj
journei court to catch his bees, which
were swarming, and he rendered a
just decision, if it was his first, if he
was bothered by the swarming bees.
J. J. Stuckey, secretary of the Iowa
Union ex-Prisoners Of War association
is arranging to secure large tent for
reunion purposes during the State Fair
and expects to see large crowd of ex-
prisoners on the grounds. His sys-
tematic arrangements last year were
the best at the fair and he was loudly
praised for his energy in making the
reunion a success as he always does.
Seven miles north of Charter Oak. a
man arrived ut the residence of Mr..
Kropf and inquired for work. Mr..
kropf said he could not give him work
and a short time after he went behind
the barn. Nothing was thought of his
action until an hour later, when the
children, upon going around the barn.
found tho stranger in the .throes Of
death, with his throat cut. He had a
good looking horse and speculation is
rife as to the cause of the strange deed.
At Van Meter while Drs. Rawson
and Sumers were driving along they
were run into by a runaway team with
a buggy attached. The teams collided
at cross streets, striking both wheels,
throwing the doctors out, also DR..
Sumers' three-year-old boy, whom he
held onto. The distance from the col
lision to where the parties struck the
ground was from twenty to forty feet.
Nome were seriously hurt. only jostled
and bruised. Every spoke in all the
wheels of their buggy was knocked
out and the top of the buggy torn to
pieces.
Des Moines College has recently Sc
cured the addition of 500, 900 to its
endowment fund This is a 'vote OF
confidence of a very substantial kind,
and will largely Increase the effective
ness of the Institution. 1t is a Chris
tian college of high order under tho
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