Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-05-14
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS

Work has been commenced on the
new Anderson block at Mapleton.
The average number of inmates at
the soldiers home during April was
IA.
An eastern syndicate has just paid
$500, 600 for $50 lots in Piercc's Ads
dition to Sioux City.
One hundred men are employed on
the new buildings being built at the
Clarinda insane asylum.
Mrs, Brayton Young, of Fall River,
Mass, recently died and left $40, 600
to Tabor Iowa, college.
The Angus miners have been grant
ed their demands and are working
eight hours for days work.
A plow factory is the latest industry
promised for Ntapleton and will be in
running order in few weeks.
The Council Bluffs district conference
of the NJ. +. church will be held in
Council Bluffs, June 80 to July 2.
Rev. Matthew S, Hughes, Method
list minister of Grinnell. has received II
call from church at Portland Me.
The Council Bluffs district confer
ence of the NJ. +. church will be held
in Council Bluffs June 80 to July ,.
In order to make room for now
business enterprises several additions
have been plated and added to Avoca.
Ncl5 Thompson, of Pierre. was
buried at Siblcy. He was hotel
keeper at Pierre, and was IA pioneer of
Osceola county.
Several bad cases of scarlet fever
have been reported to the state board
of health from Peoria, Washington
township, Polk county.
s The combined jcwclry and drug store
of Holbrook Brothers at Dyersville
was entered and 5000 in cash taken.
Tho safe was forced open.
Pottawattamie county farmers are
in favor of holding county fair this
fall. II Cns is held it will be OF the
old time agricultural kind.
The miners in Iowa are generally
out, and say they will not go to work
until ordered to do so by the state eX-
ecutive board of mine workers.
j. T.. Blanchard of Webster City
was commissioned as delegate to the
national convention of charities and
corrections at indianapolis, May 1920.
The Forester brothers, Cedar Rap
ids butchers. have cvadcd the clutches
of the law by going to Wyoming. One
was wanted for writing obscene let
tiers.
The state library is gathering all
the information it can with regard TO
other libraries in the state which in
formation will he made part of its
forthcoming report.
The department commander OF Iowa
in circular to the G. A. r. posts
urges that Memorial day be more gen
orally and more fully observed this
year than ever before.
Two Burlington toughs quarrelled
over The merits of a building belonging
TO the fire department. and one slash
cd the other in horrible manner
about the head and neck with knife.
Walter c. Blanchard, deaf mute of
Rock Island, was killed in alighting
from moving engine. In stepping to
the ground he was thrown down. His
head struck heavily and he died soon
after.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by the
the Waterloo Improvement Syndicate
capital SIS, 900; and by the Eureka Gate
company of Waterloo, capital stock
$40, 900.
Des Moines has struck quite a BOOM
Workmen are arriving daily. Prop
erty is going up; houses being built,
and the city council has ordered about
eight miles of brick paving contracted
for at once.
The first wagons crossed the new
bridge extending from Muscatine to
the Illinois shore on May 7th. Lead
ing citizens were in carriages. The
bridge cannot be opened for travel for
some time yet.
i. II. Philips, a man upwards of
fifty was thrown from his cart at OF
tumwa, striking his head on the street.
His skull was fractured and he is in a
critical condition. He is prominent
real estate owner.
Burglars broke into Smith & Wallis
hardware store at Patton, and got some
$50 worth of knives, razors and re-
volvers. Also visited X. c. Latta e.
Cos. drug store whore they got about
the same amount of cash. No clue.
The Council Bluffs GLOBE says num-
Der of small girls of that city, from IS
TO - years OF age, are in the habit of
visiting Omaha Sunday evenings with
men many yearstheir senior, and re-
turning in Il state of bcastiy intoxica-
ton.
Assistant Secretary Andrews, of the
state board OF health, has examined
samples of butterinc secured at Coun-
ell Bluffs. He found all kinds of ami
NAL matter in the substance, including
pork fat, ham grease and pieces of
meat.
c. II. Adams, who has run II Sunday
paper in Clinton in connection with L.
w. Conable for some weeks past, called
the Mercury, shot at his pressman,
missing him. The ball passed through
the glass in the door. Adams was on