Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-06-18


an Interstate Encanpmeut will be held
at Sedalia, Mo-, July 3 and ., with an
intermediate day for the celebration OF
the National holiday. The soldiers of
Iowa are among the invited guests of
the twelve states TO which invitations
have been sent.
Mr.. A. Broche, IS years of age, was
instantly killed at Jesup. He was out
driving with his little granddaughter,
| when his team was frightened and ran
away. He was thrown out and his
head struck the wheel, fracturing his
skull and causing instant death. He
was an old and wealthy settler of
Blackhawk county.
There are now over one hundred
and fifty feet footers receiving their
| daily lesson on the mile teack at In
dependence, nearly fifty OF the equines
having arrived the past week. Among
| the prominent ones is w. III. Ferris,
! Of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, with the
G-year-old pacing gelding Presta, sired
by Valentine, dam by Royal George.
A freight train on the Chicago, St.
| Paul & Kansas City road ran over and
killed son of John Pendegrast, the
section fore man, while switching in
Waterloo. The mother of the child
reached the track just in time to see
the cars strike the child, and narrow
! ly escaped death herself in trying to
get the little one out from under the
wheels before the train stopped.
They are having lots of excitement
eight miles east of Dunlap over dogs
and cattle going mad. Within ten
days there have been thirteen cattle
slot in one neighborhood, eight Of
them from one herd Of George Runnels.
The cattle appear to be dumpy and
then refuse to eat become excited and
wild. froth at the mouth, and start al
any moving object.
No warrant tor support was issued
TO tie state penitentiary at Anamosa
for May. The cause was the fact thai
the warden had saved enough out o
the current warrants of the past month:
to ray for the support of the peniten
tiary without calling on tho state fol
any money for May. This is the frs
instance of the kind for years in the
management of the state institutions
A a special meeting of the TT. Dodge
and Sioux City prcsbyteries, held a
Storm Lake the matter Of definitely 10
eating the presbytery's college wa
again postponed. This time at the re
quest of Storm Lake. it was decide;
not to take definite action until July 8
when another special meeting will b.
held. Storm Lake has promised f
give S25, 900 and site if the college il
located there.
The reports that the striking miner
of Iowa are wavcring are pronouncac
false. Reports from over the stat
show that the men are standing firm
prepared to hold until Christmas if ne
cessary. Further reports from Iliinoi
show that ), 900 men in tina; state al
idle. If this state of affairs continue
for another six weeks the coal famin
will UNDERMINE the industrial prosper
ity of the northwest.
| Mary Harrity, aged about fifty year
died in Des Moines on the 18th from
the effects of u brutal beating at tn
hands of Pat Coftay, "a confirmed sot O
about the same age, They had becl
living together and both were in tn
habit of drinking and quarrclling dur
ing their sprees, Cofrey was an oil
soldier and had just received his pen
sion and rs usual was celebrating tn
occasion by getting drunk. At last &C
counts the police had not found him.
The state board of health has re
ceived word that the lamp eXplosio
at Council Bluffs last week whic
caused the dbath of Mrs.. Cooper wa
not due to the inferiority of the OF
Mrs. Cooper, it seemed. had becom
frightened and dropped the lamp
the floor, SCATTERING it. and of cOurS
the oil was spattered over he" clothin
and was set fire to by the flames of tn
wick. Tho state oil inspectors hav
Investigated tho matter with these re
suits.
The chairman of the Iowa Stat
Travelling Mems association has ha
his Indignation raised by the receip
of letter from railroad magnat
stating that excursion rates can not b
given to the Iowa mmorcial boys o.
the occasion of their outing at Magyar
Fall Pre- sident Mitchell replies in
fiery epistle in which ho states tina
war Is declared for a Uniform 2-cen
rate. He calls upon the 200 sampl
case missionaries who travel in thi
state to support him.
John Wilde, the man whose bac
was broken at Council Bluffs las
month by a thirty-fve foot fall i
Geise's malt house, died on the 18th
The case is a very remarkable one
his entire spinal column having bee
severed in the lumbar region an
, ! separated for an inch. Wilde live
for more than month in this condition
: being without pain, the lower part {
his body completely paralyzed, Will
| his mind was clear. The case has eN
l cited great interest among physician:
Henry Wagner, gardener, Will
digging IN his field in Heebs' Hollow
: near Dubuque, unearthed sword c
5 an ancient pattern encrusted with rust
, On scraping of the latter, the blad
= was foand to be OF the best tempers