Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-01-15


ison.
Cedar Falls building improvements,
sl61, 600.
The Keokuk city council is discuss
iug brick paving.
Sioux City is to have a canning fac
tory that will employ 500 hands.
Solid ice, a foot in thickness, is be-
ing taken from the Mississippi river Mt
Clinton. II
A Good Tcmplers lodge with eighty
four members has been organized at
Rockford.
Iowa Falls is considering a PROPOSE
ton to secure waterworks. fuel. gas
and electric lights.
Hugh johnson ana Daniel Grady,
old settlers of Iowa Falls, died re-
Gently of pueumonia.
The average number OF veterans at
the Marshalltowu soldiers home dur
ing December was 4l6.
Attorney General Stone has opened
an Office in Council Bluffs for the trans
action OF official business.
Anthony Imhoft, Il veteran OF the
civil war and an old resident of Dn-
buque, is dead, aged 10 years. I'D.
Farmer o. W. Lee. OF Garfield town
ship, Calhoun county, made 700 gal
Ions OF sorghum syrup last fall
Smith d. Fry, former Iowa news
paper man, is editor of the Pensioner,
venture at Washington. d C.
Mrs. Pauline Sax, is dead at her
home near Pennington. She was u
resident of Lee county since 1851.
Captain 1wombly, the retiring
state treasurer, handled $50, S99, 629
during the six years he held otficc.
d. ID, McGrew. OF lie Grand. died
suddenly while sitting in chair at
home recently. lie was an old set.
tier. .... .. ...E .|'..' -..
A. T. Miller, drayiuan at Oclwein,
shot himself through the head and
died instantly. He leaves wife and
three children, .....
A correspondent Of lhe Humboldt
Kosmos says there were six deaths
from whisky Ia Emmetsburg since
January !. 1890. ,.....
Over $4,000 speckled trout have
been planted in the streams near Du-
buque under the auspices of the Ber-
tram fishing club. ...T ... ..
Fifteen members OF the Dubuque w.
G.. L. U. have seeded from the Eos
ter branch and organized Willard or
third party union.
Old Mr.. Gauldy. farmer living
two and oue-half miles west OF Belle
PLANE, was found dead in his barn.
Heart failure was the cause.
Patrick Flanuery, OF Grant town
snip, Franklin county, died recently
from the effect OF q KICK from morse.
He was sixty five years OF age.
The citizens OF Defiance have asked
the assistance of the state board Oi
health to secure for that town q phy-
stefan with .'good horse sense"
A. p. Miller, of Oelwein, Iowa,
committed suicide by shooting him
self. No cause was assigned for the
act. He leaves u wife and family.
Mrs. George Wharton, OF Dubuque,
lately died while on a visit to her
daughter &C Storm Lake. She lived
in Dubuque county fcrty-iivc years.
Steps are being taken in Mitchell
county for county for county uniform.
ity OF school books, and will DO voted
on at the next school meeting In
March.
ID. Theileugerdes, Of Burlington,
was robbed of $3.50, 300 Of which
was money belonging TO the German
Baptist church of that place. Of whose
funds Mr.. L. is custodian.
Mrs, Margaret Wright, au aged wo-
man of seventy-seven. died at Bur-
lington in frightful agony from being
burned about week ago through her
clothing taking fire OF a stove.
A certificate was issued by the
auditor of state to the State Bank OF
Mediapolis, which has Just organized
with capital of $4,000. Vim. Har-
per is president and VIM. Lloyd,
cashier. 8#6 aFg.
Fred Wolfe. a farmer in Webster
county, has instituted suit against a
wealthy hardware merchant OF Bar
mum named Bolton for alternating his
wife's affections, fixing the damage at
$4,000.
John a. JGcoby, a former citizen OF
Burlington, who went to Albuquerque,
New Mexico and started foundry,
was burned out few days ago. His
lOSS 10 dUOu6 To,OVV, Win stu iusuT duCe
OF 81, 800.
While drillers were boring for a
we'll on the farm of L. II. Smith near
Dows they entered vain OF coal al
The depth OF 125 feet. The vein is re-
ported to be feet thick. The citizens
are elated.
Amended articles of incorporation
have been filed with the secretary OF
state by the Democrat company Of
Davenport; by the Huber & Kalbach
Real Estate Company of Oskaloosa,
with capital stock of 100000.
The governor recently commits.
stoned Mr.. l.. S. Coffin as delegat q
from Iowa to the convention OF dairy
and food commissioners OF the United
States, which will be held in Wash
ington January IA and 10, 1891.