Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-03


G The fall term at the Western Nor
NAL College, at Shenandoah, com.
menced with wonderfully large at
tendance. Students have been coming
for more than one week, and they
have now registered from every state
in the union. The school Is so large
that two new professors have been
added to the faculty-Proi. r. b.
Shearer, OF Ohio, and X S. Perry, OF
indianapolis, Ind. President Croan
predicts they will have l, 500 students
in attendance before the snow falls.
One hundred new houses are in the
course of erection nov.
An incendiary fire was discovered in
the rear end of the drug store Of j. b.
Ballard, at Fonda, that quickly en-
veloped it in flames and the adjoining
building occupied by Redden aud Me-
10y, clothiers. One hour later the
flames burst forth from the recently
erected brick block of Frank Conroy,
the fire having entered it by the win
dow openings on the side next the drug
store. Two other little buildings adj
the other by w. j. Redfield as an
Office, were also destroyed in great
measure. The principal losses sus-
tanned are estimated at about SO, 500
l'These buildings were situated on the
west side of Main street, about one
square from the Illinois Central depot
and in the very center of the business
portion of the town.
The long protractcd litigation be-
tween the city of Mt. Pleasant and her
water works system has ended in the
| purchase of the entire water plant,
and bids were opened by the city for
the $50, 500 bonds the city issues to
/ make the purchase. The bonds are
! TO draw 3 per cent, exempt from mu-
nicipal taxation, and under the adver-
tisement would not be sold at less than
par. AT noon the bids closed, with
the city banks just having deposited
their bids. One of the banks offered
| TO take the bonds at par, and the other,
the National State Bank, offered to
take the entire lot at par and pay for
them ut the Chemical National Bank
in New York City, thus saving the
city exchange and reducing the 8 per
cent that much, and to this bank the
bonds were AWARDED.
| Winett Forman, of Coon Rapids, u
young man of about "a years, acct
! dentally shot himself between the knee
and hip, severing an artery. He bled
| TO death in ten minutes. He had been
drinking some about town and had
| gone into 'road to hell' and bought
two bottles OF b. B. One he drank,
the other he put in his pocket. See
ing large 45-calibre revolver lying be-
hind the bar he picked it up and it
was discharged, shooting him as
above. He threw it down, saying,
| Il am hurt, - ran about ten rods and
fell, bleeding TO death before surgical
aid could be summoned. He was a
single man and has lived at that place
for nearly twenty years his parents
having died in Montana years ago.
He had made his home with an uncle
until few years ago, since which
time he has been drifting down with
| the tide.
"A letter received at Dubuque from
| Duluth, Mimi, says that man named
Kennedy went to India some years ago
with the British army. Here he met
an Indian princess and married her.
She died, leaving to him an estate
valued at between So, 600, 900 and So
900, 600 He willed it to his sister.
1t then transpired that she was dead.
Attorneys have since been occupied in
hunting up the blood relatives, of
whom they lind that there are nine.
Among them is the wife OF George
Reynolds, residing in Dubuque Mrs.
Reynolds mother was the niece of
Kennedy. Mrs. Reynolds father is
Mr.. Meehan, who comes in for q
dover interest in the share his wife
would receive were she living The
letter mentioned above was received
by him and in it the Duluth lawyers
propose to act for the heirs IN Amer
lea, they to receive Is per cent as col
| lection fees.
Navigation with the lighter boats On
the upper Mississippi is virtually at a
a standstill. The Otter Island cross
ing is so shallow that Kit Carson, a
! light rafter, was the only steamer
that has crossed it. II made the pas
sage with a log raft ana the logs were
steered through safely, but the boats
wheels were very badly wrenched by
beating upon the reefs. The u. S.
steamer, General Barnard. bound
down from Keithsburg attempted to
cross the other island shadows and
went hard aground and is still strug-
gling to get away with little prospects
of success. The Pittsburg is expected
southbound, but il is doubtful if she is
able to make the passage, The steamer
| Josephine lies at the wharf with a
broken paddle wheel, having run upon
n snag. The Maud also has a crippled
wheel, from contact with a sand bar.
/ The rafter Thistle was detained by
! low water. Rivermen are at a loss to
| understand why the government en-
! gineers do not give some relief from
the trouble at Otter Island crossing.
There are government dredgc boats
within days call and a days work
would remove all cause of delay and
| financial loss.
Advices received from Thornton, a
small station fifteen miles south of
! Mason City, are TO the effect that a
| terrible murder has been committed
! Peter Larson and Vim. barron had
| together been working on farm four
miles south OF Thornton, in the edge
of Franklin county. 1t is known that
the two have had considerable trouble
lately, and Larson has had consider
able money about his person. He was
last seen ON Saturday afternoon. On
Monday the noighbors not seeing Lar
son, made inquiry as to hi: where
abouts, and barron told them he had
not returned from the place where no
had been staying. Conflicting stories
were told by members OF the house
hold, and watch was kept and he was
not seen. The neighbors grew sus-
| plcious that all was not right, and