Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-13


acre. One farmer in Newark town.
ship reports an average OF seventy.tive
bushels to the acre. The average of
wheat has been larger than for years.
The yield was about eighteen bushels
per acre. Flax will yield from ten to
twelve bushels. Corn is now about ten
days behind, with grand prospects of
catching up.
Eagle Grove is having another build.
ing boom this season. More business
and dwelling houses are being built
than any previous year, and they are
of much better quality. The Bap-
lists will soon begin the erection of
| fine church and parsonage. The How
ard Bros, have let the contract Tor
their two story, double front brick
store TO Des Moines firm. Kuehn
Bros, have the first story OF their two
story brick nearly completed. Pack
man Bros. have fine brick building
nearly completed.
David King, an Algona farmer who
was bunkoed out Of - 900 by couple
of sharpers, claims to have teeu hyp-
Noticed at the time he lost the money.
Although commonly reputed to be
sharp and shrewd King was easily
persuaded to draw 81 600 out of the
bank and wager it on three card
monte game. King asserts positively
that some mysterious force was
brought TO bear upon him. The con-
fidence men are uudar arrest at AL
md f,,ll ,r h.;
method viii be made.
The Madison house in Iudianola was
burned to the ground. The upstairs
was all ablazs before it was known
there was a fire in the hotel. One of
the servants discovered il and gave the
alarm. The furniture was saved for
the most part, but toe building was an
entire loss. The house was a fifty
room hotel and had thirty-fve board
ers. The loss is estimated at So, 900,
mostly covered by Insurance. The
owner of the house was K. Vosburg
and he was running the hotel. This
leaves lndianola without hotel.
The postofticc at Dayton, Webster
county was broken into by burglars
and the safe blown spen. The noise
OF the explosion awakened Milt An
drews who frightened the burglars
away before they had penetrated the
steel money chest. The hardware
store of }. A. Burpquist was also brok-
en- into and a number of revolvers and
a small amount of money was taken.
A couple of suspicious characters who
have been loaling around town are sus-
pected. They have disappeared to-
gether with st. Louis hand car.
Between two and three o'clock in
The morning four masked men entered
the store of Mrs. Mitchell & Son, at
Beaver, u small station five miles east
of Grand Junction, on the Chicago d
Northwestern railway and compelled
Mitchell, who was sleeping in the
store, to open the safe and deliver
what money he had, amounting to
about sixty dollars. They then bound
and gagged him, leaving him TO get
loose the best way he could. He re-
manned in that condition for several
hours and finally unloosed himself.
A gloom overspreads the Missouri
Valley, caused by the drowning at
Mobiles Lake, eight miles south of that
city of Gardner Jones. He, with a
party, We're camping there. About II
o'clock he went out alone in a light
boat to battle. He jumped from the
boat which was carried from him by
the high wind. The waves we're run
high and overcame him. He called
for help and "a boat was rapidly pulled
to him and an oar thrown him. He
missed it, also the second one, and
sank in view OF those on the bank
Chas. Hart and BOY named Elliott,
both aged II years went hunting near
Center Point. Hart had single
barrel shot gun and Elliott double
barrel. Harris gun would not work,
and Elliott attempted to take out the
cartridge. Hart took Elliott's double
barrel gun and was leaning with both
hands crossed over the muzzle, when
one barrel was discharged. About
half OF the right hand and the thumb
and first finger were blown away. 1t
is not known how the gun was dis
charged. Harris face was also filed
with powder.
The swindling case in which David
King, of kossuth. lost $4,000 at three
card monte, was settled. The two con-
lidcnce men agreed to pay back the
81 600 and be fined 800 apiece for
gambling. The county attorney con-
cluded this was the most satisfactory
way out, and changed the information
accordingly. The whole gang, which
included an adviser who had come on
from Chicago took the morning train
cast and shook the dust of KOssuth
county off their feet. Their visit will
have an educational influence of per-
manent value.
The intense heat which caused the
prostration of several workmen in Of
tumwa and in the country about cul-
minatedin cyclone which swept over
the southern part of Iowa from Humes-
ton, northeast. At Humeston the dam
age was perhaps the greatest of any
place in the path Of the storm. Cars
were blown of the Keokuk and North
western road, the round house was de-
molished, houses unroofcd and smaller
buildings blown away. Trees were
uprooted and wheat and oats in the !
stack was scattered in every direction.
Unknown hay and grain fields were
swept level as n floor and corn in the |
fields was Frustrated, creating great |
damage. At Corydon the large court |
house was unroofed and the offices and |
the Methodist church was damaged. !
The depot was blown down while |
crops and smaller buildings shared the |
same fate Us everywhere else in the |
track OF the storm. Ottumwa was in |
its path and the omnous looking |
clouds drove many people into the cell
lars. The stores of A. ID. Moss and A. |
z. Peterson were unroofed as was also !
the large warehouse of Harper Mcln-
tye Il Co. A portion of the Burling- |
ton round house was unroofed while |
number of smaller buildings and |
residences suffered likewise, The |