Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-23
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torneys have taken an appeal to the
supreme court by filing supersedeas
bonds. Meantime the saloons will
keep open.
! All the quarrymen in the gypsum
quarries of the Iowa Plaster Associa-
ton struck at Fort Dodge for higher
wages. The men have been getting
$3.50 per day, and demanded $l.75.
Tho strike was well timed, rs the
stucco companies arc very busy and
mon are scarce. The increase asked
was granted.
A camp meeting for bible study will
be held at Lisbon from August II to
August 20. Lisbon is situated seven.
teen miles east of Cedar Rapids on the
main line of the Chicago & North.
western railway. The camp ground
is one mile east OF Lisbon, easy ol
access and contains about thirty acres
of high ground, delightfully."- situated.
Thirty-five years ago John McSteen
came to Davenport from Pittsburg and
Frank McSteen went to Louisville,
Ky. Since then neither has heard
from the other and each supposed the
other dead till an accident appraised
the Louisville man of the fact that his
brother in Davenport is still alive.
There will be a reunion in few days.
Edward Mcbride, ex-editor of the
Everly News, received a telegram In
Washington, stating that his child
was not expected 10 live. He made
the trip from Port Angeles to Everly
to find that his child was well, and
learned that the telegram was sent to
him by mistake and should have reach
cd some other Mcbride. The error
cost him about $500,
The secretary Of war writes to Gov.
Boies that it will be impossible to de.
tail the Second regiment from FIT. Om-
aha for camp duty in connection with
the Iowa national guard OH account OF
the expense. The transportation APP.
preparation was largely consumed by
the Indian campaign and the state
camps are so widely located that the
expense would be very great.
A man named j. II. Kelley was run
over and killed by a train on the Rock
Island in Des MOines. The doctor
said he was evidently about 80 year.
of age. A small memorandum book
was found on his person and in it the
name u. ii. Kelley" was written in
connection with 1921. Laurel street,
Chicago. 1t is probable, therefore,
that no was II resident of Chicago.
The barn OF +. ii. Hose, u promi
nent AMI wealthy farmer near Fergu.
son, Marshall county. burned together
with two stations. six or seven Cthc,
horses, three thousand bushels o
corn, several hundred bushels of oats
sevcnty-flve tons of hay. q lot of farm
| machinery, wagons, etc. Loss, fully
S12, 200, insurance, 81, 200. 1t i
thought the fire was set by two tramp'
Miss Grace Perry. of Abba, met
with serious accident. She wen
down TO the Iowa Central depot TO bic
her aunt goodbye, and while standing
on the platform CT the coach Il cal
that was being switched on to the trair
struck the coach with considerable
force. Miss PERI lost hor balance
falling on the raj S in such a manner
as to have her left arm broken and hcl
left foot crushed.
At Knoxville the delivery team fo
Kendig & Boyds .on's grocery store
ran away. 1t started from tho rear o
"A store while son of NJ. Boydston's
about 10 years old. was sitting in the
wagon, ran about half a book dowr
an alley. against II telephone pole
where the horses broke loose, upset
ting the wagon and throwing the boy
out. He was pretty badly shaken up
but did not seem TO be hurt much.
Engineer l.. G. Huser, of the Oh.
cago & Northwestern, was instantly
killed about seven miles west of Cl n
ton by the rails OF the track spreading
and letting the engine through. Hi
tiremen, {. p. Mudgett, had botf
ankles sprained in jumping from tn,
engine. The death of Hulser wa
caused by being struck in tho fore
head. He was a man of family il
poor circumstances.
Charles II. Horton, of Muscatine
Iowa, who was appointed in the pen
sion Office in 1881, has been promoted
from $1,000 to 81, 400 per annum
William +. Ward. Of Creston, has re
ceived "a like promotion. after a tern
Of service extending from August
1882, 10 The present, with tho eXcep
ton Of eleven months in $50 and 80
when he was out of Office on accoun
of offensive partisanship.
Webster county farmers who plante,
sugar beet seel last spring are fcelin:
very hopeful OF satisfactory results
In all cases where the seed was plant
ed and the plants cultivated according
| TO directions, the beets are now thirty
ing and are ripening fast. OK cours
the percentage of sugar in Eeets cal
not be asc ,rtained until ate" they ar,
harvested. On, fact. however, ha
| been demonstratel-.that sugar be It
will grow, and gov thrifty in Iowa
Tho city marshal. while on his bea
ut Mystic. was sandbagged and hi
pockets rined of his papers and money
He was then placed on the railroad
rack for destruction, but was discov
,red in time to be rolled off the tract
before the arrival OF a passenger train
The affair is shrouded in mystery, bu
{ is thought that woman Is the cause
She threatened TO poison all the well
II the ''scab'' miners who hive takel
the place of the other miners, and In,
miners commenced criminal actor
against her
Forepaugh's circus exhibited in Ly
ons q lew days ago. During the after
noon Performance, William Hanlon
who was doing difficult act on trap
ssc thirty feet from the earth, wa
lrecipitated TO the ground by tn,
breaking OF the bar. H. lit on hi
head and shoulders, breaking his nee
md expiring instantly. The sad &C
cident caused great excitement to tn,
audience and several ladies tainted
Mr.. Hanlon was one OF the famou
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