Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-06

: iiiN oou AIMING luC pres
ents received BY him was check for
$3.50 the amount of bill sold wo-
man forty seven years ago when he
| was in business.
| At Nashua a few nights ago Leslie
| Treat shot and fatally wounded Will
| Noble of Nashua Noble, upon Some
/ provoca.ion, struck Treat. knocking
! him down, when the latter arose and
! shot linn in the stomach. Treat is
contine in the Nashua JUL.
A case was recently tried in Coun-
Gil Bluffs in a somewhat unusual man.
/ ner, being conducted throughout in
| the German language. The judges
name was Smith and he was not
| foreigner but had learned the lam
| guage in the usual manner of foreign
! ers.
w. n. johnson, a prominent horse
man of Cedar Rapids, and owner Of
Uncle JOSH and ''Skylight" was
robbed in Mason City, of $270 in cash.
johnson had been out with 1.-The boys
until past Midnight, and during this
time the money was lifted from his
| pocket There is clue 20 the robber.
The officers of the Das Moines Club
have authorized w. r.. Parsons to de-
! sign their new club house for them
They expect to expend $50, 900 on this
new house which will be beautiful
model OF modern architecture. Mr.. Par
| sons was formerly resident of Denver
whore he designed many handsome
buildings.
The east bound freight on the Chi
cago Milwaukee d St. Paul was
slightly wrecked about one mile west
of Mapleton. The caboose and one
| freight car were thrown from the
trick. A tramp supposed to have
peen riding on the trucks of the
freight car, was killed. The body
horrible mangled.
The Milwaukee Railway company
declines to pay damages for injuries or
| loss OF baggage in the recent Coon
river bridge accident at Coon Rapids,
alleg ing that the same was not the
fault of the company, but of mis-
creants who placed distractions On
| the rails. The proposition will doubt
less receive u legal test.
The Clinton Improvement & Invest
ment Company have had plans drafted
| to convert their opera house into a
ninety seven room hotel, modern in
all its appointments and $50 by 140
feet, four stories high, finished in
marble, onyx and hard wood. Plans
! for four-story opera house to adjoin
it are also under consid Grafton.
! During the storm near Stuart
young man named Nathan Thornton
was killed by lightning on a farm.
| Thornton and a comrade named Giles
were sitting in barn door at the
time. Giles was badly stunned, but
will live. The barn was not injured,
only few spIlnters near the door
showing the effects of the stroke.
A peculiar and fatal disease pre-
walls among the horses II lew miles
sou neast of Marshalltown. II. G.
Wilson. prominent farmer has lost
| five valuable horses already from the
epidemic. A local veterinary surgeon
pronounces the disease cerebro spinal
meningitis, but others differ. Mr..
Wilson has notified the governor, and
the state veterinarian is expected.
The state mine inspectors are of the
opiniol that the coal mining industry
will be very active the coming season,
and there will be constant work for
all the minors. The prospects are
especially bright in the vicinity of
| Des Moines. Tie cight-hour strike
/ has had the effect of draining the sur
plus coal, and the current consump.
tion will keep all the miners busy.
The referee handed in his decision
in the celebrated Henry Evans cattle
case at Council Bluffs, giving the
plaintiff so, 6l5. The sum sued for
was $4,000. The suit has been pend
ing seven years, and the costs already
| amount to over SO, 900. The trans
action arose out of the famous Organ
venture" in cattle in 1880. This is a
victory for the defendants, but will
doubtless BE- appealed from.
Tie national convention Of colored
| people, which is called to meet at Red
Oak, August 13 IA and Is, will be
largely attended. All the we'll known
leaders of tho colored race will be on
hand TO direct the work and thought
of the convention, which will be nom
partisan in character and will discuss
the situation of the colored people in
this and other countries from the
standpoint of the colored race.
The managers of the Semi ON Sed
trades display and carnival held at
Des Moines last fall found themselves
in debt 10 the amount of 81, 200, with
no means of getting out. The city
bought of them the misft gas pipe,
lumber and other decorative material
on hand paying for it 81 900 or about
one-thirl of its cost. Des Moines de-
! termines not to be behind other cities
in the state in the matter OF liberality
to these public demonstrations.
Messrs. Lancaster and Corey, OF
! Cedar Falls, have been commissioned
photographers of Iowa Columbia
commission and will soon put teams
on the road to take views. They will
have Z, 12S different views on exhibit
ton at the worlds fair, an average of
! seventy-two to county. These views
will show the scenery and buildings of
! different counties, giving strangers
good idea of the topography of the
state.
Hogs are dying in great numbers
from cholera in the south part of
| Pocahontas county, where the disease
has broken out afresh. The town.
ships of Lincoln, Orange and Eagle
are the affected district. The same
locality suffered severely from the
ravages OF the disease last spring. j
! b. Lichty, an extensive farmer in
Orange township, has been the heavi-
est loser, only seven animals being
left out of $50. Many other farmers
herds have been depleted.
A farmer by the name of Lon Mich
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