Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-06-25

son there and it was aseertained that
he had not looked at or called at the
stock farm which he Sc out for, He
seems to have taken westerly dlroc-
ton, and having four days the start
there is little hope of overhauling the
thief.
The west bound Burlington passen-
ger train had marvellous escape on
the morning of the 18th from a terri
BILE disaster near Corning. A cloud
burst swelled the small stream known
as Plum creek out of its banks. The
passenger train, heavily laden with
human freight, crossed the bridge
spanning the creek without disaster.
Seven minutes later freight train
followed at a rapid rate. When near
the creek the engineer discovered that
the bridge had been washed away.
He made every effort TO stop, but
failed. The engine and three cars
went into the creek. Engineer Pow
ers jumped just before the locomotive
dropped, landed in twelve feet of wat
CT, and came near being carried away
by the torrent.
Lyman g. Kirkpatrick. the Ottumwa
horsemen, have had greater i'll
fortune of late than any in the state.
A few weeks ago they bought Ken
lucky four-ycar-old stallion, Grit,
by Onward, paying $4,000 in cold
cash. They brought him home and
after few weeks service he suddenly
died. Returning TO Kentucky they
purchased the famous stallion, Royal
Wilton, by Wilton" dam by Red
Wilkes" and paid the neat sum of So, :
900. Saturday morning he showed
similar symptoms to those of Grit
and by Sunday morning he was dead.
The veterinary surgeon could not tell
what was the cause, save the general
symptoms of Indigestion. The loss is
heavy one to the firm as they had
tied up most of their money in the two
horses.
Mine operators of Webster county
are indignant at newspaper reports
stating that the coal supply of Web
ster county is about exhausted. and are
emphatic in their denials Of the state
ments. A number of them have been
seen. From them some interesting
| figures have been obtained. At Le-
high mines have been worked for
nearly twenty years, and still the low
err veins remain untouched. Stats
ticians, who are we'll up in coal mat
| tiers, state that there arc nearly, il not
quite, 5000 acres of coal land in that
county, known to have two, three and
| four veins of coal of workable thick
ness, which have not been touched.
Webster countys coal would supply
the state of Iowa with fuel for twenty
five years to come. Much of the cele-
| brated Des Moine5 river land is coal
land, and is as yet untouched.
The home of Mr. Henry Ellerman,
who lives three miles east OF Altoona,
was the scene Of II very sad accident,
which resulted in the probably fatal
shooting OF Mr. Ellerman's son John
ME, aged about 10 years, by COM
panion of the same age. AS near as
can be ascertained, the facts in the
case arc these: George Ogden, ac-
companied Johnnie Ellerman, intend
| ing to spend the day with his friend.
| In the afternoon the rest of the family
attended the services at their school
house. leaving the two lads at home.
The boys discovered small revolver
| and a rife in the house and were play
ing with the weapons and swapping the
| revolver at each other. Finally John
ME loaded the revolver, but neglected
telling tho boy, who picked it up, and
pointing it at mis- friend, pulled the
tr;g ger. The ball entered the left
temple of the boy, just back of the eye
and lodged in the back part of the
head. Physicians were summoned,
but they gave it as their opinion that
the bullet could not be dislodged, and
but very little hope is entertained OF
the victims recovery, although he is
conscious and was able TO tell how the
| accident occurred,