Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-02-05
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season.
The alliance in Montgomery county
is preparing to start an independent
weekly paper.
The storage battery system of pro-
pulsion for street cars is said TO work
we'll In Dubuque.
The Muscatine Journal reports the
demand for dwellings in excess Of the
supply in its city.
water was not lowered particle. IL
Ia of excellent quality, soft as rain
: and of delightful taste.
A home for aged poor people has
been opened at Wayerly. tits support
I'd by private benevolence.
Davenport has received oids and is
about to let tho contract for about
s102, 900 worth of BRICK paving.
A free reading room will DO opened
in the basement of the Universalist
church at Dubuque by the ladies of
the society.
Fairport is excited over the report
that vein of silver sixteen inches
thick has been discovered on the farm
Of A. c. Brandt.
John 3. Segerdahl, formerly OF Keo-
kuk, but now of Chicago, has made
the model OF an airship, which he de-
clares will fly.
The Iowa state board of health de
clares the old ad0go about warm
winter and a fat churchyard base.
?, lss superstition.
The supreme court has decided that
owners of unoccupied lands can re-
cover damages for trespass OF stock
grazing thereupon.
Stock subscriptions to tho Musca.
tine beet sugar factory are coming
briskly, and the Nows-rribune says
''the factory Is assured"
Ackley Garrett, of Marshal! county,
has been declared insane and taken to
the asylum at Mt. Pleasant. His
mania was to smash things.
Some proof sheets of Baucroft's his.
tory of the United States, corrected in
his own hand, have been added to the
Aldrich collection in the state library.
State Dairy Commissioner Topper is
testing the milk that is sold in various
cities CT the state. He found poor
milk at Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
The census of the Catholic popula-
ton of thf ocese of Dubuque is being
taken. 1..5re arc thirty-iive counties
in the diocese aud the job is large
one.
Nathan Haydock, formerly of Of
tumwa, died recently at Tulare, Cal.
He was for many years II resident OF
this state but went to California in
1885 for his health.
Carl Upton, who used 10 live in
Marshalltown, is on the longest mail
run in the United Statee. He goes
from Cheyenne to Baker City, Ore.
distance OF / 900 miles.
The Standard box company of Mus
catine. Is about to establish branch
plant in Denver. The company Is
making arrangements to supply the
Mexican market with boxes.
Rev. Wales Coe Is dead at Crawfords.
vile, Washington county. Mr.. Coe
was one of the pioneer Congregational
ministers who came to Iowa from Con-
necticut more than generation ago.
At Brighton, Mrs. L. G. Wilson and
her sister, Deliah Tredway, were taken
very sick on the same day. and died
ten days later within twenty-tour
hours of each other. Both were buried
in one grave.
I A religious revival is in progress at
Creston under the miuistrations of
Rev. DIR. Blodgett oil the NJ f. church.
Three hundred people have come into
the church. and accessions and couver-
sions continue.
4 A Cedar Rapids man while crazy
drunk attempted suicide by shooting.
He is expected to die from the effects.
He is a Bohemian harness maker
named Wencil Pitlik, and has wife
and one child
A burglar entered the Hawthorne
school house at Des Moines the other |
evening and stole some papers, $Sl 10
cash, and a gold watch from the prin-
cipal's safe. The racals also cut and
damaged the piano strings.
Robert Osmoud, youngest son of /
Rev. S. M. Osmond, formerly OF Iowa |
City, died in Colorado and was buried i
in Iowa City. He was young man
of noble character and his death |
causes deep sorrow there.
Jeremiah Mari, aged 65, left De-
troit. Mich. last June for Council |
Bluffs. His relatives in Detroit have
not heard from him and are anxious
about him. The police of Council |
Bluffs are not able to locate him.
The people OF Glenwood are highly
elated over the SUCCESS of their artes-
ian well. A steam pump was put in
operation and kept running for ten
hours without cessation, throwing
sixty gallons per minute and the
Prof. T. b. Cooper OF Iowa City,
has been elected superintendent OF the
West Des Moines schools to succeed
Prof. Beardshear, who resigns to take
the presidency OF the Ames agricul-
tural college. Des Moines pays ita
superintendent 81, 900 year.
Panora has a religious awakening
under the direction OF Rev. English.
People come in form miles around. Up to
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