Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-05-28
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looks prosperous.
Reports from various sections of the
state show that the rain OF the Goth
was general over Iowa.
j. r. Sage, director of the Iowa
weather bureau, will publish a book
on the subject of meteorology.
What is the matter with Dubuque?
of that city will be removed to St.
Louis.
A unknown man was found dead ly-
ing beside the Dcs Moines & North
western railroad at Herndon. Cause
as yet unknown.
Cedar Falls is preparing for the free
mail delivery system and has in pros
pect the establishment of an electric
or steam motor line to the normal.
That blue grass region of south
western Iowa is hard to beat. Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Parker, of Lincoln
township, Union county, are the proud
parents Of triplets, two girls and boy.
A smooth thief robbed S. ID. Pierce,
an Ottumwa shoemaker, while he was
maading the formers shoes. He was
arrested and part of the money recov-
cred.
Fitzgerald and Widner, the two
pitchers of the Sioux City base ball
team, were found in their room at the
hotel in Sioux City, insensible escap-
ing gas having nearly suffocated them.
Tho Emmettsburg hotel, owned by
Ed. Gallagher, caught fire on the 18th
and but for the timely assistance and
quick work Of the Emmettsburg hose
company the building would have
been destroyed. Loss about $500.
A car load of beet seed arrived at
MarShalltown on the 18th, and the
farmers in that vicinity are going to
work in earnest to raise beets for the
new sugar factory to go into operation
there as soon as the stock can be fur
nished.
Frank Dagman, an unmarried man
of Des Moines, about twenty-five years
of age, was accidentally shot in the
right eye by his 15-year-old brother
while handling and examining an old
de3repct revolver, not thinking it was
loaded.
Mrs. Esther White died at Council
Bluffs from the effects of ammonia
which she swallowed while in state
Of insanity, which. an investigation
that followed proves was brought on
by Il state of neglect and filth in which
she was found.
Mrs. Boughman, wife of Milton
Boughman OF Knoxville, took a very
large dose of laudanum AMI died. She
was suffering with tooth-ache, and
whehsr she took it 10 cure the pain or
purposely took q dose 10 cure other
pains Will never &c known.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Iowa Swine Breeders Association will
be held at tho Slavery hotel in Des
Moines on Tuesday and Wednesday,
June and 3. The Iowa swine breed
ers, judges, and fair superintendent
are invited to attend the meetings.
Rev. Charles Gibbs of Cedar Falls,
died in ST. Louis, aged II years. He
was on his way home from Florida,
where he had spent the winter in
search OF health. Rev. Mr. Gibbs had
been pastor of the Congregational
church in Cedar Falls about seventeen
years.
Anna f. Livingstone was granted a
divorce from William II Living
stone, one of the wealthiest merchants
of Sioux City, on the ground of cruel
and inhuman treatment. The court
allowed alimony of $3.50 per month, a
$1,000 residence and $50, 600 worth OF
property.
The school board at Knoxville has
purchased the site for new high
school building. 1t is q fine one, Gen.
.trally located. and cost 81. 050. A few
years ago it could have been bought
for 81 20). The plans for the new
building are fine. and its estimated
cost is about Sl5, OO0.
Safe blowers spoiled safe and
nearly blew up the building occupied
by l.. Harris bottling works in Coun.
Gil Bluffs. There was nothing in the
safe, but the damage will amount tc
$3.50. Two fellows, who it is thought
are responsible for the damage, have
been captured by the police.
A live catfish, weighing So pounds,
was captured in the Des Moines river
near Agency, by two boys while in
bathing. The boys saw it swimming
near the surface and threw a stone a
it, stunning It so that it came to the
surface. One of the boys then climbed
on it and padded ashore with it.
A special from Carroll says: Tive
men entered the American expires:
office here last night, bound and gag
ged an employee named Matthews
robbed the money box of $500 and es
capped. The only description thai
Matthews is able to give is that one
man was short and the other one tall.
A singular unexplainable fatality
exists among horses in Boone county
and large numbers, especially colts
have died. They sicken without ap
parent cause and die in few days
The disease seems to be local and
quite virulent in the southern part o
the county, where some farmers have
lost nearly all their horses.
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