Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-08
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Sara az NdfTu Irlug tlo Ialt.
Revival meetings are being held in
many churches Throughout tn, state.
Orange Hart, who shot himself al
Manchester because his wife would
not Live with him, has died.
Mabel He:s,er. Of Council Bluffs.
who as burned by the EXPOS on OF
can Of ga olne, died after weeks
suffer ng.
Mrs. Il. Bascom. wife OF the assist
ant general freight agent of the ILL
nos Central. died at Dubuque after
brief illness.
The yinton Eagle has an ear Of
corn that is quite curiosity. The
center OF the cob, instead OF being
pithy. is filed wi well developed
kernels Of corn.
Ole +. Eersen II ing near Ridge
way. 10 by fire his en- ire crop OF hny
ana grain; also two stables and a new
granary completed TIE previous day.
Cause unknown.
Tiers is talk in Des Moines OF pas
sing an ordinance re luiring the tires
o: all heavy wagons to be hree inches
wide. TIC narrow tires cut evca the
BRICK pavements.
The full amount OF the 500, 200
stock in the new stock va d. AMI
| packing house has subscrib ed at Fort
Madison. The officers are in Ch,cag,
arran. ing for the immediate building
! of the plant.
A. G. Sheperd has been arrested at
Fort Dodge on complaint of a woman
named Hutchinson. charged with
sending obscene and insulting letters
thro" gh the mails. He was held to
the grand jury.
Mrs, L. T. Kellogg, mother Of e. A.
ana w. E. Kellogg, of the wi olesale
grocery firm of kellogg, Birge a. Co.,
of Keokuk. died at the residence of
her son-in-iaw, c. z. Birge, in that
city, aged 90 years.
j. NJ. Harper's meat market, which
is known as Armour's market, on JET
ferson st ee' Burlington, was closed
! by the sheriff on writ of attachment
flied by the Peoria, illinois, National
bank, which sues for $1,000.
Prof. Jones was quite seriously in
| jured in max ng parachute jump
from. balloon at LenJx. Tn, para
chu only opened a2out twenty feet
from the ground. The professor was
unconscious for seve al minutes.
Emmett Seymour was sentenced at
| Onawa TO three yea $ in the peniten-
tiary for larceny. He will be remem-
bered as the man who has led the
authorities SO lively IL chase, aad who
many think killed his father-in-law.
The carriage factory OF r. G. Ken
nedy at Manchester was destroyed by
fire satu"day. Loss, $4,000; insur-
anca. $1,000. If the wat L works h 4
| not beel ample the whole business
portion OF he city would have burned.
John G. Fry, an old time resident of
| Keokuk, recently removed to the
| National C p,tal, has, according to
news received from here, been APP
| pc utec chief OF the record division OF
the weather bureau, at a lemunerative
salary.
A warm heavy rain fell AT Masoa
| City. The land will be in better
shape for fall work than it has been
for several years rat. Corn aid
potatoes are big, the later being Il
drug on tho market at 20 cents II
bu- hel.
Johnnie Brit ow, living southwest
OF New London. who was so seriously
in ,ured in Mount Pleasant on Emanci-
patton Day, has had II very bad az
tack of suppuration OF he wound.
Careful lancing. howe; or, has relieved
the patient and he is doing nicely.
A farm hand namei Ed. Kitchen,
working on the ia m OF Vii lam Fran
cy, in | alt more township, cat his leg
at the knee with corn knife and
nearly bled to death before as i IN 20
came. Fortunately me zeal help ar.
rived in time to save him. He will re-
cover.
After three 5 Gee :sive days of con-
tiuuous rain, the Webster county fair
came to a close, The good races were
declared off, and the entry fees re-
turnel. Financially the fair was "a
iailu g. Had the weather been IA
vorable. the fair association would
have b zen an all around success.
Hiram r ssel was horn April 4.
1903. at Marietta, Chic ard married
October 5, 1881. 10 Miss Vesta Stone,
who was born June IA. 1912. SO they
have been mario1 sixty years since
the 9Th of the present month. They
came TO Iowa in 1854 an have b.en
hale and hearty to the present time,
The water in the Mississippi river
Is gradually ding way. The stage
at the government gauge IS now two
niche; below the phenomenal low
water marx o: 1864. Thcse is scarcely
enough water in the liver between st.
Louis AM st Paul to allow TIE passage
of the lightest raft oa.s. Nayigat on
is virtually sgeaded.
The policeman who has been acting
in the capacity of marshal at Creston
since the removal OF Pilgrim is max
ing IL uncomfortable for law breakers.
Several houses OF prostitution were
pulled and ten prostitutes. male aud
female, whit, and black were cap.
tured. They were all brought up and
fined the next morning.
The medical war in DUBIOUS has
broken out afresh. 1t is now claimed
that formal charges for violating the
code have been prepared against DR..
j. j. Bronson, county phys elan. and
filed with the secretary OF the Cedar
Valley Medical association at Water
loo. The case will come up AT tie
next meeting, October IS, in Inde-
pendence.
Sometime in the night al Ouray,
Col. Mrs. John Martin. formerly OF
Des Moines. Iowa, deliberately pulled
off her hat and cloak, and placed them
on a stump and jumped into the river.
The next morning her body was
foun1 Immediately below by some
hnvS IN haaltb IL tho aause "a slOnpd