Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-22

NlUtHcIS inns StdSOu rs
Yet the product of wine is estimated to
not fall much short of the average
years as grapes for that purpose are
about as abundant as usual Reports
from the northern part of the state say
that the vines there were heavily laden
with the fruit but thousands of pounds
have been nipped by the frost.
At Missouri Valley four children of
Mrs. Eckenb bach were burned to death
early in the morning. They We're
sleeping up stairs. The mother tried
| to Till "a lighted gasoline stove and an
explosion followed. She threw the
stove down stairs and ran down herself
to cxtinguish the flames, but the fire
| spread rapidly and before help arrived
the house was mass of flames. The
| bodies of the children were burned to
a crisp.
"A terrible accident occurred three
miles north of Mason City. Il. A. Eel
| lows, with his wife, mother ana two
children, were driving over the bri dye
spanning Lime creek. The embank-
ment had settled, leaving the fridge
elevated about eight inches, and when
| the wagon struck this the evener broke,
The wagon turned and went over 80
feet embankment All are seriously
injured, the mother and one child ia
tally.
While Georgc W. McTaughts was
putting down a tubular well for Geo.
Olson near Glidden, they struck "a vein
of natural gas at the depth of 1i5 feet,
! and the gas has worn the hole from 3
| inches rs inches, and the gas still
continues with a force that will blow
an II ounce rock 30 feet high. A : inch
pipe about 10 feet long was placed at "a
right angle at :'ae mouth of the well
and ignited at the other end and threw
a flame feet long,
John Notrobock, an Iowa stockman,
was held up, assaulted and robbed of
$500. a check for "a similar amount, and
watch and chain at Thirty ninth and
Halsted streets, Chicago. He reached
the yards early in the day, disposed OF
his stock and went to the city. He
returned about midnight and when III
the vicinity of Halstead and Thirty
hinth streets was attacked. The VIC
TIM told the police lit atsome hotel run
ncts did tile robbng; but no arrest has
been made:
In the federal court in cedar Rapids
,i,,lfs, tE,,,le.,A A., "a 81
$500. 900 against the Davenport, iowa
& Dakota Railroad company The
Farmers Loan Il Trust company held
the mortgage. The suit was com
menced some time since. The Burlng.
ton, Cedar Rapids Il Northern is oper-
ating portion of the track entering
| Davenport. Sale has been ordered
with W. i. Brady, general. agent of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
crn. as master commissioner.
An accident at Montezuml resulted
in Charles o. Van Cleaf being badly
injured. Van Clcaf who is only II
years old, was actlng as brakeman on
the train running between Grinnell
and Montesuma Whilea at Montczuma
the engine was put on the 'turn
around and while going off the young
man stepped on the pilot and slipping
fell beneath the wheels. The lett arm
was cut off aud his right leg badly
bruised, besides other injuries about
the head. He is doing well and the
surgeons hope to save the leg.
As ). Clover, business man of
Waucoma, was returning from neigh.
boring town late at night he came up
with "a pedestrian and took him in his
buggy. Upon arrival at Waucoma the
man jumped out of the buggy and dis
appeared. Cloyer soon discovered that
his vest and pants pockets had been
cut with knife and gold watch and
pocket book stolen. 1t transpircs that
the thief is one of notorious gang
living in den at Growler's Gulch.
Fayctte county, whose dcprcdations
are a constant terror to the people OF
the region Whereabouts,
Manly BENTON, superintendent of tire
Waverly water works, aged -. while
taking down the bell fsom the old
tower which had been condemned, fell
thirty-two feet from ladder. breaking
his neck. arm and ribs. which resulted
in instant death He had the bell all
ready to lower, except to take off one
more piece of scantling and he started
up to take it off, but when he reached
the top he took hold of a board, think
ing it was naIled, but as it was not it
gave way and he lost his balance, fall
ing to the ground and striking upon
some stones which caused his death. A
wife and two small children survive
him.
The sensational shooting ARRAY
which took place some time ago at the
residence of one Nixon, on Crocker
street, Des Moines, is not to be aired
in the courts, at least SO far as Mrs
Nixon is concerned 1t will be
remembered that she was severely
wounded and was taken to Cottage
Hospital for treatment. She left there
materially improved several days ago
and has notified Judge Eggleston that
she does not intend to appear against
her hus band. The case has been dis
missed Mrs. Josephine Macarthur.
her sister. was wounded by Nixon at
the same time. That case is docketed
for a hearing IN the police court Sep
TENDER 30. II is understood that Mr.
and Mrs Nixon have agreed to sepa.
rate, she to retain control of the two
children and her husband tn pay her
$50 Il month.
A child was born to a we'll o-do
farmer near Waucoma that affords a
remarkable example of the pecnliarl-
ties and freaks of nature. The baby
boy-had an opening about two inches
in diameter upon it's back midway be-
tween and little below the shoulder
blades. The orifice extends into the
body to the vitalS. so that the lungs