Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-16
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

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Rapids, attempted to suicide by taking
arsenic. 1t is not known whether he
can be saved yet.
The Dubuque board of trade has de-
cided upon display OF Dubuque's in
dustries at the worlds fair. 1t will be
separate from the Iowa exhibit
Farmer George Schirk was drowned
while attempting to ford the Maquo-
keta river at Cottage Hill, Dubuque
county. His 14-year-old ooy and the
team escaped.
VIM. Balm, the abductor of Chattie
Mcdonald, secured the necessary $4,000
bail and was released. 1t is fully ex-
pected that he will not be found when
called next fall.
The National Holiness Association
began its camp meeting at Oak Park,
Des Moines. The park is a beautiful
one. There are people attending from
all parts OF the Union.
Rev. Slatterly, an ex-priest, attempt
ed to deliver lecture at Keokuk in
opposition to Romanism. A riot ensued
and two men, Pat Harrington and Tom
Glenn, were shot, but neither fatally.
The first broom was turned out by
the new Fort Dodge broom factory, a
few days ago, and it Is a model of its
kind. X. d. Hoyt is the proprietor.
He expects to employ fifteen or twenty
hands permanently.
Phe Iowa and Nebraska sheriffs ad
journed at Dubuque after electing
Sheriff Costello of Grand Island tenn
porary president and Sheriff Noyes, of
Primghar, Ia, temporary secretary of
an interstate association to be formed
ut Omaha July $.
A. Lawson specialized in a confidence
mans lottery game at Fort Dodge, and
is three hundred dollars out. John
Zimmerman lost three hundred and
fifty dollars on the same game. Sew
eral hundred dollars were gathered in
by faltirs who follow the Cook & White
show.
DIR. Carter, of the state board, went
to Danbury to investigate the cases of
smallpox which have been reported by
the local board of health. The disease
broke out IN the family which recently
came from Mexico, but they were re-
moved from the hotel and taken into
the country.
William Collins was taken to Creston
charged with an assault on the person
of Miss Minnie Owan, a school teacher
at Lorimer. He is also charged with
ravishing the person of little girl
named Clara Lane. He is now in jail
awaiting trial at the next term of the
district court.
The grand lodge of the Free Masons
in session at Dubuque spent most of
the day debating the proposition to re-
peal the law adopted two years ago
excluding coreneau Masons from the
grand lodge The law was susta- ned
by majority of sixteen in over eleven
hundred votes
Friends are working to secure a par
don for Annie Homer, convicted in 1881
at Marion of poisoning her husband
and sent to Anamosa for eighteen years.
She says she gave him what DIR. Dietz
told her was sleeping potion, mean
ing to escape with her child while he
was under it's influence.
An old lady famlliarly known in
Menlo as Grandma Clifford, who is al
most deaf was crossing the railroad
track just as the through o'clock fast
trnin was passing at high rate of
SPEED. AS she stepped off the track
the engine almost brushed her clothing.
She neither saw nor heard the train.
The Grimes Butter and Cheese Com
pany, of Grimes, filed articles CT incor-
poration with the Polk county recorder.
The object is the manufacture of but
ter and cheese. Capital, $4,000 The
officers of the company ar& l.. w.
Briggs, president; w. ]. Stewart, Sec
Fetary; F. A. Ellis, vice president; B.
F. Granger, treasurer.
Commander Stcadman of the Grand
Army of the Republic is bout to issue
a call to the Grand Army posts OF
western Iowa for reunion in Council
Bluffs July 4, the day when General
r. A. Alger of Michigan speaks at the
Twin City Chautauqua. 1t is his in
tention to make that day memorable
one to the old soldiers, as well as to
Chautauquans.
A number of business men have or
ganized the Iowa Voting Booth Com.
pany, which will manufacture booths
toconform to the Australian ballot law.
II. /. WATSON, of Knoxville, was elected
president; Jot I. Busselle, vice-presi.
dent; w. w. Busselle, secretary, and
j. w. Hayes general agent. The Off
GERS of the company state that they can
manufacture booths cheaper than out,
side firms.
A double drowning occurred near
Donohue, Scott county. Julius and
Emil Soensou, sons of Henry Soenson
farmer, and aged Is and IA years re
spectively, were bathing in Mud creek
This is ordinarily small stream, but
has been swollen by the rains. Nc
witnesses were at hand, but the boys
were missed and search of the stream
revealed their bodies. Particulars are
not known.
For some days rumors have beer
afloat charging Drs. Nussel and Mer
KEEL of Chippewa Falls, with having
caused the death of Mrs. Mary Dallas
by an obstetrical operation. The body
was exhumed at the request of the
dead woman's friends and the coroner.
jury rendered a verdict that her death
was caused by the incompetency of the
doctors The husband has sworn out
complaint and the men will be ar
rested.
A cloud burst at zwingle, on the
boundary line of Dubuque and jackson
counties, raised Otter creek thirty feet
and carried away several buildings and
their contents, eighty rods of the Cas-
cade Narrow Gauge road and severa
hundred head of stock The water
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