Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-23
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

year old boy drowned while bathing ut
Dubuque, has ICen recovered.
Daniel Tate, one of the most promi-
nent colored men in Keolsuk, dropped
dead on Main street from overhead
Mr.. John Hawkins, who came to Bur-
lington in 1858, and has been proml-
nent in business, died few nights ago,
aged GA years.
Z. E. Zell, contractor from Findley,
Ohio, at Clinton, making estimates on
the new court house, died from inflam-
nation of the bowels.
Judge Conrad, at Des Mones refused
to issue an injunction restraining the
Escher Bowman party from using and
controlling the church property.
James C. Harrington, laborer, is
under arrest at Burlington for obtain
ing $40 from the postoffice on a postal
order claimed to have been sent to an
uncle in that city by the same name.
George Berry, OF Spencer Grove, near
Vinton, was arrested for setting fire to
the farm buildings of Gilbert II. Cross
land, and has confessed the crime, and
was bound over to the grand jury with
out bail
The republicans of Henry county
held their county convention in Mt.
Pleasant. The delegates were in
structed for Gear for congress. At
ratification speech he said he would
accept.
The twenty-second annual meeting
of the Des Moines Valley Medical asso
citation convened in Des Moines The
opening address was delivered by the
president of the society, DIR. S. Z.
O'Neil, OF Ottumwa.
The special election on the question
of water works or no water works was
held at Grinnell. The interest in the
contest was quite strong and voting
began promptly on the opening of the
polls The result was 3Sl for and 90
against
Ground has been broken at LeMars
for the main building of the Sterling
Manufacturing Company of LeMars.
The company guarantees to employ at
the lowest average 90 men for five
years in the manufacture of Touring
mill machinery.
The Union Gas and Improvement
company of Philadelphia have filed suit
in the federal court against the Cedar
Rapids Gas Light company for 500, 900
damages for infringement of patent
covering apparatus for making illumi-
mating water gas.
The postal clerks on the Iowa division
of the Illinois Central are feeling happy
over long looked for raise in salary.
The yearly salaries of the letter men
have been increased from Sl,15O to
81, 300, while the paper men are to get
81, $50 instead of $1,000.
A work train on the Keithsburg
branch of the Burlington road ran into
a drove of cattle three miles north of
Gladstone The engine and cars were
ditched. Engineer Robinson and three
laborers were killed. 1t is reported
that over twenty laborers were more
or less injured.
The Fourth district reunion of the
G. A. Il. at Clear Lake closed. Very
large attendance, considering the
weather. Department Commander
Steadman, Senator Brewer and others
made addresses. Great interest was
awakened in the National encamp.
ment by Stedman.
Three runaway boys from Des Moines,
giving the names of Thomas Griffin,
Joseph Ii. Reynolds and Ed. Cannon,
were caught at Dubuque by Marshal
Rice. They left Des Moines early in
the week, and at Marshalltown fell in
with gang of tramps, with whom they
went to Dubuque.
About 600 feet of track on the Iowa
and Dakota division of the Chicago,
Milwaukee e. st, Paul railroad was
washed out by torrents of rain that
fell The small streams were converted
into great rivers in very short time.
The principal washouts are at Fort At
kinson and New Hampton.
Four workmen who sought shelter in
a building during storm at Dubuque
were struck by lightning, two of them
having their legs paralyzed. The storm
was especially severe at Prairie du
Chen and New Hampton, and washed
out every railroad running into Du-
buque except the Central.
Sidney Smith, a prosperous farmer
living near Usage, was trapped by
gamblers travelling with Cook & Whit
ley's circus, ana about five hundred
dollars of his cash found it's way into
the pockets of the gamblers. An in
effectual effort was made to detain the
show till the money was returned.
An election was held at Abel to de-
terminc for or against the levy of
tax for the purpose of cons tructing an
electric light plant. The vote for the
tax was ia; against II. Four car loads
OF paving brick are being delivered
built and Abel is greatly booming
Douglass county, Neb., voted $780,
600 bonds to aid the Nebraska Central
Railway company to build bridge
over the Missouri river, union station
and terminals in Omaha and 100 miles
of railroad into Iowa to allow all east
ern roads to enter the city at nominal
charge. The Union Pacific fought the
proposition.
Secretary Kennedy, of the state
board of health, has sent circulars to
the secretaries of state and principal
boards of health of the United States,
Canada and Mexico informing them of
the five cases of smallpox IN Danbury,
Woodbury. county. 1t is done in ac-
cordance with the agreement entered
INTO at the conference of state and
provincial boards of health, October 6,
1885,
w. Ii. Shum, the Burlington, Cedar
Papids a. NortherS station AGENT at MI