Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-14


was erected. The order also estab-
lished home for working girls, on
which the sisters last week bought one
of the finest residences in Iowa, the
j. 2. Farley mansion. The order now
has $50 members, and schools in Du-
buque, Sioux City and thirty towns
and villages in Iowa.
The Grail Coal company, near TT.
Dodge, have been doing good deal OF
prospecting lately and have at last
struck new and rich vein of coal. 1t
lies within the vicinity Of their Kalo
mines and is about four or five feet
thick The company intends to begin
work there in short time. The idea
has been growing IN credence in the
last year or two that the supply of coal
in Webster county would soon be ex-
hausted. This fact IN a measure will
disabuse the minds of great many of
this idea and will give new impetus to
business in its various departments.
+ This vein that has been discovered may
and in all probability will, lead to the
finding of Others and the business of
mining and dealing in coal will receive
an impetus which will last it for years.
The assistant superintendent of the
American Express company, with head.
quarters at Omaha, telegraphed Sher-
iff Hamill, ofsCarroll county to meet
him at the train at Carroll. When he
arrived C. IL. Mathews was placed in
the sheriff's hands and was locked up
in Jail until next morning, when he APP
peared in Judge raine's court and plead
guilty to the crime of robbing the ex-
press company at that city. Mathews
has been working at Fairfield on the
new court house at that place since he
left Carroll as a hod carrier and the
officer that arrested him says he has
been a steady and Industrious man
since he had been at that place. 1t is
the general opinion that the penalty
will be nominal, as he has already
served seven months in Jail and refused
two opportunities to escape when the
Jail had been broken open and the
other criminals made good their escape.
One night recently at Fl. Madison
the two story building owned by 5. v.
Kitchen, the upper story being used as
a dwelling by the owner and family,
| was discovered on fire. An explosion
followed in quick order, shutting OFF
cgress by the stairway. The fire burn.
ed very rapidly and the persons living
in the building were all horribly burn.
! ed, seven fatally and two SO severely
that recovery seems almost impossible.
The list of dead is as follows: s. V.
Kitchen, age 35; his wife, age 80; their
children, aged 1, 3 and 5; Miss Sidney
Day. sister of Mrs. Kitchen, age 49,;
August Knepenyer, boarder, age II.
The seriously injured are Henry
Knepenyer, boarder, age Is; and
Samuel Kitchen, aged 20, brother OF
the owner. The disaster is one of the
most appalling that ever occurred in
the Mississippi valley. The fire is
| thought to be the work of an incen-
diary, but no cause can be assigned.
The Wrought Iron Range company
of st. Louis, Mo-, through agents, sold
quite a number of range stoves last fall
to farmers in Marshall county at the
prices of S6s, for which the purchaser
and wife executed note containing a
clause waving appraisement and ex-
emption laws The company, through
its agents, represented to the parties
that this range stove was the best and
most complete one of the kind,
as we'll as one of the most durable
upon the market IN order to induce
them to buy, and relying upon the rep
reservations several parties purchased
and now find when the notes. are due
that the stoves'do not operate satistac-
torily. Some of the parties who. have
purchased the stoves at sthe enormous
price of SOS, find that the dealers at
Marshalltown furnish nearly as good,
if not better, article from $35 to $40.
The matter has been placed in the
hands of an attorney.
Keokuk will give the veterans of the
gallant old First Iowa cavalry "a rous-
ing welcome when they meet in that
city at their triennial reunion, Sep
TENDER Ia and Is. At meeting to
make preparatory arrangements sur
vivors of company A of this regiment
were made reception committee as
follows: James Hill, chairman; T. j.
o'Blennis, w. S. Gray, Chas. McKib-
bon, L. l.. O'Blennis, II. T. Wilson,
Joseph c. McCandless, w. c. Andre ws,
James p. Farmer, Hiram Gabriel, n. F.
Wilson, John Wright, +. J. Walker,
VIM. Hortin, VIM. Whorton, o. l..
Conn, +. II. Jones, E. r. Oyler, w. III.
Wyatt, VIM. Goodin; Elmore Reed,
Geo. Welshman, Walker Wilson, and
M. Ch0esman. The executive commit
tee is composed of ID. A. Kerr, +. Ii.
Evans, j. +. Daugherty, ID. w. McEl-
roy and b. B. Jewell. Other commit
tees were appointed and the work of
| preparing for the entertainment of the
veterans will be begun at once. Keo-
kuk hospitality is famous and the First
Iowa "boys'' will ever remember their
visit.
Fire was discovered at o'clock in
the morning in vacant frame build
| ing at the corner of Pine and Adams
streets, Creston. Before the fire de-
partment could get to the scene the
flames had spread to several adjoining
frame structures. Five streams of
water were soon playing upon the fire,
but before it was under control six
business houses were totally destroy
ed. The fire originated in building
recently occupied by saloon and own
ed by Mrs. Mary Crawford 1t has not
been occupied for several weeks, and
the fire is believed to have been start
by an incendiary. The buildings burn
ed are: Mrs. Mary Crawford, loss ST.
900; Cheschinger Bros, $500; William
Woods, building and fixtures, 5000;
Thomas McGrath, two buildings, S70o;
William Reith, merchant tailor, 5000;
N. A. Clark, $1,000, buildings and
stock; b. Fitzsimmons, $1,000, saloon
| fixtures All adjoining huildinps were