Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-25

in delicate condition. The girl is the
daughter of Calvin Roberts, deceased,
who was a leader at the Dubuque bar.
Dana is twenty-four years old.
Hon. Henry Hospers, Of Orange City.
sends to the New Historical Collection
at the state house the early history of
Sioux county, which he wrote for the
local newspapers, with one of the
fraudulent coupon bonds issued by that
county in very early times, Mr.. Otto
large stone maui which really belongs
to the stone age. 1t was an ovalshaped,
reddish gray granite boulder, with two
small Ratchet surfaces, where it was
wore smooth, doubtless in glacial times.
A groove was cut around the stone, so
that some sort of handle could be
fastened to it. 1t is a great coarse I'M
plement, but withal very interesting
one. 1t was found on the prairie near
Primghar The people at the historl-
cal rooms regard it as specimen of
much value.
Sheriff Phillips was called to Table
Mound township, Dubuque county, to
arrest drunken girl about sixteen
years old. The girl was before Justice
Duffy on the charge OF intoXication.
She was very ugly and denied the
sherlff's right to arrest her without a
warrant. She said she came to Dubuque
from Sioux City two weeks ago and
was placed in the Mercy hospital to
undergo an operation for an abcess on
the side. She left the hospital few
days ago and took to tramping. She
further says her parents are dead, that
she was married when she was eleven
years old, and that her husband is in
the penitentiary. She tore her dress
all to pieces and came out of her cell
without anything on. She was sent
down for ten days and before her sen.
tence expires it may be decided to send
her to some reformatory institution.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary A. Harris
took place at Grinncll, at the residence
of her son.ln-law, Hon. r. NJ. Haines.
Mrs. Harris was in her S7th year, and
died after long illness. She was the
daughter of Judge Thomas Mckee, and
was born at Clintonville, Verango Co.,
Pa. December 10, 1905. She came of a
long-lived family and inherited an cx-
cellent constitution. On September IA,
1926, she was married to James Harris,
of Harrisonvillc, Pa, and settled on
the family homestead at the latter
place. Ten children were born of this
marriage, five sons and five daughters,
all of whom survive her excepting her
second son, who died few years ago in
California, Four of her daughter and
two of her sons were present at her
death. In 1852 she removed with her
husband and family to Warren, Lee
county, Iowa, and in the spring of 1855
they removed to Grinnell, and settled
on small farm northwest of the city
a young married man named Cos
terio, who was arrested at Dubuque on
charge of intoXication, made an attempt
while suffering from an attack of &c.
lirium tremeps, to commit suicide. He
secured piece of an old bottle, with a
sharp ragged edge, and hacked his left
wrist in two or three places, severiug a
small artery. When discovered blood
was flowing from the wound in a
stream, and surgeon was at once sent
for who dressed the injury. When
brought up in the police court he pre-
sented pitiable sight His shirt sleeve
and pantaloons were bloody and he
was so nervous that he could hardly
speak. He told the justice that his
wife bad left HIM, that he was discour-
aged and that he did not care much
whether he lived or died. The justice
told him that all he would have to do
would be to leave the snake producer
alone and he would come out albright.
He was sent to Jail for ten days, and
will receive the best of medical atten-
ton.
Lightning struck the house at 1854
by Mrs II. c. Zimmerman, and that it
did not result in fatality seems provi-
Dental The bolt struck chimney at
almost the central portion of the roof
and divided, one part going through
the roof and tearing off the plastering
and creating havoc in an upstairs room,
and the other going down the gutter to
the spouting, which it followed to a
point almost directly over wind ow in
the north side of the house. Here it
left the trough and entering the house
above the window casing, crashed the
upper sash to splinters and hurled one
side of the easement across the room,
the board touching the hair of Mrs
Faulkner, the aged mother of Mrs.
Zimmerman, who sat near the window,
in its flight. The bolt then passed be-
tween the plastering and weather.
boarding of the house to the west end,
Frank, the younger son of Mrs Zim-
norman, had just stepped from the
door to the porch, leaving companion
at the door, when the bolt struck him,
so that he was insensible for almost
half an hour. He soon recovered, how
ever, and but for the burns left upon
his shoulders and back and the loss of
a handful of hair, which was found on
the porch after the occurrence, he is
none the worse for the shock. Mrs.
Faulkner was completely surrounded
by the debris, and that she was unin-
jured is indeed remarkable, as she is
quite feeble, having just recovered
from severe illness.
To Take the Place o. Tanner.
NEW YORK, Aug. % "A session of
the Republican executive committee
was held yesterday, at which there
were present Messrs Carter, GARRISON,
Bliss, McCombs, Kitchener and Kerens,
They elected William M. Hahn of Ohio
member of the national committee, u
member of the executive committee