Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-01-28
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

City Furniture factory at Dubuque.
Frank Cook entered the gallery of the
Cedar Rapids opera house In an intoxi.
Gated condition and knocked down the
special policeman who tried to put him
out 1t cost him SIS and costs.
/. A man named Wachter, living at
Sherills Mound, was chopping wood
when large chip struck him in the
right eye. The physicians say that the
accident will deprive him of the use OF
the eye.
The captains commission given by
Lucas, who was the first governor OF
Iowa, is still preserved by his family in
Davenport.
Getting mail at the Emmctsburg
postoffice are twenty-nine members of
the Thompson family, and the Smiths
Browns, Joneses, Johnsons and Olsons
have to take a back scat.
w. w. Richards and James Powers
have purchased a five-acre tract of land
near Scranton or Gllden and are going
to develop an iron mine. They expect
to mine the ore and ship it to Omaha to
be smelted.
Henry b. Fisher, the employee of a
Muscatine sash and door factory who
lost three fingers of his left hand some
time ago, ran a ss-inch clisel clear
through the palm of the same hand
few days ago.
A crank giving his name as Andrew
johnson boarded the cab of Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids Il Northern at Row,
an and attempted to run the train. He
was overpowered and turned over tc
the authorities.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
granted the request for tri-weekly
mail trip from Belle PLANE to Koszta
rengo mail and making a daily mail
for Koszta people.
w. l.. Parker, of Quincy, was found
dead in his barn soon after he returned
seemed to be the immediate cause Of
his death, no doubt aggravated by the
, severe cold weather.
Alfred Townsend, Is years old, left
his home in Hamilton township, Frank.
lin county, on December 5, and has not
since been heard from by his parents
His fathers name is Thomas Townsend,
and his address Bows, Iowa.
discussion brought up by the Phil
adelphia Press develops the seemingly
indisputablc fact that Frank Carbcrry,
now editor of the Dubuque Times, was
the first man to enlist on the morning
after Fort Sumpter was fred upon.
Uncle Chamberlain of near Spencer,
is Is years old. He killed and dressed
a hog recently which weighed $50
pounds, alone and unaided He also
owned cat II years DID, which the day
before its death, caught and killed a
jack rabbit.
John Norris pleaded guilty in the
United States district court at Keo-
kuk to robbing the postoflice at Clarks-
burg, Ia, on the night eff December 81,
".
He belongs to an organized gang OF
postoffice robbers.
At the planning mill of the bucket
factory at Eagle Point, large belt
which was moving at high speed broke
and portion of it struck John Orr on
the jaw, inficting painful wound.
The flesh was laid open for a distance
of several inches.
A farmer who was delivering a load
of wood to store in Dubuque met with
painful accident He was attempt
ing to raise the iron cellar grating
when it fell and crushed his hand Sc
verely. A physician found it necessary
to amputate two fingers.
John W. Hood, who died OF asphyxi-
alton in Chicago hotel was the presi-
dent of the Iowa State bank of Osceola
He went to Osceola in 1856. He leaves
wife and four sons He owned the
largest farm in the county,, 200 acres.
He left January 9th with seven cars of
CATTLE and one of horses.
Mills county horticulturists are
jubilant. They took the first premium
on general exhibit and the first pre-
MUM on individual exhibit at the re-
cent horticultural meeting at Das
Moines, Out of the eighty plates
entered they got elghty-seven pre-
ADMINISTRATIONS first premiums and
six second premiums.
By the tearing up of switch at
Union switch, eight miles east of Cres-
ton, an engine and seven loaded cars
son was pinioned under the engine and
killed. Fireman Thomas Holland and
head brakeman w. I. Wilson were
seriously bruised, cut and scalded. All
the injured men reside at Ottumwa
We are in receipt of the handsome
new catalogue of the Iowa Seed Com
pany of Des Moines, and consider it by
far the largest and best of any ever is
sued by an Iowa seed firm. 1t is choclt
full of good things for the garden and
farm and illustrated with more than
300 engravings. They offer to mail a
copy free to all readers of this paper.
Senator Dodge has introduced bill
to protect working mems unions in
their tables, trademarks, etc, which
makes it a misaemeanor for anybody to
counterfeit or initiate any such label or
to use such counterfeit or imitation
Unions adopting label or trademark
may file the same for record in the
Office of the secretary of state and may
enjoin others from using the same.
At Ais in the morning fire was dis.
covered in the basement of the old
Grace Episcopal church at Cedar Rapids.
Notwithstanding strenuous efforts OF
the firemen, the flames spread rapidly
and soon the whole edifice was ono
mass of flames, which went directly to
the roof, which, being of slate, prevent,
ed getting water on the flames, and
soon the slate began to fall, jeopardiz-
: ing the lives of the fireman, a number
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