Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-28
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

gon. A majority of the people seem to
favor such move,
The River Sioux FIGURING mills
burned at Missouri Valley. Loss S12.-
: COO, partially covered by insurance.
The source is unknown.
The next worlds conference Of Nor.
mans will be held at Lamont next
year. The annual conference has just
closed at Independence, Mo
Orendorff, laborer, fell dead while
working along the street at ottumwa.
Orendorff was a man about 25 and un.
married. Apoplexy is the supposed
cause of his death.
John Rupert of Mallari was shot
and probably fatally injured by the
accidental explosion of his shotgun,
which he was carrying with him on a
blackboard.
Dubuque is putting forth every effort
to secure the National Butter and
Cheese convention for next Spring.
tend the meetings.
Frank Hole, young Bohemian liv-
ing near Ely, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the left breast. 1t
is believed that dependency caused by
i'll health led to the deed.
Five saloonkeepers were fined at
Burlington for maintaining nuisance.
The new administration evidently
means business. Sunday closing will
be enforced at all hazards.
The grand jury of Hancock county Is
after vIolators of the prohibit DRY law.
Frank Campbell, of Britt, was fined
$500 and six months in Jail, and Ed
Stomlave, of Goodell, has just been in.
dlcted.
THE plant OF the Kookuk electric
street railway was bought by Connec-
ticut people for S2io0o, the sale being
TO satisfy a mortgage held by the In.
ternational Trust Company. The plant
cost $50, 900 two years ago.
Upon the request of Chancellor Nc
Claim of the Iowa City Law University,
Judge George e. Wright presented to
the law library a large portrait of him
self, the same that formerly hung in
the supreme court at Des Moines,
Richard Bennett while attempting
to jump from q moving street car at
Dubuque was thrown to the ground
and dragged about 100 feet by a bolt
catching in his coat. lie was badly
bruised and injured, but it is not be-
lieved fatally.
The fortythird annual meeting of
the Des Moines River Valley Assoeia-
ton of Congregational Churches closed
at Ottumwa. The reports from var
ious churches show large additions in
membership and a most prosperous
condition generally.
The Whitebreas5 Fuel company,
which in 1873 opened and developed a
Elinc of coal four miles east of Knox
vile, has been compelled to suspend all
operations, as tn: coal is exhausted
The Oak Hill nine cast of Flagler, is
also nearly exhan ed.
The annual r. ion and banquet of
the state univ .itys alumni will be
held in Oskal "a May 18th. Superin-
tendent Knocpiiar, Dr. McClain, Dr.
Mcbride and other noted educators will
be present. About two hundred and
fifty IN all are expected.
The case of the State of Iowa VS.
Frank Pierce, on trial for the murder
of Policeman Wishart at Des Moines
was ended by the jury returning a
verdict of Inauslaughter. The cx-
treme penalty is eight years imprison-
ment and fine of 81 900.
jackson Clark, one of the old
pioneers of Iowa, died at his home in
Mt. Pleasant. He was. born at DAN
vile, Penn, in 1917, and came to
Henry county IN 1886. He was one of
the most respected citizens and leaves
wife, two sons and daughter.
A careful examina ton of the aopro-
priation bill at the state capital shows
that the report that $1,000 had been
dropped ont of the Cedar Falls normal
school allowance is erroneous, as the
sum total corresponds with that of the
original bill, and includes the $1,000.
5. b. Haveland, young man living
at Salix, Woodbury. county, was killed
by the accidental discharge of shot
gun while returning from days hunt
The gun slipped through hole in the
bottom of the buggy, catching the
hammer. Nearly his entire head was
blown off.
Died, in Monroe, of old age, Mother
Elizabeth Honnold, aged SS years and
some months. This earth has been
dark to her some thirty years, having
lost the sight of both eyes. She was a
disposition, and was loved by all who
knew her.
A block of frame buildings was burn
ed to the ground at TT. Dodge. The
principal losers are: A. K. Loomis, but
ter and eggs; w. ID. Lathrop, horse
barn, and w. J. Fitzsimons, black
smith. The total loss is $4,000, mostly
covered by insurance. Some unslack-
ed lime caused the trouble.
For two weeks the electric lights
with which the city of Keokuk has a
contract for being illuminated have
not been burning, the dark nights hav-
ing been doubly dark, because it has
raincd most of the time. Every night
some citizen meets with an accident
on account of the utter darkness
Samuel II. Walker and his estima bic
wife and companion for fifty years,
celebrated their golden wedding at
their farm home near Mitchelevillc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker were married at
Cla-emont, N. H., April 26, 1912, they
removed to Iowa in 1859 and located on
the farm they still occupy near Mitch
eleville.
The judge in the case of the State OF
Iowa VS.. Frank Pierce on trial at
Indianola, in which Pierce was charged
with the murder of Policeman Wishart,
and in which the jury returned ver-