Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-07-14
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houses in Boone one night recently,
but secured little booty.
An old man namcl Morgan, of
Dubuque in a fit of dclirium trcmens,
threw himself into slough and was
drowned.
A. Coons, aged 66, one OF the oldest
settlers of buchanan county, dropped
dead while at work, from apoplexy in
duccd by heat.
III. c. Lanes large oil house at Shell
don was destroyed by fire. A large
portion of Tie business part of the town
had a very narrow escape.
William Waltz was drowned at Ma
rengo while bathing in the Iowa river
He was Fl years of age and resided at
Keswick, Iowa. He was with Gross
Bros. show
George Dhabold, tough character
of Clinton, shot Milt Nussbaum In the
jaw, infiicting a most dangerous wound
The shooting was the wind-up of per-
sonal row.
The woman who was run over and
killed at Muscatine, proves to I've Miss
May Martin, of Rock Island, domes-
tic who has been employed in Musca-
tine as "a nurse.
Edward Morgan, seventy years old,
while under the influence of liquor, fell
into stagnant pool of water about
two feet deep, at Dubuque, and drowned
before being discovered.
The citizens of Mason City are highly
jubilant over the result of the railway
tax election. The project for 2 per
cent tax in aid of the Chicago Great
Western carried by vote of 367 to 1913.
George Gale, liveryman in Usage,
was thrown from running horse,
crushing his leg, dIslocating his hip
and otherwise injuring him. He Was
unconscious a long time and recovery
is doubtful.
A boat containing four young men
returning to McGrcgor from Prairie du
Chen upset and John Cannon, single,
aged twenty-five years, was drowned.
The others escaped by swimming. Gan.
mons body was recovered.
The Star Engraving Company, of Des
Moines filed articles of incorporation
with the Polk county recorder. The
capital stock is 500, 900; the incorpo-
rators, j. &. Kries, G. n. Stein and j.
w. Maxson.
The postofficc at Ossian was broken
into. 1t is supposed that considera BILE
government plumber was secured, as all
the offices in that part of the state are
being notified to be on guard fer the
stolen property.
5 Application for permanent injunction
to eleven saloons at Mystic was made
before Judge Burton at Ottumwa and
the cases set for July Is. Mystic has
red ribbon club which has been
stirring up the natives in that section.
The mangled body of Arthur True
was found lying near the Iowa Central
track at Newell. The young man'c
home is at GAINESVILLE, Iowa. He had
evidently been struck by one of the
night trains and was crushed to death
unnoticed.
2. S. Barnes, a tramp arrested at
Grundy Center for pouring acid on
boys arm and compelling him to beg,
escaped from the Grundy county Jail
He threw pepper in the sheriff's eyes.
The boys arm will proba bly, have to
be amputated.
John Grief, an employee of the Boone
Bottling Works. was drowned in the
Des Moines river near Boone. He was
fishing with a party and attempted to
wade the river and was drawn under
and drowned. He was 90 years of age
and his parents reside in Carroll.
The semi.annual session of the Fort
Dodge M. E. Conference will be held at
Jewell, August 8, 10 and II. The dis
trict w. L. M. S. will also meet there
on the 18th. The programme will he
an interesting one. All parts of the
district will be represented at this
meeting.
VIM. Glew, of Farley, and his two
sons were engaged blowing corn. At
noon the old man bantered the boys
for foot race to the house. When
near the mouse, Joseph, the youngest
son, aged IS, fell on his face On pick
ing him up he was found to be dead,
having ruptured blood vessel.
A very serious accident occurred at
Winterset, resulting from the use of
frecrackers on the Fourth. The victim
is the little five-year-old boy of Mr..
Hudson Crirs, whose clothes took fire
while lighting a match. The front part
OF the child's body Is so badly burned
that it is thought he cannot live.
A horrible murder was committed at
Mystic, mining town twenty miles
south of Ottumwa. Tom Corwin, &C
cused of intimacy with the wife of
Mart Goodwin, was struck by Goodwin
with pick AK in the back, the blade
piercing clear through his heart and
protruding from his breast, Goodwin
s in Jail.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Cass colnty Jail by drilling hole
through the floor and tunneling through
the outside wall. They were all in for
petty larceny. Their names are Andy
Scott, a negro, 81 years old; VIM, Camp
bell, red hair, smooth shaven, "a years
Did; and John McNally, so years old,
chin whislIers and moustache.
When the wholesale house of Weber
& Co, and the retail shoe house of J.
VI. Huislamp & Son at Keokull were
opened one morning recently, it was
found that burglars had been busy.
The safes were cracked and at the
frst place about $50 dollars was
taken, and at the latter Sa75. The
cracksmen took nothing but cash, not
disturbing the papers and drafts.
All the available funds being ex-
hausted and no appropriation for the
current year having been made, the
session of the federal court at KeolSuk
has Dracticallv closed Several I'M