Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-03-10
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Des Moines, Iowa.
Let's Creek has postoffice again.
The Office was discontinued six months
ago. but has been resumed.
Kossuth county farmers are taking
up project to buy the Wallace cream
cry plant at Algona and run it on the
cooperative plan.
Brakeman Abe Alxier of the Iowa
Central railway, fell from the top of a
box car, just east of Marshalltown, and
was instantly killed.
Fire at Sioux City destroyed the
wholesale dry goods house of A. Jandt
g. Co., causing loss of 5000 on the
stock and $12, 500 on the building. In
sured.
John Arp, of the West End Gun CLUB
of Davenport, and j. w. Howard, of
the Foresters, shot at fifty live birds
each, for $50 side. Howard got AZ
and Arp 81.
Edward Pierrepont, attorney gener-
al Of the United States under President
Grant and afterwards minister to Eng
land, died at his home in New York
after an illness of four days.
Bishop Hennessey has taken advant-
age of Pope Lcos circular, authorizing
bishops in dioceses in w hich la grippe
is prevalent to relieve the faithful from
the obligations of fasting and absti-
hence.
In response to a remark of the Ger
man emperor that he would ''pulverize
Russia, the ear states that whenever
the emperor is ready he will willingly
throw few hundred thousand men
over the border.
Fernleigh Montague, a New York
artist who had been i'll for some time,
committed suicide, together with his
wife, who permitted him to place re-
volyer in her mouth and fire, after
which he killed himself.
Rev. Mr.. Garfield, Universalist
minister, formerly resident of Ago
ma, was buried at Humboldt, the Odd
Fellows having charge of the services.
Mr. Garfield was over eighty years old,
and had suffered great deal.
While out hunting near Hillsboro, a
small town near Keokuk, William
iSellwood was accidently shot and
killed by his companion, Bob Taylor.
Sclwood leaves wife and three child
rem in destitute circumstances.
A bad accident occurred on the C. &
nf Nv mil ~
Belle PLANE. A freight train broke in
two and the two sections collided,
wresking several box cars and tearing
up the track for several rail lengths.
A movement is on foot looking to the
organization of Young Mems Chris
tian association in Marion, and consid-
cradle interest has already been shown
and number have expressed their
willingness to join and extend substan.
tial aid.
Reports from number of points in
southern Iowa show that the fear that
winter wheat has been destroyed be-
cause of the open winter, is unfounded.
While the acreage is not very extens-
sive, the crop promises to be as good as
in former years.
An extra freight on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul was going down
hill between Parnell and North Eng
lish, when the rails spread, ditching
four freight cars and the caboose. The
train men had u narrow escape and
were badly shaken up
Three deputy marshals arrested a
man named Michael in Polk county,
Tennessee, for Illicit Gistilling. On the
way to Ducktown they were halted by
crowd of moonshiners, who opened
fire and rescued the prisoner. Two OF
the deputies were killed but the other
escaped unhurt.
All practical intelligent farmers
know that it pays to change their seed
every few years. If you want choice
varieties of seed potatoes, seed corn,
oats, wheat or anything in the line of
grass or field seeds, write for the new
illustrated catalogue of the Iowa Seed
Company, of Des Moines.
working at tunnel near Niagara
Falls the latter were badly beaten.
One Pole was shot dead and another
fatally wounded while n negro was
fatally hurt and another seriously
wounded The colored men have been
arreste! for the shooting.
C. w. Budd defeated E. d. Fulford at
Chicago in matched shoot for 5000 a
side for 100 live birds. Fulford with
drew after the first fifty birds had been
passed. This makes the Des Moines
man champion wing shot of the coun-
try, as he defeated Fulford the day be-
fore in a similar race, killing 90 birds to
his opponents 81.
A case of poisoning occurred in Du-
puque which resulted in death. BY
mistake can containing arsenic was
used in baking by the family of George
Bansworth, instead of baking powder.
The family were made deathly sick,
and Mrs. Bansworth died the next
morning Other members of the fam
lily are still very sick
The city council of Indianola has
passed an ordinance granting the Fuel
Gas company of Chicago the use of the
streets and alleys of the city to lay
p.pes and construct motor car line.
The contract requires that there are to
be at least three miles of piping laid in
two years and three miles of railway
built in four years.
A strike of locomotive engineers on
the Sioux & Northern road is imminent.
A number of men were discharged late
ly without a reason being given. Grand
Chief Engineer Arthur, who is In Sioux
City investigating the trouble, says
there will probably be strike If the
men are not reinstated or reason
given for their discharge.
Some time ago Cedar Rapids cleo
trio car collided with coal wagon.
throwing the driver, Thomas Orr, to
the ground from the effects of which