Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-02-04
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.
Hog cholera is unusually prevalent in
lama county.


Young ladies of Grundy Center have
organized an Indian club swinging So
ciety.
Accompany with a. capital stock of
$4,000 will erect a packing house at
Charles City.
The grand lodge of the A. o. U. w.
will hold its meeting in Council Bluffs
on the 9th of February.
l.. III. Breed of Missouri Valley, and
Mayor Breed of Perry, are second cous-
ms of Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
Two citizens Of Ruthven have been
caught by green goods men to the
extent of several hundred dollars.
Mrs. RS Harris and Mrs. Edward
Langworthy of Dubuque, sisters, died
within few hours of each other of
grip.
Rev. f. X. Feurstein, of Cascade,
slipped and fell while entering the
church, and broke one of his legs be-
tween the knee and the ankle.
Joe Belranck, while at work. on the
spire of the new Catholic church at
Pocahontas, fell distance of forty feet
and was probably fatally injured.
c Peter Oster, Lyons policeman, had a
bloody encounter with three drunken
men, but with the aid of another officer
all three of the offenders were lodged
in Jail
The insurance on the Western Nor
NAL college at Shenandoah, that was
burned in December, has been satisfac-
torily adjusted. 1t amounted to $780,.
500.
The Intelligencer says only pup wolf
scalps are presented for bounty in
Floyd county, giving rise to the sus-
picion that the old ones are preserved
for breeding purposes.
John Carlson of Scott township
BuenaVista county, started home from
Alta in drunken condition. His team
ran away, he was dragged for two
miles and one hand was SO badly frozen
that it may be necessary to amputate
it.
John Gibson, president of the Iowa
State Savings bank, has sold his fine
farm of 1,500 acres near Creston to
Dorm Bros, of Des Moines, who will
convert it into the largest sheep ranch
in southern Iowa. The price paid was
$4,000.
rInthe Hopkins divorce case, pending
-
the fight is on the church training of
the children, and asserts that her
claims are based upon cruel and in
human treatment on the part of her
husband
The Seventh judicial district is ask
ing for an additional judge in that dis
trict. From the showing made by the
late census returns this district now
has but one judge for every $4,000 in
habitants Polk county has one judge
to about every $1,000.
Surgeon Waters reports over four
hundred cases of la prippe at the Sol
diers' home in Marshalltown, but not
any fatal. The deaths that have oc-
Cured were from other causes. The
hospital is the best regulated in the ma,
ton: so says General Averill.
A well dressed stranger who an
snounced he had ordered supply of
cannons with which to blow the town
and it's people off the earth was arrest
ed in the city hall corridor at Dubuque
while on his way to the council room
to exterminate the aldermen.
A family quarrel at the home of John
Moreland, in Dodge township, Boone
county, nearly ended in murder. The
principal part of the fighting was be.
tween A. w. Washburn and N. S.
Redenbaugh, present and former hus,
bands of Mrs Moreland, and guns, axes
ankkpives were used f
Here are some Of the figures Iowa
cities have made public on the amount
of improvements during the past year:
Des Moines, 81, 301, 1854; Sioux City, S4,-
O43,7s4; Clinton, 81, s26,7eo;: ottumwa,}
81, 100000: Cedar Rapids; $1,000, 900;
Muscatine, $500, 900; Waterloo, $3.50, 900;
Oskaloosa, S25O,0O0; Cedar Falls, Sl46,-
900.
Recently Mrs. jSAddie Jones suicieted
at Garner. ffer husband returned the
day previous from Kansas City, where
he had been TO purchase a farm. She
went to her bed room, took up revo1-
yer that was lXingo on the bureau in her
room and sentsa bullet through her left
he. - L
esteem and her tragic death is the talk
of all. ~.
The First NJ. Il. Church at Des
Moines, was badly damaged by the ex-
plosion of a boiler used in heating re
Gently. The room was badly
wrecked and a slate roof thrown to the
ground. The,pipe organ, Which stands
directly above the boiler room, was
considerably injured. The loss will
amount to about 81, 500. The cause is
not known.
Matt Andrews, James Murphy, and
John Craig, the Chicago crooks convict
ed of participation in the robbery of
the Swedenburg postoffice, were SEN
bChCCu ny outtSc NOOiSoI DIT hcOhuk.
Andrews was fined $1,000 and given
four years at hard labor in the Fort
Madison penitentiary; Murphy same
fine and two years; Craig fined $3.50
and given eighteen months.
BY decision of the United States
supreme court the title of S. T. Davis
to 16) acres of land within the city
limits of Sioux City is confirmed and
, number of squatters, who have lived on
il for years and fought for a title in the
courts, will have to move. The land is
worth half million dollars and the
claim had been passed upon by the dis
trict and state supreme courts.
Burglars entered three of the princi-
pal business houses and the postoffice
at Scarsboro. The postoffice safe was
tracked and several hundred stamps
extracted, while. expensive silks, Jewell