Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-01-07
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

NOANS
the 14th inst
Sac county has purchased poor
farm for SIS per aero,
Iowa Falls is getting ready to cele-
brate the Fourth of July.
Mitchell county last year shipped
1879 pounds of butter.
Polk county pays s2,eSi.o1 for the
care of her insane at the two hospitals
A stranger pawned his glass eye in
Council Bluffs recently for n TON and
Jerry"
The Boone glove factory received a
bear skin from Wyoming nearly ten
feet square.
M. Hendricl1son, farmer living near
Moorhead, suicided by hanging, on ac-
count of religion.
Union dealers have shipped $4,000
pounds OF dressed poultry to eastern
markets this season.
The Spies wagon factory will com
mence operations January Is and give
employment to 300 hands.
A 4-year-old daughter of A. L. Grant
died at Creston from the effects Of
scalding in pan of water.
The twenty annual meeting of
the Iowa State Horticultural society
will be held at Des Moines January 10
to 81.
The jury in the celebrated barrow
murder trial at Mason City, after being
out few hours, returned verdict of
not guilty.
Christ Nelson, of Baker township,
O'Brien county, was held up by two
highwaymcn in broad daylight. The
robbers obtained 81.
Several cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported at Nora Springs. Every pre-
caution has been taken to prevent the
speeding of the disease.
Burglars entered the store of II.
Murphy & Son at erosion by saving
hole through the floor and got away
with three hundred dollars worth of
silk goods.
The faith healer who attended the
child who died at Burlington recently,
will be prosecuted, the coroners jury
having so declared. Her name is Miss
Ida Vandewater.
f. II. Lathrop, of Swan Lake, har-
vested last fall the first crop of clover
ever raised in Emmett county. The old
settlers contended that it wouldn't
grow, but it did.
The Iowa Draft and Coach Horse as
ISOLATION will meet i'll fifth annual con-
vention at the Slavery January 18th.
w. ii. Jordan of Des Moines is prcsi
dent and c. +. Curtis of Ames secretary.
Rev. William Slater, ID. d., after
forty-five years of uninterrupted min
istry in the Burlington Congregational
church, preached sermon few days
ago marking the close of his active
passionate.
VIM. Colts, of Dubuque county, has
what he claims as the greatest curiosi-
ty on earth in the way of wood pile.
1t covers twenty-six square acres, is
thirty-two feet high and contains s.
824, 800 cords
A petition is being circulated in Dav-
export for the appointment of another
judge in the district composed of Jack
son, Clinton, Scott and Muscatine
counties. The work is said to be too
much for three judges.
. A couple of boys aged IL to Is years
while skating near Wyoming got to
fooling with revolver and it explod-
Cd Tho INa1 t,ilyi hot nhnt -, ha
hands of one of the boys avcrted what |
might have been serious accident.
Drew Davidson and Danny Breene,
Muscatine boys, were playing with an
old rifle gnd the Breene boy was shot |
in the jaw. The wound is not thought |
to be dangerous Young Davidson |
knew the rifle was loaded but 'for-
got"
improvements in new buildings to |
the amount of S155,000 were made at |
Washington during the year just end |
ed. During the same period in the |
county, outside of Washington, nearly |
100000 worth of new buildings were |
erected
Naman w. Moore, of Bremen county, |
counts his cows the most profitable live |
stock on his farm. During 1891 he |
MIXED twelve and pocketed 1921 from |
the sale of their milk and calves, be-
sides having all the milk wanted for |
family use.
Fairfield is in great luck. Through |
the influence of Senator James +. Will |
An Tn,.rarrin hoe 1anotnI
600 for the erection of public library
building. Senator Wilson has donated |
fine lot and the building will be erect |
ed in the early spring.
VIM. Skinner was unloading Goa
from car at Audubon when the car on |
which he was working was struck by
other cars pushed by an engine. Skin
ner was knocked off the car and
large chunk of coal fell on him, break |
ing his left leg and causing other in
jurics.
A schoolma'am at Monticello asked a
small boy in the grammar class to write a |
sentence containing the word longer"
The future hope of the nation studied |
for few moments and then wrote: |
''My pants are longer than yours. " The
fate of the urchin is not known.
Thirteen prisoners contained in a
cell at the Polk county Jail, at Des
Moines, attempted to escape by chisel
ing hole in the wall Their efforts
were frustrated, however, through the
fact that one of the county officials,
working late that night, heard them
pounding.
II looks as though the Commercial
club at Dubuque will split over bot
of wine. Part of the club favors a
sideboard at club headquarters and the
other part opposes. Those who favor
the wine threaten to withdraw and
form club of their own.
A most important Masonic gathering