Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-01

were $50 invited guests present
Brothers and sisters of both sides and
bridegroom, children and grandchild-
event. The guests had been coming
from abroad for several days and they
were all in attendance. Many and
very costly presents were received and
most pleasant time engaged in.
Charles Moen, passenger brakeman
on the DEBORAH branch. was killed at
Waucoma While trying TO hold the train
the brake wheel pulled Off pitching
him into the track and the cars passing
over him. lie was dead when discov-
cred. Moen was % years old. He has
been on the run many years and was
nc of the most popular railroad men
on the Inc. Ills parents reside in
Illinois.
The Pomona Land and Trust Com
pany, of Council Bluffs, fled articles
of incorporation with the secretary of
state. 1t has capital stock of $50, 900,
and is organized for carrying on real
estate business and dealing in mort
cages, bonds, etc. L. J. Day, J.
Hess and Charles Konigmacher are the
ucorporators The Muscatinc Improve
ment an Manufacturing company also
filed Incorporation articles
Clifford st. John, son of J. M. st.
John, prominent lawyer of Des
Moines, was accidentally shot and
killed in the armory in that city by
Emory Smith, a street car conductor.
They belong to the governors guards,
and while drilling in double file, st.
John was shot in the back of the head.
lie died instantly. No arrest was
made. The coroncr's jury brought in
verdict of accidental killing.
MI Fred Erase, the Iowa Central
agent, who was taken to Newton on the
charge of fraud; was released on bail,
j. Brewer and Mr. Mann going his
bond for So, 500. Mr. Erase has a noble
wife and two lovely children upon
whom this trouble falls heavily. Mr..
Fras, himself has been highly re-
spectcd business man, and it is hoped
by his friends Ill Newton that he will
be able to cxtricate himself
The shoe factory at Lyons, suburb
of Sioux City, has been purchased by
LeMars capitalists and Chas. Stickncy,
manager of the Lcsncr shoe factory of
Sioux City. The machinery and about
five thousand dollars worth of leather
from the Lyons factory have been re-
cciyed at LIE Mars The Lesner shoe
factory will be removed to lie Mars and
consolidated with it. The new factory
will have capacity of 1000 pair of
shoes day, by working 300 hands.
The sudden and mysterious death of
f. b. Wood, highly respected horse
dealer of Fairfield, has aroused consid-
cradle excitement. Mr. Wood had not
been seen during the early morning
hours, and the anxious family COM
menced to look for him. He was found
in an clubhouse, clothed only in bis
night-robe. No further particulars
are given. Mr.. Wood has enjoyed COM
parative good health, and there is as
yet no explanation of his sudden death.
simultaneously with other state
boards of health, the Iowa State Board
of Health sent the following dispatch
| TO the president: To BENJAMIN HAIR
! RIsoN. PRESIDENT: The Iowa State
Board of Health most earnestly re-
quests that by immediate proclamation
You suspend immigration of all foreign
ers to ports of the United States from
all European and Asiatic ports until
cholera has subsidized. L. NJ. REYNOLDS,
NJ. d.. President; J. +. KENNEDY, NJ.
d., Secretary.
John Beclman's 6-year. old daughter
accidently shot herself while playing
with a loaded shotgun. 1t is supposed
that she was dragging the gun around
the room with the muzzle pointed
toward her when the hammer caught
on the carpet and discharged the
weapon No one was in the room at
the time and she was dead when her
mother reached the spot. The load
was of buck shot and passed through
her body into the wall beyond. Her
father is section foreman of the Illinois
Central.
RUDE Ragart, engineer for the Wicks
steam thrcshcr, was moving on the
road near Sumner. He stopped the en-
gine when the separator, which was
coupled behind, broke its coupling and
came rushing onto the engine, pinning
| Mr.. Ragart between the engine and
separator, as he was on the foot board
of the engine and could not get away
in time to save himself. He was extri-
Gated and taken to the house of Mr..
Schroeder, on the Wilkic farm, and a
doctor summoned, who discovered that
three ribs were broken and the spine
| fractured, besides other internal in.
iurles, which it was feared would prove
fatal, but at this writing he seems to
be in a fair way to recover.
A horrible accident occurred about
six miles west of Primghar The vic,
tim was very industrious young Ger.
Sieblla. Siebka and another man were
stacking grain and had taken a gun
with them Tor the purpose of killing
small game just how the accident
occurred will never be known, as
Siebka could not tell and the other
man was not looking in that direc
tion at the time of the shooting
Siebka was either taking the gun off
the rack or putting it on the wagon
when it was discharged and the con,
tents took effect in the lower part Of
his body. Doctors Brown of Prim
CHAR, and Doughty of Paulina, were
summoned and reached the scene
soon after the accident, but the un
fortunate man was past help and died
almost Immediately. He was about
80 years old and leaves wife ant
four children.
In the case of the State of Iowa VS.
George Dhaboldt for assault with in