Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-03-24
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

ment OF the principality of Rens, hav-
ing resigned his position in 1864 and
emigrated to Burlington, died. aged 60.
large and beautiful meteor flashed
across the northern sky and was visible
at Burlington, filling the heavens with
light and leaving long sparkling trail.
1t burst into fragments near the earth's
surface.
Thomas Whalen was run over while
coupling cars at Charter Oak, and had
his leg badly mutilated. He died the
next morning and his remains were
taken to Sioux City, where his people
reside.
The district meeting of the societies
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union
will be held at Fort Dodge March 80
and 81. The district includes the
northwestern portion of state. About
100 delegates will be present.
The depot belonging to the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway at Cow
ington was destroyed by fire. The
building was a large two-story struc-
ture, and it, with it's contents, was
completely destroyed.
The dispatch sent out from Monte
yuma relative to the arrest of Llkens
should have stated that he was indicted
by the grand jury of MahasSa county
for the alleged stealing of harness, and
not horses, as published.
Ben Noun of Sioux county had eve
which gave birth to an eight-legged
lamb recently. The monstrosity lived
but ten minutes after birth. 1t had
two well developed bodies, each pro-
vided with four legs, and it was two
creatures up to the head.
From the federal court writ of at
tachment was issued against Samuel c.
Scotch and John Corse & Co. Chicago
grain dealers, formerly doing business
at Burlington. The suit was brought
about by the Merchants National
Bank, of Burlington, on a promissory
note for So, 700.
Northwestern Iowa is alive with
land buyers from Illinois and eastern
Iowa. Prices of land go higher every
week. The week before last there
were twenty-one emigrant cars un-
loaded at the different stations in
,Palo Alto county and last week and
this about the same.
The horse industry of Iowa is of far
greater Importance than most people
;uo,c;po prap,a,- onu,, hos cayaral
men engaged in the business. 1t
would be interesting to know their
yearly shipments. One of them, AL
bert Tibbetts of Sumner, bought just
one hundred in the month of February.
Every yard should contain few
flowers and if you do not know just
what to select ask the Iowa Seed Com
pany of Des Moines for their Grand
mothers Collection of 10 packets of
old fashioned favorites for 25 cents; or
the Gem Collection of 10 packets of the
latest floral novelties for 60 cents,
Catalogue free.
The law abiding citizens of Colfax
are very indignant over the appearance
of some of Des Moines' young bloods
and sporting women, who go there to
spend Sunday and make the town a
rendezvous for debauchery. The peo-
pie are determined to put stop to
these nuisances and relegate them
back to Whitechapel
The Farmers Cooperative society of
Rockwell, transacted $3.50, 900 worth of
business during the past year, The
The membership is 1879. They feel con-
fident of their ability to continue bust
ness, notwithstanding the refusal of
many large manufacturers to sell them
goods where they are in competition
with regular dealers.
John Silzer, a prominent resident of
Dubuque, who had been suffering with
brain fever for about two weeks, died.
little while before his death he re-
covered consciousness enough to recog-
nize all his family and bid them good
bye, after which he again relapsed into
Inconsistencies A wife and three
children survive him.
Wade somewhere in southern Iowa
traded stock of furniture valued at
at $4,000 for patent folding bed. He
soon determined that the bed was no
good and commenced litigation to get
his property back. The Judge who
tried the case decided against him, and
Mr.. Wade is confined to his bed.
Mrs. Theresa Schrier, of Dubuque,
bought some medicine to relieve her of
the toothache. After applying it to
her gums her jaws and throat swelled
up, and after suffering great agony for
several days she died in spite of the
efforts of several physicians to relieve
her. The opinion of the doctors Is that
she was poisoned by the medicine.
The next trans continental railway,
the Sixth American line, will be the
Great Northern from st. Paul Trains
on the Pacific extension are already
running into the Flathead valley west
of the Rockies. Track laying is in
progress in Idaho and Washington.
Spokane will be reached in June and
Puget Sound by the first of the year.
II has been learned that an assassin
attempted the life of Thos. Hollis, a
prominent Radcliffe banker, recently.
The man followed Hollis home and
shot HIM down ON the street, the bull
let grazing his skull and stunning him.
1t is said that Hollis knows the assas-
sin and he will be arrested. The af-
fair is said to be the outcome of an old
feud.
Considerable excitement was caused
on the streets o: Burlington by seri-
GUS shooting scrape, in which William
Jourlxin was shot in the face by a negro
named Stanley Hendricks. The ARRAY
was the outcome of drunken row,
Hendricks finally drawing revolver
and firing twice at Jourkin. The latter
is at the hospital and the former under
arrest.
The engineers on the Keokuk & West
ern railway will not strike A con-