Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-04-20
NEWS OF THE STATE.


prison.
The Hawkeye Milling Company,
recently formed at Sioux City, has
bought a site and let contracts for
200 barrel Touring mill to cost $780,,
600.
Tho Central house, at Ninton, re.
Gently purchased and refltted by A. II.
sutton, caught fire at night from de-
fective flues and dla about $500 dam
age.
Mr.. aud Mrs. James ID. Greene, liv-
ing at Des Moines, have lost four chill
dren within little more than week,
with malignant diphtheria. But one
child Is left them.
-Colfax Mineral Water Cures Rheu-
matism in all forms, Dyspepsia, Con-
stipatlon, Malaria, Kidney and Liver
troubles For testimonials, ETC., write
to Colfax BottlIng Works, Colfax, Iowa.
Byron Webster, editor of the Mar.
shalltowp Statesman, has received a
dispatch from Washington, notifying
him of his appointment rs postmaster
of Marshalltown, vice S. c. Mcfarland
resigned. This closes very spirited
contest for this position between Web
stcr and OK Mayor Arson.
Judge Wakefield, in the district
court at Sioux City, heard the petition
for the appointment of receiver for
the Northwestern State bank of Sibley
The application was made by the at
torney general of the state on behalf
of the state auditor and the court
named II. Il. Thayer, assignee of the
bank, as receiver. rhaycr says he can
pay all claims, but the stock, repre-.
senting SIS, 0CO, will be total loss.
The postoflicc at Glidden was bur-
glariZcd about . o'clock in the morning
the door of the safe blown off, and
$3.50 IN money and $50 in stamps Sc
cured. Della Waldron, cashier of the
National bank, sleeping next door,
heard them in the room hut supposed
1T was Postmaster Campbell. The
noise of the safe explosion awakened
him doubtless, but inc thought it was
'''hSOhS hiShihS az lbC uOOI " open Ii
No clue to the re bbcrs.
The Fort Dodge city council has
just accommodated a long felt want by
passing sewerage ordinance. Plans
have been drawn by c. L. Loweth CT
st. Paul, covering the entire city in one
sewerage district. Contracts for con.
struction will be let at once. Sewers
viii be laid in the business part OF the
city immediately and the system will
bc extended as RAPIDLY as petitioned
for by the property holders. The cost
in all cases is charged to the abuttlng
property.
Mrs Manville Tarbox, residing
few miles east of Anamosa, committed
suicide by cutting her throat with
butcher knife. She cut two great
holes in her. wind pipe Mr. Tarbox
got up to build the fire and when he
went back to his wife's bed he was hor-
rified to see her cutting her throat. He
disarmed her and SIC put her fingers
in the cash and tore the wound with
her hand She had jus: got home from
the asylum at Independence, where
she had been for two years.
Last June the fruit commission
firm of Hartop & Hanson at Sioux City,
was burned out and the insurance com.
rames declined to paw the $4,000 in.
surancc. The firm sued, aud sensation
al testimony came ont at the trial few
days ago. The insurance companies
put on the stand several employees of
the firm who swore to having, under
instructions, helped dispose of the I'M
damaged stock after the fire so that
the loss could be sweled Other
fraudulent acts of the firm were
brought out. The case is still OF trial
Mrs. Julia A. Wesncr died sudden
~ at Eldora She was the reict of
the late Lyman Wcisner, the million
aire banker and land owner of Hardin
county, who was accidentally killed by
his only son, George, in the summer of
1889. The latter died in January last
and the only heirs of the vast Weisner
estate are the young widow of George
and her two little children There
has already been rauch litigation and
controversy over the admins tration of
the estate since young Weisner's death
and the demise of the mother will
doubtless revive the controversy.
Tho mystery surrounding the muir
der Of the two policemen at Dubuque
is still uusolved All the roads center.
ing in the city have set their detectives
to work on the case, and every officer
in the city is on the alert within ra-
dious of 100 miles of Dubuque At
least forty arrests have been made,
lut roue fullv answering the descrip-
ton. Some of them will be detained.
The bloody revolver found near the
scene OF the murder has been identified
rs one belonging to man who flour.
ished it at the American house, which
was taken from him by bartender
and afterwards returned. This man
could be easily identified.
The Davenport board of health has
issued notice to all people to
thoroughly clean their premises IN five
days OF the city would do the work
ana charge IL against the property as
special tax, The council is Investigate
irg the building of the crematory for
the burning of all offal and garbage.
DR. A. w. Cantwell, president of the
iowa public health association and
Iowa advisor of the National associa.
ton, has been appointed state quaran-
tine officer, and a rigid inspection of
immigrants entering the state at Dav-
onport is to be made during the sum
mcr The most stringent steps are
being taken TO render cholera and 9TH
er epidemics impossible and prevent
their entrance.
--Ciman & Shor,hll, of Marshall
town, have just been awarded the con.
tract for about two miles of additional
brick paving on various streets in that
city. There were seven bidders from