Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-07-20

fOO1eu. FRANK LatDrOps grocery, W. /
ii. Bachman's agricultural implement
warehouse, the Union Mill Company's
elevator and the Cedar Valley Manu-
featuring Company's factory were each |
partially unroofed. Three houses were |
struck by lightning and large num- |
Der of trees were uprooted. A large !
tree, which was forty years old, was
torn up by the roots and thrown upon |
the Waterloo Produce Qompauy's build |
ings, smashing one of them to the |
foundations There aye no reports OF
damage in the country, and the storm
seems to have been Local one.
Keokuk was visited by another dis
astrous fire Few days ago, the third
within few weeks About million
feet of lumber in Tabor & Co. s yards
were burned, enialling loss of about
S35, 900, fully covered by insurance.
The fire originated from spark cast
out by u passing locomotive and ragged
with great fury for about three hours
before it was got under control. A
furious wind was blowing and for
while it seemed that the entire lumber.
railroad shops and packing house dis
trict and considerable portion of the
residence part would be food for the
flames, but the wind providentially
shifted ard drove the flames from the
lumber yards and mills against the
bluff. Then the fire was gotten under
control.
gang of dozen toughs assaulted
and nearly killed Officers Watt and
Crafts at CORTLAND Beach. CORTLAND
is new Omaha watering place lying
west of the river, but in Council Bluffs
on the portion OF territory gwen the
Bluffs at the recent adjustment of
state lines The officers fought in de-
Tense of their lives and discharged their
revolvers Officer Watt was stabbed
twice, but fred three shots at his as
sailants. Both officers were beaten
into insensiuility. All the toughs
escaped arrest at the time. Five OF
them have since been arrested, and
another was found at Florence later
shot through the bowels and IN dying
condition, and has since been reported
dead. Another was found in Omaha
with a bullet wound in his leg.
There was considerable surprise at
the home Office of the Equitable Mu-
tual Life and Endowment association
in Waterloo at a report in the Associ-
atcd Press dispatches that NJ. Il. How
ard, the agent of that company at
Richmond, Ind, had disappeared, leav-
ing numerous unpaid bills. The secre-
tary said that he received a letter from
him the following day dated at Terre
IIaute, Ind, stating that he had gene
there on business for the company.
The statement made by the Associated
Press that Howard had written $780,
900 of business for the company at
Richmond is denied, and it is said that
his business there was not over $780,
900. The company's officers say they
Will protect all their policy holders
there, and as far as Howard is author
lied TO do business for them they will
be resp onsibic for it.
hs IlIuC pdSSCs tut iilluhC VI luS
loss occasioned by the recent cyclone
becomes apparently much greater than
it was at first supposed TO be. In Pom
eroy the actual pecuniary loss Is estl.
mated to be about 100000, and added
to the loss west of there to Cherokee,
which cannot be placed at less than
800, 900, we have an aggregate loss of
half million dollars The contrlbu-
tons continue to pour IN from all parts
of the state, but it is estimated that
they win be none too plentiful for what
is actually needed. During the re-
moval of a number Of the wounded to
the Sioux City hospitals few days
ago three of them were unable to bear
| the strain and died en- route. The
special hospital train used to convey
the unfortunate victims to Sioux City
comprised three Pullman sleepers filed
1 wi. wounded, car Tor relatives, a
! kitchen car and one for the doctors and
| nurses, The threatened trouble with
snothered and all are liquidating their
| losses dollar for dollar.
/ Jasper county lost its first building
and oldest landmark last week, says
log house built in the county by the
! Tool family, at what was known for
! years as Tools Point, was RACED to the
| ground by l. Sheeler. The building
was put up by A. NJ. Tool, father of J.
! A. Tool and John NJ. Tool IN the tall
of 1913, and was the only one from the
| Narrows ESQ called by the points of
! TIMBER coming near together) one mile
east of OskaloOsa to Raccoon Forks
! the present capital of Iowa. Oskaloosa
was then unborn. The house was the
only refuge from storms and general
resting place for the weary traveller for
| thirty miles each way. Oskaloosa was
| located In 1914, and was the base of
| supplies for all the settlers west of it,
until the Hollanders located Pella in
1s47. The log house at Tools Point
was thus historic, and the MessrS Tool
can tell you of many an interesting
event that took place in and about it,
| The first four claims in this section of
country were marked out on the first
and second days of May, ls43.
| In an alteration over a mortgage,
Daniel Mccarthy, an attorney of Marys-
! vile, was shot and mortally wounded
! by n man named Netherow, dying a
short time later. Netherow is still at
J large.
The famous old white horse of the
DR.. Cronin case, Chicago, is doing farm
work in Niles township, seven miles
northeast OF Charles City. He is the
property of James Menaghan,a wealthy
| farmer, and was presented to him by
his sister, Mrs Oman, wife of the
the liveryman, on the death of her
| husband.
During q severe storm at Earlville
ChoS nanton renaiyab n fatal Shoolx bxy