Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-11-23
AROUND THE STATE.

The Lamont schools have been closed
on account of diphtheria.
Charles Conley, aged 90 years. died
on his farm near Cedar Rapids.
Hansen's Radical cough cure gives
immediate relief and cures when others
fail
Send postal to the Bankers Life
Association, Des Moines, with age and
occupation, and get estimate.
The Farmers creamery at Fairbank,
n few miles from OelweIn, took fire
and was totally destroyed. 1t was
partly insured.
Complete returns of the late cleo
tion give jackson 2o7, $50; Boies, l74,-
703; Joseph, 23,611; Mitchell, 10, lo7.
'Jaclson's plurality, 80, 800.
While playing around bonfire Flor
ence, the 5-year-old daughter of j. ID.
Harmer of Burlington was SO badly
burned that she died in few hours.
Eighteen Cedar Rapids saloon keep
ers, charged with maintaining nui-
sances, were each fined $50 and costs
OF prosecution and s25 attorney fees
The report of the experts who have
been examining the books of City Col
lector Spaan of keokuk shows that
he got away with S2,7O0 of the city's
funds. His bondsmen will settle.
w. p. Rittenburg, convicted in the
H1StrIat ot Do, >iIc Of riu,.
inal assault upon his l3-year-old daugh-
ter, was sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment in the Anamosa penIten-
tiary.
Diphtheria is raging in Van Buren,
township, Lee county, and five deaths
have already resulted, with several
cases in doubt. The schools have been
closed and all public gatherings pro-
hibted by the authorities.
An explosion in the Sentinel Office at
Dexter started a big fire. The flames
leaped out at the windows and ran
along the ceiling. The material was
damaged considerably. Heroic work
by the fire department saved heavy
loss.
Mrs. Charles Mussahl committed sui
eide at Dubuque by hanging. She had
trouble with her husband, caused by
her drinking and next morning when
her husband was leaving she told him
she intended to hang herself When
he returned in the evening he found
her hanging to a raiter In the garrett.
Michael c. Riley, aged IS, was
drowned in the Mississippi few days
ago. He was assistant cook on the
steamer Silver Crescent, which was
finishing her last trip for the year.
Between Fairpoint and Buffalo he dis
appeared, presumably having fallen
overheard. liberal reward has been
offered for his body.
At the recent session of the State
Dairy association at New Hampton,
the following officers were elected:
President, NJ. L. Newton, of Waterloo;
vIce-president, p. G. Henderson, OF
Central City; treasurer, 5. IL. Slbley,
of State Center; secretary, c. l.. Cab
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ing prizes were awarded: Separator
butter, first premium, l.. NJ. Cleveland,
Depew; second, +. X. Sween, Jericho,
Il. ID. Adams, Devon; gathered cream,
A. r. Corrier, Garnavillo; second, G.
b. Lawson, Grinnell; dairy butter,
first, c. L. Gabrielson, New Hampton;
cheese, H. d. White, Charles City.
The next annual meeting will be held
at Ames.
A peculiar shooting affair which may
re suit In death occurred at Clinton.
Charles Meyers and companion named
Peterson were out shooting at mark
with rifle. Meyers says to Peterson:
~ will give you leave to snoot at me
from here to that barn." ABOUT forty
rods distant Meyers took position by
the barn with his back to Peterson,
. who fred. Meyers said that he felt
the ball strike his clothing, but as
there was no pain he thought the ball
had dropped to the ground He did
he went home, and not until in the
night when 1t began to pain him. Then
they examined him and found bullet
hole in his body. Surgeons were
called and found the ball had passed
between the ninth and tenth rib, be-
side the spinal column, and is now
lodged in the shest.
Four prisoners, including the man
Burns, who was federal prisoner ac-
cused Of robbing the postoffice at Per-
kins, escaped from the county Jail at
Primghar. They obtained possession
of key to the cage and after getting
into the corridor, dug through the
brick wall to their liberty. They were
vicious enough to take all the keys OF
the Jail with them, or throw them
away, AMI this will necessitate the ex-
pense of new locks. The fugitives are
VIM. Davis, alias "Yellow Hammer"
aged about 20, prize fighter, a rail-
road man who has worked in the ca
pacity of brakeman on the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul and Iowa Gen.
trail; Charles Burns alias Charles Al
bert Barnes, aged about A; VIM. Ora
ham, 81 years old, and Frank Norland,
aged %. A liberal reward is offered
by Sheriff w. II. Noyes for the appre-
hension of the Jail breakers
Mr. Smiley, OF Clarion, aged over 80,
arose from his bed apparently in his
usual health, but while dressing fell
dead. His remains were taken to La
port City, his old home, for burial.
train on the Northwestern near
Moingona, while rounding curve,
struck and killed w. o. Whitaker, wife
and six-year-oh child, who were cross
ing the track IN a buggy. The latter
was horribly mangled. The same
train, in returning in the evening,
killed two unknown men, under the