Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-04-13

| changed into praise meeting. 1t is
understood no assignments will be
made, but the ministers will return
/ and be invited to preach by their sever
al congregations In the meantime
an appeal will be taken to the supreme
court from the decision recently rem
dered by Judge Conrad in Dcs Moines.
Rev. n. NJ Waters, pastor of the
| Methodist church of Dubuque, in Il
| sermon last Sunday onsthe inspiration
of the scriptures, startled his congre-
CATION by taking the bold stand of de.
pying the verbal inspiration and in
errency of the bible. While the jew
Ish people were especially chosen of
God to proclaim religious truth, the
books of the bible were floating around
| for many centuries and became more
or less corrupted. He added that Cal-
/ vim instituted the doctrine of bible in
falibility to get around the doctrine of
papal infalibility. The bible was
nothing but book of sermons IN
which there was no more inspiration
| than the reader got out of them.
! The city of Dubuque has always
conducted its municipal affairs under Il
special chan ter granted before the state
was organized by the general govern
ment. Several other cities OF the state
including Davenport, Burlington, Belle
vue and keokuk obtained similar char
ters. Several Of these cities, except
Kcokuk, have surrendered these spc-
cial charters. The new city council of
Dubuque have under adviscment the
matter of surrendering the city's char
ter aud conducting city affairs under
the general incorporation act in order
to take advantage of the powers
J granted therein in the matter of grad.
| ing the streets, the condemnation of
private property, and the right TO ap-
| peal to the courts.
| Charles Shultz, section foreman of
the Illinois Central on the stretch of
track between Fort Dodge and Tara,
and four of his men had thrilling ex.
| perience recently. While coming to TT.
Dodge from the west they were run
! down by an cast bound local freight
and narrowly escaped with their lives.
The men were 50 engaged thai the
coming train was not seen until almost
| upon them. When the freight was first
sect the hand car was on the Lizard
bridge, and solid ground was twenty
! feet away There was no alternative
and the men all jumped. moment
| later the COW catcher crashed into the
/ hand car and hurled 1T from the track.
| Luckily all the men escaped with few
slight bruises, except Foreman Shultz,
who sustained sprained ankle.
! A Sioux City dispatch says u cyclone
struck the town OF Akron, Iowa, at
o'clock on the afternoon of the 1lth
| Many houses and business buildings
We're demolished, but there was no loss
| of life there. The estimated property
loss is $4,000. The storm swept
through the country TO Westfeld, S.
| D., and leveled many farm houses and
buildings. Near Westfield, Il man and
wife, names unknown, We're killed
| The storm crossed the Missouri river
/ near that place and swept across $50
miles west of Sioux City, destroying
much property en- route. At Page much
! damage was done, and Clara Mayors
was killed and two children dangerous
| ~ injured The storm progressed
distance of 200 miles in an hour and
| forty minutes. Particulars from the
intervening country are meagre.
I,,l, g Il
vatlon Army, only 20 years of age,
rooms with Salvation Army sister at
| the home of Edward Powers. Method
| ist missionary, at Marshai!town. She
was left alone in the house, ironing
near an old gasoline stove in the
| kitchen. The flame blazing higher
| than she wished it, she attempted to
| turn it down But she had never used
| the stove before and turned up instead
! of down. Bursting to a great height,
| the flames set her clothes on fire iu-
! stantIy, for they were of light, com
| bustiblc material Miss Lynch's first
! instinct was to jump into ram water
/ barrel Just outside OF the house. With
| this idea she ran out of doors, but saw
| Mrs. j. Ii. Wright, next door north,
! and rushed screaming to the fence be-
tween the yards, the wind tanning the
flames TIL her whole body was envei-
| opcd. Mrs. Wright brought water as
| quickly as possible and poured 1t over
| the girl, and other neighbors were soon
present, startled by her screams; but
| the fire was no. cxtinguished till nearly
| every particle of clothing hau been
| burned to ashes a physician was
| called at once and the severe burns all
/ over Miss Lynch's body were carefully
| dressed. Recovery is hoped for but is
| uncertain, the doctor fearing inflamma-
| ton.
Judge Deencr, sitting in the district
court at Council Bluffs, decided two
! important railroad cases that are of in
terest to the state generally as bearing
on the powers of the railroad commits
| sioncrs to enforce their orders. Both
cases were brought by Attorney Gen
eral Stone in the name of the state
against the c. NJ. & st. p. railroad.
i Some time ago the commissioners acted
| favorab!y on the petition of the people
living in the village and in the vicinity
of Bouton, Dallas county, and issued
an order requiring the railway com
pany to cree. a suitable depot for the
accommodation OF the publc. There
| Is a station there but no depot, and
| people waiting for trains were obliged
to shelter themselves as best they
| could The railroad company refused
to obey the order, claiming that the
| depot was unnecessary and that the
| order was indefinite ard unreasonable,
and denying the constitutional author.
! ity of the commissioners to compel it to
build it. Judge Deemer in a lengthy
and strongly expressed opinion sus-
! tanned the commissioners. The opinion
is very important, as it is the first time
an Iowa court has made such an ordcr