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

David c. Wickwire, a young man OF
twenty three years, was drowned while
bathing in the Sioux river at Sioux
City.
Eddie Cocayne, aged H. was Instant
~ killed at burlington by the accident
al discharge of a gun in the hands of a
playmate, John Corkey.
peculiar worm has made its APP
pearance in Dubuque codnty and is
eating off the heads of timothy and
oats lnhieting great injury to the
fields ~'es
The Dubuque & Sioux City railroad
has been promoted to full railway
postoffice, which gives fifteen men en-
ployed in the postal servive raise
in salary of 5000 per year each.
A severe bail storm passed ten miles
northeast of Eldora few days ago,
doing great damage 10 crops, windmills
and buildings The damage will
reach S25, 600 in that county alone.
Mrs. May Davis aged AZ, died at Ce-
dar Rapids of paralysis of the brain.
Deceased was abpormally afraid of
storms, and was stricken with paralysis
few evenings since at the home of a
neighbor, She was badly frightened
by an approaching storm
Secretary Baer announces that on ac.
count OF Worlds Fair attractions the
reunion Of the seventh Iowa Veteran
Volunteer infantry, which was to have
been held at Ottumwa on the Sd and
4th of October, 1893, has been postponed
until October 3aud 4, 1894, at Ottumwa,
Iowa.
The two small boys Of Lineman
DoXey of the burlington telegraph
force at Iowa Falls found loaded re-
volver which was accidentally discharg-
ed, the ball entering the forehead of the
younger boy. 1t is now thought that
the wound will prove fatal, Thes boys
are aged and 6.
Herbert ID. Gale, tho attorney who
was unusually active the past year
prosecuting Cedar Rapids saloon keep.
ers, has been arrested on warrant
charging him with carrying on the
business of retail liquor dealer with
out having had a government tax.
Gale was recently indicted by the
grand jury for maintaining a nuisance
under the prohibitory law.
A serious accident occurred at Farm
crsburg, Clayton county. Fritz See
land and Ed Oelkc were putting up
u hay loading apparatus in barn,
WREN the scaffold upon which they
were working gave way and they were
precipitatcd nearly thirty feet See
land was badly and possibly fatally
hurt, two ribs being broken, one of
which passed through his left lung
Oclke was uniniured.
Louis DeSrozier, who with another
boy, was feartully burned whie play
ing with powder at Sioux City recently.
died few days ago. He was burned
from his stoma ch up to his forehead.
His eyes were swollen shut, ami there
were deep burns under the chin and
on the breast 1t is supposed that he
also inhaled some of the flame lie
died in great agony, and his sutferings
from the time he was burned were ex-
cruciatIng,
A telegram from Oklahoma City an
nounced the death at that place on the
18th of EX -GovernOr of Iowa w. NJ.
Stone. Governor Stone removed Ia
Oklahoma City last spring upon his re.
tiremenc from the general land office
at WsshIngtol. He had long been
afflicted with Brlght's disease and a
short time ago was taken suddenly
worse, the disease resulting in his
death His remains were brought to
his fe,long home at Knoxville for in
terment. William NJ. Stone was the
sixth governor of the state of Iowa
and served from January IL, 1864, tC
January lG, 1865.
~ The livery stable of Carr & BUSY a,
Webster City was discovered to be OF
fire, and before the fire boys were on
the ground the entire structure was
one mass of flames, Six horses, eleven
buggies, harnesses, hay, etc, were
burned. Loss covered by insurance.
Geo. Frames blacksmith shop, adjoip-
ing the barn on the north, was also
bellows No Insurapce, l.. X. Christ.
ianson's blacksmith shop, on the south,
was Quilted Half dozen large plate
glass on the opposite side OF the street
were ruined, and Geo Shaw's pumI
and repair shop was considerably dam
aged.
lndianola furnishes one of the feH
ladies th'pare now with Lieut.. peary
on his tTp TO the northern seas in the
person Of Mrs, Maggie Schooley Hodge.
She goes as stcpographer to Lieut.
PearY. She was born and raised il
Warren county, II daughter of w. H.
Schooley, editor of the Advocate
Tribune, is a graduate of the lndianola
High school and the wife of Ora
Hodge, who is clerk in the pension
department at Washington and was in
the i'll fated Ford theatcr when it col
lapsed, but escaped unhurt. Mr.
Hodges parents also live in Indianola.
Mrs. Hodge is an accomplished and
lady like woman and has entered upon
a journey which will prove an ex.
perlence of incalculablc value
At Dubuque few nights ago the
residence of g. II. Kien was entered
by burglars nephew, Willie Lewis,
of Muscatine, is years old, on visit
to the family, heard the burglars at
work, stole down stairs and covered
one with n revolver. At the same mo.
ment a pal outside fired through the
window at Lewis and the latter re.
turned the fire, which gave opportun,
ity for the captured burglar to escape.
About $500 worth was taken. The
boys GOODNESS and pluck are highly
praised.
Frank Hoag, employed in the post.
office at Dubuuue rs mail collector ra,