Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-02-23
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

new brick and tile plant of gigan-
tic proportions is to be started at Des
Moines.
The heaviest snow storm of the
season prevailed at Keokuk on the
18th. Ten inches of snow fell.
Eli Thompson of Dcs Moines was con-
victed of starving his team of horses to
death. He was fined $50 and costs.
The city of lie Mars at special cleo
ton voted to extend the city limits and
take in about two square miles of ad-
ditional territory.
Judge S. c. Hastings, former resi-
dent of Musca tine and one of Iowa's
first supreme judges, died in San Fran
sisco. Cal, recently aged over 80 years.
The Plymouth Park association filed
articles of incorporation. The organ
ization will construct regulation mile
track and fence and equip grounds for
the lie Mars Interstate fair. The
provisional board of directors are: A.
Y. Weir VIM. II. Dent, L. J. Moreton,
]. L. Sammis, w, S. Freeman, j. +.
Albright, J. l.. Mohan. Geo. E. Loer-
ing and j. S. ioyt.
Quite number of farms around
Avoca have recently changed hands at
good prices, Attorney Converse pur.
chased two places north of town from
eastern parties. Mr.. Hector of Walnut
sold 220 acres at $50 w. c. Acl<er sold
his 12o acres at $40 cash. Fritz Oehl.
crtz bought 80 acres of the jerks farm
at good figures. J. w. Davis bought
the Judd $50 at $3.50.
Henry harting killed himself at I'm
derwood III a horrible manner. lie
disemboweled himself with butcher
knife. cutting out his liver and throw
ing a piece of it ia the stove. His past
life has been rather dissipated, and he
had taken the bi-chloride of gold cure.
Recently he began drinking again and
is supposed to have been rendered in
sane or SO respondent that he con-
cluded to kill himself.
An attempt was made to destroy the
Globe Bottling works, operated by r.
hClSS, OIl NUT I'll SllCCIi
Inccndiaries had set fire to the build
ing, which would have been destroyed
but for the timely discovery. No clue
TO the perpetrators. The liquor men
of the city have been engaged in a bit
ter quarrel for several months, and
Mr.. Weiss claims his enemies are re-
sponsible for the act.
What has undoubtedly proven a cost
ly fraud TO Illinois people was DIS
closed at Ottumwa. County Recorder
Parks received by mail from Peoria Z
deed and abstract from William J.,
Roberts for a piece of land IN Wapello
county. The consideration of the deed
was s., 500 and fictitious names were
used in fling the abstract. One other
such deed has been located at Gales
burg, III. 1t is thought the swindlers
stole some blanks from an abstract
Office in Ottumwa and are using them
other parts of Iowa.
Reliable reports indicate that the
fate of the Mason City & Fort Dodge
road is finally settled, AMI by July LIST
the Great Western will be running its
Inc into Mason City having purchased
of the Iowa Central the nine miles of
road between Mason City and Manly.
a three per cent tax was voted to the
Great Western to build into Mason
City, but tins they did not use. The
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will absorb the Mason City road ex-
tending from Lehigh on to the south.
west to Omaha. This would Indicate
that the Winona & Southwestern will
be compelled to look for some other
southern outlet, probably by the way
of Marshalltown,
A secret meeting of the middle Iowa
engineers of the Chicago, Burlington
tS Quincy was held at Ottumwa, and
committee of two has gone TO Chicago
to confer with the general officers of
the O. The engineers claim they
should be paid the same as the con.
ductOrs and hrakemen, the latter being
paid overtime for all over eleven hours
for day The engineers have here
tofore been paid so much trip, and it
was necessary they should lay at one
particular station two hours before
they got paid for one hour overtime;
therefore they ask to he paid the same
as the trainmca. The engineers claim
another strike is imminent unless the
demand is acceded to-
The little town of Spencer lost its
opera house and water works reservoir
in a fire few nights ago. The reser.
voir was huge tank supported by a
wooden frame high enough to give a
pressure to the town, Near it was the
opera house. The frame work under
the tank caught fire from stove in
the watchman's house, and soon the
flames were beyond control. Every
hydrant in the neigh borhood was froz-
en- and no water could be turned on.
The frame burned over four hours be-
fore it fell, when the tank with ), 900
barrels of water fell onto the opera
house, totally wrecklng it. Several
other buildings were also crushed.
The loss was about $4,000. Nobody
was hurt.
The Ames fence factory burned re-
Gently. The building, machinery, etc,
arc total loss. The fire started at
1890 in tine night, and could have been
put out but for the tact that the hose
lacked 300 feet of being long enough
to reach the blaze. The loss is about
$4,000.
Late at night burglars forced the
rear door to the postoffice at Newton
and blew open the large safe contain
ing $500 in money. The door was blown
twenty-five feet across the room. The
money secured consisted of postoflice
funds, There Is no clue to the burg.
lars
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Cismer, who live on a farm near