Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-08-10
AROUND THE STATE.

tailed. No statement
The question of erecting a new coun.
ty Jail in Scott county is being agi-
tated.
John Nixon, of Emerson, Neb., has
mysteriously disappeared from Sioux
City.
The Rock Island depot at Gowrie
was broken into by burglars and So
secured.
Mrs. Henrietta w. Bows, wife of
Hon. L. Bows, the well known Cedar
Rapids millionaire, died suddenly of
peritonitis.
VIM. Leonard and Ed Pritchard.
prominent young farmers living near
Spencer, were arrested on the charge
of stealing six head of cattle.
The electric street railway will not
be built at Iowa City this year. The
financial situation has evidently had
much to do with the conclusion.
The new city directory census will
give the population of Clinton as 23,-
76s, which more than doubles that of
ten years ago, and the city is still
growing.
the creamery of the /. II. Shaver
Cheese company at Watkins was de-
stroyed by ire. 1t is the work of an
unknown incendiary. Loss, Sc, 900;
insurance, r., 600.
A recent dispatch from Burlington
says: The drouth continues undated.
Corn is firing all over the country.
Farmers say week of this weather
will cut the crop in half, and more
than that time will entirely ruin the
crop.
The cost of supporting the insane of
Iowa for the two years ending June 30,
1893, was $9l7, 1865, of which S717,s12
were paid by the counties and 500, 9l4.25
by the state for state patients.
The peoples party OF Monroe county
met in convention at Foster. and uomi-
mated J. F. Clarkson, practical miner,
for representative. He is young man
of much ability and will poll heavy
vote.
Simon Gates, the sixteen year-old
son of farmer living near Sumner,
met with a terrible accident tow
days ago. While raking hay his team
ran away. The teeth of the rake
mancled him in such a manner that his
recovery is doubtful.
The Polk county superyi sorS recently
adopted resolution declaring that
they are uuquaiifediy IN favor of the
purchase OF all materials and supplies
furnished Polk county from home
manufacturers, where the work is per-
formed by home labor.
The barn belonging to Mrs. 6. G.
Nuzum, widow, living in Jackson
township, near St. Marys, Warren coun-
ty, burned, together with two head of
horses, harness, new binder, 500
bushels of oats and other articles. The
shock was so great that Mrs, Nuzum
tainted away and never recovered.
The shock was too great for her.
Centerville had disastrous fire few
evenings since. Dick Spooner barn
and contents were destroyed, entailing
a loss OF about S5, 900. Two frame Office
buildings adjoining were also destroyed,
and for a while it looked as if the gas
works would also go. They were saw
ed, however. by tremendous hard work
and disastrous contlagratlon pre-
vented.
Frank Swanson, J. Crawford and
John Miller, three prisoners IN the
Webster county Jail at Fort Dodge
made a very clever Jail delivery. They
were confined'in a steel cage, but sue
ceeded in unlocking the door by means
of a skeleton key. They then pried
out one of the bars in the outer win.
dow, got into the yard, climbed the
fence and got safely away.
A novel suit has been filed in the
clerks office at Mount Pleasant IN
which ex.County Attorney A. W. Kin
kead sues Henry county to recover
money alleged TO be due him on prose-
cutting liquor cases while he was coun-
ty attorney. This is the first case in
Iowa where the county attorney, who
is paid salary for such work, has
sued the county for extra fees 1t has
created much interest S.
The wife of Charles Polk, who re.
sides southwest of Winterset about
twelve miles, was burned to death.
She endeavored to light a gasoline
stove which was in a small room, and
the explosion which followed set fire
to her clothing and she was fatally
burned before any assistance could be
rendered. Mr.. Polk is a prosperous
farmer and was at one time member
of the board of supervisors.
B. o. Aylesworth, president of Drake
University, Des MONIES, who was
chosen by the prohibitionists as their
candidate for governor, has sent let
ter to Isaac Gibson, chairman of the
state committee, declaring that in view
of the death of Chancellor Carpenter
and the illness of DIR. Hobbs it has be-
come his duty to withdraw his name
from the ticket, as he could not devote
any OF his time to political canvass.
The Dubuque Mattress Company,
with capital of 500, 900, has been in
corporated.
Emerson Hopes, market gardener
at Muscatine, was struck in the hip by
stray bullet and badly wounded.
c. ID. Lyon, editor of the Milo Motor,
left an interesting relic at the Iowa
state building at the Worlds FAIR in
the shape of a corn stalk, found under
house near Milo, in July, 1898. The
house having been built in cor nfield
forty-two years ago, it is supposed the
stalk had been there all that time.
The specimen is we'll preserved.
The Keokuk Constitution Democrat
will issue its annual illustrated edition