Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-09-21
AROUND THE STATE.

mems calf shoes are made from the
best western tan calf skins, while most
of the advertised $3.50 shoes are made
from imitation calf skin. E-4 sst.
The Atlantic Business College of At
iantic, Iowa, is one of the best in the
state. Catalogue and specimens of
penmans hip mailed free by addressing
the proprietors, Barrett & llcnning.
Fire destroyed the Wapello canning
esta blIshment with a loss of 81, 500; in
sured for $1,000, The loss does not
end here, as a large number of farmers
had extensive vegetable farms, the
product of which will have no mar
kets.
At a meeting of the state Y. NJ. c. A.
executive committee recently held in
Des Mones, Davenport was selected as
the place for holding the next state
convention, and February 1918 as the
time tor such meeting About three
hundred delegates are expected to be
in attendance.
A school of mbalmipg was conducted
at Dubuque last week by Professors
Shrieve and Bolton, of the National
College of Embalming, iu St Louis.
Demonstrations on fhe subject by
Prof. Shrieve, were given at the county
coroner's office. There were many UNI
dertakers present from abroad.
Two young men attempted to catch
the blind baggage as the Milwaukee
train west pulled out of the depot at
Emmetsburg. One missed his hold and
was thrown under The wheels. which
cut off his right foot above the ankle.
The injured man gave his name as
Frank Ahearn, and his home as Mound
City, Mo.
The Farmers Cooperative Company
of Germania is after two agents, c. H.
Bradley and one Murphy. 1t is alleged
these two men collected and embezzled
notes 10 the amount of SO, 500. The
agents then skipped out OF the state
The alleged crimes were committed in
Ledyard township, Kossuth county, in
August.
James Beard. warden of the TT.
Madison penitentiary, appeared before
the state executive council, asking
that the counties which were some
time ago taken off the TT Madison
prison district and placed in the Ana
mosa district be again included IN the
TT Madison district. The council
granted the request, SO hereafter those
counties will be in the TT. Madison
district
Sparks from an engine set fire to the
prairie grass west of Independence and
with strong wind for some time il
threatened the city. The men and
boys turned out en- masse to subdue
the flames, but late in the afternoon il
broke out afresh and crept up to the
city limits Much anxiety was felt
and a watch was kept al. night The
fine residence por,ion would have been
IN the path of the fire.
The large stock barn belonging to
L. e. Richardson. just east of Gearing,
with its contcnts-sixty tons OF fine
tame hay and 400 bushels of oats-was
entirely consumed by fire, which was
first discovered about . o'clock at night.
Loss, 81, 800, with some insurance. A:
the barn was not in use and the hay
had been in too long to cause spontan
eous combustion, it is thought to have
been the work of an iucendiary.
The auditor of state has made state
ment showing the aprortionmcnt o.
the interest on the permanent schoo
fund on the 4th day of September
1898, as provided by sections of the
code of 1873, on the basis of II cent.
for each person of school age in tn,
state. The total amount of per
manent school fund avala BILE ,Jauuar,
/, 1893, was 81, 1868, ~. AZ, upon which
this apportionment was computed.
A travelling man named L, D.. Brown
was arrested at Newton on the charg,
OF adultery. b. w. Starr of that city
left his home, telling his wifi, that h,
was going to GrinBell; but instead o
going to Grinnell he stayed In the CIT,
until 10 O'Clock at night when he Will
the city marsha went to his house ant
found his wife and Brown occupying
the same bed, The preliminary hear
ing was continued until October 1.
The ceremonies attending the !,
vestiture of Archbishop IIennessey a
Dubuque on the 18th were very elabor
ate. Resides Mgr. Satolli an Cardina
Gibbons, nearly all the arcbbisbops 0
the United States, a majority of tn
bishops and more than 300 priests wer
there. The hierarchy of England, ire
land and New Zealand were repro
sented, aud there were nota BILE church
men from nearly every state in tb
Union.
In the case of the state of Iowa VS.
Jordan at De Soto, Squire Dillon dis
charged the defendant on prcliminar
examination. NJ. J. Daniels, maj
with the ''soap scheme" charged MI
Jordan, the landlord, with embezzlin
$3.50 at the Commercial hotel. whc
he claims was deposited for safe keer
ing. But the old gag of travelip
man giving his pocketbook to the land
lord and then claiming it was returne
short, did not work.
farmer named Rommcl, living /,
Bremen county, white crossing hi
field came across two loaded guns,
hunting knife, some smoking tobacco
and not for distant he found two larg
pools of blood. He also traced tn
marks of blood across his field 10 bi
sand pit He at once notified the she,
lff, who went out and investigated tn
affair, and later body was foun
buried IN the sand. The body is SUI
posed to be that of one of party {
campers that had stopped nea
Waverly.
. The New Sharon District far wa
very successful Every departmer
was we'll represented.
Herbert d. Gale attorney at law ,