Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-05-10
AROUND THE STATE.

closed by William Riddle berger, mort
gage creditor, on claim of about
$4,000. The stock is valued at $4,000.
The Sioux City street railway was
sold by the sheriff under foreclosure and
bought in by the bondholders, whose
judgment amounted to 1865, 900. They
will at once organize new company.
The special census of lie Mars shows
population of two or three hundred
over 5, 600, gain of 30 per cent in the
last four years. This makes LIE Mars
independent of the county on the mulct
law.
Eastern and cen trail Iowa werevisited
on the 5th by very severe wind and
hall storm. Iowa City especially suf-
fered greatly by the breaking of plate
glass windows and the flooding of store
buildings,
The many factories Of Dubuque which
depend on coal for fuel are seriously
alarmed over the threatened famine
caused by the miners strike. Stocks
are very low, there not being more
than weeks supply.
At the state miners convention at
Abba few days ago 1t was decided, by
a vote of 65 10 GO, to order strike in
all the mines of the state. On account
of the smallness of the ma jority the
result is problematicaL
The coal miners of Boone county.
numbering 1000, have struck out OF
sympathy for the eastern miners.
Wages range from 90 cents to 81 ton,
and there is no difficulty on that score.
Only three of the mines were running
steadily, the otkers being operated
only for the local summer trade and
the men were getting but a little work
each week. The strike, if long con-
tinued, will make a coal famine in the
railroad coal trade.
An earnest effort on the part of clt-
liens and others Of independence is
being made to locate a cracker factory
in that city which will be an extensive
affair. Indiana parties have agreed to
locate there and establish factory,
employing over 100 hands A bonus of
$4,000 is desired, and over So, 900 has
already been subscribed. Should the
necessary funds be raised, this will
prove larger enterprise than any SIM
liar factory IN the section.
The State Medical Society will hold
its forty-third annual meeting IN Des
MONIES May 16, II and IS. The officers
arc: President, Lewis Schooler, Ees
Moines; first vice-presldent, A. L.
Wright. Carroll; second vice-presl-
dent, H. B. Young, Burlington; secre-
tary, c. S. Chase, Waterloo assistant
secretary, c. E. Currie, Des Moines;
treasurer, G. r. Skinner, Cedar Rapids;
trustees, T. B. Lacey, Council Bluffs;
A. w. Cantwell, Davenport; e. L. Nc
Dowell, Clear Lake.
Alexis Heritier, a Swiss aged 25
years, had both of his legs cut off by
the passenger train No of the Rock
Island road at Colfax. The man was a
member of Kelly's army and was tired
of loaing and cumming around with
the army and purchased n ticket for
the east. Just where he was bound
for colld not be learned. lie made a
mlscalculation, it seems, in getting off
the train at Colfax, and lighted just on
the edge of the platform and fell in
under the train and both legs were
taken off few inches below the knee.
The man was taken to Tracy hospital,
Des Moines, where ne died the next
day.
Henry Fulton was arrested at Sioux
City by the sheriff of Plymouth county
on a charge OF murder. This is the
sequel to peculiar shooting accident
which occurred at James on February
&c. Henry Fulton and a number o.
other men were firing a revolver at q
target on the side of frame building
Fulton took up the weapon and fred {
shot, missing the target. The bullet
went through the building agalns
which the target rested and through
another building adjoining it, ant
struck James Lark;n, saloon-keepe1
of James, who happened to be passing
at the time. In it's flight the bulle
passed entirely through four clapboard
and plaster walls and entered Larkin'
groin. The injuries were so serious
that the man died the next day.
A few mornings since when j. p
Stottler, a we'll TODD horse breede
living north of West Liberty entered
his horse barn he found twelve valuab lt
ANIMALS on the foof of their stalls
Six were dead and the others were il
various stages of illness. 1t was learn
ed in a short time that some one haC
entered the barn in the night an
given the animals strychnine IN tn
salt, which had been placed in thei
feed boxes. Hard work was given t.
the rescue of the animals that were no
dead and perhaps they all may bC
saved. The loss will rot be far fror
$4,000 All the animals were of goo
trotting stock and many of them wer
entered in the races in the souther
circuit of the state. Among the dea