Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-09-20
IOWA NEWS ITEMS,

geon; Office 41s Walnut St., Des Moines.
SHIRTS to order. Agt. calls twice each
year. See him. w. Tilden, Des Moines
THE Odd Fellows of Dcs Moines laid
the corner stone of their new building
on the 18th.
THE creamery at Pilot Mound, owned
by stock company of farmers, burned
to the ground. Loss, $1,000.
L. NJ. WooDwoRTH, a retired capital
ist of Dubuque, died in Seldom, Kas.,
where he had gone to visit his son.
No better goods are made than the
Des MONIES Shoe Mfg. Co.'S Ladies,
Misses and Children's shoes. Why
send east? Ask your dealer for them.
Dies MONIES residence, rooms, large
grounds, 5 blocks from electric cars,
near Greenwood Park, to exchange for
clear Iowa farm. Address, full partic-
ulars, owner box 81, Des Moines, La.
BY fall of slate in Marshall mine,
No. 1. at Boone, Harry Gibson, a miner,
was pinned to the earth. His skull
was fractured, his head badly cut, and
both legs broken. He will hardly re-
cover.
DRAKE UNIvERsITY opened last week
with the largest enrolment in her his
tory, being thirty per cent larger than
last year. Evidently the drouth will
not keep Iowas young people from
securing an oducatiOn
THE State Insurance Company of Des
Moines escaped the Iowa confagrations
with small loss. The Estate" is a
staunch Iowa institution and deserving
of the liberal patronage it receives at
the hands of Iowa people.
In the Bennett Weise murder trial
at Marshalltown the state rested it's
case on the 18th. A motion by the de-
Tense to dismiss the case was over
ruled. The state did not introduce
any material new testimony.
In the Polk county district court
Judge Spurrier has just rendered a de-
c:sion declaring the Martin mulct law
constitutional. The case will be APP
:pealed at once, and probably come up
before the October term Of the supreme
court.
THE body of N. G. Remission, a trav-
cling book agent who had been miss
ing from Red Oak for some time, was
found in the woods near Eldora with
his throat cut. 1t is supposed to be a
case of suicide, as the valuableS were
still on his person.
In the federal court at Cedar Rapids
Judge Shiras passed sentence on about
twenty boot-leggers, fining them from
500 to $50. Harry Halmer, convicted
of raising a one dollar bill to five,
was sentenced to a year in the pcni-
Tertiary and Imprisonment suspended
during good behavior.
THE south ward school house at Win
jterset has been condemned by the
school board as unsafe. 1t has settled
badly during the last two months. 1t
is an enormous pile of stone, costing
when built, in the neighborhood of
$4,000. A special election will be held
September "a, submitting the question
of issuing bonds for new building.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the
residence of Roger O'Connor near
,Maquoketa. While their little son
Martin, aged II months, was eating
his dinner a piece of meat passed into
his windpipe. The father endeavored
to remove it, but failing, carried the
child in his arms as quickly as possible
to DR.. Waggoner's Office, but before
arriving there life was extinct.
THE Tri-City Telephone company
has incorporated at Clinton with cap
ital stock of $4,000 and secured a
,twenty-year franchise from the coun-
ellis of Clinton, Lyons and Fulton.
They furnish instruments 40 per cent
cheaper than the Bell company, and
already have more subscribers than
Bell. The indications are that the
new company will drive the Bell tele-
phone out
GENERAL MANAGER BURDICK, of the
Mason City & FIT. Dodge railway, says
VI IOtu are W
be removed at once from Mason City to
TT. Dodge. This move, it is said, is to
get the Chicago freight business of FIT.
Dodge in and out. The other points on
the road can be worked from Fl.
Dodge as we'll, while Mason City, being
the eastern terminus, furnishes no Chi
cago business.
SOME time ago well-to-do and pros
porous German farmer, c. Wander, liv-
ing near Vinton, accompanied by his
two daughters, went to Europe on a
visit and returned a week ago accom-
panied by another young and hand
some lady. They registered at the
Union hotel as C. Wander and family.
All went well until Mrs. Wander No. /
appeared upon the scene and declared
that she would have County Attorney
Gaaseh look into the matter. The at
torney is now investigating the affair.
THE proposition to establish water
works at Montezuma was voted upon
and it carried by handsome majority.
The women did not vote, as it might
inyalidate the bonds