Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-05-13
RANDOM CLIPPINGS.

factory pupil suspended by the princi
pal. 1t reinstated the principal refuses
to continue his school.
It is estimated that new dam anc
filters for the Creston water works will
cost from $1,000 to $4,000. They were
recently torn out by storms.
Council Bluffs is making an effort to
secure the mobilization of state and
United States troops within her borders
during the Omaha exposition period
The Nonpariel thinks that $4,000 troops
could thus be brought together,
A lady at Stuart took an electric light
globe to bed with her one night to keen
her feet warm and soon afterward was
awakened by smoking bed clothes. The
sheet and her night dress were on fire.
A class of five young lady graduates
at Gliddon has adopted for its class
motto this pertinent one: Where are
the Boys?'
David Rankin, the great cattle buyer
of Tarkio, Mo-, has recently made an.
other importation of Texas cattle upon
which the freight alone came to $4,000
Iowa furnishes Chicago the largest
number of horses as well as the largest
number of cattle and hogs. OF the 9S9
car loads received there last month Iowa
! contributed AL.
Governor Drake has notified the India
| relief commission of Iowa that he will
personally give one car load of corn for
the relief of the famine and plague
stricken millions in India.
Union county last year lost $4,000
head of hogs mostly from cholera This
statement was a surprise even to the
farmers themselves, as it was not thought
that the loss had been so heavy until the
| township assessors had made their re-
port. 1t is estimated that this loss took
from the farmers about 100000 in cash.
Enterprising citizens of Dyersville will
start up the cat-fur industry with cap
ital of $4,000. The object is to breed
cats for the fur and other resources Of
the feline, including the fiddle strings.
The school boards of Fredonia and
Preston townships in Plymouth county
have arranged to build storm caves at
each of the school houses, and they have
rlready advertised for bids. These
storm caves are to be II feet long, 6 feet
wide and 61s feet deep. They will be
lined with cement. have brick arches
and be proof against rats and snakes, as
we'll as cyclones.
The Westfeld (Ind.) News prints the
following in regard to an old resident of
, that place: Frank McAvoy, for many
years in the employ of the L, N. A. & c..
Ry here says: 4 have used Chamber
: aims Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy for ten years or longer-am
never without it in my family. l con-
slider it the best remedy of the kind
manufactured. take pleasure in recon-
mending it," 1t is a specific for all
bowel disorders. For sale by A. H.
Roberts, druggist.
The local authorities of Boone have
had some trouble with the Salvationists
about parading the streets. Saturday
night travelling band of Italians oc-
cupied the street, and Sunday night
Ensign Spurgin marched upon the
streets, holding their meetings, and al
leging they had the same rights accorded
Italians. City Marshal Palmer hunted
up an old ordinance and placed Ensign
Spurgin and his followers under arrest.
There were loud mutterings against the
officer as he started for the Jail with the
Christian workers, and but for the cool
heads of some of the citizens riot
would have been precipitated and the
Salvationists liberated. but the ensign
was committed to Jail and booked for
three days. Friends of the ensign vol
unteered to furnish the necessary bonds
and pay the fine assessed against him
but he declined. Later the ensign had a
sign painted and erected on the street
corner containing these words: "Sent to
Jail for preaching Jesus Christ upon the
streets of Boone. Be back in three days.
Hold the fort. Ensign Spurgin.' The
officers removed the Objectionable sign,
but friends of the Salvationists hung it
up again on the street corner and during
the day symathizers decorted it with
flowers.
Sheriff Morgan, of Pottawattamie
county, Iowa, had an exceedingly I'M
pleasant duty to perform the other day
he performed it grimly and without
hesitancy. Saturday afternoon he found
himself IN the discharge of his official
duties afoot and in the vicinity of Love
land, Iowa. fifteen miles from home. He
was anxious to get home, but was obliged
by the condition of things to wait for the
train. ID. ID. Hutchinson, we'll known