Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-22
IOWA NEWS.


been made statistician for the state
board of control. He has the Phi. u.
degree from the university.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. FinEe of Du-
buque celebrated their golden we'd
ding. They were married fifty years
ago in Cincinnati, removing shortly
after to Dubuque, where they have
since resided.
Chancellor MacLean, of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska, is still here, says an
Iowa City dispatch. He stated to
member of the faculty that he was
very favorably impressed and that he
no doubt would accept the offer of the
state board of regents for Iowa. He
would write to the president of the
board and the governor soon and let
them know of his intentions. Every
member of the faculty in the city is OF
the opinion that he will accept the Of
fer of $1,000 year.
A correspondent writes the Iowa
Register thus: I'm your paper of JuSe
you state that Iowa was visited by
its first destructive cyclone. viz: the
Camanche cyclone, thirty-nine years
ago. / take leave to differ with you
as to this being the first tornado or
cyclone in Iowa. There was one
passed through the south half of Cedar
county June 5, 1854, which would have
been far more destructive than the
Camanche cyclone if the county had
been settled. The path of the storm
was half mile wide; could easily see
the width of the storm as it passed
fhn Il itNCr xIvsac
taken clean, nothing left. | know
what l am talking about, as l was in
it, and badly used up when l came
out"
Washington dispatch: Ten out OF
the eleven supervisors of the census
for Iowa have been selected and are
ready for appointment when Director
Merriam sees fit to take the list to
the president. Representative Hep
burn is the only man shy on super
visor and ne will probably name one
for his district before long. The fol-
lowing is the list of selections by con-
gressional districts: First district, j.
w. Rowley of Keosauqua: Second dis
trict, G. D. Eaton of Wilton Junction;
Third district, ]. w. Krayfel of Water
loo; Fourth district, G.. w. Markley
of Lansing; Fifth district, J. w. Dox-
see of Monticello; Sixth district, A. H.
Fortune of Bloomfield Seventh dis
trict. A. w. Brandt of Des Moines;
Ninth district F. F. Everest of Council
Bluffs; Tenth district. ]. T. Drug of
Stratford; Eleventh district, w. E.
Hamilton of Odebolt.
The Glenwood Opinion says that
General Stone is very much pleased
with the apple prospects on his big
form. He estimates that he will have
fully $4,000 trees bearing this year,
which makes person a trifle dizzy in
calculating how many big red apples
this means if conditions continue at
all favorable. We will let those of
our readers that are good at figuring
fix it up to suit themselves, allowing
for each tree all the way from one to
10 bushels at a price ranging from 15c
to 81 per bushel. In all there is in
the Stone orchard something over So
900 trees, showing that there is a high
percentage in bearing this season.
OF this vast number more than half
are those standard varieties, Ben
Davis and Jonathan, the proportion
being about two to one of the former.
The balance of the orchards are made
up of the Grimes Golden, Janet, Wine
Sap, Snow, Missouri Pippins, etc.
State Geologist Samuel Calvin of
Iowa City was at the office of the sur
vey at the state house last week. The
work for the season was arranged and
distributed as follows: Mr.. Calvin
and Mr.. Balm will finish Dubuque
county; Mr.. Calvin will work in Page
county after concluding the Dubuque
work; Mr.. Balm and Mr.. Frank Wilder,
of the West Des Moines high school,
will work in Lyon and Sioux counties
Mr.. Benjamin Miller, of Penn college,
will work in Marion county: Mr.. J.
A. Udder, of Rock Island. ILL.,, will
work in Louisa and Cedar counties:
Mr.. w. H. Norton, of Mt. Vernon, will
work in Cedar and Bremen counties ;
Mr.. T. E. Savage, of the State Univer-
sity of Iowa, will work Henry county;
Mr.. Williams, of Ames, will work in
Worth county; S. w. Boyer, of Ames,
will work in Hardin county and the
latter part of the summer will work
on the brick and clay industries of
the state.
The grand jury her al work in the
present session of the United States
court, after hearing evidence in the
case of Fred Rees, charged with rob-
bling the United States mail, refused
to return an indictment and dismissed
the case. This case has awakened
more than usual interest here. Rees
who is prominent family, and is a
son of the late Judge Samuel Rees
who died recently in Omaha, had been
employed in the postoffice for several
years. Last fall several complaints
were made at the Office concerning
articles that had been stolen from the
mails. A close watch was kept of the
employees, and Inspector E. NJ. Hollo.
way, of Chicago, came here to take
charge of the case. Last November
Rees was arrested in the middle of the
night and lodged in Jail on the order
of the inspector. He secured bail ant
has remained here since them, await.
ing the session of the United States
court TO hear his case. After hearine
the evidence the grand jury directed
that the evidence was not sufficient,
conclusive and dismissed the case.
Bertha Strube, young lady II year.
old, of Dickinson county, living abou
two miles west of Terril. was killed
instantly by lightning. She was up
stairs when the bolt struck the house
Rev. Alexander Corkey, of the Kali
amaZoo, Mich. Presbyterian church
has been granted letters of admission
to the presbytery of Cedar Rapid. MI
Corkel after his installation as pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at Gar