Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-07
BItEy ITIFS.

JOnn IdUnef, Wnlle attempting tC
cross the Northwestern track at Gin
ton in front of the Colorado special,
was struck by the train. He will die.
Henry Bishop, of Cedar, Rapids, 81
years old, while doing stone work in a
sewer contract, was struck on the
head by a falling derrick boom. His
skull was fractured and death was
instantaneous.
William Feely, the 10 year old son
of James Feely, a well to do farmer
in Lincoln township, Cerro Gordo
county, accidentally shot himself
through the left hand and right
shoulder. lie had been shooting GO
pliers and was leaning on the gun
when he accidentally set it off with
his knee. The hand was terribly
mangled and was Immediately am
putated. 1t is not now thought that
he can live.
1t is announced that million dol
lar railroad transaction is well under
way which means for Iowa one of the
for Valley Junction an institution of
immense proportions. The Rock
Island railway company, according to
information from reliable sources, will
concentrate there railroad shops such
as cannot be found elsewhere in the
country. The deal carries with it the
removal of the shops from Chicago,
and means, including the price of the
lands recently purchased in the vicln-
ity of Valley Junction and others
dollars. The Chicago labor troubles
are said to be the direct cause of the
move, while other things have tended
towards the move.
DR.. Stetson, of the Des Moines Bap-
fist college, is the latest candidate in
the field for the Office of secretary of
state. DR.. Stetson is a prominent
educator of the state and while not a
politician, has an acquaintance that
will make him a formidable candi-
date. He has lived IN Iowa for twelve
years past in Des Moines, first as pas
tor of the Baptist church for two years,
and later being elected to the presi-
dency of the college, which position he
has held for ten years. He is a native
of Maine, but lived for many years in
Indiana before coming to Iowa and
was for some time member of the
board of trustees of the State Univer-
slty of that state.
A delegation of Dubuque business
men and representatives of the Du-
buque press visited the Allamakee iron
mines, located near Waulion. The OBJ
| Ject of the visit was to ascertain if ore
really does exist there in as large
quantities as reported. The Dubuque
men say they were not disappointed in
their researches and that the reports
of the find have not been exaggerated.
From one of the quarries 1870 tons have
been taken out and sold. The ore has
an average depth of sixty feet, and at
no place has 1T been necessary to strip
the earth more than a few feet. The
Waukon Iron Company has purchased
an area of $50 acres, which it is be-
lieved contains at least fifteen millions
tons of ore. 1t is believed by many
that the ore lies on fat lead lime
stone, and il this is the case every hill
Is mass of ore, for all over the surface
it crops out, and pits have been dug on
the surrounding hills. The WaulSon
Iron Company is DESTROYS of interest
ing Dubuque capital in the construc-
ton of blasting furnace at Dubuque,
and for this purpose have been in COM
munication with the Business Mems
League for some time past.