Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-06-27

kentucky University IL was unanimously
| decided to admit women into the institu
ton.
! The Canadian statistician says that since
1910 Canada has made greater progress in
population relatively than the United
States.
The New York celebration has demon
strated the possibility of massing seventy
thousand militia in New York within
fifteen hours.
Rolling Mill Company, Union Steel Com
pany and Joliet Steel Company, has been
practically completed.
European manufacturers, noticing the in
crease in consumption of American goods
in Holland, are deceiving the Dltch by i'm
itating American goods.
The secretary Of state has been informed
that Peru will send delegate to the confer
ence of American States which meets at
Washington on the 4th of October next.
The American consul at Annoy, China,
sends to the state department at Washing
ton protest against the inferior and adul-
trated Oolong tea that is sent to this coun-
try.
The State university at Burlington, VT,
has been enriched the past year by the ad-
dtion of $50 volumes to its library,, and
5000 new specimens have been given to the
museum.
Terrible foundations have occurred in all
directions up the Saguenay river, in the
province of Quebec. Between Chicoutimi
and ST. Alphonse almost all the bridges
have been swept away.
The Cape Verde Islands were known to
the ancients as Gorgades, but not to the
moderns till discovered by De Noll, a
Genoese navigator in the service Of Portu-
gal, in 1446, 1850 or 1850.
Attorney General Miller has called upon
Marshals Jones and Needles for an explain
alton of their conduct and that of their
deputies on the occasion of the opening of
the Oklahoma territory.
Eastern and Pacific slope capitalists, it is
said, contemplate erecting on the Pacific
coast plant similar to that of the Bethle-
hem PA Steel Works, where the forgings
for the guns of the largest calibre can be
produced.
Rev. John f. Spence, ID. D., has been cleo
ted president of the new Grant Memorial
University, formed by the recent consolida-
ton of the institution of that name at Ath-
ems, Tenn, with Chattanooga University, at
Chattanooga.
The annual report of President Lewis of
Western Maryland College Westminster,
Md shows an enrolment of IFS, an increase
of eighteen over last year. Gifts have been
received aggregating $4,000, and the en-
dowments extended.
BY orders issued by the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies large
number of long distance rates have been
reduced, while for short distances the rates
have been advanced slightly. Mutual IN
ion telegraph offices have been discon-
tinued.
A statement prepared at the treasury de-
partment in Washington shows that there
has been a net increase of 81, 76S, 6S3 in the
circulation since April 1, and that there has
been a net increase of Si,S03,034 in the
money and bullion in the treasury.
The concluding exercises connected with
the celebration of the fifty-third anniversary
of the Union Theological Seminary took
place Tuesday evening at the seminary
building on Park avenue at New York
The graduating class of thirty-six members
received their diplomas. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
A. H. Leslie, secretary of the prohibition
committee in charge Of the amendment
campaign in Pennsylvania, says the liquor
dealers in Philadelphia alone have raised
between $500, 900 and $500, 600 to be used in
the campaign, while the prohibitionists
have but little money.
OF the bids for furnishing official en-
velopes opened at Washington that of the
Morgan Envelope company and the Plimp-
ton Manufacturing company of Hartford,
Conn, the present contractors, was S35, $780,
and the lowest This is slight reduction
in price from the present contract.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Tichenor has made ruling that the ''emi-
grant fund" cannot be properly used for the
support or deportation OF the emigrants
are permitted to proceed to their destina-
ton, but who subsequently become public
charges by reason of sickness.
Numerous instances are known of Indians
taking land on the Sioux reservation oppo-
site Pierre, Oak, under the severalty act,
which denotes that they are prepared to
sign the Sioux treaty as soon as the COM
mission arrives. Recent reports from
Cheyenne confirm the rumors that the In
dams, in council, decided to accept the
terms of the treaty at once.
The Newport cottagers pay their cooks
big prices. August Belmont pays August
Brunow 1900 a year; Orme Wilson pays
j. Bailbee S., 900; r. T. Wilson pays An
l,,;o <
cook $1,000; Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., pays
s., 900; Cornelius Vanderbilt and w. w.
Astor pay 5000. Adolph Caller, employed
by ex-Gov. Wetmore for many years, re.
ceives $500.
A Boston girl was married last week to a
Chinaman named Charley June. The cere-
mony proceeded with much difficulty.
When the groom was asked if he would take
the bride to be his "wedded wife, he be-
came confused; the clergyman suggested
that the usual reply was Il will, f." but it was
not till the bride had warmly said: "Say
yes or no, one or the other" that June came
to time with II will"
The largest moccasin snake on record has
been found near Lake Okeechobee, Florida.
When found it had Just completed the task
of swallowing ten-foot alligator, and was
therefore unable to make his escape. 1t
was said that he measured sixteen feet
in length and five feet in circumference. He
was captured with great difficulty, and only
''gave up the ghost" after receiving twenty
seven shots from Winchester rife II
should be added that the above story is
from Georgia newspaper.
1t is said that Andrew Carnegie has
surprise in store for the iron and steel
workers, and that he will order that several
very important changes be made in the
system of work and the wages paid at a
number of his large plants. He will make
an effort to equaiize matters, in view OF
beneftting both the firm and that class of
employees who do not receive enough money
in proportion to what others receive and
the work they do. 1t is said that some of
the men who work by the ton have been
earning ''as high as $50 to $50 per day.
General Black has made answer to the
suit filed against him for 100000 for the
malicious Withholding Of a pension claim.
The general says that the United States
government is bound to hold harmless all
its officers for their official actions, evea
though thew m alicio1slv construo or ma