Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-03-24
DURING THE WEEK,

up contemplated journey on account
Of Ill health.
A dispatch from Guayaquil, Ecuador,
says Marie Juneau, French demi-
mondaine, living on the outskirts of
that city, gave birth recently to seven
children, all perfect and healthy.
Seven of Chicago's aldermen have
been indicted for accepting brides, and
the forthcoming trial promises to be
as sensat ional as that of few years
ago. More indictments are to follow.
A dispatch from London says Ar
thur Goring Thomas, the well-known
writer of operas, committed suicide by
throwing himself before train on the
Metropolitan railway.
Congressman Roger Q. Mills has been
elected as senator from Texas by an
almost unanimous vote. He is 3s years
old and the first native Texan who
ever sat in the senate.
In billiard match at Chicago re-
GENTLY between Frank Ives and Jake
Schaeffer for the worlds champion
ship and $1,000 side, Ives won by
score of 500 to 400. The winner was
At once challenged by Slosson, and
match win likely be played some time
I'm May.
1t is now announced that Chancellor
Won Caprivi did not resign, although
that was his desire. The illness of
the emperor, it is stated, makes it inn
perative that the affairs of the govern
ment should be in the hands of one
who is acquainted with them, and the
kaiser persuaded the chancellor to re-
tain the office,
The holders of certificates in the
Standard oil trust held meeting in
the office of the trust in New York
city and resolved to dissolve the trust,
two-thirds of the certificates being
voted in favor of the dissolution. More
than 200 of the certificate holders were
present. John d. Rockefeller was
chosen chairman of the meeting and
John ID. Archibald secretary.
Patrick j., brother of William j.
Elliott now serving life sentence for
the murder of A. Osborne, on the
streets of Columbus, o., February 20,
1891, was convicted of manslaughter.
The two brothers and Osborne were
rival Sunday newspaper men, and the
shooting was the result of personal
journalism.
Patrick Milby, gatekceper at Jones
& Laughlin's iron works at Pittsburg,
fatally shot his wife and killed himself.
The cause of the double tragedy was
the recent discovery by the wife that
her husband was leading a double life.
The family of Mrs. Robert Melrose,
Of Nashville, Tenn, consisting of six
persons, were horribly poisoned at
supper. The accident was not discover
ed until the next morning when Lizzie,
a young daughter, died, and boy is
expected to die. The other four mem
bers are seriously sick. Examination
was made and the traces of heavy ar
senic dosing was found.
Won Caprivi, the German chancellor,
has rendered his resignation to the en-
peror. The cause is supposed to be in
the fact that the educational bill is
about to fail of passage in the condl.
ton in which the chancellor desires il
to. Having declared that he would
stand or fall by the bill, he felt il
obligatory to resign. Whether or not
the emperor will accept the resignation
is not known.
The cold wave which recently swept
over the country was very damaging
in it's results. Dispatches from many
points in central and northeastern
Mississippi report heavy snow storms
and freezing weather. At Helena, Ark,
snow ceased after fourteen hours,
eighteen inches having fallen. A dis.
| patch from Dallas, Texas, says harri.
cane of rain, sleet ana snow ragged furi-
ously all night. No part of the state
of Louisiana from Red river to the Gull
of Mexico has escaped; at some points
the snow reached the extraordinary
depth of twenty inches, and everything
that could be killed by eighteen ia
twenty-four degrees of cold is dead II
is conceded that the fruit crop is totally
swept away. but many think where the
snow buried the wheat and oats, these
crops will be saved. Dispatches from
interior points in Louisiana report that
it is a calamity more severe than any
thing that has occurred in the past ten
years. Reports from all over the south
give the information that the storm
was disastrous and far reaching in its
violence. Thousands of cattle anC
sheep were killed in Texas, New Mexi
co and Colorado.
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