Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-05
DURING THE WEEK.

rat es extensively in Washington and
who is also interested in mining opera
tions in Alaska, says William Tascott,
the alleged murderer of Millionaire |
Smell of Chicago, is in Alaska, lie says |
he knew Tascott in Chicago, and that
when he went to Alaska he met him |
and recognized him, Tascott, he says, |
makes no effort to conceal his identity, |
as he declares he is innocent of the |
crime, which was committed 10y promi
nent citizens of Chicago, and he can
prove it.
One of the most valuable publications
ever issued by the government is the
report on the sheep industry of the
United States, prepared under the di.
rection OF the secretary of agriculture.
1t treats of the history and condition
OF the industry from the early settle
ment of the country down 20 the pres
cnt day, and is handsomely illustrated
1t bids fair to rival in popularity tue
work on diseases of the horse published
by the department some time since.
IL is Tor distribution by the secretary
and through members of congress
President Harrison, under the advice
of the secretaries of state and the treas
ury and Senators Cullom and Frye, it
is said, will close his administration ]
by striking heavy blow at Canada by
withdrawing the privilege Of tho Cana
dian railroads OF carrying imported
merchandise through the United States
in bond to the detrmcnt OF American
railroad interests, as they have been
allowed TO do for some time.
Senator John c. Carlisle, after an
extended conference with Mr.. Clcvc-
land at the lattcrs residence in New
York, returned to Washington. 1t is
said that among the topics given
prominence in the discussion was Mr..
Carlislc's disposition as TO place IN
Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet, which, it is
scmi-officially declared, was rendered
him. After me left it was said he had
given Cleveland no definite answer ON
the question. IL is said the Democrat
Ic tariff policy was another topic of
conversation.
A dispatch from Rome says: The holy
sec has received fresh report from
Mgr. Satolli relating To the impressions
produced in the United States by the
conference of archbishops at New York.
The vatican is much surprised at the
opposition which begins to be mani
tested against the results of the con
ference and the proposals of Mgr. Sa-
TOLL. 1t is affirmed the pope and Car
dinals Rampolla and Ledochowski have
expressed discomfort in the matter,
and that the pope will shortly take i'm
portant action concerning the agita-
ton IN America with the view CT end
ing the divisions which exist in the
church.
Bourkc Cochran Is SAID to have en-.
tered the race for the New York scna
torship at the request of President
elect Cleveland.
The negro editors of Georgia met at
Augusta ard organized state press
association.
The Continental clothing house block
at Omaha was burned to the ground,
entailing loss of about $500, 600.
John ID. Rockefeller, president of the
Standard Oil Company, presented an
other million dollars to the University
of Chicago as Christmas gift, This
makes his total donation to that inst-
tuition SO, 100000.
Orange Judd, the widely known
editor of tue Orange Judg. Farmer,
died at Evanston, H., aged 20.
North Finland is suffering from
famine. Many villages are said to be
snowbound, and fears arc. entertained
that whole communities have persisted
as nothing has been heard from them
for many days.
The announcement comes from the
famine districts of Russia that the
peasants are dying like flies from hun.
| ger and disease. Cholera is raging on
the Circassiun shores and hundreds of
deaths have occurred during the last
two weeks
Judge Clarkson. who mysteriously
disappeared from Omaha last summer
and returned about month ago, and
whose absence was accounted for by
temporary insanity, caused by severe
treatment for ailing eyes, has resumed
the practice of law in Omaha.
| Navigation on the Rhine, Moselle,
| Neckar and Main Rivers has been
stopped by floating ice.
The mail coach between Malwa pnd
Warsaw has been robbed of 60, OOO
rubles. The perpetrators have not
been discovered.
cable message was received at the
State Department from United States
Consul Estes at Hamburg saying: "In
city seven cases cholera of which one
died; none in port
The Hamburger Nachrichtcn denies
the statement ia Milwaukee, news
paper to the effect that Prince Bis.
marck has an interest in Milwaukee
street railway company
6 The Novoe Vremya, st. Petersburg
newspaper, has caused sensation by
publishing an article, apparently in.
spired by high authority, in which the
French alliance is disparaged
Driven Insane by Her Husbands Death
CELINA, Ohio, Jan. William
Mountain, an oil.well driller employed
by the Standard Oil Company at Cam
den, Ind, was instantly killed yestcr-
day afternoon by the explosion of a
shotgun having a double load in il.
His wife, upon being notified, became
raving maniac.
Killed His wife with an Ak
KALAMAZOO, Mich, Jan. "A man
named Plank, at Covert, brutality muir
dered his wife with an AK and the,