Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-11-30
DURING THE WEEK.

June 80, 1898, is shown to be SIS, 1T, III.
The estimated deficit for the current
fiscal year is S7,s30,473.
Emperor William and Chancellor
Won Capriyi each received an Internal
machine from Orleans, France, in tho
No damage was done. Notes were
sent with the packages signed by G.
Dechanteau.
Directam, the champion trotter,
record 2:o5l4, defeated Saladin, the
PAGER, record 2:O5sl, in a match race
on the Point Breeze track of the Phil
adelphia Driving Park Association.
Saladln, in fine burst of speed, won
the first heat in 2:104. Directum took
the next three aud the race in 2:104,
2:1l Il and 2:l9.
Patrick Reid, supposed to have been
connected with the plot to blow up
Dublin castle some months ago, was
found murdered near the river Liffey
in Dublin few days ago. 1t is said
he was killed to prevent his turning
informer. The next day an Internal
machine was found under bridge nea
the railway terminus There is much
excitement in police circles.
After Powderly had rendered his
resi- gnation as grand master workman
of the Knights of Labor at the recent
meeting of delega ties at Philadelphia,
and insisted that he meant it, 1T was
| accepted. j. r. Sovereign, labor com
missioner of Iowa, was then elected to
succeed him, and an entirely new
executive board was chosen.
Smarting under attacks upon their
course in the chamber of deputies, the
members of the French ministry ten
rendered their resignation ON the 25th
In the football match at Springfield,
Mass, on the 25th, between Yale and
Harvard, the former won it's seven
teenth victory by score OF 6 to-
A Demlng telegram says two Next
can revolutionlsts came up from the
scene of the trouble in Mexico and re-
port that the revolutionists attacked
the federal soldiers between Ascension
and Palomas. The battle continued
through an entire day. The soldiers
were surrounded and sustained heavy
losses. The report is not doubted, as
it is known the revolutionists only
awaited an opportunity to fire upon
the government troops.
The report of Alderman, auditor of
the Worlds Colum bian exposition, has
been officially sent to the board of di-
rectors. That the exposition Is a finan-
cal success is proven by the figures OF
the report. 1t shows, by making an
approximate estimate of the liabilities
aud receipts up to November IA, that
the net assets over and above all La
bilitles amount to S1,s62, 4S3.Os The
average daily receipts were $50, sol, SO,
while the daily expenses were s22,-
4O5. 80
A Washington dispatch announces
the appointment of Washington Hes
ing, editor of the Illinois Stats
Zeitung, as postmaster at Chicago.
In the annual convention of the
knights of Labor, in session at Phil
adelphia, the Powderly and anti
Powderly factions became quite an
tagonistlc, and as result Powderly
rendered his resignation as general
master workman.
Ex-Gov. Jacobs of West Virginia died
on the cath of heart disease.
The members of the Italian cabinet
rendered their designations to the king
on the Gath.
Advices from the region traversed
by the Lehigh road say that the off c.
ials of that road have succeeded in
raising the blockade which the strikers
had established. The strikers, how
ever, are not discouraged and say they
are prepared to spend a quarter of a
million in the fight.
The services attending the burial of
the late General Rusk, ex-secretary of
agriculture and ex-governor of Wiscon.
cath, and tine remains were laid to res t
in the cemetery at that place. Among
the honory pall-bearers were ex-Attor-
ney-Generai Miller, Senator Villas, AS
sistant Secretary of Agriculture Will
let's, ex-Secretary Cameron, Sawyer
and Spooner, Governors Hoard and
Fairchild, and Supreme Court Justice
Cassidy. Among those present were
ex-President Harrison and Governor
Peck, with the present and ex-state
officials.
At Detroit the Edison, Morse & Co.
dry goods establishment burned ont
with a loss of $500, ZOO. Three men are
known to have lost their lives, while
five are missing and are supposed to
be in the ruins.
Advices up to November 16, By the
steamer Almeda, which arrived at San
Francisco from Honolulu on the 23d,
are to the effect that Minister Willis
had not as yet taken any action. In
a number of addresses he had managed
to lead the adherents of the provisional
! government to believe that he would
/
queen, and the royalists to believe that
he would.
William II. Parvin, president of the
Eastern National bank of Eastland,
| Texas, killed himself at Fort Worth
| Texas.
In the trial of Richard Edwards at
Sherman, Texas, for the murder of
Mrs. Hattie G.. Haynes, Edwards was
identified by two witnesses, one of
whom swore that he had admitted the
murder in conversation.
Ninteen-twentieths of the Scotch
coal miners are idle in consequence of
| the strike growing out of the masters
refusal to increase wages shilling a
day. The strikers are willing to agree
to the appointment of a Board of Con-
ciliation.
c. w. Boynton seeks to foreclose
100000 mortgage against the Ken
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