Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-09-20
TERSE NEWS ITEMS.

ination of Owens.
The national encampment of the q.
A. r. at Pittsburg selected Louisville
as its next place of meeting.
INDICTMENTS have been returned at
Memphis against thirteen prominent
men implicated in the recent lynching
of six negroes near Millington.
In an effort at Terre Haute to lower
the trotting record. AK succeeded in
tying Nancy Hanks time of 2:04, made
on the same track two years ago.
ACCORDING to the latest advices from
Kentucky, Breckenridge has been de-
feated for the democratic nomination
for congress, his opponent. Owens, re-
ceiving a small plurality at the prima-
ries.
FEARING exposure in the convention
in session at Buffalo, N. Y, E. III. Den
nison, state treasurer of the Select
Knights, committed suicide by poison
ing. He is said to be dcfaulter to a
considerable amount.
PUGLIGT PETER JACKSON and his
manager, ''Parson" Davies, called on
VIII j. Davis, of the Columbia theater,
at Chicago, temporary stakeholder.
and withdrew his forfeit of $4,000 for
a fight with Corbett.
THE steamer Falcon, with all of the
Peary polar expedition except Peary
and two companions, has arrived tSt.
Johns. Nothing was accomplished by
the party and Peary decided to remain
another year in the hope that he might
be more successful.
MoNTEvIDEo dispatch says that
fifty-eight Brazilians have been exc
cuted by order of President Piexoto.
Among the number are military and
naval officers whose names are given
in the dispatch. commencing with that
of Marshal Almieda Da Cana.
The reports of officers at the G. A. r.
encampment at Pittsburg brought out
the fact that the membership of 397,
223 of 1893 had diminished to 800, 0S3.
In the parade during the meeting 40
600 old soldiers participated, and it is
estimated that 600, 900 people viewed the
procession.
In a fire in Washington mattress
factory the flames made such progress
that the inmates were compelled to
jump from the windows. number
of the jumpers were injured fatally.
When the ruins were searched five
bodies were found and several work
men were still missing.
THE government crop report says
that Iowa will produce "a, 900. 600 bush
els of corn this year. Last year the
yield was 257,s32, 900 bushels. The
Minneapolis Tribune has estimates
from over the state that pr omise good
half yield. or 81, O0O. 900 bushels In ex-
cess of the governments estimate of
the crop. .-
THE steamer Lucania arrived at
Queenstown, having made the trip
from New York in five days, eight
hours and thirty-eight minutes; thus
equaling her record from Queenstown
to New York and establishing her title
to Queen of the Seas" holding the
fastest time in both directions. The
average speed was nearly twenty-five
knots.
THE twenty-third annual convention
of the Alabama State Press Association
held at Montgomery. Ala, last week,
was the most pleasant and profitable
session in its history. Resolutions
were passed severely criticising the
committee of Englishmen now in this
country for the alleged purpose of in
vestigating the so-callcd southern
lynching laws. Miss Ida b. Wells was
denounced as fanatic and n crank.
THE custom of publishing in the
newspapers throughout the country
lists of unclaimed letters at the post
offices will be abandoned. and the list
will be bulletined in the postoffice
buildings hereafter. Acting Post
master General Jones decided to stop
the old custom, as congress failed to
make a sufficient appropriation for the
usual amount of advertising. The eX-
pense of publishing the lists last year
was $4,000.
A TELEGRAM has been received an
nouncing general engagement be-
tween the Japanese and Chinese forces
at Ping Yang, near the northern from
tier of Corea, resulting in a decisive
victory for the Japanese. The Chinese
forces in the fort at Ping Yang num-
bere.l 10000, and the Japs "outed them
completely, killing $500, wounding
thousands and taking the rest prison
ers. The japanese loss was 81 killed
and 27O wounded.
Two men were killed and score of
people injured, half of them fatally, in
a cyclone at Charleston, Mo-, during
which a train was blown from the
track. A passenger train on the Cairo
branch of the Iron Mountain road was
struck by hurricane and serious
wreck resulted. The entire string of
coaches were lifted by the wind and
landed about twenty feet from the
track, turning almost completely over
Those not seriously hurt FASTENED to