Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-30
items OF GENERAL NEWS

in forcing Japan to withdraw her
troops from Corea.
A st. Louis man went up with a
balloon and dropped several hundred
feet because he had quarrelled with
his girl. They won't quarrel any
| more.
| In The application for a writ of
habeas corpus before the supreme court
by Eugene Debs, of the A. r. o., the
court decided adversely to the strike
leader, and Debs and his associates
must serve the terms to which they
were sentenced for contempt.
Oscar Wilde was found guilty of the
charge OF unnatural practices and
sentenced to two years imprisonment
at hard labor.
Formosa, the big island just coded
to Japan by China, has declared itself
a republic. The Chinese governor has
been chosen president. 1t is thought
Japan will have little trouble in sub
jecting the natives.
John Halls and William Royce
outraged two young ladies at Danvllle,
Ill. That night mob broke into the
Jail where they were confined, took
them to the bridge which was the
scene of their crime and hanged them.
At the twentieth annual field meet
ing of the Intercollegiate associa-
ton, at New York, Johnnie Crum,
representative of Iowa university, won
both the 100 and 22O yard dashes. He
is son of a banker at Bedford. In the
contests of putting the shot and ham,
mer, Hickok, of Yale, broke his own
records. Yale won first honors in
points, as follows: Yale, 30; Penn
sylvania, 25; Harvard, 90; Iowa, 10;
California, z; Dartmouth, 5; Swart-
more. 5; Union, a; Amherst, 2;
Columbia, l; Princeton, /. Total,
112.
Queen Victoria was 76 years old on
the oath.
At the meeting of the Presbyterian
general assembly at Pittsburg, after a
long and spirited debate, it was de-
cided that ''unfermented fruit of vines
fulfills all conditions of the sacrament
of the Lords supper
Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the
treasury under Lincoln and again
under Arthur, died at his home in
Washington on the cath.
The free silver men held an enthusi-
astic meeting at Memphis to offset the
effects of the gold standard conven-
ton. Ex-Congressman Bryan was the
guest of honor, and made an address
which was warmly received.
Nicaragua and Costa Rica are about
to go to war. Nicaragua has severed
all communication between the two
governments and Costa Rica is hardly
expecting an invasion.
1t is said Russia objects to the mill
tary occupation of Corea by Japan.
Last December Mrs. Ida Knotson,
who had formerly been employed in
the Omaha schools as a teacher, but who
had lost her position and was despond-
ent because of her sorry financial con-
dition, disappeared, together with her
two children, and no trace of them
could be found. Their bodies have
just been taken from the river. L. is
supposed they suiclded.
The ''sound money convention held
recently at Memphis, Tenn, was at
tended by thousands of delegates who
came from all over the south. Con-
gresham Catchings was made chair
man of the convention and made an
able address. Secretary of the Treas
ury Carlisle addressed the convention.
and his remarks were heartily APP
plauded. Resolutions were adopted
favorlng the retention of the gold
standard and commenting the finan-
cial course of President Cleveland.
One hundred and sixty-eight lives
were lost in the sinking of the Spanish
steamer Gravina off the PHILIPPINE
islands.
The United States has been asked to
act as arbitrator in dispute between
Venezuela and France.
Chairman Carter of the republican
national committee, who is a resident
of Montana, says the repu blican pros
pect IN the west depends on the attitude
of the party toward silver.
Cuban advices say that Jose Marti,
president of the proposed republic,
has been killed.
All of the brickyards in Chicago are
tied up by strike. Trouble is looked
for.
A Tennessee constitutional lawyer
says the income tax decision must
apply with equal logic to the tax on
whisky, tobacco, etc.
Florida now has an anti-prize fight
law.
Gen" Kelly is going to Washington
in prairie schooner.
At Pinde, across the bay from San
Francisco, Chinaman working in the
nitro-glycerine department of the
California Powder Works dropped