Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
MISCELLANY OUS.

The rise in the price of crackers IS
credited by the trust officers at st. Louis
as in sympathy with the rise in -four.
The story that Minister Thurston ia
Vors the restoration of the Hawaiian
monarchy is ridiculed at Washington.
Five miles of nets, said to belong to
E. r. Edison of Cleveland, We're seized
by the Canadian government cruiser
near Rondeau, Ont
Prof. Dyche of the Kansas State uni
versity has sailed in the fishing schooner
Golden Hope for Greenland for speci-
mems of mammalia and birds.
Henry r. Thurber, President Cleve-
lands private secretary will occupy the
new Waters cottage at Silver Shell
Beach, near Marion, Mass, with his
family this summer.
Business men in Chicago report
gratifying increase in trade.
Wheat closed at TOYS cents on the
Chicago board of trade Friday.
Presbyterian seminaries are reported
in sound condition.
Dun's Review of Trade says the cold
weather over the country retards bust
ness.
The city of Chicago has a deficit of
nearly $7,000,000.
1t is rumored that a decision adverse
to the income tax has been prepared
by the supreme court.
The conference of the German Meth
odist ministers of Michigan, Indiana
and Ohio, which has been in session at
Bay City, Mich, has adjourned to meet
next year in Delhi. Mich.
The window glass manufacturers have
decided not to form a trust.
The San poJ;ca n 20 cold RI
have found several new witnesses who
will testify against Durrant at his
murder trial in the superior court.
Prof. Edward Lee Greene, professor
of botany at the University Of Califor-
MIA, has resigned to take a similar po-
sition in the Catholic university, at
Washington, D. G. ..|.
Great damage is said to have been
done to Illinois and Indiana wheat fields
by the Hessian fly.
Ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker
proposes to establish a hotel in Phila-
delphia at which any deserving person
may be housed and fed free of cost.
Wages are being advanced all over
the country. The business situation is
improving daily.
DR.. Robert Russell Booth was chosen
moderator by the Presbyterian general
assembly. He is an anti-Briggs man.
EX-President Harrison was presented
with a gold medal by the New Jersey
Historical society.
The report of the Canadian superin-
tendent of immigration shows the total
immigration for 1894 to have been 27,9ll,
against So 447 in 1893. OF these $50 were
from the United States.
acquisitions for $40, 900 for pay
ment of pensions were signed by AS
sistant Secretary Sims of the interior
department. OF this amount $1.7OOoOO
will be paid out at Detroit. Mich, ana
$4,000, 900 at Columbus, o.
The old Marine Hospital on Common
street, in New Orleans, was sold at auc-
ton for the government, for $2l, 200. The
building is made almost entirely of iron,
covers a whole square of ground, and
originally cost $542,000. 1t was never
used for any purpose by the govern
ment.
Western silver congress met at SAT-
Lake City. Seventeen western states
are represented. A non-partisan ain
ance is to be formed.
The Supreme Council of Royal Area
mum convened at ST. Louis. Reports
| showed $3,S59,5 were paid in 1894 in
| benefits.
The secretary of the navy has refused
| Admiral Meade's request for leave of
| absence. 1t is not thought the admiral
| will be court martialed.
Secretary Carlisle has declined, for
| lack of time, to address the Cincinnati
| Chamber of commerce on the money
| question.