Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
TERSE NEWS ITEMS
THE greater New York bill was de-
feated in the state senate

DISPATCHES from NcDrdSkd ueCldrc
the prospects are for an excellent crop.
IT is announced that Minister
Thurston, of Hawaii, will not return
to Washington.
A JAPANESE dispatch says the powers
have been satisfied and that the entire
controversy is now at an end.
THE Carnegie Steel Company has
granted voluntary increase of 10 per
cent in wages at it's various works.
MRS. LEASE, in partnership with
Miss Mary Morrill,, will open law
offices in Topeka and Kansas City, Kas.,
shortly.
HAYWARD, the murderer of Catharine
Cling, of Minneapolis, will hang on the
21st of June, as the governor has just
signed the death warrant.
ADMIRAL JOHN ALMY, of the United
States navy, retired, died at his home
In Washington on the 10th. He took
part in the war with Mexico and the
war of the rebellion.
IT is said Emperor William claims it
is impossible to conduct the empire
with universal suffrage. 1t is intimat-
ed he will try to destroy the existing
suffrage provisions.
THE upper house of the Prussian diet
adopted resolution in favor of steps
being taken for the prompt settlement
of the currency question by an agree
ment as to international bimetalllsm.
MRS ADAM CART, of Richmondville,
Mich, has reached her 10th year Her
hair is not yet gray, and she does the
work for herself and husband and
walks mile and half to church.
She has been married three times, and
is great great great grandmother.
EARTHQUAKE shocks visited Florence
and other adjoining cities in Italy,
doing immense damage to property.
In Florence alone 5000 buildings were
damaged, some of them being entirely
destroyed A half dozen persons were
killed in the ruins and large number
were injured.
THE supreme court has decided, by a
vote of ) to 4, that the income tax law
is unconstitutional, on the ground that
the law provides for direct tax, which
is forbidden by the constitution. Chief
Justice Fuller and Justices Field, Gray,
Brewer and Shiras voted against the
law and Justices Harlan, White, Brown
and Jackson for it.
SEvENTY-FIvE acres of the land Of
st. Adams, VT, were swept by flames.
Practically the whole of the SIX business
streets, with almost every building on
them, are gone; 500 people are worse
than homeless, and the money loss is
above 81, 900, 900. The fire started in a
lumber yard and was spread by fierce
winds to other portions of the city.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople says
the commission which is investigating
the atrocities in Armenia, have
traversed devastated villages and ar
rived at Jellygoosan, where 100 houses
were found to have been burned. The
people are sheltered in miserable huts.
Ample proof is found of the stories
regarding the massacre. Bodies were
thrown into pit. The Turks tried to
conceal the crime by pouring barrels
of petroleum upon the bodies and set
ting fire to the oil.
IT is reported that the Newfoundland
government will increase duties on
imported goods by from to 80 per
cent when the assembly meets. This
step is necessary in order to provide
funds to meet the colony's obligations,
if a separate government is to be
maintained. The retrenchment meas
ures which are proposed embody a
reduction of all salaries, remodeling
the judicial department, and the
abolition of many grants for roads.
SAN FRANCISCO dispatch: Chief of
Police Crowley is threatened with a
suit for damages by Theodore Durant,
who was recently held on the charges
of having murdered Minnie Williams
and Blanche Lamont. BY the advice
of his attorneys, it is said, Durant in
the event of his acqulttal will sue the
chief for heavy damages for placing
his picture in the rogues' gallery. The
prisoners counsel claim to be in pos
session of evidence which will prove
that the murders were not committed
by any one connected with the church
and neither crime was the work of one
man.
AN important political encounter
took place in Chicago on the
evening of the 18th. The platform
combatants were two giants on oppos
ing sides in the raging financial con
troversy-J. Lawrence Laughlin, pro
fessor of political economy in the
University of Chicago, a favoritt
authority of President Cleveland, ant
VIM. Fl. Harvey, author of Coins
Financial School" The proposition
| to be discussed was read as follows
s'Resolved, That the United States
should at once enter upon the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to l
independently of the action of an.