Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-13
GENERAL NEWS.

iast year. anu twenty-five III Canaua,
against forty last year.
A special from Washington, ID. c.,
says: The Indian Office is now making
an effort to provide better and more
satisfactory school facilities for the
Iowa tribe of the Sac and Fox Indians
who are now located near Tama and
Toledo.
According to statement of Mr..
Gitfen, of the British Board of Trade,
the annual expenditure on tea in Eng.
land represents los Id per head of pop
ulatiOn, aud i'll Ireland lis I0d. To-
bacco costs rs I'd in England per head
and Ids I'd i'll Ireland; spirits, 81 9s per
head i'll England and 81 6s I'd in Ire
land, and beer e2 lbs in England and
81 rs I'd in Ireland.
Samuel GOmpers, ex-president of the
American Federation of Labor, is ly-
ing critically i'll at the Little Rock In.
Urinary, suffering from gastritis. He
had been ut Hot Springs, where he de-
llyered All address recently. lie be-
came sick on the train Ell route to Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas, but his affiictiOu
was not considered serious until today,
when he suffered 50 much that he was
taken to the infrmary and placed un-
der tie care of physician and Il train
ed nurse.
The university extension conference
of the University of Chicago opened at
Clinton Thursday evening with many
prominent educators present from col
leges in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and
Wisconsin. Nearly fifty delegates have
arrived and more are expected. The
visitors were welcomed by the Rev.
Frank NJ. Carson. Mrs. Gould of Mo-
line responded. The prsncipal address
of the evening was made by Prof. r. G.
Moulton of the Chicago university.
The meeting continues three days.
Daniel Goehler, "a merchant tailor of
Anderson, Indiana, has received word
| from KOkOmo, that William Mcdonald,
Il cutter who left his employ one week
ago, had blown out his brains. Last
spring John KOehler, who preceded
| Mcdonald at the cutters table, left
Goehler's employ and went to Green
Castle, where he blew out his brains a
week later. Less than two years ago
| Gotlieb Bower, who held the table be-
fore Koehler, quit the job, going to
kokomo shot himself through the
head within ten days. There is a
strange fatality connected with the
Goehier table, and it will probably he
replaced by new one.
The decision Of the powers touching
the unfayorable answer of Turkey to
The note by the representative powers
regarding the proposed reforms in
Armenia is expected next week. Tur-
key is uneasy at the silence of the pow
erS, and high official has been sent us
an ambassador to Great Britain, France
and Russia to say that Turkeys reply
WAS only semi-otlicial. Ambassadors,
however, refused to discuss the ques-
ton, declaring they regarded the reply
as official and final Advices from
BitiIiS show great distress among Sas-
SCUM refugees. Sixty-tive have died of
starvation and many others are starv,
ing. a relief committee left MOOSh to
distribute bread and construct huts
The inhabitants ask for seed and a
restoration of their stolen cattle tC
avoid q famine. Renewed Kurdish
raids are feared.
Lyman &. Gage, referee FOR Roswell
G. HOrr, and Howard S. Taylor, ref
cree for w. II. Harvey, have practi
cally agreed upon the essential points
in the plans for the silver discussion tc
be held by those gentlemen, and tht
papers were mailed Saturday to Mr.
Horr at New York for his signature
The time is not definitely fixed, but the
contest will begin about July 10. The
plan provided for discussing chapter
of "Coin's Financial School, at each
session being three hours in length ant
to continue daily unless otherwise
agreed. Thsre is nothing of the old
fashioned debate in the plan. Their
, will be no speeches, but the contestant
will 1ace each other sitting, when on
affirms a proposition the other will
cross examine by questions, all to b.
taken down by stenographer and pub
| lished daily in the papers and after
, ward put in book form for general dis
tribution at cost.
At the last election in Jacksonville
Illinois, seven out of twelve republican
: alderman were chosen and a democra
tic Mayor. and there has been dis
agreement ever since on account of TIT
Mayors refusal to recognize the RICH