Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-09-09
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

The conference of labor leaders
opened in st. Louis. President Ratch-
ford, of the United Mine Workers, in a
speech advocated the calling of spe-
cial session of congress to help settle
ahe trouble, and if this was not done
then he advocated complete paralysis
of business by sympathetic strike.
Ten saloons in Kansas City, Kan,
were raided by the police and $4,000
worth of liquor was seized and poured
into the cutters.
Five Finlanders were drowned in the
bay at Gladstone, Mich, by the capsiz-
ing of sailboat.
About 100 canary birds were suffo-
Gated in a fire in Chicago.
Two deputy United States marshals
are dead, two are seriously wounded
and two more are missing as result Of
an attack on a posse of officers by a
band of moonshiners in Pope county,
Ark.
A forest fire near Anaconda, Mont,
burned over 10000 acres Of timber.
Mrs. Croker and her nine-year-old
son were killed by a Santa Fe passer-
ger train near Cedar Junction, Kan.
A heavy frost visited the northern
part of Michigan.
Judge d. L. Downs, who has held the
office of probate judge II years, was
stricken with paralysis at Richland Cen
ter, Wis.
! A large Cuban filibustering expedi-
ition left Cleveland, Fla,
The steam barge City of Bangor left
chicago for Buffalo, N. Y, with It's, 900
bushels of corn. the largest cargo ever
carried on the lakes.
The Southern Pacific railway COM
pany has had seven locomotives changed
to crude oil burners.
The coal strike was considered set
tied at Columbus, o. The plan was to
resume at Ga cents and work pending
arbitration.
The First state bank of Mcpherson,
Kan, failed with liabilities amounting
ITO $685. 900.
E. B. Cuthbert & Co., brokers, failed
In New York for 100000.
Richard McGriff and John McGriff
celebrated their ninety-fourth birthday
at Deerfeld, Ind, making them the old
est twins in the United States and prob
ably in the world.
The state bank at Ambia, Ind, with n
capital of $25, 900, was closed by order of
the auditor of state.
Nora Miller put poison in scrambled
eggs at her home near Metropolis, ILL.,,
and her sister died and her father,
Henry Miller, would probably die also.
No cause was known for the deed.
Minneapolis has been connected by
telephone with New York and Boston.
, A train jumped the track near APP
pleby, Tex, and D. D. Moss, of Chicago,
was killed and eight other persons were
seriously injured.
The dry house at the Palms mine at
Bessemer, Mich, was destroyed by fire.
The fire was incendiary and the strik-
Iers are suspected of the crime.
= Railroads and elevators in and around
Chicago are being literally swamped
with the unprecedented movement Of
grain from the west.
! The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country say that
more rain and hot weather was needed
for corn.
F At the conference of labor leaders in
St. Louis resolutions were adopted scor-
ang government by injunction, favor
ing public ownership of railways and
telegraphs, and the right of the people
to keep and bear arms. Another meet
ing will be held in Chicago on the eth
Anst.
Edouard Remenyi, the Hungarian vio-
linist, was robbed of $4,000 in New
York.
) BY the explosion Of railway engine
~ Fredericksburg, o., Engineer Thorn
ley and Fireman Brown were killed.
The public debt statement issued on
The LIST shows that the debt increased
S14,sSs,475 during the month of August.
The cash balance in the treasury was
SS5S,145,367. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
TO $1,oos. 335,121.
! The records and papers of the SUI
preme court of Illinois are being re-
moved from Ottawa to Sprin gfield,
where the court will sit hereafter.
Thieves stole sack containing $500
in silver from the Adams Express com.
pany at Burlington, Ia.
Many buildings were unroofed and
several private residences were over.
turned by windstorm in Indianapolis
Frederick Mcconnell. cashier of the
state bank at Ambia, Ind, is charged
with embezzling $4,000. The bank has
closed.
With appropriate ceremonies the cen.
fennial anniversary of the founding OF
Waynesboro, Pa, was observed.
The trustees of Brown university al
Providence, II. l., voted to request Presi
dent Andrews to withdraw his resigna
tion.
The safe of the district tax collectors
office in Washington was robbed of $e..
600. and Varick Hawkins, the negro
messenger. was charged with the crime