Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-23
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LATER.
At the session of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor in Nashville, Tenn,
it was ordered that representative be
ordered to stay in Washington and
watch legislation.
Fire destroyed the Hotel Dacotah and
two wholesale grocery stores in Grand
Forks, N. D., the total loss being $780,
900, and A. G. Howe and his wife per-
ished in the hotel fire.
The residence of Patrick Leahy was
burned at Ottawa, Ont, and Leahy and
five of his children persisted.
Gen. Blanco says that if, within a rea-
sonable time after the establishment of
autonomy in Cuba, it is seen that it has
no practical effect in the restoration of
peace, he will resign.
The National Civil Service Reform
league in session in Cincinnati reelected
Carl Schurz president.
There were 329 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th. against 3l2 the week
previous and 3s7 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
William w. Thomas, Jr., of Maine,
has been selected as minister plenipo-
tertiary of the United States to Swe-
den and Norway, and Hamilton King,
of Michigan, as minister to Siam.
Jacob We'll, aged SO, one of Chicago's
best known real estate owners and cap
italists, shot himself dead in his office
while temporarily insane.
In a fight in New York forthe middle
weight championship of the world Dan
Creedon, of New Zealand, was whipped
by kid" Mccoy. of Indiana, in the
fifteenth round.
The Citizens bank at Oelwein, Ia, Fl.
C. Sturgis G. Co., proprietors, made
voluntary assignment and closed its
doors. Liabilities, $4,000.
Twenty-Five horses were burned to
death in Joseph Badenoch's barn in
Chicago.
Murderers were hanged as follows:
Grady Reynolds and Bud Brooks at JEFF
ferson, Ca; Bud Beerd (colored), aged
IA years, at Carrollton, Ala; William
Johnson at Covington, Tenn, and Will
liam carr at Liberty, MO.
The Northwestern overland limited
train was wrecked at Vail, Ia, and 10
persons were injured.
Washington Hesing, ex-postmaster
of Chicago, twice candidate for mayor,
and president of the Stats Zeitung
company, died of heart failure, aged
40 years.
Charles L. Childs, an ex-member of
congress from Illinois, died in Pitts
burgh, Pa.
A locomotive exploded near Repton,
Ala, killing the engineer, John O'Con-
nor, the fireman, Jack Clipper, and two
trainmen, John Johnson and Henry
Vickery.
r. Monarch, one of the largest dis
tillers in Kentucky, failed at Owens
boro for $75O,OO0.
John Straus was dead and his two
sons were dying from drinking coffee
at Elk City, Kan, into which rat poison
had dropped accidentally.
The Mermod g. ,Jaccard jewelry COM
pany in ST. Louis lost 1000 by fire
that destroyed their stock.
In a bull fight at Guadalajara, Mexico,
three persons were killed and nine
,thers seriously injured, and in SIM
liar performance in the City Of Mex
leo ten horses and six bulls were killed.
Thirty-three men were injured, two
fatally, in collision on the Rio Grande
road near Castle Rock, Col.
Mrs. Dinah Sutton, the last of the
81, -he cd IN, a1
in her home in Paterson, aged 105 years.
A Russian squadron took possession
of Port Arthur, on the Chinese coast.
The Cuban insurgents put to death
Col. Ruiz, who was sent by Gen. Blanco
to induce the insurgent leader Arangu-
rem to surrender.
La Minerve, the only French morning
newspaper in Montreal, has suspended
after an existence of nearly so years.
Slight shocks of earthquake were felt
at Ashland and Richmond, Va.
In the convention of the American
Federation of Labor at Nashville Sam
uel Gompers was reelected president
and Kansas City was chosen as the
next place of meeting.
A joint resolution accepting the in
vitation of Norway to participate in an
international fisheries exposition next
year was passed in the United States
senate on the 18th, also 1873 pri-
vate pension bills. Resolutions on
the death of William Steele Holman,
late representative from Indiana, were
adopted. In the house the considera-
ton of the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill was COM
pleted, excepting the paragraph relat-
ing to the civil service.
The United States senate on the 18th
received and adopted the conference re-
port on the bill appropriating 100000
for the relief of miners in the Yukon
river country. The nomination of Will
liam Penn Nixon as collector of customs
at Chicago was confirmed. Adjourned
to January s. In the house the confer
ence report on the emergency relief
measure for the Klondike country was
presented and agreed to. Adjourned to
January S.