Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-11-18
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chosen grand master workman in place
of James r. Sovereign.
At the Coliseum in Chicago James
Michael beat the 15mile bicycle record,
going the distance in 31:07 rs.
Excitement was caused in Havana by
the report that the Dauntless had
succeeded in landing two filibustering
expeditions.
Floods in Spain inundated several
villages and drowned Is persons and
enormous numbers of cattle.
The Missouri Pacific st. Louis night
express was held up three miles east
of Independence, Mo-, by five masked
men, but they secured no booty.
Bud Beard was lynched by mob at
Carrollton, Ala, for assaulting seven
year-old girl.
DR.. Susan A. Edison, one of the best
known physicians in the United States,
died in Washington in her seventy-fifth
year.
There were 291 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against ZIG the week
previous and 276 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
The Riverview hotel at Kankakee, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000.
George Dobbs and Mrs. Joseph New
are under arrest in Eureka, Kan,
charged with having murdered Mrs.
News husband.
At the fourth annual convention in
D,1 % Lo II; of
the Confederacy Miss Katie Cabell Cur
rie, of Dallas, Tex, was elected presi-
dent.
Definite arrangements have been
made for taking up the subject of a
reciprocity treaty between the United
| States and Canada.
1t is said that Chill, Peru and Argen-
tina are plotting to seize Bolivia and di-
| vide the territory.
Albert Voters was hanged at Fay
etteville, w. Va. for the murder of
J Charles Gibson at Montgomery April
| %, 1896.
Charles NJ. Murphy, a member of the
Kings county wheelmen, rode mile
in New York in the startling time of
400 As.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
S1,317,652, 600, against $1,216, 346,71S the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
| was 1873.
lAul Holy Track, Philip Ireland and
Alec Coudot, the three Indians who
murdered the Spicer family on Feb
ruary 81 last, were taken from the Jail
in Williamsport, N. D., by a mob and
hanged.
| President Moraes, of Brazil, has is
sued decree establishing martial law
for period of 80 days in Rio Janeiro.
Alex. Pelky, whose daughter married
Walter Beresford, the bogus lord,
dropped dead from grief at Fitzgerald,
Ga.
Joe Sartin and George Skipper fought
a duel in Forest City, Ark, and both
were killed.
Joseph M. Tilford, aged 81, proprie-
tor of the indianapolis Journal from
1854 to 1864, died suddenly while at
church.
| hiiliPSs u liz ~ anu oSll -SoH-
fessed murderer, was hanged by mob
at Osceola, Ark.
Advices say there is no fear of starva-
ton in the Klondike, as the companies
were supplying the men with provisions
for winter.
a peculiar disease, which covers the
entire body with small sores. is fast be-
coming epidemic at Omaha, Neb.
Rome Bronson and Florence Will
liams, his betrothed, were overtaken by
a storm on Black Point mountain in
Arkansas and both persisted.
A. L. Luetgert's second trial for the
murder of his wife will begin in Chicago
on the 22d inst.
A mail carrier was held up near War
rem, Idaho by lone highwayman who
secured registered letters containing
$4,000.
The Bank of Amigo, Wis, closed its
doors, but it is said depositors will be
paid in full.
Joseph Williams, fireman of the
Northern Pacific transcontinental train.
committed suicide near Mandan, N. D.,
by jumping into the firebox of his en-
CINE.
The University of Wisconsin defeated
the University of Chicago football team
in Chicago by score of % to s.
The insurgents dynamited and de-
rallied train near Nuevitas, Cuba, and
the engineer, fireman and ten other per-
sons were killed and 81 soldiers and pas
sengers were injured.
Cattle near Eldora, Ia, were dying
from eating cornstalks on which poison
GUS smut had gathered.
Earnest advocacy of the establish
ment of postal savings banks by the
UNITED States government is the fea-
ture of the first annual report Of Post
!rnaster General Gary.