Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-30
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
A
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

cars demolished.
Jack McCune, gambler, who killed
William A. Albin August 6, committed
The Travellers Insurance company
has withdrawn all it's business from
Kansas. l't ..
The. visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
1856, 900 bushels; corn, IS, $50 900 BUSH
els; oats, 14,2s2, 900 bushels; rye, $685.
600 bushels: barley, 4,605,OOo bushels.
The internal revenue receipts for
November amounted to $13,959, 296, an
increase as compared with November
last year of $1,257,92
The makers of book paper in Wis
consin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio
have formed an association to stop the
cutting of prices.
No appointments will be made by
the president during the holiday re-
cess of congress except in case of emer-
gency.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned to the Sd of January.
The consolidation of the three great
cracker companies of the United States
is now an assured fact, it's capitalization
being 55,O0O,00O.
John Osborne, IL years old, and Err
win Warren Oelm, 16 years of age,
were drowned while skating on thin ice
at Buffalo,'N. Y. s-A..A
The Christmas money order business
of the, New York post office this year
greatly exceeds that of any previous
year.
Leading cotton planters met in Mem
phis and formed an association to main
tain prices. q
j. A. Hanway, receiver for the defunct
National bank of North Dakota, was ar
rested in Fargo on charge of being
short $4,000 in his accounts.
The Golden Rule dry goods store was
burned at Danville, H., the loss being
100000, and Miss Mary Reed, clerk,
persisted in the flames.
Three schooners of the Gloucester
(Mass.) fishing feet with 40 men were
given up as lost.
Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis,
gave birth to a 10 pound baby, breaking
the record for weight in this country.
The expectation of raw cotton from
the southern states to Japan is prac-
tically double what it was last season.
Freezing weather has greatly dam
aged the orange crop in California.
The Southern Express company's Of
flee at Columbia, S. c., was robbed of
$4,000, &c 80 "a. "a. Co.. ~.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Doniphan, Mo.
A report as to the penitentiary scan
dial in Nebraska discloses irregularities
aggregating 37,S71.S7. .-.
The Auditorium theater and the Au-
ditorium hotel in Kansas City, Mo-,
owned by Alexander Fraser, were
burned, the loss being 100000.
The Hide and Leather bank in Chi
cago went into voluntary liquidation
and the assets were transferred to the
Union national bank. -
The doors of the First national bank
of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with
liabilities of $4,000.
Leda Charland, 10 years old, George
NORM, aged Is, and Frank Waterman,
aged 10, were drowned at Gardner,
Mas, while skating ou thin ice.
Three young persons were drowned
while skating on creek at Tonawanda,
NY.
Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years. and
Miss Mary Baird, aged so years, died
in Plainfeld, N. j., from drinking wood
alcohol.
Engineers ]. S. Hodson and L. 3. Hor-
ton were killed in a railway wreck at
Cayuga, Ind.
Miss Leila Herbert, aged 30, daughter
of ex-Secretary Of the Navy Herbert,
killed herself while respondent over i'll
health by jumping from high window
In Washington.
Twenty-year-old Peter S. Mcmahon,
crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed
himself at Syracuse, N. Y.
Burts Scrafford and Charlie Clifford
were blow to pieces by an explosion of
dynamite at Clearwater. N. Y.
The United States training ship ALI
ance has arrived in New York after an
extended cruise.
Mrs. Barney Picker, aged widow, died
in want at Lima, o., and the admins
traitor found over $4,000 in cash and
$4,000 in notes secreted in an old bon
net. -a-
In Milwaukee Walter c. Sanger broke
his own worlds indoor bicycle record
for half mile, unpaced, riding the dis
lance in one minute fat.
A loss of sI5O.Oo0 was sustained by
fire which consumed the A. III. Andrews
company's furniture factory in Chica-
go.
PostEIaster-General Gary has decided
to order n special issue of stamps COM
memorative of the holding Of the trans
Mississippi exposition at Omaha the
coming year. ss srss
The school board of Iron Mountain,
Mich, has'forbidden its teachers to at
tesd dances, Of parties ON evenings pre-
cedjng school days