Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

age in Lagrange, Elkhart and Marshall
counties in Indiana.
AS a result of the revival in trade the
mint in San Francisco will at once re-
sumo the coinage of silver dollars.
In fit of jealousy William McCaleb
killed his wife in Chicago and then took
his own life.
The president has appointed W. r.
Finch, editor of the La Crosse Owls. }
Republican, minister to Paraguay and
Uruguay. ..
A riot broke out among the striking
miners at Edwardsville, ILL.,, and state
troops were ordered there. '.
The Hotel Lafayette, the most famous
hostelry at Minnetonka, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by fire.
The barns of Robert Burgess & Son
and 30 fine draft horses were burned at
Wenona, III.
Five hundred thousand acres of fine
land in Wyoming will be thrown open
to settlement under the United States
land laws after November l.
Every building except five in Austin,
Pa, was swept away by fire.
Joseph Herth, Adolph Pierson, A..
Hendrickson and George Robbins, fish
ermen, were drowned near Long
Branch, N. j., by the upsetting of their
boat.
The Phoenix Brewing company, one
of the oldest brewing companies in
Louisville, KY, failed for S250.000.
Constable James Parrish was fatally
whipped by white caps at Decatur, Ind,
for beating his wife.
At railway crossing near Willow
Springs, Mo-, Philip L. Wooten and his
three children and Mrs. Francis Mallory
and her child were killed by the cars
and Mrs. Wooten was fatally injured.
For the first time in the history Of
Boston university a negress, Miss Ida
Hill, has entered the College of Liberal
Arts.
The first game of the Temple cup
series was played at Boston. the score
being: Boston, 10; Baltimore. IL.
President Mckinley has renewed the
receptions given on Monday to the gen.
eral public.
The whaler Nevarche was reported
lost on the ALASKA coast with % of her
crew.
During quarrel George P. Pfeiffer, a
stenographer, shot his father-in-law.
Robert Delaney, through the brain in
st. Louis and then killed himself.
Baltimore won the second game of the
Temple cup series in Boston, the score
being: Baltimore, Is; Boston. II.
Edward McElroy, gambler, shot and
fatally injured his wife and then shot
himself in their room in Kansas City,
Mo.
A train on the Pennsylvania road ran
from Louisville to indianapolis, dis
tance of JOG miles. in 101 minutes.
The National Horse Thief Detective
association in session at Madison, Ind,
elected Gov. Mount, of Indiana. presi-
dent.
An explosion of gas in a coal mine
at Plymouth. Pa, killed Isaac Ed
munds, George Eddy and Louis Rich
ards.
Two were killed and another injured
by boiler explosion in a sawmill at
Moscow, la.
Rukeyser & Bash, manufacturers of
neckwear in New York. failed for $780,
900.
The president has appointed Laurits
s. Swenson, of Minnesota, envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary to Denmark.
The big hotel at Lindsay Park. near
Charlevoix, which was to have been the
largest summer hotel at the northern
Michigan resorts. was blown down and
Pierre Kendall and Guy Hamilton were
killed and ten other persons were in
jured.
The states of Illinois. Missouri, In
diana, Kansas. Nebraska and Arkansas
were all reported to be in great need OF
rain.
Both sides of the case in the trial in
Chicago of Adolph L. Luetgert for the
murder of his wife have been heard and
the state has begun the introduction. of
evidence in rebuttal.
The marsh fires near Valparaiso, Ind,
have destroyed many houses and thou
sands of tons of hay and miles of fences
have been burned.
The American Society of Municipal
Improvements began its fourth annual
session in Nashville, Tenn.
Henry Grower, negro, was taken
from the courtroom at fernando, Miss,
by a mob and lynched for assaulting
15-year-old Dovie Ferguson.
The pecan crop in North Texas and
the Indion territory will be the largest
on record.
Thirty persons were injured, several
of them seriously, by the falling of a
platform at an electric railway station
In Kansas City.
The girls dormitory at the state in
dustrial school in Plankinton, S. d., was
burned, and seven girls persisted in the
flames.
AT Opelilsa, Ala, Laura Bennett and
James Ferguson, two prisoners, were
roasted to death by the burning of the
Jail.
For the month of September the at
tendance at the Nashville exposition
amounted to 273,724, and the total at
tendance since the opening up to Oc-