Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-11-18
Gossip Among sports.

Gossip Among Sports.
The Harvard Yale football game at
Soldiers Field Saturday ended in a
draw, neither side scoring point.
DIR. Won Hollenben, the newly appoint
ed ambassador of Germany to the Unit.
ed States, sailed from Bremen for his
post Nov. 9.
Malvolio, owned by Jake Marklein and
Tenn, of catarrhal fever. He was one
of the best 2-year-olds in the west, and
the owners recently refused $4,000 for
him.
George Green knocked out Owen
Zeigler of Philadelphia in the first
round Wednesday night in San Fran
cisco. 1t was the famous ..solar pick.
us" blow with which Fitzsimmons
knocked out Jim Corbett which did the
work
The three Chicago cycling papers,
Bearings, Cycling Life and Referee,
have been consolidated. A stock COM
pany has been organized and the first
issue of the new publication, under the
name of the Cycle Age. will appear
Nov. Is.
At the Liverpool autumn meeting S.
H. Burns 5-year.old chestnut filly,
Easter Gift, ridden by Tod Sloane, the
American lightweight jockey, won the
great Lancashire handicap. This race
is 500 sovereigns for 3-year-olds and up
wards. Twelve horses ran
Judicial Actions.
1t has finally been agreed that the
second trial of Luetgert will begin Nov
ember %.
At Cheyenne, Walter r. Houghton
pleaded guilty to stealing registered
| letter containing $4,000. Sentence
was deferred until Dec. &
Joseph E. Kelly. one of the Great
| Falls bank robbers and self-confessed
murderer of Cashier Stickney. was sem
fenced to 80 years Imprisonment
Albert Kneeland, the bigamist, who
has II living wives, was sentenced at
| st. Joseph, Mo-, Nov. 10, to three and
one half years in the penitentiary. This
is his third term for this offense.
A jury in Brooklyn gave verdict
for $4,000 to Mrs. Florence Van
Setback against her father in law,
Peter Van Setback for the alienation
of her husbands affection. Peter Van
Setback is head of the firm of Peter
Van Setback & Co. Of Chicago He is
said to be a millionaire
Justice Mitchell of the Minnesota su-
preme court handed down decision that
under the law of 1894 liquor cannot be
sold to any Indian, no matter whether
he has abandoned his tribal relations
and became a citizen of the United
States or not. The court holds that the
statute is proper police regulation.
JIG. Darragh, who has been on trial for
the past week at Independence, charged
with wrecking the Kansas City Safe
Deposit and Savings bank, was found
guilty Thursday and sentenced to two
years in the state penitentiary. Notice
of new trial was made and leave
granted by the court to apply therefor.
Wyoming supreme court has made
a decision in the Carbon county election
case sustaining the contention of the
| plaintiffs, who were the candidates for
county attorney, treasurer and commits
sioner on the Democratic ticket at the
last election. The court decided that
| foreign born citizens must be required
| to read the constitution in the English
language in order to vote. There were
| 1l5 Firms who voted the Republican
ticket, but could not read the constitu-
ton in English. Their votes We're ac-
cepted, as they could read it in their
own language,
In view of the fact that the California
supreme court adjourned on Tuesday
until next January, it is not con.
sidered probable that w. H. T. Dur
! rant, the condemned murderer of
Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams,
will expiate the crime for which he
was sentenced to be hanged in Decem.
Der, 1895, during the current year.
Meantime Durrant has been removed
from the condemned cell and returned
to his old cell No. 81 in murderers' row
at San Quentin, where he will remain
until the supreme court passes on the
question raised by his attorneys.
Doings of Officials.
The Russian minister to the United
States, NJ. Kotzebue, has been relieved
of his post at his own request, owing to
his i'll health.
George Brown, jr., of Indiana, a SOL
of Admiral Brown, retired, has been
appointed by the president an assistant
paymaster in the navy.
The postmaster general has issued q
fraud order barring from the use of the
mails John Wedderburn & Co., and the
National Recorder Publishing company
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