Audubon Republican., 1897-09-23
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Thomas E. Edison has taken up the
study of air ships. He says those al
ready invented are wrong in principle
The twenty-ninth meeting of the So
ciety Of the Army of the Tennessee viii
be held in Milwaukee October 81 and %
John L. Sullivan announces that he
will run for mayor of Boston and that
his platform will be to license gambling
places and disorderly houses.
Rev. Scott Hyatt and wife, Royal Nc.
Queen and Miss Mae Tibbetts were
drowned in the Cedar river near Waver
ly, Ia.
President Mckinley has returned to
Washington in good health and spirits
from his summer vacation.
"Rev" G. F. B. Howard, q noted fed
eral convict, escaped from the state
prison at Columbus, o.
In an interview in Washington Con-
sul General Lee said that in his opinion
the insurgents would eventually win
their independence in Cuba without as
sistance from any outside sources.
Trouble broke out at Coke Bros col
licry at Eckley, Pa, and troops were
sent to the scene.
A tornado struck Port Arthur, Tex,
and six people were known to have been
killed and many others injured. Build
ings were blown down and great dam
Ege was wrought. At Sabine Pass ten
persons were killed and at other points
some lives were lost.
Large numbers of coal miners in
- ~
to work.
Paper mills at Appleton, Wis, received
orders from Japan for 1000 tons of
print paper. This opens up mar
ket new to American paper manufac-
turers.
! A fire at Iron Mountain, CAL, de-
stroyed property belonging to the
Mountain Copper company valued at
nearly 100000.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country say that
hot weather has given corn a big boost.
Ten dead and many injured and the
destruction of property and crops
worth $780, sum up the losses by the
hurricane at Port Arthur and Sabine
Pass, Tex.
S. H. Lanyon, one of the most widely
known men of southeastern Kansas.
dropped dead on the street in Pitts
burg.
The Bank of Durand, ILL.,, closed it's
doors.
The mill situation in Rhode Island is
better than it has been for five years.
Mills are running on full time.
The Midland national bank of Kansas
City, Mo-, went into voluntary liquida-
tion by resolution of it's stockholders.
The second national congress of col.
ored women met in Nashville, Tenn.
The salmon catch of the past season
has been the largest ever known in the
northwest.
The eleventh annual convention ot
the National Association of Builders
met in Detroit.
1t has been decided to change the
color of the current two-cent postage
stamp from carmine to green of the
shade now used on government notes.
Yellow fever was said to be spreading
An New Orleans and other southern
cities.
4 Michael broke the worlds 20-milt
bicycle record at Springfield, Mass, go
ing the distance in 3s:11.
President Ratchford has sent out
circular address to the miners declar
ing the great strike off.
/ 1t is estimated that the recent hail
storm in the vicinity of Washington
Ia, caused damage of 100000.
Tramps caused an $4,000 fire a
Moorhead, Minn.
By the fall of a cage in mine at Nan
ficoke, Pa, four men were fatally in
jured and eight others seriously hurt.
A mob of 400 mer lynched Lyle Lev
Bert Andrews, Clifford Gordon, Williar
jenkins and Hiney Shuler at Versatile.
Ind. The men had been arrested TO
burglary.
The steamer Excelsior arrived in Sa
Francisco from Alaska with 63 passer
gers and about So, SOC, 900 in gold.
An investigation made by Commits
shows that there are only 6s insane In
dians in the country.
Postmaster General Gary is devotin
considerable attention to an investiga
tion of the wisdom of establishing post
nj savings banks.
Domestic exports for the eigh
months ended August 81 last amounte
to $629, 4,371, an increase of $G2,217
387 over last year.
The farmers along Taylor's bayo-
in Jefferson county, Tex, lost $4,000
by the destruction of the rice crop i
the recent hurricane.
Seymour Bros, stock brokers in New
York, with offices in various cities i
Ihe country, failed for si,oOo,oOO.
Reports reaching the Marine hospito
service in Washington from officials i
Louisiana and Mississippi leave no fun
ther doubt as to the fact that yelloy
fever exists at several points in thos
states.