Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-02
A WEEKS RECORD
An Sc News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
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.

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A fast passenger train on the Lake
Shore ran into freight at Ligonier,
Ind, demolishing both engines.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 22d was: Wheat,
s2,70S,0O bushels; corn, 43, 342, 900 bush
els; oats, 15,517,000 bushels; rye, 1885,
900 bushels; barley, 1851, 900 bushels.
The post office and the large depart-
ment store of d. Heenan & Co. were
burned at Streator, ILL.,, the loss being
S25O,OOO.
John Borseman, wife and child were
run down by train near Clay Pool,
Ind, and the latter two were killed.
stock train on the Santa Fe road
was burned at Wakarusa, Kan, and 16
head of cattle were cremated.
Elizabeth Matherly, an s0-year-old
resident of the Terre Haute Qnd.) poor
farm, committed suicide.
The supreme court of Indiana was re-
organized by the election of Judge Tim
othy E. Howard, of South Bend, to be
chief justice in place of Judge James
McCabe.
A six days congress of the Methodist
Episcopal church has opened at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
/ Solomon L. Sharp, a noted turfman,
died suddenly in Cincinnati, aged 40
years.
Fire at Baltimore destroyed W. II.
SCOTS furniture store, the loss being
S135,000, and Mrs. Susan E. Maxon per-
ished in the flames.
$. The steamer Saratoga reached New
York, havingson board the crew of the
Competitor, recently released from a
Spanish prison in Cuba.
Citizens of Nashville, Tenn, presented
a fine silver service to the gunboat Nash
vile at the Norfolk (Va.) navy yard.
The Cuban League of the United
States of America issued an address to
branch leagues urging united action in
further effort to induce congress to
grant belligerent rights to Cuba.
John B. Meixell, ex-cashier, and Willis
L. Hoch, ex-teller of the South Bethle-
hem, Pa, national bank, were each sem
fenced to six years in prison for embez-
element.
Judge Joseph E. Gary has been Sc
giected to pres de at Adolph L. Luetgert's
second trial for murder in Chicago.
Fire destroyed the warehouse of the
Ravenswood Distillery company in ST.
Louis, the loss being 100000
Frank Novak was found guilty at Vim
ton, Ia, of the murder of Edward Muir
ray and his sentence fixed at ten years
In prison.
Six million feet of lumber, valued at
$4,000, were destroyed by fire at Car
rollton, Mich.
The steamer Telegraph, one of the
biggest boats on the Ohio river, sunk
near Louisville, the crew and passengers
narrowly escaping death.
Frank Kveton shot and killed his wife
Mary in Chicago and then killed himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
Samuel, the 11-year-old son of David
johnson, of Philipsburg, N. j., recov-
cred his speech during a fright after
being dumb three years.
At Watsontown, Pa, the tannery
owned by Langdon & Co., of Boston, was
burned, thelo being $150,0O0.
The wife and five children of Will
liam Meyer, of Elizabeth, N. j., died of
malignant diphtheria within ten days.
William H. Smithers, aged 90, the
Oldest merchant tailor in point of
actual service in the United States, died
mt his home in Versailles, KY.
Farmers of ives. Tennessee are plant
ing more wheat this season than was
ever known any previous year in the
history OF the country.
Frank Woodward, Jim Hemphill and
Fayette Norton were killed by an ex-
plosion in a mill at Louisville, Miss.
A fight at Bayou Lacombe. La. be-
tween Arthur and Edward Jolie on one
side and Laurance and Edward Cousin
on the other resulted in the killing of all
four.
Deputies captured and destroyed six
illicit stills in Pope and Scott coun-
ties. Ark. and arrested IA moonshiners.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Randsburg, CAL, and build
angs shook perceptibly.
Mrs. Margaret Keegan. a widow
woman in Chicago, was robbed OF So 900.
The money was kept in barrel in a
closet at her home.
Alderman George Durham. of Mime
apoiis, convicted OF demanding bribh
OF $4,000, was sentenced to six years
In the .penitentiary.