Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
MISCELLANEOU S.

Whitelaw Reid has accepted the post
of special ambassador at the queens
jubilee.
Colonel Charles Gordon, a brave and
dashing American who cast his lot with
the Cuban patriots, has met his death
in the field.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe observed ner
seventy-eighth birthday Thursday.
Letters received by Milwaukee grain
dealers from several counties bring the
report that farmers have seen the ar
my Worn crawling along fences about
grain IN Last year this most de-
structiveVA.rWas not seen in Wiscon-
sin until NIwsSe about ripe.
A slightly ,thqusss&ke shock was ielt
throughout Vermont TsESursday. build-
ings trembled lerceptibly.N Nat Bellows
Falls and Burlington the shock was fei'
twice. No damage was done.
Gov. Scofield 4 Wisconsin has APP
pointed as the fbAestfy commission H.
TO. Putnam of Eat Claire, George B.
Burrows of MADISON and Ernest
Bruncken of Milwaukee. The commits
sion was created by IN act OF the last
legislature.
Chicago capitalists lave lost about
$4,000 in the Mexico, Mo-, Fire Brick
works. 1t is one of the Target Are
brick factories in the west.
The arrangements for taking care OF
the Knights of Pythias Supreme Lodge
and the encampment of the Uniformed
Rank, which are to be held in India
napolis in 1898, are progressing. An
effort will be made to raise $4,000 for
expenses. This will cover the prize
drills, which will require $4,000.
Authority has been granted for the
organization of the First National
900.
Buffalo Calf, the aged chief of the
Quapaws, died of pneumonia at the
Quapaw agency in the northern part
of Indian Territory. He was the last
of the Quapaw chiefs.
A bill was introduced in congress by
Mr.. Maddox of Georgia to exclude from
the mails all matter emanating from
commercial agencies which publish
business ratings and carry on collec'
lions.
The Wisconsin supreme court finish
ed the hearing of arguments on tn
present assignment Thursday and ad
journed till June II.
The sixteen members of the crew o
the Provincetown fishing schooner }
Z. Johnson, who went astray on tn
western bank last Friday, arrived a
Provincetown, Mass. All are we'll.
The Pacific coast breeders have es
tablished a Futurity stake-.s3,000 guar
anteed-for colts to trot and pace at
and 3 years old. They will race in 1S9
and 1900. Entries close June l, 1891
Andrews Brothers & Co. at thei
mills in Hazleton, Pa, posted notice
that, taking effect May 80, wages Of al
5 employees moi governed by the anal
! gamated schedule would be reduced !
per cent.
I The cases against the Paducah IN
Terre Haute players and Umpire Bole
! were decided against them, a fine of
being assessed in each case for Sunda
playing.
1t is stated that the General Electri
Company CT New York has secured til
. contract for the equipment of the Ger
; trail Underground Railway OF Londol
The amount of the contract is some
II thing over 100000. All the materii
e will be made in this country.
c The st. Joseph, No., Furniture MAJ
%ufacturing Company failed for $4,000
Silas Mcdonald, Jr., was named ;
, trustee.
a Goldstcin Bros, dealers in dry goot
: and notions, failed at Henderson, X
o Their liabilities are $4,000, with a
J, sets of less than one-third that amour
The firm had several Chicago creditor
Ernest Raddatz, of Oshkosh, Wi;
the inventor of the submarine boat, h:
# sold 1t to the Il. P. Allis Company, Mi
" waukee, delivery to be made June |
q Several successful trips have recent
been made.
The Michigan peppermint crop hi
g been seriously damaged by severe froS
o Growers estimate the injury I
s mint in some localities to be
half.