Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-11-18
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

giving day in Iowa.
Henry Ludolph, aged 40, alderman
from the Sixteenth ward of Chicago and
prominent business man, was instantly
killed by the cars.
The members of the general assembly
of the knights of Labor met in their
fwenty-first annual session in Louis
vile, Ky.
Miles of quartz running 500 to the
ton in gold is reported to have been
found in Fergus county, Mont.
The Georgia legislature passed bill
prohibiting football in the state under
heavy penalty.
The United States supreme court has
refused to interfere in the case of
Henry Durrant, under sentence of death
IN San Francisco for the murder of
Blanche Lamont in q church in April,
1895.
In a fire in Erhart's bakery at Hot
Springs, Ark, Frank Kaufman, Charlie
johnson and Clara Erhart were burned
to death.
'Booth-Tucker's first Salvation Army
colony has been established at Salodad.
Cal.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the sth was: Wheat,
29,062,0 900 bushels; corn, As, 100, 900 bush
els; oats, 15,390,000 bushels; rye, $685.
900 bushels; barley, 4,114,00O bushels.
A monument to the memory of Elijah
Lovejoy, who was assassinated 60 years
ago because of his outspol.en editorials
against slave trade, was dedicated at
Alton, Ill.
At meeting of the cabinet the full
text of Spain's reply to the communica-
ton of Minister Woodford was read
The message is pacific in it's tenor and is
regarded by the cabinet as very salts
factory and calculated to allay any fear
of hostile outbreak. Premier Sagasta
declares his nation is seeking no pretext
for war.
The national grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, met in annual session in Harris
burg, Pa.
A crank appeared at the white house
and demanded to see President McKin-
ley. He was arrested.
The boiler of railway engine ex-
ploded near Crawford, Neb., killing En-
gineer II. c. Simpson and Fireman E..
NJ. Robinson.
John A. Willard, banker at Mankato.
Mimi, failed for $4SO,OOO.
In revenge for an alleged wrong to his
sister, Julian Guinan, aged 16, shot and
killed Charles Jones, United States dis
trict attorney, at Carson, New.
The annual convention of the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy began in Bal
timore.
The total fire losses for October in the
United States and Canada aggregate
11,387,500.
John II. Mooney, Kate Mooney, his
wife, and Michael D. Rooney, Mrs. Moon
ey's brother, were asphyXiated by gas
in San Francisco.
A national convention of American
stock-breeders will be held at st. Paul,
MINI, January 1922.
Cool weather and frosts have ended
the yellow fever scourge in the south.
Near Pineville, KY, Andrew Vaughn,
a prominent farmer, killed his wife and
then took his own life.
In Philadelphia Charles Gilbarts shot
and fatally wounded his father-in-law.
Frederick Fritz, ST.. and his son, Fred
erick Fritz, Jr., and then shot himself.
"A quarrel was the cause.
Wade Hampton, railway commission
er, in his annual report to the interior
department says the year marked the
1ow-water mark of railway construc-
ton. Thirty-four companies with 5,441
miles of road passed into the hands OF
the courts, and So others were sold at
70
ent year is reported encouraging.
The negro building at the Georgia
lunatic asylum at Milledgeville was par
TALLY burned and one man lost his life
Ex-Judge Vincent has withdrawn
from the Luetgert murder case in Chi
cago and the defense will secure a new
assistant for Attorney Phalen.
The semiannual meeting of the ex.
ecutive committee of the National
Sound Money" league was held in New
York and favorable reports were re-
ceived as to the situation in many states
The Middlesboro (Ky.) machine
works were destroyed by fire, the loss
being s4OO,OOO.
Col. Cook, commander of the Fifth
infantry of the United States army, sta.
toned at Fort Mcpherson, Ga, has
prohibited playing of football on that
reservation.
e'The introduction of military drill
into the University of Chicago is being
considered.
Gov. Tanner has named Thursday
November rs, as Thanksgiving day In
Illinois.
8 In the Queens county IN. ~ court
house Mrs. Augusta Mack confessed
that she and Martin Thorn plotted tn,
death OF William Guldensuppe, tn,
Turkish bath attendant who disap
peared on June "a last, and said that
Thorn shot him and cut his body up.