Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-16
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The United States senate was not in
session on the 10th, having adjourned to
the 18th. In the house the pension APP
preparation bill was passed and bills
were introduced to reduce letter post
age to one cent per ounce after July l.,
1898, and to reclassify post Office clerks.
Civil service reform was discussed,
after which an adjournment was taken
to the 18th.
Anthony V. Devlin shot and fatally
wounded his wife in Philadelphia and
then committed suicide.
Harry Allender was hanged at San
Quentin, Cal, for the murder of Miss
Wallbergen Fielner and Vinanzi Gro
zetti August 9, 1896.
The coal miners strike in the north
crn Illinois fields is at an end.
| The Cuban junta in New York re-
ceived word that the insurgents were
planning an immediate attack on Ha-
vana.
1t is reported that the great biscuit
manufacturing companies of the coun-
try have combined.
There were 312 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 306 the week
previous and $50 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
| Highwaymen robbed the mail coach
near Lydenburg, South Africa, of $780,
900 in gold.
Registered letters containing $780,
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the Central Railway of New Jersey
known as the New York, Somerville &
Easton branch.
The Cedar Rapids Ua.) button fac
tory was burned and two employees We're
probably fatally injured.
Charlie Jones, the negro who muir
dered Mrs. Brown Smith and her five
children near Wesson, Miss, was cap
tured and lynched by mob.
| Gen. Ruis Rivera. the insurgent lead
er who was captured in March in the
province of Pinar del Rio by Spanish
troops, has been released and sent to
Cadiz, Spain.
| At Abbeville, Ala, Jim Glover and
Sam Fields, both colored, were hanged
on the same gallows. Glover was con-
victed for killing his wife and Field for
killing his mistress.
Business throughout the country is
reported as still improving and all
speculative markets are stronger.
A bulletin issued by the agricultural
department in Washington shows that
the average price received by farmers
this year for corn, oats, barley. rye and
buckwheat is five per cent. higher than
that of last year.
With President Mckinley holding
her hand. Mrs. Nancy Mckinley, the
mother of the nations chief executive,
died at her home in Canton, o., aged 80
Years.
Fire in John and James Dobson's
carpet salesrooms in Philadelphia
caused loss of 100000.
Charles Lewis (colored), who MUIR
dered the wife and four children of
Brown Smith near Wesson, Miss, was
llynched by a mob.
Orion Clemens, brother of Mark
Twain. died in Keokuk, Ia, while seated
lat table writing.
Pantaleon and Victoriana Guillan, the
murderers of DR.. Carpio. were legally
shot at Matamoras, Mexico.
Judge Clyde, of Waverly, Ia, SEN
fenced Delilah Fales to be imprisoned
20 years and William Kern ~ years for
the murder of Jerome Kern. Both con-
fessed the crime.
The third international convention of
student volunteers will be held in Cleve-
land February % to 81.
Business men in Havana have aban-
ldoned the hope that the insurgents will
surrender or accept the conditions of
autonomy.
Three troops of cavalry were ordered
out to capture Indians who are on the
warpath in Arizona.
West Virginia's ex-secretary of state,
w. z. Chalton, has arranged to pay $685.
1000, the amount of his shortage to the
Estate.
In the six-day bicycle race in New
York C. N. Miller, of Chicago, was the
winner, his score being 2,O13 miles,
beating all previous records.
An ice foe at Galena, H., destroyed
the government locks, which cost $780,
600.
The supporters of Hawaiian annexa-
ton have definitely decided to consider
the question in executive session of the
senate.
In order to compete with the Ameri-
can product Yokohama capitalists pro-
pose 70 establish sawmills in Japan.
c. B. Buckley, now champion quail
eater of the world, finished his six
tieth quail at Springfield, 0. They were
eaten at the rate of two day for 80
consecutive days.
Fully $150,OOO in gold was captured
lby the Cuban insurgents in their brief
raid on La Caimanera.
Mrs. Maria James died at her home
in GAINESVILLE, o., aged ia years.
The gross receipts at so of the largest
lpost offices for November amounted to
$3, 1927, s6s, an increase of 1882, 533 over
1.-The corresponding month of last year.