Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-21
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
After a recess of two weeks the none
tary commission resumed it's sessions in
Washington.
Miss Cisneros, who was rescued from a
Spanish dungeon in Cuba by newspa-
per reporter, has arrived in New York.
The annual report Of the treasurer
of the United States will show that on
June 30, 1896, the total available assets
of the treasury were 1856, 6s5, 1921, and on
June 80, 1897, they had increased to
$s74,764,377.
Chauncey NJ. Depew delivered the
Grafton at the unwilling of the statue of
Commodore Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt
university in Nashville, Tenn.
A dangerous counterfeit five dollar
bill, raised from a two dollar treasury
note, was in circulation at Moline, Ill.
John F. Boynton, a well-known resi-
dent of Leominster, Mass, shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide. Family troubles were the cause.
The arguments in the Luetgert MUIR
der trial in Chicago, were commenced,
Assistant States Attorney McEwen ad-
dressing the jury on behalf of the prose-
cution.
The government crop report for Oc-
tober says oats, rye and barley will sur
pass former estimates in amount of
yield, while corn has fallen off.
An electric car went through a tres
tie at Waterloo, Ia, and Is persons were
injured, some probably fatally.
In the contest for the Temple cup be-
tween the Boston and Baltimore base
ball clubs the latter was the winner,
securing four of the five games played.
The Windsor house, the finest hostelry
at French Lick Springs, Ind, was de-
stroyed by fire, the guests narrowly es-
Gaping. $50.
Speakers at Cuban meeting in New
York declared it was the purpose of the
Cuban people to carry on the struggle
until absolute independence of Cuba
is accomplished.
Mrs. Mollie Deprister was said to have
band at Canton. o.
A great gold strike is reported on
Mount Sneffels, in Ouray county, Col.
Bob Carter, negro who killed James
Burch in saloon at Brennan, Tex, was
lynched by mob.
Mrs. Emma Vane, aged 65 years, and
her daughter, Mrs. Sarah NJ. Shaw, aged
20, were killed by burglars at their home
in Camden, N. j.
Associate Justice Field of the su-
preme court, having broken all records
for length of service upon the bench,
has made formal application to be re-
tired December next.
President Mckinley touched tele-
graph key at the white house and
opened the semicentennial exposition
at New Bedford, Mass.
During September last the exports of
breadstuffs from the United States
amounted to S34,629, 946, an increase as
compared with September, 1896, of over
400 per cent.
A train on the International e. Great
Northern road was held up by four men
near Austin, Tex, and the passengers
were robbed.
A tornado wrecked houses near Eliza
beth, N. j., and killed John Clark.
Herbert Crow was fatally stabbed
with hairpin at Hastings, Neb., by his
sweetheart, who was jealous of him.
A cloudburst flooded the streets of
Reading, Pa, and did great damage.
Grass lake, large sheet of water near
Niles, Mich, has gone completely dry.
The big plant at Racine, Wis.,, of the
j. I. Case Threshing Machine company
has hppn sold tn -
capitalists for 100000.
Humanitarians, philanthropists, edu-
Gators and others interested in social re-
forms met in conference at Battle
Creek, Mich.
Actual construction work of the first
railroad to cross Chilkat pass in Alaska
has been begun. .n
An attempt was made at Bismarck, N.
D., to murder Editor Moffatt, of the
Settler, for his attacks on the saloon and
gambling element.
In battle between settlers and shep-
herds in Long Valley, Idaho, three men
were killed.
The Western Carolina bank at Ashe-
vile, N. c., has gone into voluntary
liquidation.
In prize fight at New Orleans Wal
ter Griffin struck Jack Cummings a
blow in the fifteenth round that caused
his death.
The twenty-frst annual meeting of
the American Humane society began at
Nashville, Tenn.
BY the fall of scaffold on q new
church building at Plano, Tex, five men
we're killed.
The ninth statistical report of the
Interstate commerce commission for
the year ended June 30, 1896, says that
ON that date there were In operation in
the United States 1S2,776 miles of rail-
way and that $50 roads were in the
hands of receivers. Nearly 1900 en-
ployes were killed and almost 10000 In
5ured during the year.