Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09

vember were $43, ,605 and the ex-
penditures were $37,s10,S3s.
Fire in the +. o. Sawyer G. Co. paper
factory in st. Louis caused a loss of
5000. 900.
Miss Susan Wesson died in RoXbury,
Mass. aged 100 years A months and z
days. She was the oldest unmarried
woman in Massachusetts.
Justice Fields retirement from the
supreme court, of which he gave official
notice last October, has taken place.
At the annual convention in New
York of the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers Charles W. Hunt, of
New York, was elected president.
By order of Assistant Postmaster
General Heath it has been made an Of
Tense punishable by dismissal from the
service for letter carrier to work more
than eight hours a day.
Mrs. Christine Behrens, who muir
dered her husband, Claus Behrens, last
July, by giving him paris green, was
sentenced in Davenport, Ia, to life inn
prisonment.
The deposits in state banks of North
Dakota have nearly doubled in GO
days.
The gold output of the Cripple Creek
(Col) district in November was 81 1885,
600, the largest for one month in the
history of the camp.
Charles W. Spalding, late president
of the defunct Globe savings bank in
Chicago and former treasurer of the
state university, was given an indeter-
inmate sentence to the penitentiary.
The executive board of the Knights
of Labor reports the order largely in
creased in membership during the last
year.
The Moosehead Pulp & Paper COM
pany at Scion, Me-, failed for 100000.
Nearly 1000 men in the limestone and
iron trades at Youngstown, o., have
had their wages advanced from ten to
twenty per cent.
A suburban population of fully 10000
will be added to Kansas City, Mo-, as
result of special election.
By the explosion of an engine on a
street car line near East Titusville, Pa.
four men were injured, two fatally.
Light earthquake shocks were felt
at several points in Kansas, but no dam
age was reported.
Seth Lowe, William Phillips and John
Howard, farmers living near Huntsville.
Ark, fought for the hand of Miss Irene
Pruitt and all three were fatally
| wounded.
Anna Nigel, young married wom-
| an, murdered her two younger chill
| dren in Philadelphia and attempted sui
eide. No cause was known for the
deed.
Bill Scott (colored) killed John Sing
ley, wealthy farmer, and his wife and
child at Warrens, Ala, and stole 500
and escaped.
| Albert Kruger, butcher, shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide in Milwaukee. A quarrel was the
| cause.
The president has appointed Blanche
X. Bruce (colored), of Mississippi, to be
register of the treasury.
The annual reports of Indian schools
show progress at Carlisle, Pa, and
Hampton, Va, the principal institu
tons, where 900 students are enrolled
The Piedmont state bank at Morgan
town, N. c., closed it's doors.
Nine Cinnamon captured near Ma
lone, N. Y, will be sent back to China.
The imports of dutiable sugar dur
ing October last amounted to 1S2,g0S,
945 pounds, valued at $3,643,613, which
is an increase over the September i'm
ports of nearly 100000 pounds.
Five robbers entered Miles G. Higbee':
bank at Milford, Ind, but secured NJ
booty.
Giuseppe Fuda, convicted of the muir
der of his wife in East Norwalk. Conn
February II last, was hanged at thu
state prison at Wethersfield.
Two orphan children of George Cope
land were fatally burned in the hous
of their grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Cope
land, at Sullivan. Ind.