Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-11-25
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Thurlow Weed, the eminent
American statesman was celebrated at
Albany, N. Y.
William Wilson, prominent lawyer
and son of the late United States Sena-
tor Wilson, committed suicide at his
home in Snow Hill, Md. III health was
the cause.
Albert Kneeland, the bigamist, who
has IL living wives, was sentenced at St.
Joseph, Mo-, to three years and six
months in the penitentiary.
The Office of the Sentinel, the popu-
list organ of Marshall county, was
wrecked with dynamite at Britton, S.
D., by unknown parties.
The football eleven of Delaware col
1ege at Wilmington has disbanded be-
cause every player on the team is laid
up with injuries.
For the last ten months a gain of
$4,000, 7O2 is shown over the correspond
ing period of last year in the exports of
merchandise and gain of $64, $50, 273 in
the imports.
Mrs. Henry Paysen and her four
year-old daughter were burned to death
at Clinton, Ia.
sembly at Louisville, KY, voted to set
apart the last Sunday in June as Labor
Memorial day.
President Mckinley has designated
ex-Secretary John W. Foster as q spe-
cial plenipotentiary to treat with the
prime minister of Canada concerning
all matters now pending between the
two governments.
w. 81. Harrison, editor of the Ashland
fMiss.) Register, was stabbed to death
by J. L. Mcdonald.
There will be 20 election contest
cases in the house of representatives to
be taken up when congress meets on
December 3.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
his annual report gives a mass of varied
information relating to the farming in
dustry.
The final act on the part of this gov
eminent in the ratification of the treaty
adopted by the recent universal postal
congress was taken when President
Mckinley signed the article.
relleIlOl, VI SOl-
lege, Philadelphia, issued an edict
against football.
Louis and Joseph Schrempp, two
brothers, both saloon keepers, were
stricken with paralysis in ST. Louis at
the same moment.
L. d. Spickler, farmer at Cushing.
Ia, killed his wife and himself. Family
trouble was the cause.
The Territorial Press association has
adopted resolutions favoring the crea-
ton of a state from Oklahoma terri
tory.
The Delta county bank at Delta, COL,
closed it's doors with liabilities of
$4,000.
The Ohio supreme court decided that
the law requiring that in filling ap-
pointive county and city offices prefer
ence should be given to honorably dis
charged union soldiers is invalid.
Mrs. Terrill and her nephew, Ed
ward Mason, were burned to death on a
farm few miles from Peru, N. Y.
The Wyoming supreme court has de-
cided that no foreign-born citizen can
vote unless he can read English.
During the absence of Louis Brown
and wife from their home near White
Oak, Ala, the house was burned and
three children were cremated.
At the fifteenth annual congress in
Chicago of the Baptist denomination of
the United States close communion was
repudiated by several well-known lead
crs of the church.
AT the annual meeting in Harris
burg, Pa, of the National Grange Aaron
Jones, of Indiana, was elected worthy
master.
The gold reserve in the national
treasury on the 10th was $155,Ss6,24s.
the highest on record.
A league Of business men has been
formed in Kansas to try and secure
the repeal of the prohibitory liquor
law.
George SeagIaves, proprietor of a
restaurant in st. Louis, reproved his
two grown sons for some trivial offense
and they fatally assaulted him.
The operators of the Cross mountain
coal mines in Tennessee will mine coas
by electricity.
Joseph A. Iasigi, formerly Turkish
consul in Boston, was sent to prison
Tor IL years for embezzlement.
An earthquake shock, accompanied
by a rumbling noise, was felt in the
vicinity of Owensboro, Ky.
Robert Sims (colored) was hanged at
Jonesboro, Tenn, for the murder OF
Walter Galloway July 0 last.
Ed Purvis, a negro, was hanged at
Ellington, N. c., for the murder of NJ. j
Blackman (white).
The president has appointed F. w
Mondell, OF Wyoming. as assistant com
missioner of the general land Office.
mob destroyed eight tollgates neal
Nicholasville, Ky, and warned tn,
keepers to quit.
Mrs. A. NJ. Dorm, Of Fresno, CAL, rup
tured blood vessel while laughing ami
died instantly.