Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
A WEEKS RECORD
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


Jacksonville, Fla, for Cuba with
cargo of arms and munitions of war.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
1855, 900 bushels; corn, 42,05S,0O0 bush
els; oats, 1921 900 bushels; rye, $780,,
600 bushels; barley, 1891 900 bushels.
The United States supreme court
holds the franchise of the Frankfort
(Ky.) lottery to be invalid.
The second trial of Adolph L. Luet-
CERT, the sausage maker, for the murder
of his wife, began in Chicago.
The Ashland (Ky.) Improvement COM
pany failed for $4,000.
A stock barn belonging to Charles
King at GAINESVILLE, Ia, was burned
with IS head of choice steers.
The steamer Nahant was burned to
the waters edge at Escanaba, Mich,
and two of the crew persisted.
The corner stone of the new $1,000
900 Congregational house in Boston,
was laid.
Asphyxiation caused the death of Fl.
j. Courtney, Arthur Dunn and John
Dalton in the Grand Trunk railway tun-
mel at Port Huron, Mich.
Baron Won lleben, the recently-ap.
pointed German ambassador, presented
his credentials to President Mckinley.
Mrs. Theresa Cardoza, who weighed
coo pounds, died in San Francisco.
The River Falls (Wis.) state normal
school was burned, the loss being $751;
600.
The Chinese Equal Rights league of
Chicago will petition congress to give
Chinese citizens of the country the right
of naturalization and citizenship.
The Union Pacific fast mail completed
the longest record-breaking run ever
nade-519 miles in $50 minutes. The
run was from Cheyenne to Omaha.
The National Civil Service Reform
league will hold its annual meeting at
Cincinnati December 16 and II.
The new agricultural building at
Tuskegee, Ala, for colored students
was opened
A monthly steamship service has
been established between New York
and India.
marching orders ready to protect the
toll gates, Gov. Bradley being deter
mined to stop their destruction.
At Lincoln, Neb., Eugene Moore, ex-
auditor of state, was sentenced to eighI
years in the penite ntiary for the en-
bezzlement of $4,000.
The Mississippi river is frozen over
at Dubuque, Ia, and navigation has
closed.
Seven men were dead at Maplesville
Ala, and II more were not expected 10
live from the result of drinking a mix.
ture of wood alcohol and cheap whisky
Martin Thorn was convicted in New
York OF murder in the first degree in
killing William Guldensuppe, his pre-
decessor in the affections of Mrs. Au
gusta Mack, at Woodside, L. l., on June
25.
William Ellis, a prominent farmer
near Evergreen, Ala, took Cook King
(colored) and tied him to tree ant
shot him to death. Intimacy with Eel.
lis daughter is the alleged cause
Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Hi
nois, has declined the position of chair
man of the interstate commerce com
mission.
killed Albert Grayer at Snowden. Pa.
in attempting to murder another, wa:
hanged in Pittsburgh, Pa.
In an accident on the Atlantic & Dan
vile railroad at Gill's station, Va, En-
gineer James Luter and Fireman Franz
B. Smith lost their lives.
At Olneyville, r. l., $4,000 mill oper
.atives have received an advance of q
per cent. in wages.
A dime-in-the-slot machine for reg
istered letters is being tested in the New
York post office.
Frank A. Keith and Maggie Godfrey
committed suicide together by inhalinG
gas in a room in Lowell, Mass. They
were penniless.
Secretary Gage estimates the treas
'ury deficit for the fiscal year ending
June so, 1898. at $4,000. 900.
Gambling paraphernalia valued al
$4,000 was burned at Leadville, Col, by
order of the court.
w. j. Burian fired a revolver at his
wife in Detroit but succeeded only in
slightly wounding her, and then shot
himself dead. Jealousy was the cause
The public debt statement issued on
the list shows that the debt decreased
$11,33S.1s5 during the month of Novem
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $S46.<09,076. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury
amounts to 81 ,009.22S. 466.
In his message to the general as
sembly which convened at Richmond
Va, Gov. OFsrrall discussed the lynch
ing question and proposed legislation to
correct the evil.
The canals of the state Of New York
have been closed for the season.
James Scales (colored), found guilty
OF criminal assault upon Judge Ennis
ie-year-old daughter Katie in st. Louis,
was sentenced to 90 years in the peni-
Tertiary.