Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
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tended over Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Iowa.
Louis Kossuth Church, ex-governor
of North Dakota, died at Juneau, Alas
ka, of pneumonia.
A new counterfeit fve-dollar silver
certificate of the series of 1891 with a
portrait of Grant is announced by the
treasury secret service.
The Tennessee medical college was
destroyed by fire at Knoxville.
The French bark Bonnie Josephine,
from Bordeaux to Granville, was sunk
in u collision and nine of her crew were
lost.
1t is said that the position of attor-
ney-general, to succeed Mr.. McKenna,
who will be nominated to the United
States supreme bench to succeed JUS
tice Field, has been offered to Gov.
Griggs, of New Jersey.
sharp earthquake shock occurred at
Galena, ILL.,, and houses shook violently.
There were BOG business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 236 the week
previous and 379 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
The clerk of the house of representa-
tives has received notices of 20 contests
to be made in the next house.
Fire destroyed the old Brick" Pom
eroy block and the Mcmillan Opera
House block at La Crosse, Wis, the loss
| being 100000.
In his annual report the commits
sioner of internal revenue estimates
that the receipts from all sources for
the current fiscal year will aggregate
$l55 900 900, an increase over 1897 of S.
100000. During the year 2,241 Illicit
stills were destroyed and $50 persons
were arrested.
Martin Thorn. convicted in New
York of the murder of William Gulden-
suppe, has been sentenced to be electro
cuted in the week beginning January
70 next.
7 The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated
S1,323 sci, 465. against S1,05S, 4S2,29S the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 81.
President Mckinley left Canton, o.,
for Washington. to be present at the
opening of congress. There was but
slight change in the condition of his
mother, and she was said to be slowly
sleeping her life away.
Thirty-six men started in six days
bicycle race at Madison Square garden
in New York.
Cars on an electric railway in the
suburbs of Detroit, Mich, collided and
three men were killed and II other per-
sons were injured. some fatally.
Americans in Havana asked Gen, Lee
for warships to protect their families.
The italian cabinet resigned and Mar
quis di Rudini, the present prime min
lister, will form a new one, from which
he will exclude all conservatives.
Mahaley Embry Anderson, 10S years
of age, died at the home of her daugh-
ter. Mary Berkeley, in Jeffersonville, Ind
1t was officially announced that Gov,
lGriggs, of New Jersey, had accepted the
office of encouragement of the United
States.
The definite treaty of peace between
Turkey and Greece has been signed.
Advices from the orient say that 4
tidal wave at Port Isabella destroyed
many houses and killed over 1000 per.
sons.
Fire originating in the merchandise
store of Price G. Gillette at Tulsa, Ind
T., destroyed over 100000 worth OF
property.
AT an election in the Chickasaw ma
ton in Oklahoma the ratification of the
Dawes-Choctaw treaty was overwhelm-
ingly defeated.
The Montgomery county On. w.
board of supervisors discovered short
age of 100000 in the accounts of Will
liam Clark, the county treasurer.
William Blake, the first white settler
in Pomona county, CAL, is dead.
Frank Novak was sentenced at Vim.
ton, Ia, to life imprisonment in the
penitentiary at Anamosa for the MUIR
der of Edward Murray.
In the six days. billiard tournament
in New York Slosson was the winner,
defeating Ives in the last game by only
two points.
At Jarucco, Cuba, 10 houses were
destroyed by fire and hundreds of fami-
lies were homeless and destitute.
Enormous damage was done by a
storm which swept over Italy. Seven
teen vessels were wrecked in the bay of
Naples and their crews were lost.
At the session in Austin, Tex, of the
National Prison association the COM
mittee on criminal law reported that
the increase of crime throughout the
country was frightful.
The annual report of James III.
Eckels, comptroller of the currency,
favors amending the note-issuing law,
says there are 3,617 national banks I'm
operation with capital of $63O,230,-
295, and there was paid to creditors of
insolvent banks during the year $13,-
169,7s1 in dividends.