Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-16


Charles Burgess was electrocuted at
Auburn, N. Y, for the murder of Henry
v. Whitlock at Sterling in August, 1895.
The value of the gold deposited at
the minis and assay offices during the
fiscal year 1897 was SIPS, Jos, 5oo.53.
The American Torpedo company's
nitro-glycerin magazine at Bowling
Green, O., exploded, and Dan Lean was
blown to atoms.
Gov. Atkinson, of Georgia, vetoed the
anti-football bill.
Judge Horace r. Buck, associate JUS
tice of the supreme court of Montana,
shot himself at Helena. Ill health was
the cause.
peace Sunday" will be observed
throughout the world on the 10th inst.
and ministers are requested to preach
on peace and arbitration.
A company has been organized in
Chicago to maintain a permanent ex-
.hibition of the products of the western
and northwestern states and terri
tories.
Adam Uber, who killed Hans Ander-
son at Gardnerville, New, was taken
from Jail by n mob and hanged.
In a report to the department Of
state Secretary Gage says that the
United States has stopped % filibuster-
ing expeditions to Cuba, and he also
says that if Spain had done half as well
not a cartridge would have reached
the island.
The United States steamer Algonquin,
which was built for the revenue cutter
service on the lakes, was successfully
launched at Cleveland
Mynatt Leach was hanged at Clin-
ton, Tenn, for the murder of j. d.
Heck on February Is last.
The firm of Horton, Gilmore, McWil-
liams g. Co., one of the largest whole
sale hardware houses in Chicago, failed
for $4,000.
An alleged secret report to President
Mckinley says 100000 persons have died
in Cuba since January 1, 1897.
Dayton, O., was flooded with counter
felt two~dollar bills.
Elmer w. Rose, editor of the Preston
Ga.) Times, killed himself. Illness was
the cause.
Robbers entered the post office at
Louisville, H., and stole 1854 in stamps
and money.
The American forestry association
held its sixteenth annual meeting in
Washington.
a fire at Port Townsend, Wash, de-
stroyed the full data of all the shipping
of Puget sound and British Columbia
waters since the year 1868.
The board of education decided to
close the schools in Minneapolis be-
cause of lack of money.
The Schaeffer Piano company in Chi
cago made an assignment.
Gen. Paul Vandervoort, at one time
grand commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, has secured land in
Texas for a colony of 1000 veterans.
The wife and five children of Brown
Smith, a farmer in Simpson county,
Miss, were murdered by negro during
Mr.. Smiths absence.
Miss Lille Arnold, of Jonesville,
Mich, aged %, committed suicide be-
cause she could not stop smoking cigar
cites.
Two miners, John Hassett and Frank
Weber, were killed in a snowslide near
Glendale, Mont.
A slab of quartz with veins of gold
will convey California's invitation to
President Mckinley to attend the
golden jubilee of the discovery of gold.
The New York Typographical union
will begin its fight for nine-hour day
the first of the year.
December wheat was carried up to
$1.09 on the Chicago board of trade, the
highest figure since the famous corner
of 1891.
The Ohio federation of labor has
adopted resolution recommending the
exclusion of foreign labor for period
OF ten years.
Luther L. Miller, a prominent bust
ness man at Myerstown, Pa, commit
ted suicide rather than submit to ar
rest on a charge of forgery.