Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-23

near Kennedy, Ala.
There is suspicion in official circles
in Washington, which is gradually be-
coming conviction, that Spain is pre-
pairing to turn the island over to the
Cubans.
The worst blizzard in years swept
over western Kansas.
A committee of the Virginia senate
has ordered favorable report on the
anti-football bill
The Mormon church in Utah has con.
tracted for 100000 acres of land in
Mexico, on which will be located 10000
Mormon colonists.
The next national encampment of the
G. A. r. will be held in Cincinnati Au-
gust 20, 30, 81 and September 1, 2 and g.
An elevator in millinery establish
ment in st. Paul fell six stories, killing
E. J. Mum, travelling salesman, and
fatally injuring William Schaller.
During fight at dance at Jefferson
vile, Ca, three men were killed and
two women were fatally injured.
During the season of navigation just
closed on the great lakes not single
passenger was lost by accident.
Theodore Durrant was sentenced in
San Francisco to be hanged on January
z next for the murder of Blanche La
mont.
The schooner Susan P. Thurlow went
to pieces on Cushing island, near Port
land, Me-, and the captain and five MEM
bers of the crew were lost.
The gold standard was formally APP
proved at the meeting in Washington
of the National Board of Trade and the
gradual retirement of United States
notes and the enlargement of the ma
tional bank circulation was Endorsed.
The imports of gold during the past
nine months exceeded the exports by
$7OO0,00O. The exports of silver during
the same time amounted to $52,551 1868
and the imports to $11,O17,012.
The convention of business men
which met in indianapolis last january
and authorized the appointment of the
monetary commission will meet again
in the same city on January 25 to con-
slider the commissions report.
For the last nine months the increase
in the exports of merchandise was $685.
901, 435 and the gain in imports was $685.
492, 194.
The southern bankers in convention
at Atlanta, Ga, adopted resolutions ia
voring the coinage of more gold and
silver and the retirement of treasury
notes.
The national committee of the peo-
pies party will meet in St. Louis Janu-
airy IL to prepare the call for it's ma
tional convention.
The Let's Fletcher company's whole
sale grocery store at Marshalltown, Ia,
was destroyed by fire, causing loss of
$4,000.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
National Civil Service Reform league
began in Cincinnati, with Carl Schurz
presiding.
George Sheehan, peddler, shot his
wife in Cincinnati and then shot him
self.
A passenger train on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railroad collided with
q freight near Clinton, Ind, and En-
gineer Rausch and Firemen Brewer and
Dester were killed and five other per-
sons were injured.
The state bank at Perry, Kan, was
robbed of 81, 500 by burglars.
John Morgan was hanged at Ripley,
W. Va, for numbering three members
of the Green family.
Tom Waller (colored), implicated in
the murder of the Brown family, was
lynched by mob at Bankston Ferry,
Miss.
In q blizzard in Schleicher county,
Tex, herder and 10000 sheep were
lost.
At Ardmore, I. T., fire destroyed the
courthouse and many valuable court
records were burned.