Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-11-04
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

aged.
Forest fires in the vicinity of laurel
vile, Pa, have done damage to the ex-
tent of $150,OO0 and are still burning.
The Fort Randall reservation of 10o,-
600 acres in South Dakota was thrown
open for settlement and hundreds of
homesteaders at once staked claims.
Later advices say that 10 persons were
killed in the wreck on the New York
Central railroad at Garrisons, N. Y.
The business portion of Baxter, Ia.
was destroyed by fire.
Andrew Johnson and Oscar Peterson
were drowned in the Missouri river near
Mandan, N. D. Their boat capsized.
Admiral Matthews, chief of the bu-
reau of yards and docks, in his annual
report to Secretay Long recommends
the construction of four new dry docks
of the best type.
The estimates for the maintenance of
the navy yards next year aggregate &c.
434,302.
Game Warden Wilcox and party in
trying to arrest Utes on Snake river.
Colorado, killed seven Indians.
The state banks of Kansas in their re-
ports show deposits of over S7,OOO,OOO,
oh increase over last year of As per cent.
Seven striking railroad laborers were
killed and a number wounded in bat
tie with deputy sheriffs at Mammoth
Tank, A. T.
Many new cases of yellow fever were
reported at New Orleans, Mobile and
Memphis, and one case at Cincinnati.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, president of the
New York Central railroad, says that
the wreck at Garrisons, in which 20
lives were lost, was caused by a dyna-
mite explosion.
The post office and general store at
Benton, Ia, was robbed by tramps.
The Delaware coast was swept by the
worst storm in 10 years, and property
valued at S1,000,000 was destroyed
By the will of Caroline Tallnan, filed
at New York, $4,000 is left to charity.
The immense pine tracts in the yicin-
atty Of Blue Eye, Pa, were on fire.
Rev. P. NJ. Murphy, aged rs years,
well-known Baptist minister, was
murdered near Cara, Mo-, by Hugh
Van Hosier, a neighbor.
A severe snowstorm was raging in
Nebraska and South Dakota.
The noted stallion Glenelg died at
Castallin Springs, Tenn, aged 81 years.
1t is announced that the second trial
of Luetgert will commence in Chicago
November s.
All the students in the Baptist uni
versity at Sioux Falls, S. D., left be-
cause they disliked the president.
1t is said that the plants of all the
wire, barbed wire and wire nail mills
in the United States will be purchased
by syndicate.
A safe containing 100000 that was
on the train wrecked near Garrisons
n. Y, is missing.
Stephen Scroggins and three other
young men were killed by boiler ex,
plosion near Weiner, Ark.
Paul Dana has become editor of the
New York Sun, succeeding his father,
Charles A. Dana, deceased.
While crazed with drink Thomas
Monahan shot and killed William
Thoits, Joseph Gauthier and Wood
bury Gates at Gorham, n. 81.
Andrew Hasche, 10 years old, was
killed in football game near Steinway
l.. I.
A blizzard swept over the eastern
half of Colorado and in Denver alone
100000 damage was done.
At Oregon City, Ore, Jacob McComt
and George Stoirch were killed and five
Others injured by falling timbers.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting o.
the Army of the Tennessee convened il
Milwaukee.
Trains collided on the Great Northern
road near Hinsdale, Mont, and En-
gineer Neale and Fireman Carbon wer,
killed and three other men were badl,
injured.
In fight between two Indians and ,
game warden at Leech Lake, Mimi, al
three were killed.
Dan Hart, the once famous minstrel
now 81 years of age, has been admitted
to the city hospital in St. Louis sick anc
helpless,
The one hundred and fifty-first birth
day of Princeton university was cele
brated at Princeton, N. j., and EXPIRES
ident Cleveland read an address on tn
''Self-Made Man"
Fruit growers in California estimat
the damage to crops by recent storms a
$1,0o0,oO0.
AT the meeting in Chicago of the Dem
ocratic Editorial Association of Illinoi
ex-Gov. Altgeld spoke in favor of fire
silver.
Tie exchanges at the leading clear
fng houses in the United States durin
the week ended on the ED aggregate
N,3o6,99S,ss4, against $1,3o7 ,9O7,1 tn
previous week. The increase compare
with the corresponding week of 1s9
pvas 25.2.