Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-09-09
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1t is said that DR.. +. B. Andrews. who
resigned the presidency of Brown uni
versity at Providence, II. l., has accept
ed the position of president of the new
Cosmopolitan university, founded by
John b. Walker and to open on the 18th
inst. in Providence.
An explosion at the Sunshine coal
mine near Glenwood Springs. Col,
killed l2 men.
A company has been incorporated in
New York with a capital of $4,000, 900
to construct ship canal from the At
lantic to the Gulf of Mexico.
The populists of Colorado met at
Salida and nominated William Gabbert
for the supreme court bench.
Charles M. Charnley, of Chicago for
IS years treasurer of the Presbyterian
board of aid for colleges and academies,
was said to be defaulter to the extent
of $4,000.
Lazarus Greengard, the oldest Jew in
the United States, died at the residence
of his son in st. Louis. aged 1o5 years.
There were 191 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 223 the week
previous and 334 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Fire destroyed all but two business
houses at Hillsboro, Ia.
President Mckinley and his party
were the special guests of the Ohio state
board of agriculture at the fair grounds
in Columbus.
A bill was introduced in the Mica
raguan congress to establish a gold
standard in that republic.
Rifaat Bey, until recently councillor
of the Turkish embassy in London, has
been appointed Turkish minister at
Washington.
Seth Low has signified his acceptance
of the nomination by the Citizens
union for mayor of Greater New York.
On the farm of Nathan Cox in Taylor
county, KY, his two young sons were
bitten by rattlesnalles and died.
Judge Ellsworth, of Oakland, Cal,
ruled that bicycle is personal property
and exempt from execution if used by
the owner in his daily business.
Mrs. Helen Lewis died at her home in
st. Joseph, Mich, aged 107 years. She
was born in slavery in Delaware in 1890.
1t was thought that the miners strike
would end in few days, the national
executive board of the United Mine
Workers having agreed to recommend
to the miners a proposition from the
Pittsburgh operators for a straight
price of 65 cents ton, to continue in
force until the end of the year.
Forest H. Parker, president of the
Produce Exchange bank of New York,
and his wife were drowned in the Chain
lake in the Adirondacks by the upset
ting of boat.
The sixteenth annual exhibition of
the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition
| association was opened by Gov. Scho-
field
Benjamin Brewster, president of the
| Keokuk & Des Moines railroad, died at
his summer home in Cazenovia, N. Y,
aged 60 years.
In the ten weeks the miners strike
has been going on the strikers have lost
in wages $1O,500,00O.
| The financial statement of the COM
mittee of '97 of the sixteenth interna-
tional Christian Endeavor convention
shows a balance in the hands of the
treasurer of $2,274.3s.
| An official estimate of the corn crop
of Kansas this year places it at 165,677,-
$50 bushels.
In Bloomington, Peoria and other Il
linois cities many business men were
victimized through two-dollar bills
raised to ten-dollar bills.
| Three. tramps set fire to the Jail at
Conway n. d., and persisted in the
flames.
President and Mrs. Mckinley arrived
at their home in Canton, o., for few
days visit
Two little sons of Adam Majewski
were drowned at Stevens Point, Wis.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, consul general,
left Cuba for New York on leave of
absence.
1t is said that the sultan has agreed
never to use his influence against Rus
STA in central Asia and that the car has
pledged himself to uphold Turkish
rights in Europe.
An excursion train was wrecked near
Newport, Me-, and one man was killed
and four other persons were fatally in
ljured.
Yellow fever was reported at Ocean
Springs, Miss, and the place was quar-
antined.
Four masked men held up a train at
Irwin Mountain, COL, and took $1O,-
900 from the express car.
Two explosions of natural gas at
Broad Ripple, Ind, killed eight persons
and "a others were badly injured.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were: Boston, 500;
Baltimore, GOA; New York, 500; Cincin-
natl, .5s3; Cleveland, .514; Chicago,
.446; Brooklyn, AL; Pittsburgh, .439;
louisville, .43s; Philadelphia, .43s;
Washington, .4a4; St. Louis, .243.