Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-30
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Horace G.. Burt, third vice president
of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
has been elected president of the Union
Pacific.
Fire in the paper warehouse of W. G.
Jupp and in the Free Press Printing
company's building in Detroit caused
loss of $4,000.
The Overman Wheel company, of
Chicopee Falls, Mass, with agencies in
all the principal cities of the country,
failed for $539.oO0.
A prairie fire in the great Panhandle
country in Hall county, Tex, killed
thousands of head of stock.
Marcus Nassauar, young man, shot
his sweetheart, Miss Katie Dosenbach,
daughter of the ex-sheriff in st. Louis,
and then blew out his own brains.
George A. Morast, aged Sc years, shot
his wife at Bethlehem, Pa, and then
blew out his own brains. A quarrel was
the cause.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the S7th was: Wheat,
36,619,000 bushels; corn, 3S, 149, 900 bush
els; oats, 12,772,000 bushels; rye, 3,710,-
900 bushels; barley, 4,7S9,000 bushels.
Will Burdy, James Philpot and Bob
Gregory were killed in a saloon row at
Manchester, Ky.
Frank McDaniels broke the worlds
record for long jump on skates in Min
ncapolis, Mimi, clearing 81 feet and 7
inches.
John G. Palmer, a deaf mute, killed
Mrs. d. P. Lenhart at Atlantic, Ia, and
then committed suicide. He was in
sane.
Mrs. Mary Anderson committed sui
eide by asphyxiation in Chicago and
also suffocated her two young step
children.
The wholesale grocery house of Lewis
Hubbard & Co. was burned at Charles
ton. W. Va, the loss being 100000.
Fire which destroyed the Arcade
building at Detroit, Mich, caused dam
age amounting to $125,0O0
Jacob Strayer and wife were cremated
in fire which destroyed their home
near Scottdale. Pa.
Edward j. Radcliffe, the actor, found
guilty of striking his wife, was SEN
fenced in New York to six months in the
penitentiary.
A revised estimate ofthe cotton crop
of 1s9T-9s places it at 1O,257, 900 bales.
Patrick Kelley, of Louisville, KY, who
for over year has been dumb, sudden
- resovered his speech during fit of
anger.
Joseph Hopkins, negro who muir
dered two white farmers atvGlendore,
Mss. was lynched by mob.\
Mrs. Nancy Browdy, aged 46, ohButte,
Mont, and her mother, aged 76Iwere
burned to death in New Haven, Pan
The Universities of Michigan, CHI
cago, Illinois, Wisconsin and the North
western university have organized the
Western intercollegiate Baseball
league.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, says il
will be impossible for the United States
TO remain complacent should European
nations undertake the dismemberment
of China.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
American Historical association began
in Cleveland, o.
Several icebergs in Lake Michigan
about 100 feet high and rs feet in diam
eter We're an unusual spectacle seen at
Wankegan, Ill.
On wager of $50 F. L. Mackay ate
100 raw oysteSs in eight minutes in
New York. w..
Eighty per cent. of the etage tool man
ufacturers in the United States m, 10
consolidated their interests.
Fire in the Great Northern hotel in
Chicago burned the great aeolian or
gan. valued at $4,000.
The First Reformed PRESBYTERIAN
church of New York city celebrated its
one hundredth anniversary.
President Mckinley has approved the
bill prohibiting the killing of fur seals
in the waters of the North Pacific
ocean"
James j. Corbett has challenged Rob
ert fltzsimmons to fight for purse of
$4,000 and the worlds championship
Fire destroyed the plant of the +. C.
Austin Manufacturing company in Chi
cago, the loss being 100000, and Frank
Suffer persisted in the flames.
James Kirkley. treasurer of Benton
county. was murdered in his Office at
Fowler, Ind, by unknown persons. |