Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-11-18

Secretary Alger recommends the adj
dition of two more regiments Of artil-
lery to the army.
The stage between Cheyenne and
Canadian, o. T., was held up and the
mail rifled of $500.
President Mckinley received Sir Will
fred Laurier, premier of Canada, in the
blue room at the white house.
The youngest daughter of Robert T..
Lincoln, of Chicago, Miss Jessie, was
married in Milwaukee to Warren Beck
with, of Mount Pleasant, La. 1t was an
elopement.
A bill will be presented to the next
Maine legislature to punish sportsmen
who accidentally shoot or kill men in
the woods.
Lyman Taylor failed to marry Miss
Mary Burns, as agreed, at Cynthiana,
KY, and she committed suicide. Re-
morse caused Taylor to take his own
life.
The will of the late Charles A. Dana,
of New York, leaves $1,oO0,ooo to his
widow and son.
The exports of breadstuffs in October
amounted to 26,156,094, an increase,
compared with October, 1896, of $780,
o12.
The attempt to start movement for
Henry George memorial building in
New York has fallen through.
Rev. George Reader has practically
been expelled by Boston university for
marrying q couple in lions cage.
The November report Of the depart
ment of agriculture gives 1877 bushels
as the average yield per acre of corn in
the principal corn states. against 27.3
bushels in November, 1896.
Betting on tho floor of the stock ex-
change in New York has been pro-
hibited.
The trial at Long Island City, N. Y.
of Martin Thorn for the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe was suspended ow-
ing to the dangerous illness of juror
and a new trial ordered.
Edith and May Roberts, sisters, aged
respectively 10 and II years, were ter
ribly whipped and tarred and feathered
by white caps at lakewood, o.
The Lion department store in Chi
cago owned by w. A. Wieboldt & Co.
was burned, the loss being 100000.
Edward Hankins, So years old, was
hanged in Chatham, Va, for the murder
of DIR. John Roy Cabell, of Danville, on
June &c last.
A passenger train on the Louisville,
Henderson e. st. Louis road was de-
rallied and entirely consumed by fire
near Lewisport, Ky. No lives were lost.
Henry Hurlburt, one of New York's
leading financiers, dropped dead at the
dinner table at his home.
Robert T. Lincoln has been made
acting president of the Pullman Palace
Car company and will serve until Sc
lection for president is made.
Count de Vecchi, one of the best
known Italians in this country, died
in Washington from eating mushrooms
| supposed to be of the edible variety.
The total shortage of ex-State Treas
| placed at $S70,00o.
Theodore Durrant, the convicted muir
derer of Blanche Lamont, has been
granted another stay of execution by
the California supreme court.
At Brownsville, Tex, Mexican
| named Bernardo Salazar, aged 16, shot
and fatally wounded two old women
and two little girls.
Three men blew open the safe in
Heine's bank at Silver Creek, N. Y, Sc
curing $4,000 in money and $4,000 in
jewelry.
The president has appointed Charles
Page Bryan, of Illinois, to be envoy ex-
| traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the United States to China.
For signing his name to the liquor
license petition for Princeton inn, the
establishment owned by the alumnus
of the university in Princeton, N. j.,
Prof Charles W. Shields, D. D., LII. D.,
of the faculty, was at his own request
blotted from the rolls of the Presby-
| terrain church.
Joseph Ladue, who struck it rich on
the Klondike, was robbed of $70C wort h
of nuggets in Chicago.
The quarantine at New Orleans be-
cause of yellow fever has been abol-
ished.
One of the first bills introduced in
the New York legislature will be one
providing for the creation of new
state to be called Manhattan, which will
include 16 counties and have a popula.
ton of 3,902,2
Secretary Sherman and Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, the premier of Canada, began
in Washington the first of a formal
series of conferences upon topics bear
ing upon future relations between the
United States and Canada.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Artichoke, Winnebago Indian, died
near Tomah, Wis, aged los years.
James Lynch died in Muncie, Ind,
aged 119 years.
Nathan Fellows Dixon, who was
United States senator from Rhode
Island from April 10, 1889, to March 3,
1895. died in Westerly, aged so years.
DIR. Edward Newberry, founder OF
Brentwood, Long Island, died from
pneumonia contracted at the funeral OF
| Henry Georpe