Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-28
LAT Err.

| 6HI Etc
Gen. Miles, commanding general of
the army. in his annual report COM
mends the efficiency of the army and
says that the maximum peace footing
should be one enlisted man to every
1000 of population and the minimum
one to every 1000.
w. G. Hitchcock & Co., dealers in silk
in New York, failed for 81, 100000.
j. S. Parkhurst and his aged wife,
living four miles from Biloxi, La, were
shot to death and their bodies cremated
by unknown fiends.
Several points in southwest Virginia
report having experienced earthquake
shocks.
Another effort is being made to Sc
cure a pardon for Joseph r. Dunlop,
the Chicago newspaper man, from Jo-
liet penitentiary.
Henry Hunsley and his nephew. Ray
Hunsley, and Miss Bertha Davis were
killed by the cars at Decatur. III.
| Reports from all portions of the coun-
try say that the volume of business con-
tinues of large proportions.
The report of First Assistant Post
master-General Heath calls for an ap-
preparation of about $45, 100000 for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1898.
The Fowler Cycle company, one of
the largest bicycle concerns in the west,
failed in Chicago for 100000.
| There were 224 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 22d, against 223 the week
| previous and 274 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
| Ex-Congressman Charles M. Wood
man, of Chicago has become insane.
| Russell Sage makes emphatic denial of
the report that he is at the head of a
pool to buy in the Union Pacific rail-
road.
The Iowa supreme court says that
speculation in grain, where no delivery
is intended, is gambling, and that such
contracts are void.
The correspondence in regard to the
bimetallic proposals of the United
States monetary commission was issued
by the British foreign Office and shows
that Great Britain rejects all offers to
entertain such proposals.
u
c., closed its doors.
The annual report of John G. Brady,
governor of Alaska, estimates the popu-
lation at 10000 natives and 10000
whites and recommends that 100000
be appropriated for government build
ings and 100000 for schools. He says
the gold seekers as a class rank far
above the average manhood of the
country.
An express train on the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad was
thrown from the track into the Hudson
river near Garrison's, N. Y, and % lives
were lost. The track had been under,
mined by high water.
States Attorney Deneen has decided
to put Luetgert on trial for the second
time in few days in Chicago.
A receiver was asked for the city OF
Hamilton, o. 1t was said corrupt mis-.
management had brought the town to
insolvency.
Thirteen of the crew of the schooner
Casper were drowned by the wreck OF
the vessel near Port Arena, Cal.
An alleged conspiracy to murder
Sheriff Martin, who led the deputies
who fired upon and killed a score OF
lstrikers at Lattimer, Pa, on September
10, has been discovered.
Three persons were burned to death
and seven more severely injured in q
fire that destroyed the Hotel Brooklyn
at Kelletville, o.
The Tuttle brothers, of Mohawk, Ind.
and J. NJ. Butler were killed by the cars
at a crossing at Oakland, Ind.
In his annual report to the secretary
of the navy Philip Hichborn, chief con
structor of the navy, says that the
strength of the navy is 141 vessels.
The dead bodies of Frank Moon and
Jane Wells were found in a well on
Moons farm near Derby, Kan.
At the biennial convention of the
Worlds w. C. L. U. in Toronto, Ont.
Miss Francis E. Willard, of Evanston
ILL.,, was reelected president.
Mrs. Bernetty Woodland died at hel
home near Coldwater, Mich, aged 1Os
years, and DR.. w. b. Sprague died in
Coldwater, aged 1O1 years.
Special prayer for rain was offered
before the Mission Baptist General as
ISOLATION in session at Mexico, Mo.
Funeral services over the remains o
George M. Pullman were held at the
family residence in Chicago and the in
terment was at Graceland cemetery.
At Los Angeles, CAL, Searchligh'
broke the worlds pacing record o.
2:09A for three-year-olds, going thu
mile in 2:07.
Mrs. A. L. Hannah, wife of a farmer
living near Mahomet, ILL.,, was resusci
tated "a hours after having been pro
nounced dead.
In special note to United States
Minister Woodford the Spanish govern
ment declares that Spain has done all in
her power to end the war in Cuba anG
also says that Spain will not admit the
right of any foreign power to interiors
in any of her affairs.