Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-28
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

mints and assay offices during the fiscal
year was 61,009,s61.
Edgar A. Miller died of typhus fever
In San Francisco. No other case of
typhus has ever been known on the
coast.
The City bank at Sherman, Tex,
closed it's doors with liabilities of $780,
600.
All navigation upon the Yukon river
Is now closed by an ice blockade. Sew
eral vessels are frozen in.
A team backed a carriage over high
bank near Coquite City, Ore, and the
and the judge was fatally injured.
Up to the 18th 100 persons have died of
yellow fever in New Orleans and the dis
ease continues to spread. o.
Forest fires near Austin, Pa, burned
100000 worth of timber.
The total registration of Greater New
York is 50S,56s.
Convicts in the Riverside (Pa.) peni-
Tertiary were found to be making bogus
half dollars.
The annual report of the third assist
ant postmaster general for the last
fiscal year shows that the total receipts
were $S2,665,4 62; expenses, $04,077,242,
leaving deficit of $11, 411,779.
The schooner Silver Heels left New
York on what is believed to be tilibus-
tering trip to Cuba.
In boxing match at Lancaster, N. Y,
Edward Voli struck Frank Kozewski a
blow that killed him.
Chickasaw Indians raided the town of
Mill Creek in Indian territory.
Edward Stiffier, young man at Sell
ma, Ind, crazed by jealousy, killed him
self by shooting in the presence of the
girl he loved.
A. c. Deuel., aged rs, for 40 years su-
perintendent of the public schools of
Urbana. o.. was killed by a freight
train.
Gordon James Beverley, who hauled
down the rebel flag at Alexandria, Va,
at the time Col. Ellsworth was shot,
killed himself at Aurora, ILL.,, while in
sane.
warship has been sent to Guatemala
to protect United States citizens.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
will be held at Nashville, Tenn, De-
cember 13 next.
A barn belonging to Sivert Berg was
burned near Hanley Falls, Mimi, and
four tramps were cremated.
The doors of the Edgerton wis.,
bank were closed with liabilities of
$14s,OOO.
President Mckinley and Mrs. McKin-
ley will leave Washington on the goth
inst. for visit to Cincinnati and Pitts
burgh.
George Doyle and James Tyler got a
three-year sentence in Kokomo, Ind,
for stealing 40 cents worth of beer.
Clemente Rivera shot and killed Mrs.
Victor Barrela and then killed himself at
Gallup, N. M.
Forest fires in Sanilac, Huron and st.
Clair counties, Mich, were doing great
damage.
Thousands of acres of timber land
and farming country in Fayette and
Somerset counties, Pa, were swept by
flames.
The National Association of Retail
Liquor Dealers met in Indianapolis.
j. B. Thunnison and wife were suffo-
Gated at Mitchell, S. D., by gas from a
coal stove.
The Tennessee insane asylum at Boil
ivar was destroyed by fire.
The Lexington hotel in Chicago went
into the hands of a receiver with liza
bilities of 100000.
Ex-senator John NJ. Palmer has taken
UP the fight for the admittance of COL
pred children to the Alton Ull.) public
schools.
Hundreds of gold seekers were fleeing
from Alaska to escape starvation.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Osceola, Ark.
The body of Charles Anderson Dana
was laid away in st. Paurs churchyard
at Glen Cove, l.. |. Many prominent
men gathered to pay the last respects.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, consul general in
Cuba, announces that he expects to re-
turn to Cuba about December and re-
main until the conclusion of the war.
Advices say that not since 1892 has the
potato crop of the United States proved
so nearly failure as this year.
AT the annual meeting in Philadelphia
Of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States Rear Ad-
miral Gherardi was reelected command
or in chief
The total cut of II lumber mills on
the river in the Marinette (Wis.) region
tLis year Will be over 327 ,OOO, 900 feet.
Joe Patchen broke the worlds wagon
record, pacing the mile at Joliet. ILL.,,
IN 2:O4A.
John "A. Barnes, of Illinois, has been
appointed United States consul at Co.
logne, Germany.
Fire wiped out all the business part OF
Center. Ind.
The Central hotel in Iowa Hill, Cal.
was burned, and William Golden ant
William Owens perished in the flames
The American Humane association
at its annual meeting in Nashville
Tenn. reelected as president John G
Shortall. of Chicago.
Col. Augustus G. Robinson, assistan
quartermaster general, has been PLACED