Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10

Hot Springs, Ark, March 4. The Cali
fornlan was knocked out in the second
round.
Facts About Prominent People.
Former Governor Boies is mentioned
as candidate for membership of the
proposed Iowa board Of control.
Judge John Newton Henren, the last
treasurer Of the southern confederacy,
is critically i'll at Staunton, Va.
John w. Bailey, managing editor Of
the Philadelphia Record, was elected
president of the publishing company to
succeed Mr.. Singerly.
Irish Americans at Denver in con.
vention denounced Father Weber of
New York, who said it was the duty of
Catholics to support Spain in conflict
with the United States.
Richard Croker has announced that
it is his intention to go to England.
During his absence John F. Carroll will
be acting leader of Tammany Hall.
John Jacob Aston and William Wal
dorf Astor, the two wealthy cousins,
are IN court, quarreling over the nam
ing OF some property in New York CITY.
The rumor that Andrew Carnegie is
dying or that he is seriously i'll is de-
MED by officials of the Carnegie Steel
company, who say Carnegie's health at
the present time is much better than it
has been for several months.
DR.. John Henry Barrows of Chicago,
president of the worlds congress OF
religions during the Worlds fair has
resigned the pastorate Of the Kenwood
Presbyterian church to enter upon a
missionary career for a year or SO.
Father J. j. HARRY of St. Louis will be
the next bishop of the Catholic See of
Concordia, Kan. 1t is said that the St.
Louis priest was the unanimous choice
OF the bishops who met at st. Louis re-
Gently and that his name is also warm
ly Endorsed oy the clergy.
The condition of Gen. Rosecrans, who
is lying i'll at his ranch near Los Angeles,
is reported to be slightly worse, though
the physicians attending him say there
is still hope of his recovery and that
even If the present attack proves fatal,
he may linger for some days yet.
State Insurance Commissioner Webb
McNall has notified the Hamburg
Bremen Fire Insurance company that
he will refuse to license it or permit it
to do business in Kansas this year. The
ground alleged is that it patronizes
what NcNall considers rating bureau.
Foreign News.
The Nicaraguan congress has adj
journed until August, 1899.
There were two earthquake shocks at
Verona Friday night. Each lasted sew
eral seconds
The floating debt of Spain was aug
mented by 1925, 0S1 pesetas during the
month of February.
An epidemic Of s.black blister has
broken out in Hyderabad, India. Fifty
deaths are occurring daily.
Chiatz Arabs have pillaged the Jewish
quarter at Tatza. killed several Jews
and abducted the Jewesses.
The China Gazette SAYS Great Britain
will occupy Wei Hal Wei in the event
OF Japan withdrawing from that port.
The Royal Canadian dragons of
Winnipeg have been ordered to move
to the Yukon. They will form part Of
a military expedition.
The German bark Cidade do Porte,
Captain Kaufman. last reported at
Pernambuco, was abandoned at sea on
fire, and her crew have landed at Bar
BADGES.
Information has reached Brussels
from the Congo Free State that Canni-
balls killed and ate Belgian officer
named Nuehaus, at Lieukel, in the
Congo, last January.
Acting in pursuance of the general
demand for an increase in the arma-
ments in the Argentine Republic, the
government will send special military
commission to Europe to purchase ar
maments.
The Royal Niger company's forces
left Lokoja Saturday for Sokota to as
sist the sultan of Sokota to drive the
French out OF his territory should the
French forces refuse to recross the
Niger river.
The Dreyfus case has had fresh VIC
tim at Paris, an artist whose head had
been literally turned by the excitement
and who jumped out of a high window
under the delusion that he was Major
Esterhazy and that the police were COM
ing to arrest him. He was killed on
the spot.
Signor Felico Carlo Cavalotti, poet,
dramatist, publicist and the well known
radical member of the Italian chamber
OF deputies, was killed at Rome Sunday
in a duel with swords with Signor Mac
ola, member of the chamber of depu-
ties and editor of the Gazzetta di Vene-
zia. The encounter was the outcome
OF a press polemic in the columns of
the Milan Socolo and the Gazzetta Di