Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-08-18
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The formal act of signing the peace
protocol was performed in Washington
on the 18th. Secretary of State Days
pane was affixed in behalf of the
United States and that of M. Cambon,
French ambassador, for Spain. Presi-
dent Mckinley issued proclamation
suspending hostilities and orders were
cabled to the military and naval COM
snanders. The peace commissioners
will meet in Paris not later than Octo-
Der 1.
Large and extensive coal deposits
have been discovered about 40 miles
fl ON Sitka, Alaska.
The army is to be kept consolidated
for the present, as the men will be
needed for garrison duty in Cuba and
elsewhere. Secretary Alger says the
troops at present in Puerto Rico will
be kept there.
In a collision between trains near
Ponte Decimo, Italy, nine persons were
killed and 40 were seriously injured.
There were 1876 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1876 the week
previous and 239 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The entire business portion of
Wheatland, Cal, was destroyed by fire.
Rear Admiral Kirkland, command
ant of the Mare Island navy yard and
senior officer of the United States
navy, died at Vallejo, Cal.
old nopnic =, orro how 1aSc
than II years old, was hanged at Snow
Hill, Nd, for killing his stepfather.
At the opening of the British par
lament Queen Victoria expressed
pleasure at the prospects of peace be-
tween the United States and Spain.
The Criterion hotel in Cormanstown,
Australia, was burned and 40 inmates
were cremated in their beds.
The United States steamship Phila-
delphia arrived in Honolulu with AID.
miral Miller and staff on board, and
the admiral will raise the American
flag over the Hawaiian islands.
Charles Baier and his wife, Minnie,
an old German couple, were burned to
death in their home in Chicago by a
fire started by robbers.
The city of Kazan, capital of the gov
eminent of the same name in Russia,
was nearly wiped out Ivy fire.
A cloudburst flooded Clarksburg, w.
Va, and caused immense damage.
Admiral Sampson has been ordered
to proceed with his largest warships to
Tempkinsville, n. Y, at once. The
monitors were ordered to remain at
Puerto Rico. Commodore Remy and
the blockading squadron at Havana
were ordered to Key West.
The American blockading squadron
guarding Havana harbor was fired
upon from MORO castle, and the flag
ship San Francisco was damaged by a
| shell.
1t was announced from Washington
that no more troops would sail for
Manila.
H. NJ. Hone and w. A. Henson, of To-
ledo, o., and Clarence Babcock, of Glib
sonburg, o., were arrested at Toledo
for deserving from Chickamauga.
President Cabrera, of Guatemala,
photographed to the Guatemalan min
lister to France that the revolution
headed by Gen. Prospero Morales had
been utterly crushed.
| The New York democratic state
committee has decided to hold the
state convention at Syracuse Wednes-
day, September %.
Guatemala advices state that Eman-
uel Meyer, a German jeweler of San
Francisco, was murdered in Guate-
mala City for S31 900 and other valu-
ables.
Gen. Greedy has issued orders raising
the censorship on all cable messages
except in Cuba and Puerto Rico, and in
those islands it has been limited to CT
pher messages and messages obviously
detrimental to the United States.
| Seven persons were killed and Al in
jured near Bonvillers, France, by the
derailing of train.
Advices from Melbourne report that
the American bark C. C. Funk, which
sailed from Tacoma, Wash, on May %
for Melbourne, has been wrecked on
Flinders island, Tasmania, and that II
of those on board were drowned.
Fire at Fresno, CAL, destroyed prop
erty valued at 100000 and caused the
death of four persons
The monthly statement of the i'm
ports and exports of the United States
shows that during the month of July
the imports of merchandise amounted
to $5o.647, 1865 and the exports amount
ed to ST., 1914.
James Davis and Albert Robinson
were drowned in lake near Paducah
KY, by the overturning of their boat
while fishing.
The steamer City of Sydney, one OF
the first feet of transports to carry
troops to Manila, returned from the
philippines to San Francisco.
Advices from Washington state ii
has been determined to retain the vol
Iunteer army in service for several
months and to increase the peace
standing of the regular army to prob.
lably 100000 men.
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