Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
Joe Anderson, the elephant keeper
with Wallace Bros circus, was killed
at Racine, Wis.,, by one of the elephants
that became unruly.
The plant of the Webster Manufacture
ing company at West Superior, Wis,
was burned, the loss being 100000.
Business throughout the country was
reported to be in good condition.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
22,587,O0O bushels; corn, 21,169,O00
bushels; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, l.
2s2, 900 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
Curtis and Samuel Young (colored)
were hanged by a mob at GAINESVILLE,
Mo-, for killing City Marshal Mclean
during fight.
A new and dangerous counterfeit half
dollar has made its appearance in Oak
land, Cal.
Ed Curtis and James Welch were poi
soned near Boscobel, Wiz. by eating
hemlock and died in few minutes.
They were prominent farmers.
At Cynthiana, Paris, Maysville and
other towns in Kentucky severe shocks
of earthquake cause panic among the
people.
The village of Crown Point, o., was
nearly wiped out by fire.
J. w. Etting killed his wife at Hot
Springs, Ark, and then committed sui
eide. Domestic trouble was the cause.
The entire plant, rolling mill and
steel plant Of the Burgess Steel and Iron
company was destroyed by fire at Ports
mouth, o., the loss being 100000.
Two daughters of John Whitney, aged
nine and eleven years, were instantly
killed by lightning near Gainesville,
| Tex.
The three little daughters of Charles
Watt were burned to death at Pitts
burgh, Pa, during the absence of their
parents.
John L. Bright, wholesale milliner at
Columbus, o., failed for $15o.Oo0.
The Arkell Publishing company,
which published in New York Judge,
Frank Leslie's illustrated Weekly and
other publications, went into the hands
of receiver with liabilities of s1,OOO,oOO.
The bill for the removal of all politi-
cal disabilities arising from the civil
war is now law, President Mckinley
having formally approved it.
The celebration of the semicentennial
anniversary of Wisconsin's admission
into the union opened in Madison.
The Delaware national bank of Delhi
N. Y, closed its doors with liabilities OF
$275,000. Excessive loans caused the
!. failure.
The business portion of Ittabena
!. Miss, was destroyed by fire.
Ex-Judge Julius S. Grinnell died sud
denly of heart failure in bank in Chi
/ cago, aged So years.
The captain-general of Manila report
S ed to the Madrid government that hi
: forces were inadequate to cope witt
Admiral Dewey and the insurgents.
4 B. F. Williams and j. I. Pyle, tw'
t wcll-known and wealthy western cat
: tlemen, were drowned in Wolfe creel
0 near Perry, o. T., while attempting t
cross the swollen stream.
S At the annual commencement exe1
= cises in Pittsburgh, Pa, of the Wester
university the degree of doctor of law
b was conferred on Admiral Dewey.
Andreas Molinak was hanged at New
} ark, N. j., for the murder on July q
1897, of Mrs. Annie Kmetz.
Il Walter e. Goodwin, who on Septen
l. Der last murdered his young wife a
o Mansfield, Pa, was hanged in the couI
6 ty Jail at Wellsboro.
d The laying of the new cable betwee
f. Port Townsend, Wash, and Victoria,
4 c., has been completed.