Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-01-27

j. Il. McFee, OF LenOX, Inc largest
stock feeder and importer Of fine horses
in southern Iowa, has failed.
Special Officer McNab, assaulted by
q gang Of tramps on a train near Will
son, O., shot Albert and John Green IA
tally.
Miss Harriet Keith Owens, prominent
in society, committed suicide at Crab
Orchard farm, near Washington, KY.
In Buffalo, N. Y, Murray S. Bundy, a
married man, shot and killed Matte Van
Sickle, his mistress, and then killed
himself.
Funeral services over the remains of
the late Maj. Benjamin Butterworth,
commissioner Of patents, were held in
Washington, the president and his cab
.net being present.
Floods in Indiana have caused loss
to property in Knox, Gibson and Posey
counties Of over 100000.
A dead body, identified as that of
Father William Kurtenbach, a Catholic
priest from Flint, Hill, Mo-, was taken
from the river at ST. Louis.
The national fishery congress met at
Tampa, Fla.
Enraged because his wife preferred
her mothers company to his, Edward
Duff murdered both in New Haven,
Conn.
The first official reception of the pres
ent administration was given at the
white house.
The Missouri militia will collect
money to aid the sufferers in Cuba.
A snowstorm general over Kansas is
of great value to the new wheat crop,
which is in fine condition.
William Slate, boss brick mason,
shot and killed Mrs. Minnie Smith and
then killed himself in Leadville. Col.
The Nebraska state board of agrfcul-
ture has abolished state farms.
Thirty buildings were burned at
Randsburg, Cal, the loss being 100000.
For the year 1897 the excess of ex-
ports over imports of merchandise
amounted to 6,561 900, breaking all
records in volume and value.
Oscar Anderson and his son Gus were
killed by the explosion of a sawmill
boiler near Abingdon, Ill.
The Hockett-Puntenny Piano COM
pany in Cincinnati failed for 100000.
High water in the Ohio river did
great damage to railways in the vicinity
of Springfield, o., and at Louisville,
KY, some of the streets were flooded.
Cornelius d. Eatinger, well-known
young man of Ravenna, o., shot himself
dead while walking with his sweet
heart with whom he had quarreled.
Treasurer Kertley, of Benton CON-
ty, Ind, is reported to be short $4,000
in his accounts.
Two men were drowned and IA coal
barges sunk near Leavenworth, Ind,
during a storm.
A hurricane leveled hundreds of der
ricks in the old field at Lima, O., and
blew down telegraph and telephone
poles in many localities.
Sixteen miles of the Hennepin canal
in Illinois have been completed and are
ready for the water to be turned in.
Senior Dupuy de LONE, the Spanish
minister in Washington, fears the de-
bate in the house of representatives
may cause crisis in Spain.
The japanese cruiser Kasagi was sue
cessfuNy launched in Philadelphia and
christened by the release of two young
doves.
A large portion of the business dis
trict of East Grand Forks, Mimi, was
wiped out by fire, entailing a loss of over
100000.
Huntsville university, an old and at
one time a leading educational institu-
ton of Indiana, made an assignment.
The unusual phenomenon of bright
meteor in broad daylight was observed
at the observatory in San Jose, Cal.
New York labor unions have declared
war on Chinese laundries and asked the
| public to boycott them.
| E. W. Hoch, editor of the Marion
| (Kan.) Record, has refused the post
mastership because he would have to
work on Sunday.
| A disastrous windstorm visited Gal
latin county, ILL.,, unroofing houses,
blowing down fences and drowning
stock.