Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-23
LATER.

was 1aVoraDly reported TO the Umteo
States senate on the nth, and the con-
ferees report on the bankruptcy bill
was also presented. A resolution was
introduced and referred extending the
thanks of congress to Naval Construc-
tor Hobson and the volunteer crew of
the Merrimac. Adjourned to the Goth.
In the house the general deficiency bill
occupied the time. At the evening ses-
sion several private pension bills were
passed.
The United States senate was not in
session on the 18th. In the house the
session was devoted chiefly to eulogies
| upon the life and character of former
| Senator Harris, of Tennessee.
Admiral Dewey reported to the navy
department that he was still maintain
| ing the blockade at Manila and that the
insurgents entirely surrounded the city.
The four negroes who murdered Mr..
| Garden and his wife and an old man
named Carlee near Wetumpka, Ala,
were lynched by mob.
The council general of Catalonia, rep
resenting the mercantile intelligence of
Spain, has called on the Madrid govern
ment to sue for peace on any terms.
| Mrs. John p. Sawyer was shot and
killed at Moline, Kan, by her husband,
a prominent man, who mistook her for
a burglar.
Capt. Ger. Blanco has refused to en-
terrain a proposition to exchange the
Merrimac prisoners.
| During the absence of her parents
| Mary Seldom, the 17-year-old daughter
| cf Thomas Seldom, was murdered near
| Pepin, Wis, and the house robbed of
| $500 and burned.
A cloudburst in ST. Charles county,
Mo-, washed away bridges, flooded
farms and caused great damage near
the city of st. Charles.
| Dispatches from Shanghai to London
say the American troops have reached
| Manila. The news is not confirmed
| from other sources.
| Mai. Gen. Miles arrived in Washington
to consult Secretary of War Aiger. He
reported that Garcia's army, in pursu-
ance of his request, was closing in upon
Santiago de Cuba.
The gross earnings of 132 American
railroads for the first five months of
the present year were 1924 ,761, Ill, an
increase, as compared with the CORE
spending period of 1897, of 29,902,S30.
The Cadiz fleet was sighted off Ceuta,
on the north coast of Africa, sailing
eastward into the Mediterranean.
The insurgents in the Philippines are
making remarkable progress and are
said to have captured the family of Capt.
Gen. August and the governors of the
provinces of Cavite, Balucan and Ba-
| taan.
/ The democrats of the Tenth Indiana
district nominated John Ross, of
Lafayette, for congress.
Admiral Sampson has decided to re-
duce MORO Castle at Santiago. He has
learned that Hobson and his men are
no longer held in the fort as shield
against the fire of the American ships.
The business portion of Garwin, Ia,
was destroyed by fire.
| Advices to the navy department con-
firm the report that the feet of trans.
ports were off Santiago and that Span
ish troops were numerous along the
coast in the vicinity, prepared to re-
sist the landing of the United States
troops.
Since the opening of navigation ten
gold seekers have lost their lives in
White Horse rapids in Alaska.
In an interview in Madrid Capt. Au-
non, the Spanish minister of marine,
said that Spain would ultimately send
feet to Philippine waters regardless
of cost or the result.
The inhabitants of Caimanera, Cuba
have strewn the streets with straw and
oil with the intention of destroying the
city and fleeing to the hills.
w. w. Hamilton, of Denver, lowered
the worlds professional bicycle record
for one mile unpaced at Denver, his
time being 1854 As.
Park City, Utah, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire, the loss being over
1000, 900.
Spanish infantry made a hasty re-
treat for cover at Guantanamo under
heavy fire from American warships.
Shocks of earthquake were felt in
many towns in eastern Tennessee, but
no damage was done.
A careful inspection of the fortifica
tions defending Santiago harbor since
the bombardment shows that the Amer
lean gunners spread wreck and ruiz
everywhere. Some Of the batteries were
demolished beyond repair.
Alice Stitzel and Mamie and Minni'
Corner were drowned in the river a
Defiance, o., while bathing.
The percentage of the baseball clubs
: in the National league for the weel
: ended on the 10th were: Cincinnati
.6G7: Boston, .647; Cleveland, 500
: Baltimore, .5S3; Chicago, .55S; Pitts
burgh, .s29; New York, $50; Philadel
phia, .426; Brooklyn, AIT; Washing
ton, .a7s; st. Louis, 1873; Louisville
200.