Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-02-24
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| question occupied the entire day in the
| United States senate on the 18th. The
resolution appropriating 100000 for
raising the battle ship Maine and saw
ing what property could be saved was
passed. Senator Mason Qll.) bitterly
| attacked the policy of the administra-
ton in Cuban affairs and Senators VOL
colt and Lodge openly rebuked him.
| Adjourned TO the 21st. Aside from
| adoption of the resolution giving the
| secretary of the navy permission to use
$200,00 in the work of raising the bat
tie ship Maine, the day in the house
| was devoted to a continuation of the
debate on the bankruptcy bill.
The United States senate was not in
I session on the 10th. In the house the
bankruptcy bill, which contains both
voluntary and involuntary features,
was passed by vote of 1853 to 1875.
Christopher Columbus Luby was
hanged at Blakely, Ca. for numbering
his wife.
There were riotous proceedings at
the trial in Paris of M. lola and he mar
rowly escaped being lynched by the
mob.
Three important business houses
were burned in Pittsburgh, Pa, involv-
ing loss of 100000
Chris Merry, wife murderer, who was
to have been hanged in Chicago, has
! been granted a respite of 60 days by
the governor.
There were POS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 295 the week
period of 1897.
North and South Dakota, Minnesota
and northern Wisconsin are being
swept by blizzard.
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Maine,
will succeed the late Miss Frances Will
lard as president of the National Wom-
ans Christian Temperance union.
Grant Carter (colored) was hanged at
Decatur, Tex, for the murder of Floyd
Colbey.
Engineer Hollander, Fireman Osborn
and Brakeman Cross were killed in a
railway wreck at Hubbard, Ia.
The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
passed a resolution calling upon the
president and congress to end the Gu
ban war.
The barge Excelsior foundered on
Handkerchief shoal, off Cape Cod, and
four of the crew were drowned.
The Spanish war ship Vizcaya arrived
in New York.
Nothing new has developed in regard
to the cause of the war ship Maine ex-
plosion. The divers have not as yet
begun their work at Havana. The navy
| department places the loss of life at
246 and 135 bodies have been recovered.
Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Iowa were swept by the worst blizzard
of the season.
The Spanish cruiser Vizcaya an
chored in New York harbor and her en-
sign was placed at half-mast in regret
for the Maine disaster.
The National Baseball league season
will open on April Is.
Minister Woodford has assured the
| Spanish minister of state in Madrid that
the explanations by the Spanish gov
eminent have satisfactorily closed the
incident of the publication of Senior de
| LONE private letter.
Bank Commissioner Josiah z. Just,
aged 81, dropped dead from heart dis
ease at his home in Ionia, Mich.
John kellogg (colored), who assault
ed 14-year-old white girl named Rob-
erts near Blanch, Ala, was lynched
by mob.
| A special train on the Erie railroad
ran from Salamanca, N. Y, to New
burg, o., distance of 22O miles, in 2Os
minutes, making new record.
| Adolph l.. Luetgert's motion for a
new trial was denied by Judge Gary
In Chicago and sentence Of imprison-
ment for life for the murder OF, his wife
was pronounced.
| John j. O'Neil, former congressman
from the old Eighth district of Mis-
souri,, died in st. Louis, aged SO years.
| China has agreed to open all her in
land waters to navigation by steamers
from every nation.
| Funeral services over the remains Of
Miss Frances E. Willard, president of
the Worlds and National Woman's
\ Christian Temperance union, took place
in the Broadway tabernacle in New
York. Final services will be held in
| Evanston, Ill.
The post Office and store at Runsberg.
Mimi, was burned and Postmaster Olaf
kartunen, who slept in the building,
was cremated.
| Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, has
announced his candidacy for the gov
ernorship of Georgia.
| BY direction of President Mckinley
| Consul General Lee was notified that the
United States would not accede to the
request of Spain that a joint investiga-
ton be made into the Maine disaster.
The first inquiry, it was decided, must
be made by official representatives of
this country.
Caverhill, Hughes & Co., wholesale
! grocers in Montreal, failed for 100000.