Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-08-18
DOMESTIC.


pointed military governor of the prov
ince of Santiago.
DOMESTIC.
Oliver Barth and his son, aged IS,
both lost their lives by descending into
well at Upper Sandusky, O., where
there was Sire damp"
Private Charles e. Gill, company X,
First Louisiana, and Corp. E. K. Hum
phrcys, company e, First Texas, were
killed by lightning at Miami, Fla.
A train jumped the track at Canton
Junction, Mass, killing James Sheldon
and James Schufeldt, engineers, and
G. X. Knowlton, fireman.
Richard Thurmond. negro who
tried to assault the daughter of L. d.
Hines, of Ripley, Tenn, was hanged by
a mob.
Wade Counts and his son, leaders of
a notorious band of outlaws, were
killed by lightning in Roane county,
w. Va.
Five persons were drowned by the
capsizing of a boat in the Piscataqua
river near Dover Point, N. FL.
The fire losses of the United States
and Canada during the first six months
of the present year were $67, 166,s50,
against $64,566,75O during the same
months in 1897.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of the city of Bismarck, N. D., and
many residences, the loss being over
100000.
Daniel Ogg (coloredD was lynched
by a mob at Palestine, Tex, for at
tempted assault on two women.
Francis Scott Key. the author of
'The Star Spangled Banner" was hon
ored in Frederick, Md, his native city,
by the dedication of a handsome monu-
ment erected to his memory.
F. A. Briggs, governor of North Da-
kota, died at Bismarck of consumption.
John Elliston and his wife and two
children were drowned while trying 10
ford Little river, near Lineville, Ia.
The national meet of the League of
American Wheelmen began in Indian
apolis.
Eighteen gold seekers lost their lives
by the sinking Of steamer in the Kus-
kokwin river in Alaska.
A mob took two men and four women
from the Jail in Clarendon, Ark, and
hanged them for the murder of a mer-
chant.
A posse of citizens killed Will Nail,
an outlaw who murdered F. q. Taylor,
postmaster at Melvin, T.
Caorra Wahe{ar shot orJ 1yi1lal h;e
brother Fred and then killed himself
at West Stockbridge, Mass. Trouble in
the family was the cause.
A receiver has been appointed for the
St. Louis baseball club.
A landslide threw a train down an
embankment near Pennington Gap,
Va. and 20 persons were injured.
The laying Of the corner stone of the
new capitol building for Pennsylvania
took place at Harrisburg.
The steamer Mariposa sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu, taking az
passengers the Hawaiian commission
ers, Senators Cullom and Morgan and
Congressman Hit.
In a jealous rage William Shannon
shot and killed his wife and J. P. Gid
dings and Jack Wear at Central City,
S. D., and then killed himself. All the
parties were pioneers and we'll to do
Mullock Walker, a negro, was taken
from the Jail at Corinth, Miss, and
hanged by mob for robbing and fatal
ly assaulting Charles Dezille.
The doors of the Bank of Waverly,
ILL.,, were closed, with liabilities OF
$15O,OOO.
The total imports of dutiable sugar
during July were $500 $40, against ST.
2sl,2s7 for July, 1897.
The New York Yacht club has ac-
cepted the challenge of Sir Thomas
Upton, of London, for a race for the
America cup.
Iowa's property assessment this year
is $544, 100000, reduction of So, OoO, 600
over the previous year.
Henry c. Hawley, New York city
policeman, in drunken rage fatally
shot his wife, his mother, his son and
daughter and then killed himself.
Floods in the Scioto valley in Ohio
covered over $4,000 acres of corn land
IN the immediate vicinity of Ports.
mouth, causing loss of over $500, 900
Robbers held up train on the
Burlington road near ST. Joseph, Mo-,
and took $4,000 from the express car.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Adolph Sutro, ex-mayor and the
LARGEST nroDertv owner in San Fran