Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-10

finding his wife out walking with a
young man, killed her and then COM
mitted suicide.
A party of senators and members of
the house left Washington for trip to
Cuba to make personal investigation
into affairs on that island
A class af "a Indians, young men
and young women, graduated from the
Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.
An old Indian doctor and a little
girl who kept house for him were
hanged by mob near Morgantown,
n. G.
The cruiser Montgomery and gunboat
Nashville have been ordered to carry
supplies to the starving reconcentra-
does in the vicinity of Matanzas and
Sagua la Grande, Cuba.
Lieut.. Commander Sobral, who was
attached to the Spanish legation at
Washington and made himself unpopu-
lar with Americans by a ready use of
his tongue, has sailed for home.
The national pure food and drug
congress met in Washington.
The greater part of the town of Bern,
Kan, was destroyed by fire and one life
was lost.
The Maine disaster board of inquiry
concluded its work at Key West, Fla,
and was ready to return to Havana.
The wreclsing tug Merritt has reached
Havana and begun work on the wreck
of the Maine.
Fred Moore, the murderer of Tom An
derson, was take from the Jail at Sena-
tobia, Miss, and shot to death by
mob.
The United States government will
send an expedition to find practicable
route up Copper river, Alaska, to the
Yukon basin.
The government receipts in February
amounted to $28, 572, 1858, being an excess
over expenditures of $945, 1888.
The alleged filibuster, Dauntless, I'M
der guard at Jacksonville, Fla, has
slipped away to Cuba, carrying recruits
and 1000 rifles.
BY the bursting of an engine boiler
near Brewton, Ala, William Kelso, An
drew j. Enirght, Arthur Atkins, Peter
Thomas, David Aston and G. w. Thorn
as (laborers) were killed.
The main buildings of the transmits
sissippi exposition at Omaha are nearly
ready and exhibits have begun to ar
rive.
A concurrent resolution declaring for
| biennial sessions of the legislature was
passed in the New York assembly.
Martial law has been declared at
Skaguay, Alaska, and United States
troops are enforcing law.
The Ohio legislature passed a bill au-
thorizing the governor to appoint wom-
en- notaries public and tits now law.
AS the Bostonia steamed out from her
wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville eight
| colored roustabouts were thrown into
the river and four were drowned.
An attempt was made to wreck the
south-bound passenger train of the At
lanta, Knoxville G. Northern railway
near Canton, Ga.
A large dry kiln fell in at Texarkana,
Ark, killing five persons.
Large shipments of supplies are being
sent to Cuba for the relief of the thou
| sands now starving there. The condi-
tons are declared. much worse than in
Armenia by w. w. Howard, who has
visited both countries.
A Judgment of custer was pro-
nounced against Mayor John M. Good
in the circuit court at Springfield, o.,
for violation of the Garfield anti-corrupt
election practice act.
The schooner Speedwell capsized off
Marquesas, Fla, and the three children
OF Capt. Collier and the entire Nichols
family, consisting of father, mother,
grandmother and three children, all of
Bridgeport, Conn, were drowned.
Shep Wood, prominent young farm
er at Cordele, Ca, shot and killed his
brother Thomas in quarrel and then
killed himself.
Diamond, the largest elephant in cap
tivity, died at Peru, Ind. He was valued
at $4,000.
Twenty head of valuable Guernsey
cows were burned to death on stock
farm near Berwyn, Pa.
The Nicaragua canal commission es-
Inmates that the cost of the work will
be $1OO,OOO,oOO.
The Seventh national bank and the
Fourth street national bank in Philadei-
rhia have consolidated.