Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-08-25

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unknown committed suicide by Jump
ing from ferryboat into the Delaware
river at Philadelphia.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Society OF American Florists
opened in Omaha, Neb., with an at
tendance of over 300 delegates.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers association convened in an
nual session in Detroit, Mich, with del
egates in attendance from every state
| in the union.
The New York board of aldermen
adopted resolution requesting the
government to lay out national GEM
etcry to which the bodies of the SOL
diers who have fallen in the Spanish
war shall be transferred for burial.
State Senator w. Fl. Wall was shot
and instantly killed at Staunton, ILL.,,
by Otto Matthias, who escaped after the
murder.
The New York board of aldermen
killed an ordinance introduced provid-
ing punishment for swearing in public
places by laying it on the table by an
almost unanimous vote.
The American bar association con-
vened in annual session at Saratoga, N.
Y, there being a large attendance of
distinguished members of the bar from
all parts of the country.
Herman E. Blair, the millionaire cap
italist of Cincinnati, at dinner in
Denver, Col, gave his wife birthday
presents amounting to 100000.
Arsenic in Jumps as big as peas was
found in The chocolate bonbons which
were sent to Mrs. John P. Dunning, of
Dover, Del, and which not only sent
her to her grave but caused the death
of her sister, Mrs. Joshua d. Dean.
Capt. John Carmichael, commissary
department, committed suicide by
shooting at Lakeland, Fla, i'll health
being the cause.
The North American Trust company
of New York has been designated by
the treasury department as fiscal
agents of the United States at Santi-
| ago de Cuba.
j. F. Stattz, ex-state treasurer and a
pioneer of central Kansas, died sud-
| denly of heart disease at Enterprise.
Frank Gilling, an expert miner and
mineralogist, went to the powder
house of the Eureka mine, at BE nton,
Wis, and set off 40 pounds of dynamite,
blowing the building and his body to
| atoms.
Rev. Samuel Breakwell, an aged Bap-
fist clergyman and one of the oldest
settlers of Highwood and Lake county.
| ILL.,, was stabbed to death by Carl
Pethke, trouble over property being
the cause.
A mob took Amos Nicely, a negro
| rapist, from the officers near Sheridan,
Ark, and shot him, killing him in
stantly.
The woodworkers' strike, in progress
at Oshkosh, Wis, the past three months,
| is declared off, most of the strikers 60
| ing back to work.
AT Stanford, KY, George Stephenson
| (coloredD was hangedfor the murder of
Joe Tilford, white boy IA years old,
| at Crab Orchard July 4.
Hon. Joseph Fl. Choate, of New York,
| delivered the annual address before the
| American Bar association in session at
Saratoga, N. Y.
The barn of Peter Foy, ten miles
north of Independence, Ia, was struck
by lightning, and five sons, the eldest
being 16, who were sleeping in the NOW,
were burned to death.
| The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany's central cable Office announces
that all censorship on cable messages
has been abolished.
Gov. Budd, of California, pardoned
John Corbett, brother of James Corbett,
The pugilist, from the penitentiary,
who has been serving five-years' SEN
tence at San Quentin for burglary.
Charles o. Kaiser, who was under
sentence to be hanged September for
the murder of his wife, committed sui
eide in his cell in the county Jail at Nor
ristown, Pa.
The Admiral Dewey, the first of the
four steamers being built by the
Cramps for the American Mail Steam
ship company, was successfully
launched at Philadelphia.
1t wits the opinion of the officials Of
the treasury department that there
would be no necessity for another bond
issue growing out of the war, and that
the present revenue law should be re-
tanned on the statute books for an in
definite period.
Four men were killed and five others
badly injured by the collapse of a
cornice on a new building in the
course of erection at Philadelphia.
Alphonso Dayton, private in the
Twenty-third Kansas volunteer in
fantry, and another negro, name I'M
known, were run over and killed by a
train near Kansas City, Mo.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
The Fourth Wisconsin district re-
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