Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-14
LATER.

Although there was comparative
quiet in Washington on the Sth the war
spirit was abroad and the latest advices
indicate the hopelessness of averting
conflict unless Spain yields to the Amer
lean demands and abandons Cuba. A
dispatch from Madrid says that the
Spanish government has no intention
of opening further negotiations.
III. c. Raymond was hanged at Fol-
som, Cal, for the murder of Fred An
drews at Baden on November II last.
Orders have been given by Com
mander Schley to the commanders of
the ships of the flying squadron in
Hampton Roads to be in readiness to
get under way.
The Ward Line Steamship company
has abandoned it's service between New
York and Havana for the present.
| The pattern storehouse of the South
ern Pacific Railway company in Sacra-
mento, Cal, was burned, the loss being
$1,OOO,OOO.
| S. S. Turner died at his home in Front
Royal, Va. He was congressman in
1898.
| Alarmed by the imminence of war,
large numbers of people have closed up
their business connections in various
Florida towns and fastened northward.
/ TWAS rumored that the United States
| lighthouse tender Fern, now in Havana
harbor, had been blown up.
| Twenty-Five hundred soldiers of the
regular army are on the way TO Chat
tanooga, Tenn. where they are to await
the outbreak of hostilities.
| SPANS formidable offensive and de-
fensive squadron, which has been mo-
bilized at Cadiz, left that port for the
/ Canary islands.
| Bristow Graham (colored) was
hanged at Savannah, Ca, for killing
Ben Wilson, another colored man, on
| December 10, 1896.
a young man named Baker killed the
1G-year-old daughter of William Hoff-
| master, farmer living near Great
| Bend, Kan, and then killed himself.
| Gov. Tanner has designated April %
as Arbor day in Illinois.
| j. McLain Smith, city editor of the
Evening Press at Dayton, O., died from
injuries received by being run into by
bicycle.
Fifty or more persons are said to have
persisted in snowslide on Chilkoot pass
in Alaska.
There were 232 business failures in
| the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sth, against 22O the week
previous and 252 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
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cans reached Key West and Gen. Lee
left for Washington. Their departure
from Havana was the occasion for jeers
and insults from Spaniards.
Mrs. Rebecca Van Zandt died in Sen.
eca Fails, N. Y, aged 1O6 years.
The streets of Madrid were filled by
| noisy crowds shouting their disapproval
ofmeasures promising peace and threat
ening the stability of the present gov.
eminent.
Fire destroyed the business portion OF
the village of Victor, N. Y.
Near McGhee, Tenn, John McGhee
| and his son Joseph shot and killed
Henry and Ernest Howard and James
Murrand and MORALLY wounded Thorn
IS Howard. An old feud was the cause.
Germany will maintain strictly neu-
trail attitude in the event of war be.
tween Spain and the United States.
Advices from Skaguay, Alaska, say
that at least Is lives were lost in the
| snowslide on the Chilllat pass. Sixty
J nine bodies have been recovered so far
A fast train wounded Michael Nc
Cam and killed his wife and daughter
at Kenton, o.
Jeremiah and John Ryan, brothers,
| aged 6S and 81 years, respectively, died
at about the same time at their homes
in Elgin, III.
! statement giving documentary proofs
of the existence of the Cuban republic.
Conrad Giles and Henry Gibson, farm
ers near Sharon, Pa, fought with knives
on account of a disagreement over the
sale of horse and both were fatally
wounded.
| The Illinois law which declared it IL
legal to use coloring matter in butter
inc has been declared unconstitutional.
Mrs. Jacob Hitler, aged 107 years,
died at Elkton, Mich, and her husband,
| aSCu wv, was vel III. ihcy hdu uCCh
married 80 years.
| The British steamship Virginia has
been rendered to take Americans away
from Porto Rico.
During the recent massacre at Ana
tolia, Turkey. the parents of 10000 chill
dren were killed and 40 churches were
destroyed.
John Celia shot and killed Mrs. Henry
| Carter and then killed himself with the
same weapon in st. Louis.
Acting under the orders of the queen
regent Gen. Blanco ordered the COM
plete cessation of Spanish hostilities in
Cuba. Troops will go into garrison and
efforts are to be made to induce the in
surgents to agree to terms that will
insure peace.