Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-01-20
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LATER.
BY general consent the United States
senate on the 14th postponed considera-
ton of the Hawaiian treaty until next
Monday. Senator Hoar offered joint
resolution proposing an amendment to
the constitution extending the term Of
office of the president and senators to
April 80, 1901, and making that day in
stead of March the commencement
and termination of official terms in fu-
ture. Nineteen pension bills were
passed An adverse report was made
upon FL. w. Corbett's claim to seat in
the senate from Oregon. The Lacey bill
extending the homestead law to Alaska
and granting rights of way to railroads
was favorably reported in the house and
the agricultural appropriation bill was
passed.
The United States senate was not in
session on the 18th. In the house two
hours were spent in general debate on
the army appropriation bill and the re-
mainder of the day was given to eulogiz-
ing the life and public services of the
later Seth w. Milliken, of Maine, who
served for IA years in the lower branch
of congress.
Leslie Stanley and his wife were suf-
located by smoke in a hotel fire in New
York.
In a fit of jealousy Louis Alfred ia
tally shot Minnie Packner, his sweet
heart. in Cincinnati. and then killed
himself
The Midland Trust company of Port
Hope, Ont. has assigned. the deposits
being over $15O,OOO.
Elijah Davis. 65 years of age. and
Miss Fannie Spaulding, aged 67. were
married in Webster City, Ia, thus end
ing a romance of AZ years. standing.
The separate school law of Oklahoma
preventing the mixing of white and
| colored scholars has been declared void.
The lumber mil of the Ingerso!l Land
and Lumber company near Eland juno
ton. Wis. was burned, the loss being
$4,000.
Two unfinished houses in Baltimore,
Nd, collapsed and eight workmen were
injured, two fatally.
An inventory filed in the probate
court at Chicago places the value of the
Pullman estate at $9.363,002.
A gang organized for the systematic
robbery of mail boxes is operating in
| the large cities of the country.
| Col. Edwin X. Meyers. former state
printer. fell from his carriage in Harris
burg, Pa, and was killed.
During drunken quarrel at Sandy
T. D.I, ~ TT
| ton. John Williams and Tom Wilson
| (all colored) were killed and Will Bur-
CESS mortally wounded
Strong protests have been mailed to
every member of congress against the
| passage of the immigration bill by $50
German societies of Chicago.
There were $40 business failures in,
the United States in the seven days
| ended on the 14th, against 322 the week
previous and 455 in the corresponding
| period of 1897.
Music hall, which was built in 1898
! in Cleveland at a cost of $50, 900, was
burned.
Benjamin Butterworth, commissioner
| OF patents, an eX-congressman and
war veteran, died at Townsville, Ga,
where he had gone for his health, aged
SO years. His home was in Cincinnati.
Mrs. James l.. Flood, wife of the mil
lionaire mine owner, died in San Fran
cisco, aged "a years.
Sanford B. Dole. president of the Ha-
waiian republic, arrived in San Fran
cisco from Honolulu on the steamer
Peru.
The city of indianapolis has been
chosen as the headquarters of the
| United Mine workers.
Albert c. Greenleaf, once a wealthy
| wholesale merchant in Columbus, O.,
| committed suicide in Chicago by jump.
ing from the sixteenth story of the Ma
sonic temple.
| A tornado wrecked many houses and
injured several persons near Maude,
o. T.
Richard Thomas and Richard Murray
were killed and Louis Rich fatally in
jured by an explosion of dynamite in
mine near Bourne. Ore.
A series of railroad ticket forgeries
have come to light in st. Joseph, Mo-,
which are believed to have been carried
on number of years.
Logan Carlisle, son of John G. Carlisle
and his chief clerk when the latter was
secretary of the treasury, died sudden
ly at the home of his parents in New
York, aged 80 years.
Eight hundred buildings were de.
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