Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-17
NEWS TERSELY TOLD.
Sporting News.

| Sporting News.
4 syndicate of western men. mostly
of San Francisco, will offer purse OF
$4,000 for Corbett-F itzimmons fight.
The L. A. w. general assembly at St
Louis last week reelected Isaac Potter
president Sunday racing was defeat.
ed. Providence is next meeting place.
President Hart of the Chicago base
ball team announces that he has
selected Waycross, Ga, as the train
ing ground for the Chicago team. A
formal application for the position of
manager was received from Thomas
Burns and it was announced that he
will be given Anson's place.
President Robinson of the Cleveland
base ball club has sent dispatch to
President Young of the National league
suggesting that something be done to
help Chris Won Der Abe. Mr.. Robin
son thinks the league should pay Won
Der Ahe's debts and get him out of
Jail and he proposed that President
Young take vote by telegraph on the
| question.
John McMasters, Princeton's athletic
trainer, has handed in his resignation
For seven years he had charge of
the training of Princeton's baseball and
football teams and in that period has
trained five championship teams. His
resignation was caused by the dissatis-
faction which he felt to exist with the
way in which he trained the Tigers
football eleven last season.
judicial Proceedings.
The Harvey Steel Car company, of
Harvey, ILL.,, has been placed in the
hands of receivers, on a Judgment for
| $5s,O00.
Ira Sexton, who killed Nathan Stark
at Princeton, Mo-, last October while
trying to rob him, has been convicted
| of murder in the first degree.
Kenneth McRae, the wealthy sheep
owner on his second trial at Casper,
Wyo., for killing Robert Gordon, was
found guilty of murder in first degree.
Police Magistrate Ellis of Denver has
declared the ordinance fixing the Ii
cense fee for cigarette dealers at 81, 900
per year to be excessive and unreason-
able, and therefore, void
Judge Burlington Of Pittsburg has de-
cided that Chris Won Der Abe must re-
main in charge of Detective Bendel,
who abducted him from st. Louis. Won
Der Abe will take an appeal.
The Colorado state board of arbitra-
ton has rendered Its decision on the
; question in dispute between the miners
and operators of the Northern Colorado
district. The board found in favor of
the striking miners in every particular.
Judge Lefebre of Denver has rend-
cred his decision fixing water rates.
The schedule is reduction from pre-
vious rates, but is a victory for the COM
pany, because the reduction is only a
fraction of that demanded by citizens.
Adolph l.. Luetgert, the Chicago sau-
sagemaker, was Wednesday night con-
victed of the murder of his wife and
sentenced to imprisonment in the pen
itentiary for the term of his natural life.
Luetgert received the verdict with a
laugh.
/ Mrs. Anna @. George, wife of the
late Henry George, was awarded $500 in
her suit against the Pennsylvania rail-
way company for SIS, 900 damages. She
slipped on a depression in the flooring
in the Broad street station and sprained
her ankle.
Attorney General Grow of Missouri
has rendered an opinion to the state
superintendent of public schools which
holds it unlawful for teacher to re-
quire pupils to repeat the Lords prayer
as part OF the opening exercises in the
public schools of the state. 1t also holds
that the reading of the Bible by the
teachers as part of the school exercise
is contrary to the laws.
The jury in the case of Shirley ID.
Chamberfin, charged with the murder
of Herbert H. Kay OF Wisner. Neb., on
Pixies peak, in August last. brought in
verdict of murder in the first degree.
The case is the most sensational in his
tory of Ell Paso county, Colorado and has
attracted widespread interest owing to
the place where the deed was commit
ted. Kay had started to ascend the
peak by night and his dead body was
forced into small culvert under the
cog railroad at point about IL, 900 feet
above sea level. The evidence against
Chamberlin was circumstantial, but
conclusive, and the jury was only out
about an hour.
Mortuary Record.
G. d. Redmond, founder of the Wat
erfOrd News, is dead at Dublin.
Baron Ludwig Won Erlanger, head of
the Erlanger bank at Frankfort, lis dead.
Justice George B. MacFarlane of the
uAAooOu1l oupiCuc COuIU uleu SATURDAY
as the result Of an operation for APP
pendicitis.
G. M. Rose, president of the Hunter.
Rose company, one Of the largest pub
fishing houses in Canada, is dead at
Toronto, aged SO.
Jacob Appolo, well known miner,
died in Lead, S. D., as the result of in
ternal injuries received by an accident
in the Deadwood Terra mine few
days ago.
John D. Mckenzie died in New
York city Monday, aged &c years. He
was chairman of the committee of citi-
zens formed for the relief OF the colored
people in the war riots. He was also
foreman of the grand jury which in
dicted w. M. Tweed.