Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-02-03
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| senate on the 2Sth by vote of AZ to 90.
A bill was introduced to provide an adj
ditional circuit judge in the Sixth,
Seventh and Eighth circuits of the
United States Adjourned to Monday.
In the house the bill to pay the book
publishing company of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church South $2ss,Oc0 for
damages sustained by that corporation
during the war was passed and the free
homestead bill, giving over 20,000.OO0
| acres of public lands as free homes for
settlers. was favorably reported. At
| the evening session 90 pension bills
| were passed.
The United States senate was not in
session on the Goth ult. In the house the
| Notifications appropriation bill ($4,-
| 144 ,912), providing for the extensive sys-
| tenn of seacoast defenses now in course
| of completion, was reported and the Tel
| Ter silver resolution was received from
| the senate.
The Ewart building in Chicago was
burned, causing loss of $250,000 to
| several business firms.
Albert Motter and Henry Gelhausen
| were killed and Gottlieb Ilson fatally
injured by inhaling carbonio acid gas
| in brewing vat in Milwaukee.
The church of St. John Batiste was
burned in Montreal, the Aoss being $780,
900.
There were 342 business failures in
| the United States in the seven days
| ended on the 2Sth, against 374 the week
| previous and 331 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
Russia has offered China loan on the
same terms as those of Great Britain.
The steamer Corona. bound for Slag-
uay with PAS passengers aboard, struck
| a rock near the mouth of the Skeena
| river and sank. The passengers and
| crew were saved.
Four German sailors were murdered
by the Chinese in Shanghai.
The immigration into the United
| States in the last six months aggre
| gated 99,175, falling off as compared
with the last half of 1896 of about 5000.
| Charles Webb has been sentenced to
90 years imprisonment for the muir
| der of his sweetheart at ST. Louis in
1895.
Capt. Gen. Blanco predicts cessation
Of hostilities in Cuba in February.
| Hon. Elwood Evans, aged 70. the old
est practicing lawyer in the state of
Washington. dropped dead from heart
disease on the street.
| January wheat went up to 81 10 on the
2Sth in the Chicago market and closed
at $1.OS.
| The monthly statement of the bu-
reau of statistics shows that the ex-
ports of wheat during the calendar year
1897 aggregated 109.909,32s bushels, a
gain of more than 26OOo,OOO bushels over
1896.
Harris NJ. Plaisted, veteran general
of the civil war and ex-governor of
Maine, died in Bangor, aged 10 years.
A train on the Maine Central road
was wrecked near Orono, Me-, and four
persons were killed and many others
were injured.
David Seely was placed in Jail at Kali
amazoo, Mich, on a charge of having
eight wives.
Daniel Lawrence Braine, rear add
miral of the United States navy, re-
tired, died at his home in Brooklyn, N.
| l., aged o9 years.
In the 72-hour bicycle race in Pitts
burgh, Pa, Fixes won going 1922
miles.
United States ConsuI-General Lee
gave banquet at Mariana Beach, Cuba,
to the officers of The United States war
ship Maine.
Presidents Mckinley touched n tele-
graph key at the white house and
opened the California golden jubilee
fair at San Francisco.
The first-class armored cruiser Wis
caya left Spain for America.
Mrs. Fannie Rathburn, widow. and
her daughter Mary, aged ~, were found
murdered in their cottage in Burling-
ton, Ia.
Judge C. w. Dustin. of Dayton. has
declared the Ohio anti-lynching law un-
constitutional
President Mckinley was So years old
on the Goth ult.
Bush fires in Australia destroyed 43
homesteads al Langley and KEELING and
six persons were burned to death.
Tom Burns will succeed Adrian C.
Arson as manager of the Chicago base
ball team.
A force of frontier tribesmen am
pushed part of an English brigade in
gorge near Shinkamar, India. and five
officers and eight men were killed
| Alderman Christopher Byrne and his
wife were killed by the cars at grade
crossing near Joliet, Ill.
/ Judge Horton sentenced Christopher
! Merry to be hanged February IS in Chi
cago for the murder of his wife.
| London's great strike of engineers,
which continued for seven months, in
volved 100000 men and cost the British
nation snillions of pounds, resulted in
q victory for the employers.