Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-08-04
DOMESTIC.

FRANK WalleT WeuU 200 f-lV ullIcS Oh
d bicycle at Norwood, Mass, in "a
hours, breaking all previous records.
The personal property assessment Of
Iowa fell off between 81, 00o, 900 and S.
OO0, 900 in 1898 as compared with 1897.
During the first so days of the expo
sition at Omaha more than 100000 peo-
pie passed the gates and the receipts
from all sources were 100000.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 25th was: Wheat,
9,3S2, 900 bushels; corn, 1S,679.000
bushels; oats, 4,272, 900 bushels; rye,
4s1, 900 bushels; barley, 345,oo0 bush
els.
A treasury statements shows there
are about 100000 persons to whom
bonds under the governments popu-
lar loan will be allotted.
Four children of Elmer Mailman, a
farmer near Beatrice, Neb., were
burned to death during the absence
of their parents.
A million and half in Klondike gold
reached Seattle, Wash, from ST. Mi
chaels by the steamer Charles Nelson.
w. S. Phelps & Co., wholesale gro
GERS in Dayton, o., made an assign
ment.
Bernard F. Boylan, crazed with
liquor and brooding over family
troubles, fatally shot his wife and his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Ma
roney, at Blackstone, Mass, and then
killed himself.
The Cumberland Nail G. Iron COM
rany was placed in the hands of re-
ceiver at Bridgeton, N. ]. About $780,
COO worth of property is involved.
Lightning destroyed five houses and
several farm barns in Liberty town
ship, Ind, and seven other buildings
were damaged.
The croD bulletin of the United
States department of agriculture
shows that the cornfields in Nebraska,
Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indi-
ana and Ohio are greatly in need of
rain.
The Commercial Law League of
America in session at Put-in-Bay, O.,
elected as president Ernest L. Flor
ence, of New Orleans.
Martha Bean (colored), aged so, and
weighing CPS pounds, dropped dead at
her home in St. Louis.
Rear Admiral Miller sailed from San
Francisco for Honolulu to participate
in the ceremony of raising the Ameri-
can flag.
Thirty thousand acres of crops were
destroyed by hailstorm in Codington
county, S. D.
The news of the annexation of
Hawaii by the United States was re-
ceived in Honolulu with great joy.
Deputy sheriffs in Indian territory
killed band of seven outlaws.
Admiral and Mrs. McNair enter
tanned at dinner Admiral Cervera and
his staff, who are prisoners at the
academy in Annapolis, Md
An explosion in the nitroglycerine
house of the Hercules Powder COM
pany in Pinole, Cal, killed five men.
The Denver (Col.) Paper company
failed with assets of 81, OOO,o and liza
bilities of S5So,0OO.
The house of r. T. Cradle was burned
at Tonkawa, o. T., and with it four
two boys, aged 7 and 10.
Mrs. Donald Billinghurst, young
wife, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Perry
Dearth, took arsenic and died in
Toledo, o.
Herman Boch, of High Bridge, Wis,
shot his wife and then killed himself.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
George Morris and his daughter, Mrs.
William n. Quackenbush, and her baby
were killed by the cars near Saratoga,
n. Y.
Thousands of window panes were
broken, many buildings unroofed and
trees uprooted by a wind and hail
storm in Chicago and severalpersons
were injured and number of horses
killed.
Frank Mccormick, one of the most
noted counterfeiters in the country.
was arrested in Anderson, Ind.
John Palmerton dropped dead in his
hotel Office at Shelbyville, Ind, of
paralysis of the heart.
The powder mill of E. T. johnson at
Troy, Pa, was blown up and the owner
was killed.
James L. Hampton shot and killed his
wife at Manitowoc, Wis, and then
fatally shot himself. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Congressional nominations: Ohio,