Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
DOMESTIC.

ment entered into under the Dingley
tariff law.
In a collision off Fire Island, n. Y,
the cruiser Columbia sank British
steamer and was itself badly damaged.
No lives were lost.
BY the fall of a platform at Denver,
COL, 100 children, ranging in age from
babies to IL and IA years, were more or
less severely injured.
The car barn of the Consolidated Rail-
way company was burned in Baltimore,
the loss being $25o,00o.
1t has been proved that Sampson and
McGeisy, the Indians who were burned
to death by white mob near Newark,
1. T., last January, for the murder of
Mrs. Laird, were not guilty of the
crime.
Lady Anderson, one of the three
"guideless and driverless wonders" of
the American trotting turf, died at
Greenfield, Ind.
Decoration day services were general
ly held in cities and towns throughout
the country.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the 31st ult. was:
Wheat, 23,672,O 900 bushels; corn, 2O,115,-
900 bushels; oats, 9,197, 900 bushels; rye,
1,420,O0O bushels; barley $4,000 bush
els.
The output of gold in Alaska this sea-
son is estimated at $2O,00O,OO0
President Mckinley nominated Oscar
S. Straus, of New York, to be minister
to Turkey, to succeed DR.. Angel, re-
signed.
A sailboat capsized near Manistique,
Mich, and four men were drowned.
William S. Greene, of Fall River,
Mass, has been elected to congress by
the republicans in the Thirteenth dis
trict to succeed the late Congressman
Simpkins.
The steamer Florida arrived at Key
West after having delivered $40 men,
$4,000 rifles, and large quantity of
ammunition to the Cuban insurgents.
Samuel jerks and his son William
were killed while walking on the rail-
way track east of Wabash, Ind.
The public debt statement issued on
$40, 341 ,1Os during the month of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
1921 ,O70,369 The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,O37, 773.76O.
The Worthington (EpiscopaD college
building near Lincoln, Neb.. was de-
stroyed by fire.
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from Seattle for Alaska with gold seek
ers, foundered 90 miles west of Cape
Flattery and "a persons were drowned.
A cyclone that tore through section
of DeKalb county, Mo-, did an immense
amount of damage and killed the wife
and three children of Calvin Smith.
The twenty-eighth annual conference
of the general secretaries of the Young
Mems Christian Association of North
America was held in Warsaw, Ind.
The government receipts during May
amounted to $3O,O74,S 1S and the expen.
d:tures to $47,o49,9O9. For the II
months of the fiscal year the receipts
show an increase over 1897 of more than
sec, 200, 900.
hC IL ahS-~hiSSisSippl diu lHtcIld-
tional exposition opened at Omaha,
Neb., from the white house President
Mckinley starting the electric spark
which set the shafting of machinery
hall in motion.
The new reciprocity arrangement be,
tween the United States and France has
gone into effect.
The amount of gold and silver coins
and certificates and United States and
national bank notes in circulation June
was ST 1889, sos, 1856, an increase of $780,
1874, 361 over that of June 1 last year.
The town of Bicknell, Ind, was al
most entirely wiped out by fire.
The tug Record was run down and
sunk in the canal at Duluth, Mimi, and
Capt. John Bricklet, Elmer Cook, stew
ard, and George Riggs, engineer, were
drowned.
A tornado swept through the resi-
dence portion of Brainerd, MINI. wreck
ing outbuildings, uprooting trees, de-
molishing store fronts and tearing off
roofs.
A line fence dispute caused the death
in fight of Farmer James Kilgore and
County Commissioner Samuel Barnes
near Muscadine, Ala.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,