Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-10
LAT Err.


laws and providing for right of way for
railroads in the district of Alaska. In
the house the pension and consular and
diplomatic appropriation bills were
passed and sent to the president. At
the night session 80 pension bills and
nine relief bills were passed. Adjourned
to the 18th.
After serving as United States judge
in the Norfolk (Va.) district "a years
Judge Hughes has retired
Secretary Long said at Washington
that while the United States is not seek
ing war the government is preparing
for any emergencies that may arise.
The Anglo German loan of f16,0O0,-
900 has been ratified by Chinese inn
perial decree.
Four tramps were asphyXiated in
refrigerator car at Fort Worth, Tex.
They built coal fire in stove and were
overcome by the gas.
There were 251 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 233 the week
previous and GAG in the corresponding
period of 1897.
In all portions of the country all
signs point to an unprecedented vol
ume of business being done.
Lorenzo Barnes was hanged at East
| Cambridge, Mass, for numbering John
Deem, farmer about rs years old, on
December II, 1897.
The wrecliing tug Underwater, of
Boston, en- route to Havana to help in
| the work of raising the Maine, was
| wrecked in a storm off Hatteras.
Advices from Tacoma, Wash, say
that 10000 persons are moving across
| Chilkat and White passes toward Klon-
| dixie.
| "Kid" Mccoy, of Indiana, champion
middle-weight pugilist of the world,
defeated Nick Burley, of California, in
Hot Springs, Ark, in the second round.
At cabinet meeting in Washington
| reward of 1,500 was offered for the
arrest of the murderers of Postmaster
Baker at Lake City, S. C.
Rebel chiefs in the Philippine islands
are said to be plotting for another re-
bellion against Spanish rule.
Secretary Long received dispatch
from Admiral Sicard informing him
that the court of inquiry into the Maine
disaster will be unable to reach any
conclusion as to the cause of the explo-
sion until after further investigation
| by the divers now at work upon the
| wreck. The court has returned to Ha-
vana to resume the investigation there
President Mckinley has refused a re-
quest from the Spanish government
| that Consul-General Lee be recalled
from Cuba, and also request that the
American war ships which have been
designated to carry supplies to Cuba
| for the relief of the sufferers there be
| replaced by merchant vessels.
Will Jones (colored) was lynched at
Lake Cormorant, Miss, by mob for
assaulting a colored woman.
The tug Underwater, reported to
have been lost while en- route to Ha-
vana, has reached the Charleston IS.
CO. harbor after a rough passage.
Aaron Hendricks died at Blue Springs,
Ark. He was born ia years ago on the
farm where he lived his entire life.
In tenement house fire in Pitts
D"i wi .. colil lSllIlCllO WAS SUI
located and four persons were fatally
burned. -g-r
1t is announced that 80 United
States war ships will be at Key West
and vicinity within the next 80 days.
Alfred S. Healy, a 25-year-old stem
ographer, killed 16-year-old Libbie
Brauschand at Cedar Rapids, Ia, and
then killed himself. No cause for the
tragedy is known.
Walter B. Baker, United States con-
sui at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, has re-
signed.
The naval court of inquiry reached
Havana from Key West and went to
| work promptly to finish what business
remains to be done at the earliest pos
sible date.
Adrian Braun, a convict in Sing Sing
IN. ~ prison, murdered his wife, who
was paying him visit.
Crazed by jealousy C. W. Wood muir
dered Mrs. Irene BREEDER and afterward
sent bullet through his own brain at
Ottawa, Ill.
Hugh j. Jewett, the famous railroad
financier, died in New York, aged 81
years.
Adolph L. Luetgert was taken from
the Jail in Chicago to the state prison
at Joliet under life sentence for the
murder of his wife.
Americans are making hurried
preparations to leave Havana. Conster-
nation prevails among them on account
OF the rumors of the warlike attitude
of Spain and the United States.
The navy department has been in
formed of the arrival of the gunboat
Newport at Aspinwall with the Mic
araguan canal commissioners on board.
At Biddeford, Me-, the strike of the
$500 employees of the Pepperel and La
coma cotton manufacturing corpora
lions, which began January II, has been
declared off.