Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-01-20

com merce COMMISSION 70 succeed w. n.
Morrison.
Fourteen business houses in Shawnee,
o. T., were destroyed by fire.
Patrick A. Largey, president of the
State savings bank and wealthy mine
owner, was shot and killed at Butte,
Mont, by Thomas Riley.
A ledge of quartz has been struck in
the Klondike that assays from $780, 900
to $25o,o0O per ton.
In riot at the opening trial of Will
liam Hudley at Mount Vernon, KY,
for killing John Lawrence, two men
were shot.
1t is definitely announced that the
Rothschilds will build railroad into
the Yukon country in Alaska over the
Dalton trail.
The St. Louis e. New Orleans Anchor
line of steamers made an assignment in
st. Louis.
In the Ohio legislature Mr.. Hanna got
Sc votes in the house and II In the SEN
ate, enough to elect him United States
senator on joint ballot if no changes
occur.
In session at Columbus, o., the United
Mine Workers Union of America re-
elected NJ. d. Ratchford as president.
The State bank of Elmwood, H.,
closed its doors with liabilities of
100000.
Forty-one persons were killed and
many others were injured and property
valued at 100000 was destroyed by
tornado that wrecked large portion of
the city of Fort Smith. Ark.
The report that Seminole Indians
burned the town of Maud, o. T., and
massacred 25 men, women and children
is said to be false.
John Mayes, cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants bank at Arcanum, O.,
committed suicide, financial trouble be-
ing the cause.
The government relief expedition will
start for the Klondike on the steamship
Oregon on the 23d inst.
The nonpartisan National w. c. T. U.
in sessionat Columbus, o., elected as ma
tional evangelist and organizer Mrs. Isa-
bel Plum, of Chicago.
The steamer City of Seattle sailed
from Tacoma for Alaska with 600 pas
sengers and the City of Topeka left
with 200 passengers.
Because of serious riots in Havana
President Mckinley ordered Comma
dore Bunce to hold every vessel of the
white squadron in readiness for action
to protect Consul-General Lee and the
property Of American citizens.
Justice a. w. Newman, of the SUI
preme court, who fell on an icy side
walk in Madison, Wis.,, and fractured
his skull. died of his INJURIES.
Leslie NJ. Shaw was inaugurated gov
crnor of Iowa.
The latest news from the tornado at
Fort Smith, Ark, shows a total of 46
killed and 90 injured.
Henry Bum, Jerre Moore and A. D..
Russell were killed by cavern at Paint
Rock mines. near Knoxville, Tenn.
The Indiana supreme court has de-
cided that life insurance policies are
not taxable under the present state tax
law.
Dr. C. B. Day, one of the leading
physicians of Minnesota, committed
suicide at Glencoe.
The plant at Louisville, Ky, of B. F.
Avery &, Sons, the largest pillow factory
in the world, was damaged to the ex-
tent of 100000 by fire.
An explosion in a mine near Butte,
Mont. killed five men.
The body of murderer w. II. T. Dur
rant was cremated at the crematory in
Altadela, Cal.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., has invented
machine for utilizing the wave power
of the sea.
Charles H. Ebbetts has been elected
president of the Brooklyn On. W base
ball club to succeed Charles II. Byrne,
deceased.
The British steamer RAMA left Sa-
vannah, Ga, for Bremen with 1920
bales of cotton, the largest cargo of the
kind ever shipped from an Atlantic
port.
The American Anti-Saloon league in
session at Columbus. o.. elected as pres
ident Hiram Price. of Iowa.