Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-07-14
DOMESTIC.

| by, o., fell with 1000 people and four
| were killed outright and hundred
were injured, some of them seriously.
Dispatches from all parts of the
| country announce a general observ-
ance of the Fourth of July. In many
southern cities the celebrations were
the first held since the close of the civil
| war.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the I'd were: Cincin-
natl, Gal; Cleveland, GIT; Boston, .613;
Baltimore, $40; Chicago, .571; Pitts
burgh, .54S; New York, .4S4; Philadel-
| phia, .474; Brooklyn, .407; Washington,
1857; ST. Louis, 1856; Louisville, 1888.
| After a suspension of four days be-
cause of the strike of the stereotypers
the Chicago papers were issued in re-
duced size by the aid of nonunion
stereotypers. .a-.
Edward S. Dreyer, former head of a
Chicago banking firm, was sentenced
to the penitentiary to serve an indef-
mite period for the embezzlement of
$4,000.
The town of Dunsmuir, CAL, was al
most swept out of existence by fire.
| The New York legislature will meet
in extra session on the 18th inst. to
consider the appointment of election
officers.
Fire destroyed six stables on the
fair grounds at St. Louis and five val
liable. horses belonging to DR.. Bernays
were cremated.
Prof. Alvin made a balloon ascen-
sion at Ripley, O., leaped from it with
a parachute, fell in the river and was
drowned.
| A large portion of the southern Sec
ton of Bath, Me-, was destroyed by
fire.
a Rio Grande train was held up at
Stony Creek, Col, by three men who
took $500 from the passengers.
The fifty-fourth annual commence
ment of the University of Michigan was
held in Ann Arbor and 674 degrees were
conferred.
The aggregate number of adhesive
stamps for which collectors have made
requisition under the new revenue act
now in force approximate 400,OO0,OOO
The tannery of the A. Platz & Sons
Leather company was destroyed by
fire in Racine, the loss being $115OOO
The Chicago Stamping company
makers of the United States bicycle
failed for $4,000.
Tom Linton the Welch bicyclist, GOV.
cred a distance of 33 miles and 962
yards in one hour in Philadelphia, es-
tablishing new worlds record.
President Mckinley signed the reso,
luton for the annexation of Hawaii
and Admiral Miller will proceed tc
Honolulu at once on the cruiser Phil
adelphia to hoist the American flag
and take possession of the islands.
The village of Kern City, Cal, was
destroyed by fire.
Adrian C. Arson has retired from the
management of the New York base
ball club.
While the Schmid brothers were
watching a show parade in Newcastle
Pa, thieves entered their store anC
stole $4,000 worth of diamonds anG
jewelry.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the international Society of Chris
tan Endeavor began in Nashville
Tenn.
The dead bodies of Arthur Jones anG
; Mary Lcishman were found in a grove
one mile south of Emporia, Kan. II
is believed to be a case of murder ant
suicide. Both were 16 years of age.
George Mclaughlin, Jack CarrigaI
and Otto Brender, all of Peoria, Ill.
were killed at Marshalltown, Ia, by
the giving away of a scaffold.
An urn containing the ashes of Capt
Gridley, formerly captain of the Olym
pia, arrived in San Francisco on q
steamer from Hong Kong.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Mr.. d. N. Richardson. editor of the
Davenport Ia.) Democrat. died al
Groton, VT.
The socialist labor party in conven
ton in Milwaukee, Wis, named full
state ticket, headed by Henry REESE
OF North Prairie. for governor.
Ex-United States Senator William A
PETER has accepted the prohibition
! nominstioA fer governor q Kansas.