Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-17
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The United States senate was not in
session on the 18th. In the house the
bill to pay the Bowman act claims. ag-
gregating 81, 200 900, for stores and sup
plies furnished the union army during
the war, was discussed. The bill for the
cession of all arid lands to the states
in which they are located was reported
favorably, as was also a joint resolution
amending the constitution providing
for the election of members of the
house of representatives for terms of
four years. Adjourned to the 14th.
Prince Albert of Belgium was given
a dinner by the president at the ex-
ecutive mansion.
Gen. Greedy, chief signal officer, has
been ordered TO establish rapid tele-
graph connections between the sea
coast Notifications.
At Monticello, Ky, q bank, the, court
house, post Office and many other places
were destroyed by fire.
There were 24S business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 251 the week
previous and ESQ in the corresponding
period of 1897.
Arrangements have been completed
for the mobilization of the army on the
atlantic coast.
In street fight at Higginsport, O.,
Mayor Charles Halfill, John Donald and
the latter's son were fatally shot. The
duel was the outcome of an old quarrel
Gen. w. S. Rosecrans died at his home
near Redondo, CAL, of senile exhaustion,
aged 70 years.
Adolf Kraus, Dudley Winston and
Hampstead Washburne, indicted in Chi
cago for violating the civil service law,
were found not guilty.
The post office department has COM
menced to issue five-cent stamps of
dark blue, instead of brown, which has
been the color of these stamps.
Continued activity in nearly all lines
of trade is reported throughout the
country.
Senior Polo, the new Spanish minister,
said in Washington that he felt sure
that neither the United States nor Spain
wanted war, and that his government
would do everything honorable to avert
hostilities.
Nineteen steamers, carrying 1000
men, sailed from ST. Johns, N. F., for
the ice field in quest of seals.
The court of inquiry at Havana took
ne new evidence, but spent the usual
time in executive session, discussing
their forthcoming report, studying
structural plans, diagrams, photo
graphs, drawings and reports already
made by divers.
The war department has promulgated
its order creating the departments of
the gulf and of the lakes and abolishing
the departments of the Missouri and of
Texas. Gen. Miles has matured plans
for the massing of all available troops,
both infantry and cavalry, at stations
lalong the Atlantic seaboard.
Eleven men lost their lives in a fire
which swept through the Bowery mis-
sion house in New York.
Fifty tons of relief supplies have been
landed at Matanzas, Cuba, by the
United States government vessel Fern
and the New York steamer Bergen.
William E. Spencer. journal clerk of
the United States senate, died in Wash
lington.
An earthquake destroyed the town of
Amboina, capital of Amboina island,
one of the Malucca group, and hundreds
of natives were killed.
Immense orders for heavy guns and
ammunition have been placed with Con-
necticut concerns by the government.
Members of the cabinet say that Spain
| ~ 1u Wiz fn hot do
mands may be made upon her by the
United States or the independence Of
Cuba will be recognized.
A block of warehouses at Toronto,
Ont, was Quilted by fire, the total loss
being $135O0o
Thomas Robb, aged 10 years, shot and
killed Mrs. Rosa Read at Robbtown, KY,
and then killed himself. No cause is
known for the crime.
Four men were drowned in the bay
at Monterey, Cal, while trying to har-
pooh shark.
Senior Polo Bernabe, the new Span
ish minister, who succeeds Dupuy de
LONE as the representative of Spain,
was formally presented to President Nc
Kinley.
Isaias Thomas (colored) was hanged
at Sparta, Ga, for outraging a negro
girl.
The court of inquiry in Havana ex-
amined Ensign Powelson and such
divers of the wreclling company as have
been investigating the wreck.
The Kansas Methodist conference in
Lawrence declared for lay representa-
ton by vote of 50 to %.
, Domestic troubles between Andrew
. SCHUYLER, a stock broker in San Fran
cisco, and his wife, ended in the fatal
shooting of the woman and his suicide.
: Counterfeit silver dollars, dated 1858,
and having small 80" under the eagle,
{ were discovered at the mint in Denver,
: and it is estimated that there are fully
$3,000,000 worth of these spurious coins
In circulation in the country.