Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-03
NEWS TERSELY TOLD.
Among Prominent People.

MonaWk silver club at its annual ban
quet on April q.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago an.
nounces that he will write book on
the free silver question to prove his de.
votion to the white metal
General Booth, founder of the Saliva.
ton Army, was given a rousing recep-
ton upon the occasion of his second
visit to San Francisco Tuesday.
Governor Rogers has ordered that the
IL companies composing the National
Guard of Washington shall be immedi.
ately recruited to their full strength.
Gov. Stephens of Missouri has an.
pointed William @. Marshall, city coun-
selor OF st. Louis, to the supreme bench
to succeed Justice McF arland, deceased.
Capt. Mahan, u S. n, was the prin-
cipal speaker at the Washington
birthday banquet Of the New Jersey
Society Of the Cincinnati at Princeton.
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin says
Governor Mybrea is Investigating the
State Wholesale Grocers' association, it
being suspected of violating the. trust
law
President Dole of Hawaii returned to
Honolulu on the steamer Mariposa,
which sailed Friday from San Fran
cisco. A number of the Hawaiian dele
CATION was at hand to bid him farewell.
Governor Budd of California has in
formed his friends that in view of the
retirement of Senator White he will be
a candidate for the United States SEN
ate, provided the next legislature is
Democratic.
Mrs. William G. Whitney, who was
thrown from her horse Monday at
Aiken, S. g., is resting well and
shows a marked Improvement. A
slight conclusion Of the spine is the
most serious symptom.
The secretary of state Of Kansas has
tual Insurance company of Wamego,
Kas. The capital stock of the company
is 800, 900. The company proposes to
insure farm buildings and machinery
and live stock.
Miscellaneous .aews.
The United States cruiser Detroit has
arrived at Key West from Mobile.
Fully one-fourth of Sioux City IS pop
ulation is suffering from la grippe. The
cases are very severe.
Two companies of Fourteenth infan-
try left Portland, Or, for Alaska, Feb.
%, under command of Colonel T. M.
Anderson.
The total number Of known dead as
the result Of Saturday nights explosion
in the Hall chemical laboratory at Kali
amazoo is TO-
At Chicago Officer Patrick Fenton
was killed and Officer Daniel Carey
was fatally shot by Michael CLARK when
they attempted to arrest him.
The court martial trying Captain
Oberlin M. Carter, u. S. A., reconvened
in New York city Tuesday afr two
months session in Savannah.
The anti-scalping law has been de-
clared constitutional by the court Of ap.
peals Of the State Of New York. This
is the highest tribunal of the state.
The national conference Of the leaders
of the Liberal party at Columbus agreed
to make the Pittsburg platform their
annunciation Of political principles.
The schooner Del Norte, from San Fran
cisco for Nehalem, is now 81 days out
and fears are entertained that she may
have founderedt during the snow storm.
Chicago police are looking for John
T. Harrison, wanted at Rolla, Mo-, for
alleged embezzlement Of $4,000 from
the Rolla bank of which he was cashier.
Governor Black Of New York author.
lied the extradition to South Carolina
of Chris Harris, a negro murderer, ar
rested in Niagara county, for criminal
assault upon white woman in that
state.
The entire business portion of Cortez,
Colo, was destroyed Sunday by a fire
which originated in Blackmore's hotel.
The loss on the buildings will be in the
neighborhood Of SIC, 900 and the damage
to stock will exceed that amount
A movement is under way for the
formation in Arizona of an independent
cavalry regiment, composed mainly Of
| trontiersmen well skilled in the man
agementof horses and arms, and en-
bracing q large number Of cowboys.
The National Creamery Buttermak.
| ers association closed its session at To
peka, Kan, Friday night. The meet.
ing was largely Of business nature.
The time and place of the next meeting
was left to the executive committee.
Two hundred and fifty of the delegates
left for tour of Kansas creameries.
| Daniel Levi Boone, son of DR.. Lew
Boone, one of the early mayors of Chi.
cago,. and agrand nephew of the noted
Daniel Boone, is lying dangerously i'll al
his home in Chicago. He is the last sur.
viving man descendant of the famous
Boone family. Mr.. Boone has been an
invalid for the past four or five years.
The Republican ieaguers of Michigan
enjoyed gastronomic and political
feast at Detroit Tuesday night on the
occasion of the 18th annual banque,
of the Michigan club. Nearly 500 club
members We're seated at the tables or
the floor of the big auditorium and
as many more Of both sexes looked OF
from the galleries.
It is said Beatty brothers of Catlin
south of Pueblo, have sold their entire
stock of cattle, numbering about 90, 0O(
! head. The cattle are ranging on prop
erty along the various creeks and rivert
in southeastern Colorado. The amount
of money involved in the deal is said tx
be 100000. The purchasers of the cat
tie are said to be st. Louis men.
Officers of the Iowa state agriculture
society met Des Moines business me1
here and notified them that unless they
produced an agreement in writing tc
close all business houses half u day dur
ing the state fair no fair will be helt
this year, on account of the transmits
sippi exposition in Omaha. An effor