Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-24
MfsceIlaneous News.

miscellaneous News.
The silver Republicans of Arkansas
have form I'd state organization.
Frost in Susan valley, California,
has done $500, 900 worth of damage to
fruit
1t is reported that Kid Mccoy was
secretly married in St. Louis, March b,
the day after his divorce.
Edward Barrett of South Norwalk
has resigned the presidency of the U nited
Hatters of North America.
Fire at Chicago, Monday, destroyed
the 7.story structure known as the
schoneman building. Loss, 1926, 900.
The new grand opera house at Lon
don, Ont, was burned Sunday night.
1t was owned by Rothwell CT Detroit.
Frank j. Gould of New York, son of
the late Jay Gould, has bough LIE
Prince, the celebrated $4,000 St. Der.
nard dog.
Philadelphia Methodist conference
voted that the laity shall be represented
equally with the clergy in the general
conference.
General Lew Wallace spoke at South
Bend, Ind, inaugurating movement
to erect monument to SCHUYLER Col
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York on the French line steam
or La Navarro from Havre was Carolus
Duran, the French portrait painter.
Everton and Celtic football teams.
belonging to Liverpool and Glasgow,
respectively, are considering visit to
America next season for the purpose of
playing series of exhibition games.
E1.on 90
KY, daughter of Adjutant General
Collier, has accepted Governor Brad.
ley's appointment as maid of honor at
the christening of the battleship Ken
lucky.
T. H. Puryear, one of Paducah's
leading men and who was identified
with many industries, shot himself Sat
urday. He became respondent over
protracted illness and recent business
reverses.
The ship w. T. Parker, with guns
and ammunition, which are thought to
have been intended for the Cuban in
surgents. has been seized at New York
by Marshal 9. j. Hubert under instruc-
lions from Washington.
President Charles d. Garmo of Swart.
more college, Philadelphia, resigned to
accept chair in the pedagogical de-
partment of Cornell university, Prof.
William w. Birdsall, formerly an in
structor in mathematics at the Rich
mond, Ind, high school was chosen to
fill the vacancy.
Senator Stewart of Nevada has
given notice of an amendment he will
offer to the naval appropriation bill
providing for the construction of Is
coast defense monitors of the type of
the Puritan, Monterey and Terror and
appropriating 81, 100000 with which to
begin the work.
A special train of St. Paul, Mimi.
newspaper men, Masons, Elks, etc.,
went to Rush City, Mimi, March 30, to
attend the funeral of the well known
poet, novelist and dramatist, Franklin
Warner Lee, formerly of St. Paul, and
at the time of his death editor of the
Rush City Post.
While number of children were
fishing from bridge on the Louisville
and Nashville railroad near Danvllle,
KY, Saturday, several were struck by
fast freight train. Mary Van Arsdel,
aged IA, was killed and Claude Baker,
aged II, was fatally injured. The
others escaped with less serious injuries.
News of a sensational suicide comes
from Massac county, Illinois. Miss
Mary Wade and John Lameft were
sweethearts, but their parents opposed
the marriage Of the two. In fit of
dependency the young lady took poison
and died. When the young man
learned of it he became a having ma
MAC.
Fire early Monday morning at Butte,
Mon, destroyed the Hale house, large
3.story building used as boarding and
lodging house for men employed in the
Anaconda Copper mines. Of the 400
occupants many are in hospitals suffer
ing from various injuries, and 20 have
failed to show up at the mines It is
estimated at least 25 have persisted.
DR.. George Clinton Hubbard assistant
surgeon United States army, committed
suicide at ST. Elizabeth's insane asylum
at Washington Monday by strangling
himself with the cord of his dressing
gown. DR.. Hubbard was 81 years Of
age. Till within few weeks he was
attached to the San Francisco. Early
III the year he showed slight signs Of
arrangement and was sent home.
Three mangled bodies were taken Fri
day from the building 215-221 Wabash
avenue, which was destroyed by fire
Wednesday morning. This brings the
number of known dead to six, while IA
persons reported as missing had not
been accounted for. Firemen found the
bodies of Charles A. Price, cashier
Henry r. Nelson, chemist, and Mrs. M.
E. Harris, bookkeeper, all employed by
the w. A. Olmstead Scientific company.
Officers of the Northern Pacific steam.
ship Victoria, which arrived at Tacoma
Sunday from Japan, report that the Brit
ish government is massing very pow
erful fleet Of warships in Chinese
waters and that the British are buying
all the coal coming to those waters for
their men-of-war and so anxious are
they to get it that they send vessels to
sea and there hail the coalers and bar
gain for their cargoes, paying gilt edge
prices, if necessary.
Over 1000 people rose simultaneously
Sunday night in the Metropolitan opera
house at New York and joined in
the singing of the Star Spangled ban
ner, with more enthusiasm than has
been exhibited in the opera house for
many months. 1t was upon the &C.
casion of the performance for the bene-
fit OF the Maine monument fund: The
entertainment aside from the subscrip-