Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-02-17
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The Indian appropriation bill was
passed in the United States senate on
the 18th after being amended so as to
restore the free homestead law so far
as it relates to Indian lands coded to the
tiers have been obliged to pay the pur-
chase price paid to the Indians. The
bill carries appropriations aggrcgating
nearly $s,O00,000. Adjourned until
Monday. The house was not in session.
Levi p. Morton's seven-story office
building in New York was burned, the
loss being 100000.
In railway wreck rear Green Bay,
Wis, Conductor Charles Anderson, of
Menominee, Mich, and Brakeman Tews,
of Green Bay, were killed.
Rev. William C. Cattell, d. D., LII. D.,
for 20 years president of Lafayette col
lege, died in Philadelphia, aged II years.
James Mingle, for the murder on July
81 last of Dollie Briscoe, his 1s-months-
old babe, was hanged at the county Jail
in Springfield, III.
Quartz gold has been found in the
Pembina mountains, near the interna-
tional boundary, in southern Manitoba.
The national assembly of the League
of American Wheelmen in session in
st. Louis went on record as opposed to
Sunday racing.
Michael Seipel killed Ida J. Seipel,
from whom he was divorced, at Persia,
Ia, and then killed himself.
The Milwaukee Carnival association
is arranging to celebrate the sem-cen-
tennial of Wisconsin's statehood in q
gorgeous manner from June 25 to
July 3.
Ferdinande Fabre, the famous French
novelist, died in Paris.
The New York Legislature adopted
resolution censuring United States Sen
ator Murphy for his vote on the Teller
financial resolution.
The steamers City of Seattle and Noyo
sailed from Seattle for Alaska with 500
passengers.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
will celebrate this year the fiftieth an
niversary of his succession to the crown
and he has decided to signalize the event
by resigning in favor of his eldest
nephew.
While resisting arrest at Esculopia,
KY, Mrs. Grove and her daughter were
killed by officers.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,434, 975, 9s4, against 81 ,47o, 300, 1928 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was $40.
In the district court at Council Bluffs
Judge Thornell declared the Iowa col
lateral inheritance tax law unconsti-
tutional.
Justice George B. MacFarlane, of the
supreme court of Missouri, died in ST.
Louis, aged 81 years.
III. c. Boltony was shot and killed at
Seattle, Wash, by Andrew Amen, who
afterwards killed himself. A quarrel
was the cause.
At Gate City, Va, Miss Mollie Vincent
shot her lover, Taylor Wyatt, and then
committed suicide.
New York to Buffalo, 425 miles, in 1926
minutes, was the record made over the
Erie railroad by special newspaper
train.
In Howell county, Mo-, in the vicinity
of Sloan Springs, gold in paying guam
titles has been found.
Peter Biazza, Emanuel Naimo and
Michael Sadia were killed in the New
port mine at Ironwood, Mich, by an ex-
plosion of giant powder.
The national congress of mothers will
hold its second convention in Washing
ton the first week in May.
Acknowledgement Grow, of Missouri,
says it is unlawful for teacher to re-
quire pupils to repeat the Lords prayer
in the public schools of the state.
David w. Ramsdell, who gained fame
by the discovery in 1861 of Norway
oats" died in South Royalton, VT, aged
n years.
The eighty-ninth birthday of Abra-
ham Lincoln was very generally OBJ
served on the 18th throughout the coun-
try.
The Hoyt building in Cleveland, occu-
pied principally by manufacturers of
clothing, was burned, the loss being
1915, 900.
The Auditorium opera house and con-
tents were totally destroyed by fire in
Moline, H., the loss being $4,000.
According to the present plans of
labor leaders a demand for the eight
hour day will be made on May l next
that will involve fully 100000 men.
Henry Cline, chief of police of Nc
Keesport, Pa, committed suicide by
shooting. The council refused to con-
firm his appointment.
At Oakland. Cal. Judge Denny low
cred the two mile racing record for
running horses, making the distance in
3:26h.
The Holland-American steamer Veen-
dam foundered at sea, three days out
from Rotterdam, and the passengers
and crew to the number of gig souls
were rescued by the crew of the Ameri-
can liner st. Louis.