Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-24
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| LIT ShilCu otdtcS Seudte was not
session on the 18th. In the house, afte
agreeing to the conference report on tn
agricultural bill, the post Office apprc
priation bill was further considered
a memorial from the Illinois legisla
ture asking for the erection of monu
ment to Abraham Lincoln was intro
duced by Mr.. Belknap. The committe
on ways and means favorably reporte,
the Dingley bill for the temporary ad
mission, free of duty, of naval and mill
tary supplies purchased abroad
There was no session of the Unite,
States senate on the 10th. In the hous
the post office appropriation bill wa
passed. The military affairs commit
tee held special meeting to conside
the bill for the reorganization of tn,
army.
Ex-Congressman A. A. Barker, O
Ebensburg. Pa, dropped dead on tn,
street at Altoona, Pa.
The cruiser Amanzonas, built a.
Gravesend, England, for Brazil and pur
chased by the United States, was for
mally transferred from the Brazilian
flag to the stars and stripes.
The United States cruiser Montgom
cry arrived in Key West from Havana
Charles w. Woodman, of Chicago, for.
mer republican congressman from the
Fourth Illinois district, died at the Ell.
gin insane asylum. aged 81 years.
Twelve tons of supplies for the re,
concentrates in Cuba were started
south by rail from Cincinnati.
1t is reported from Madrid that Gen.
Blanco is about to begin an aggressive
campaign against insurgents in the
eastern part of Cuba.
In the Santa Isabel mine at Belmez,
Spain, an explosion killed over 60 per-
sons.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Mt cabinet meeting the general
tenor of the discussion was that the Gu
ban question must be settled, and set
tied very soon, and that it was useless
to waste any more time in delay or
q plomatic correspondence.
The damage to the fruit by the frost
in the Suisun and Vaca valleys in CAL
ifornia is placed at 100000.
Judge Solomon Claypool. one of the
most prominent attorneys in Indiana,
died at Indianapolis, aged 81 years.
Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the best
known advocates of woman's suffrage
in the country, died at her home in Chi
cago, aged 72 years.
Business throughout the country is
reported to be steadily on the gain.
The Maine board of inquiry still con-
tinues at work at Key West, and Cap
tain Sampson says he is unable to state
when the report will be ready. Presi-
dent Mckinley, it is said, will submit
the report to congress as soon as it ar
rives and allow that body to choose be-
tween indemnity, independence or war.
The British government is massing
very powerful fleet of warships in
Chinese waters.
Capt. Albert s. Barker, OF the navy,
left Key West for Washington with the
official report of the board of inquiry
into the Maine explosion.
The state bank at Nickerson, Kan,
was blown open and robbed of SIS, 900.
President Mckinley stated that he
did not want congress to adjourn be-
fore the present trouble with Spain
was settled.
The Bank of Franklin, ILL.,, was
robbed OF $4,000 in cash by burglars.
Three officers and other survivors of |
Tine Maine disaster arrived unexpectedly |
in Washington and held conferences
with the president and Secretary Long.
Fifteen struggled Cinnamon were
captured at Los Angeles, Cal.
An explosion occurred in a mine of
The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway
company at Pratt City, Ala, killing six
negro convicts.
Twenty-Five car loads of provisions
donated in Kansas and Kansas City have
been forwarded to Matanzas, Cuba.
The Morris & Butts meat packing
house in the City of Mexico was burned.
The loss being $1,5OO,ooo and no insur-
lnce.
The great station of the Pennsylvania
abroad in Jersey City, N. j., was de-
'troyed by fire.
The notorious Black Jack gang of out
avs, nine in number, that has for years
lefied the authorities, was killed by a
Mormon colony in the Sierra Madre
Mountains in Mexico.
The thirty-ifth international Sunday
chool convention will meet in Chicago
Garch 30.
Ed Chalmers, a negro who recently
married white woman named Headly,
vas, with his wife, murdered oy mob
lear Wybark, /. T.
DIR. George Clinton Hubbard, aged 81,
surgeon United States navy,
suicide in Washington while
insane.
The little town of Clancy, Mont, was
early wiped out by fire.
SPANS proposal that the United
tates join in effecting settlement of
ne Cuban question upon the basis of
,mplete autonomy of the Canadian
attern, under Spanish sovereignty, has
cen rejected by the United States.