Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
LATER.


LATER.
The United States senate was not in
session on the 25th. In the house bill
was favorably reported providing that
persons who commit pension frauds
shall be punished by fine of $500 or inn
Erisonment for not less than one year
nor more than five. Mr.. Wheeler (Ala.)
introduced bill giving the president
power to raise troops and do any other
act necessary to the safety of the coun-
try or any part thereof, and to protect
its honor and prestige in the event of
an act of war being committed by
Spain or any other foreign nation prior
to the meeting of the next session of
congress. The naval appropriation bill
was further discussed.
There was no session of Inc United
States senate on the Goth. In the house
the naval appropriation bill was fur
Their discussed. and strong effort made
to increase the appropriation for the
naval reserves, but it failed.
Thirty-fve states have to date de-
cided to participate in the exposition at
Omaha, Neb.
There were PSI business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 25th, against 240 the week
previous and 291 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The firing of dynamite cartridge in
the coal mines near Liege, Belgium,
killed 20 miners.
The lighthouse tender Mangrove left
Key West for Havana to bring away all
American officials except Consul Gen.
Lee.
Commander Schley has been ordered
to take command of the flying squad
ron at Hampton Roads and there is
growing belief that he will be ordered
to intercept the Spanish torpedo tlotil-
la before it reaches Puerto Rico.
The Guarantors' Finance company OF
Philadelphia made an assignment with
liabilities of 81 ,047,50
Spain has been notified by the state
department that the departure toward
American waters of the torpedo fiotiila
can only be accepted by this govern
ment as An unfriendly act.
James Payn, the noted novelist, died
in London, aged 6s years.
Truman P. Handy, who lived 10 earn
the distinction of being the oldest active
banker in the United States, died at his
home in Cleveland, aged 81 years.
Japan has requested Russia to evac-
uate Port Arthur.
| The court of inquiry appointed to in
vestigate the cause of the Maine dis
aster has reported that the loss of the
battle ship was due to an outside ex-
piosion. The state department, by di-
rection of the president, cabled United
States Minister Woodford at Madrid to
lofty the Spanish government of this
conclusion, and the Spanish govern
ment cabled officially to Washington
that the Spanish naval commission
holds the disaster to the Maine to
be of internal origin.
George and Anthony Aldersmott,
killed by street car in Akron, o.
A dispatch from Madrid says Minister
Woodford has notified Spain that the
time has come when the United States
must act in the Cuban matter and that
Spain has replied intimating that she
cannot permit interference.
w. H. Brilley and wife, a respectable
white couple, were found murdered in
the burning store in Atlanta, Ga.
w. C. Williams, one of the leading
criminal lawyers in Milwaukee, dropped
dead in his bathroom.
The populists have nominated Ed
ward Wilson, of Peru, for congress in
the Eleventh district of Indiana.
A total of 2S lives lost, damage to
property of about $21 100000 and 1900
people rendered homeless tell the story
of the floods in Ohio and Indiana.
The democrats, populists and silver
Republicans in convention at Portland
Ore, nominated William E. King (pop.
ulist) for governor.
Several farmhouses were wrecked by
a tornado near Lehigh, I. t., and James
Seafoam, his wife and three children
were killed.
Forty-eight seal hunters belonging tc
the steamer Greenland, of st. Johns, N
F., persisted on an ice foe and so others
were badly frost bitten
| JOlH u Tic
Thirteenth district of Massachusetts,,
died of heart failure in Washington,
aged 36 years.
Tremendous rains have fallen in all
the central states east of the Missis.
sippi, and incalculable damage has been
done.
c. A. Andrews, T. H. Tracy and j. C.
Doerr and his son, of st. Louis, were
drowned at Dutch harbor, Alaska, by
the upsetting of boat.
Consul Gen. Lee has advised resident
citizen in Havana to leave at once.
The report of the board of inquiry
shows that the Maine was destroyed
by the explosion of mine under the
port side of the battle ship. This caused
two magazines to explode and add to
the destruction. The court found no
evidence to fix the responsibility, but
says the explosion was due to no fault
OF those on board.