Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-04-28

to be imprisoned for life or to be elect.
rocuted. The pardoning power is taken
away, except on proof Of innocence es-
tablished beyond reasonable doubt
The law takes effect at once.
A decision was rendered in the United
states supreme court Monday in the
Illinois Inheritance tax case sustaining
the law on which the case was brought.
Inc opinion was rendered Dy Justice
McKenna.
Three men lost their lives in fire
Sunday in the Londonderry mine on
lronclad hill, near Cripple Greek, Colo
The dead are: w. H. Pine, mine SUPER
intendent j. w. Foster, miner; j. P.
Jones, miner.
All the Bessemer pig iron producers
OF the central west have agreed to
bank their furnaces for 30 days out of
the three months of May, June and
July.
Two brothers, John and James Ryan
were hanged at Somerset, Pa, Tuesday,
for the murder of Farmer David Ber-
ker. Both men protested their inno-
cence on the scaffold.
The Erie railroad Sunday established
a new record for speed between New
York and Cleveland. The time of all
roads between the two points was
broken by one hour and fifty-one min
utes A special newspaper train left
New York at 3 80 a. m. and arrived in
Cleveland at 3 :54 p. M.
A mail bag consigned to J. NJ Ham
mill, attorney for the Louisville and
Nashville road at Belleville, ILL.,, was
stolen from an express wagon in Belle
vile Friday. The bag is said to have
contained letters, official documents and
registered letter in which were sew
eral drafts for almost $780, 900.
Wire drawers of the H. P. Nail COM
pany have accepted the terms given
them by the newly organized steel and
wire trust, which control the mill, and
work will be resumed as soon as the
necessary repairs are made in the mill.
This will start the third and last of the
wire nail mills located at Cleveland
controlled by the trust.
Austin Leftwich, aged Is, and Maria
Leftwich, aged IA, children of Gus
Leftwich, editor of the Gallatin Demo-
GRAFT, have been arrested there under in
dictments which charge them with the
murder OF their father. Editor Left
witch died from the effects of poison ad-
ministered in his coffee. The theory of
the prosecution is that the poison was
administered by the children, but it
was intended for their stepmother, with
whom they did not agree.
Reports of a most alarming character
relative to the condition of the ice on
Lake Bennett have been brought into
Skagway by men who crossed the sum-
NIT. The indications are the begin
ming OF the spring thaw at period so
premature Will make the loss of much
property and possibly many lives al
most a certainty. The ice has already
begun to break up
Mr.. Gladstone is sinking fast. A
change for the worst was observed Sat-
urday highland DR.. Habershon and Sir
Thomas Smith, surgeon extraordinary
to the queen, were hastily summoned
to Hawarden and spent the night there.
1t is considered significant that no bull
letin was issued Sunday from Hawar-
den and that Mr.. Gladstone's family
has been summoned.
Senator Edward @. Walthall of Mis-
sissippi died at Washington Thursday.
His illness dated from January when
he contracted cold. In February he
suffered from an attack of bilious fever
and from this he never recovered. His
last address in the senate was made on
April Z, when he delivered an eulogy
on his colleague, Senator George, in
| spite OF the protests of his physician.
A disastrous prairie fire swept over
practically the whole Of the Rosebud
Indian reservation, in South Dakota, de-
stroylng thousands of horses. So far as
known no Indians lost their lives. The
| fire swept over the greater part of re-
gion 80 miles long and 10 wide, extend
| ing to the Nebraska line It is sup
posed to have started by white man
travelling overland to Valentine, Neb.
1t was the worst prairie fire since the
+, one which destroyed Mount Vernon
nine years ago.
1t is now known that President
Sam of the Haytian republic and Presi-
Hereaux of the republic of Santo Do
mingo agreed at their recent confer
ence at Jacmel to submit to the pope
the entire boundary dispute between
the two countries. The papal nuncio,
who was present. accepted in behalf Of
the pope the task of arbitrating the
questions at ISSUE Hayti is willing to
pay an indemnity in order to gain the
desired boundary and Santo Domingo
acquiesces on this basis.
R. G. Dun's review of trade says The
war is no longer to be avoided and
business is somewhat contracted by
bankers apprehension. There is no
excuse except want Of nerve Tor decline
in railway stocks, when earnings have
been l4.3 per cent larger than last year
for the first half of April and 4.S per
cent larger than 1892, with railway
tonnage eastbound from Chicago about
10 per cent larger than in 1892 Neither
are clearing house transactions gloomy.
The weeks payments were 1916 per
cent larger than last year and 6.3 per
cent larger than in 1892
Autonomists Issue Il Manifesto.
HAVANA, April 23.-The colonial gov
eminent has published manifesto pro-
testing against the intervention of the