Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-17

The United States cruiser Montgom-
cry sailed from Key West for Havana
to take the place of the Maine.
Indications at Washington are that
the tension between the United States
and Spain has been relaxed by the ac-
ton of congress in placing s5O,Ooo,Ooo
at the disposal of the president.
Alexander Smith and young man
named Hoaten were killed in a freight
wreck near Walkerton, Ind.
A cavern in mine at Galena, KAN,
killed Ernest Wright, William Walker
and his son and an unknown man.
The Union Pacific railway has sub
scribed $4,000 in aid Of the transmits
sissippi exposition at Omaha.
Sir Julian Pauncefote has assured
President Mckinley of Queen Victoria's
personal interest in the state of affairs
between this country and Spain, and of
the most sincere friendliness toward
the United States.
Three children of William Conner
were fatally burned at their home in
st. Louis during the absence of their
parents.
The bill passed by congress appropri-
ating $5O,0O0,OOO for national defenses
has been signed by the president and is
now law.
Harry Van Arsdale, machinist, killed
Mary Harris in st. Louis and then
killed himself. Jealousy was the cause.
Roy Gehrig shot and fatally wound
ed Will B. Davis at Millersville, Pa, and
then killed himself. The boys were
pupils at business college, and jeal-
ousy over a girl was the cause.
Kid Mccoy, of Indiana, has announced
himself champion heavy weight pugilist
of the world.
The jury at Willlesbarre, Pa, in the
case of Sheriff Martin and his deputies,
charged with the killing of strikers at
Lattimer on September 10 last, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.
A hotel at Taiya, Alaska, was burned,
and five of the inmates were cremated.
1t is rumored that President McKin-
ley has completed the draft of a special
message to congress in which he recon-
mends the recognition of Cuban indie
pendence, and that it is his intention
tc send the message to congress within
two weeks.
Col. M. M. Parker, of Washington, who
visited Cuba with the senatorial party,
said in an interview at Key West that the
famine, suffering and awful restitution
among the reconcentrados was indie
scribable; that every American in Cuba
was watched as though he were GRIM
inal; that the Spaniards hate us and
do not hesitate to say so, and that every
one in Havana knows that the Maine
was Intentionally blown up.
Annie Lite was shot and killed in
Allegheny, Pa, by Philip Smith, her
lover,who Immediately afterward killed
himself. Jealousy was the cause.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British am
bassador, has informed the Canadian
ministry officially that by an arrange
ment with the United States the Alas
kan boundary dispute has been settled.
The agricultural department crop re-
port shows wheat in farmers hands,
121 900, 900 bushels, equivalent to 22.9
per cent. of last years crop; corn, 1885,
600, 900 bushels, or Ali per cent. of last
years crop.
John L. Driscol, teacher of short
hand in Nashville, Tenn, compelled his
wife to take morphine and then killed
himself with the same drug. Poverty
was the cause.
Rose Miller and her daughter, Winnie
Abingdon, were fatally shot at Empire,
O., by David Mccoy, rejected sutton
of Mrs. Miller.
For the past eight months the increase
over the exports of domestic products
for the same period last year has been
$63, s42, 900.
A dispatch from Washington says
that orders have been issued for the
immediate manning of hitherto ungar-
risoned forts from Boston down the At
lantic coast and along the gulf to Gal
weston.
A gale swept the bay of San Fran
cisco, wrecling many vessels and caus-
ing loss of 100000.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.