Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-05-05
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The report OF the confereeS on the
naval appropriation bill was agreed to
in the United States senate on the Goth.
The measure as perfected carries little
more than $57,000,000. Adjourned to
May 2. In the house the war revenue
bill was passed after a sharp partisan
debate by vote of 1S1 to 131. The dem
ocrats attacked the bond feature of the
bill.
The United States senate was not in
session on the both ult. In the house
the time was devoted chiefly to consid-
Grafton of the conference report upon
the naval appropriation bill. The re-
port was rejected after three hours of
debate and further conference will fol-
low.
Powder exploded on pack train near
San Vincente, Mexico, and Is men and
60 mules were killed.
Evidence came to light that Spanish
employees blew up the powder works
at Santa Cruz, Cal, by which II lives
were lost.
In Heckley and Pecos counties, Tex,
prairie fires burned over 100000 acres.
The navy department has received in
formation that the Spanish squadron
has left the Cape Verde islands. Its
destination is unknown.
Portugal, Peru and Mexico have de-
clared neutrality in the war between
Spain and the United States.
Lewis Warner, president of the New
Hampshire County national bank of
Northampton, Mass, is missing and the
doors of the bank have been closed. A
shortage of 100000 is reported.
Thomas Walsh and his wife were
killed by the cars near Freedom, Wis.
John Y. McKane was released from
Sing Sing prison, New York, after serv-
ing four years and two months for vio-
iating the election laws.
A dispatch from Madrid says the
Spanish government is going to expel
all United States citizens from Spain.
Several of the fleet ocean greykounds
recently secured by the government are
to patrol the Atlantic and prevent the
advance of any Spanish fleet toward the
American shores.
The supreme court of Illinois says
the work of the legislature in defining
the new senatorial districts is uncon-
stitutional.
Six masked men held up a Southern
Pacific passenger train near Comstock,
Tex, dynamited the express and mail
cars and probably secured 100000.
Clasped in each others arms, John
Askwith, rs years old, and his wife Mar
gaset, "a years old, were found dead in
their home in Chicago. Escaping gas
was the cause.
Famine and smallpox are killing men,
women and children in Puerto Rico.
There were 202 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 2O4 the week
previous and 237 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The first month of navigation on the
lakes has brought to the insurance COM
panies losses aggregating $4,000.
The New York, Puritan and Cincin-
natl shelled Punta Gorda at Matanzas
to prevent the construction of new bat
teries which they were commencing.
Hon. Fred Meyers, for 25 years editor
of the Denison Qa.) Review, died in
Denison.
A tornado which swept across south
eastern Dakota and northwestern Iowa
killed eight persons and wrecked a
great amount of property.
William Peters, Edward Linstead,
Mrs. Walter York and Mrs James Miller
were killed by the cars at a crossing
near Newmarket, Ont.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Yale, formerly the American line
steamship Paris, eluded the Spanish
warships and reached her dock in New
York with her $50 passengers.
Judge James G.. Day, one of the most
prominent men of the Iowa bar, died
suddenly at his home in Des Moines.
His wife died suddenly three weeks ago.
In hurricane which swept the Vir-
ginia and North Carolina coast many
vessels were wrecked and IL lives were
lost.
Gov. Black, of New York, has COM
missioned Frederick Dent Grant as
colonel of the Fourteenth regiment.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 30th ult. were: Cincinnati,
.750; Baltimore, .750; Cleveland, .5S3;
Chicago, 1856; Philadelphia, $3.50; Bos-
ton, .545; Pittsburgh, .53s; Brooklyn,
500; New York, 1888; Washington, 1888;
Louisville, .30s; st. Louis, 200.
The democrats of the Twenty first
Illinois district nominated Fred j. Kern
for congress.
The Asiatic squadron of the United
States, Commodore Dewey command
ing, engaged and completely defeated
the Asiatic squadron of Spain in the
harbor of Manila, in the Philippine
islands. Three of the choicest ships Of
the Spanish fleet were completely de-
stroyed and 1000 sailors were killed.
To prevent their falling into the hands
of the enemy, other vessels Of the Span
ish fleet were sunk. No American ships
were seriously disabled.