Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-17

oAonai auu SreaG NOrGnern and the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railways from
putting into effect the notices they
served on the Lone Star line, as result
OF the New York conference, that they
would after Feb. 10 cancel all divisions
with the Lone Star line and accept no
freight from it without the prepayment
of all charges.
Miscellaneous News.
Seven thousand clothing workers are
on strike at New York.
Excellent rains in northern and GEN.
trail India have ensured successful
spring crops.
The Indians will sell about IL. 900
acres OF the Rosebud reservation, which
Will be thrown oven to settlement soon.
The state board of trade has adopted
rules under which California will make
firstclass exhibit at the Omaha EXPOSE
ton.
The City Forge and Iron company of
cleveland, o., has just received a big
order for sugar making machinery to
be put into refinery in Hawaii.
Levi P. Morton's 7-story New York
Office building, known as the Nassau
Chamber building, was destroyed by
ire Friday night. Loss, 100000.
Eighteen people dead, SO missing and
lS injured and property loss of ST $780,
900, is the awful record of the big fire
OF Wednesday night at Pittsburg.
The Illinois license of the Schuylkill
Fire Insurance company of Ph1iadel.
phia has been revoked by State Super
lntendent of Insurance Va1Cleave.l
According to news from Alaska by
the steamer City Of Topeka five men
have been frozen to death on the Chill
koot pass, and three others near Dyea.
A dispatch from Gate CITY, Va.
states that Miss Mollie Vincent Shot her
lover, Taylor Wyatt, and then commit
ted suicide. They lived in Moccasin
valley.
The Indian Office will soon advertise
for pasture lands on the Usage and
kaW Indian reservations in Oklahoma.
There are about 100000 acres to be
leased.
Captain Davis has samples of ore
from his lease on the Colonel Sellers
mine at Eldora, Colorado's new mining
camp, which assay from $11 900 to $l1O,-
600 per ton.
A bill was introduced in the Ken
lucky house by Mr.. Mount (Populist)
proposing to change the name,of Car
Isle county to civilian Jennings
Bryan" county.
The Hoyt building, large five story
brick structure, at Cleveland, occupied
by stores and various manufacturing
concerns, was entirely destroyed by fire
Saturday. Loss $SOO,COO
The standing committee of the Epis
copalian diocese of Nebraska by unan-
imous vote has refused to give consent
to the conservation of Rev. William M.
Brown as coadjutor of the diocese of
Arkansas.
A new plan is on foot for the organi-
zation of series of hospitals at all the
chief points in Alaska, and the chief
promoter of the enterprise, DIR. T. H.
Booth, is now in Seattle on his way
northward.
South Dakota will send no fewer
than so delegates to the annual meeting
of the National Dairymen's association
; at Topeka who will urge upon the asso-
citation the holding of the next meeting
in Sioux Falls.
Lead and zinc, in rich paying guam
titles, have been discovered in the New
Kaw reservation in Oklahoma. A pros
pector declares the find superior to any
thing discov cred III Missouri or, south
eastern Kansas. .
It is now known that the real reason
for sending the United States torpedo
boat Gushing to Havana was that the
Spanish authorities have been tamper-
ing with mail sent to the battleship
Maine, in Havana harbor.
A crisis in the affairs of the investl-
cation OF the South Dakota insurance
commissioners office, under the man
agement of J.. III. Kipp, was reached
Wednesday, when Governor Lee per-
emptorily removed Kipp and appointed
his private secretary, Thomas Ayres, to
the office.
The American line steamer St. Louis,
Captain Randle, which arrived at New
York last Saturday from Southamp-
ton, reports the loss at sea of the Hol-
land American line steamer Veendam,
Captain Stenger, from Rotterdam for
New York. The passengers and crew
of the Veendam, 215 in all, were saved
by the st. Louis.
The fiftieth grain vessel of the Puget
sound foreign feet for the season
cleared at Tacoma, Wash, Feb. Ia, with
full cargo, bringing the total grain
exports from the sound forthe season up
to 5000, 900 bushels, valued at 50, 400, 900.
Shippers estimate that 2,5O0,OOO or g.
100000 bushels of Washington wheat
remain to be moved
The ninth annual national conven-
ton of the National Aid association, a
fraternal beneficiary organization, met
in Topeka this week. The membership
during the year just closed has in
creased from $500 to 1900 the most
prosperous year in the history. The
work of pushing the membership is be-
ing carried on mainly in Kansas, Neb-
raska and Iowa, although it is getting
a strong foothold in the Dakotas, Texas,
Florida and Colorado.
The Chicago police are puzzled over
the disappearance Of Earl Conway, a
talented youth, well known in musical
circles, and Miss Ollie Wilson, daugh-
ter of a wealthy Nebraska stockman.
Although the young woman is II years
older than the lad, who is but Is years
old, the two, according to the story told
the police by the lads parents, are
deeply attached to one another, and the
police have been led to suspect that
they have gone away together.