Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10
NEWS BOILED DOWN.
Trade Interests.

Schroeder q Co., Cincinnati jewellers
assigned Monday to H. P. Good. Liza
billtles, $50, 1000; assets, 100000.
Des Moines jobbers are planning an
excursion on the Fonda branch of the
Des Moines, Northern and Western
road to become acquainted with their
trade.
The Washington Evening Star prints
an interview with Representative White
Of Chicago, in which that gentleman is
quoted as saying that company, in
which l.. T. Letter and himself are in
terested, have made an offer of 81, OOO,-
600 for the Washington Gas Light
company.
A plan for the combination of the
steel wire and nail manufacturers,
which has been under consideration
for the past six months, was practically
consummated at meeting held in
New York March 4. The combination
will represent about $50, 600, OtO in CAPT.
tai. The name selected for the COM
bination is the american Steel and
Wire company" The largest steel
wire and rod companies in the country
to the number of 10 will be in the COM
bine. Only five concerns engaged in
the manufacture of steel rods and nails
IN the entire country are not in the
combination. The headquarters will
be either Chicago or New York.
Mortuary Record.
John Wilde, the actor, died atTroy,
N. Y, Wednesday.
DR.. Allen, the amateur golf cham
pion, is dead at London.
Edmund Tattersall, head of the horse
exchange firm of Tattersalls, is dead at
London.
James 81. Carpenter, inventor Of the
Carpenter projectile, died at Reading,
Pa Sunday night of pneumonia, aged 81.
Garachanin, the distinguished Servian
statesman and former prime minister,
is dead. He was born at Belgrade Feb.
90, ]S43.
Harry Abbott, @. G., eldest son of the
late Sir John 9. Abbott, at one time
premier Of Canada, died at st. Angus
tine, Fla.
Hugh j. Jewett, the famous railroad
financier and for many years receiver
and president of the Erie, died Sunday
at the Hotel Bonair, Augusta, Ga.
Judge Charles E. Vanderburg, /. ma
tive of Saratoga county, New York, a
resident of Minneapolis since 1866 and
for 10 years justice of the Minneapo-
lis supreme court, died March 8 at Min
neapolis. Judge Vanderburgh has
been a prominent figure in the north
west for the past 40 years.
General Nelson B. Sweitzer, u. s. A.,
retired, died at Washington March q.
He was native of Pennsylvania and
was graduated from West Point in the
same class as Mop herson, Schofield and
Sheridan. During the war he served
CALAMITY as colonel of a New York cav
airy regiment and was brevetted five
times for meritorious service in the
peninsula campaign in Virginia. He
leaves wife, two sons and daughter.
judicial Gossip.
Justice Russell, in the New York SUI
preme court, has decided that where
Judgment is confessed by an insolvent
corporation for the purpose of favoring
some particular creditor, and the pro-
ceediRgs are kept secret, the Judgment
is invalid.
Judge Sage of the United States
court, southwestern district Of Ohio,
who has served continuously Is years,
and is entitled to retire, has fixed Aug.
26 next as the close of his term of SER
vice. At that time he will have
reached 70 years of age.
The circuit court of appeals confirmed
the Judgment of $4,000 in favor of
Mrs. Susan N. St. John, the New York
portrait painter, against the North Chi
cago Street Railway company for in
juries received from a fall from street
car in the summer of 1896.
Justice Chase of the New York state
supreme court has reserved his de-
clsion today on the application of Ar
thur Dannard for temporary injunc-
tion restraining the reorganizationc COM
mittee of the Union Pacific railroad
from issuing more than $4,000, 900
worth Of bonds for reorganization pur-
poses.
In speaking of the decision OF Judge
Rodgers at Kansas City. in which he
held in effect that the present system of
government meat inspection was un-
constitutional, Attorney General Griggs
said his advice to the agricultural de-
partment officials would be to continue
the practice until the matter could be
settled.
The will of the late Frances E. Will
ard was offered for probate at Chicago
March 4. Most of the estate is left to
Miss Anna Gordon, but Miss Willard s
home in Evanston is left to Miss Cor
don and Mary Bannister Willard dur.
ing their lives and will revert event
ually to the benefit of the National w.
Q. y, U. The estate is estimated at
$4,000, of which $4,000 is in real
property.
Washington Notes.
There is a continuation of the activ-
ity at the New York arsenal. The ship
ping of projectiles to Notifications about
the harbor is unabated
Secretary Bliss has approved clear
list No. ID, containing 1000 acres, do
mated in the Sundance, Wyo., land
district, to the state for charitable,
penal and reformatory purposes.
Two new government torpedo boats,
Gwyn and Talbot, just completed by
the Herreschoffs, were given their trial
speeding in Narragansett bay and both
exceeded their contract speed, the
former making an average of 900 and
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