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

| Inc cruiser montgomery w:il take the
place of the wrecked Maine in Havana
harbor.
Family troubles caused duel be-
tween DR.. J. III. Hartzell and w. K. FL
lott at Little Rock, Ark, and both
were fatally shot.
| Henry Williams, negro, aged 25,
shot and killed Miss Ethel Gray, white
girl, at Oakland, CAL, and then killed
! himself.
Thomas Ford, who cut the throat of
his bpother-in-law, escaped from Jail
at Mascot, Neb., and killed four men
before he could be overpowered.
| The remains of Miss Frances e.
| Willard lay in state in Willard hall, Chi
cago, and were viewed by thousands.
Naval officials in Washington admit
that work is being pushed with all pos
sible speed on ships now in the various
navy yards.
Sawyer, Manning & Co., dry goods
commission merchants in New York
and Boston, failed for $1,00O,OO0.
Richard Allen and Tom Holmes were
lynched at Mayfeld, Ky. Allen robbed
house and Holmes killed his wife six
months ago.
The business portion of De Kalb,
Tex, was destroyed by fire.
President Mckinley is said to have
made the following statement to SEN
ator: Il do not propose to do any
thing at all to precipitate war with
Spain. Up to the present 1 do not
think war is either necessary or inev-
liable. / would be lax in my duty,
however, if l did not prepare for the
future. The situation is grave, and the
policy of the administration will be de-
termined almost entirely by the course
OF events from time to time"
Angry because he could not go hunt
ing Richard Clauson, aged Is, fatally
shot Miss Minnie Foght near Cedar
Falls, Ia, and then killed himself.
James Mcnamara, formerly of Spring
field, ILL.,, and Clara Schaller, of Mas
coutah, ILL.,, were found at hotel in St.
Louis with their Threats cut, making IL
suicides in that city within As hours.
Senior Du Bose, Spanish charge at
Washington, has admitted that the au-
thorities at Havana planted submarine
mines in the channels but not in the
harbor
At Des Moines prominent women have
formed the Iowa Ass ociation Opposed to
Woman Suffrage.
Mrs. Daniel Manning, of New York,
was elected president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
at the annual meeting in Washington.
The Bank of Southern Baltimore at
Baltimore, Md, went into n receivers
hands with liabilities of $170,OG0.
Passengers on a vessel from Cuba ar
irving at New York tell of insults Of
fered Americans in Havana and to the
| American flag.
The president has signed the resolu-
ton passed by congress appropriating
100000 for the raising of the Maine.
In Fairfield county, S. c., 70 houses
were destroyed by forest fires and seven
| women were burned to death.
The cotton mill strikers at New Bed
ford, Mass, have issued an appeal for
aid to continue their fight.
The planning mill of the A. NJ. Stevens
Lumber company and 20 dwellings were
burned at Dyersburg, Tenn, causing a
loss of 100000.
| During the absence of his wife Fred
Simons, aged so years, in fit of drunken
dependency killed his two little daugh-
tiers and himself at Garrett, Ind.
While resisting arrest at Bursonville,
| Pa, Adam Weaver shot and killed Ed
win Mondeau, n deputy constable, and
fatally wounded Constable Atherholt.
Jesse Kelley shot and killed H. n.
and L. b. Dewalt, brothers, near Rea-
gan, Tex, in quarrel concerning a
valentine.
Final services over the remains of
Miss Frances Z. Willard were held in
the Methodist church in Evanston, ILL.,,
and the body was laid to rest in Rose
| Hill cemetery.
The battle ships Kentucky and Kear-
sarge will be launched at Newport News
March "a, and it will be the first double
launching of first-class battle ships in
the world.