Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-02-10
DOMESTIC.

The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 31st ult. was:
Wheat, s6,602,0O bushels; corn, 40,5S1,-
600 bushels; oats, 15,112,O00 bushels;
rye, 3,S4o,000 bushels; barley, 100000
bushels.
The First national bank of Larimore.
N. D., closed it's doors with liabilities of
$71.754.
Virginia Bill' Friley, an old citizen
of Elliott county, KY, aged so years,
and wife, 70 years of age, were murdered
at their home and robbed of from $500
to $1,000.
The International Paper company of
Corinth, N. Y, combination of all the
big paper manufacturing firms in the
country, filed articles of incorporation
with a capital of $45,O0O,OO0.
Heavy snowstorms with high winds
prevailed in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wis
consin and Michigan.
The Huntsville Qnd.) college, an in
stitution connected with the United
Brethren (RadcaD church, was burned
by an incendiary.
Near Greenville, o., a fast train
caught c. F. Young, wife and four-year-
old girl in top buggy, killing father
and child and fatally injuring the
mother.
James j. Corbett announced at Pc
oria, ILL.,, that he had renowned pugil-
ism forever because of failure to ar
range another fight with Fitzsimmons.
Mrs. Reuben C. Bartlett stood in a
tub half filled with kerosene at Eau
Claire, Wis.,, set fire to it and was
burned to death. She was insane.
John w. Griggs resigned as governor
of New Jersey to take his seat as at
torney-general in President McKin-
1ey's cabinet. President Voorhees,, of
the senate, succeeds Griggs as gov
ernor.
The 5000 operatives at the Atlantic
and Pacific cotton mills in Lawrence,
Mass, decided to accept the ten per
cent. reduction in wages.
A new cable has been opened which
gives the United States a competitive
route for cablegrams to the West
Indies.
A counterfeit two-dollar silver GER.
tifcate was discovered in Kansas City,
Mo. 1t bears the picture of the late
Secretary of the Treasury Window, Sc
ries of 1891, check letter C, plate 10; J.
Fount Tilman, register, and d. N. Nor
gan, treasurer.
The trial has begun of Sheriff Martin
and his SO deputies, charged with shoot
ing and killing % striking miners and
wounding SO moro at Lattimer, Pa,
September 10, 1897.
An unknown negro killed Waterman
Henry Draper, who refused to allow
him to walk through railway tunnel
at Bramwell, w. Va, and was in turn
1ynched by a mob.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt increased
e12,5S9,771 during the month of Janu-
airy. The cash balance in the treasury
was $S53.10S00S. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $1,011, FOL 1888.
The residence of C. Z. Travelly at
Newton, Mass, with its art treasures,
all valued at 100000, was DESTROYED by
fire.
Fire in the retaining plant of the
United States Rubber company at Naug-
atuck, Conn, caused a loss of 500, 900.
The Alyord house in Gloversville, N.
", was burned, and f. c. Kimball of In
dianapolis. and his wife and daughter;
benjamin f. Strickland, Henry C. Day
and Charles Rupert, of Gloversville,
persisted in the flames.
On the Union Pacific road a special
mail train made the run from Cheyenne
to Omaha, SIT miles, in $50 minutes,
breaking all long-distance railway rec
ards.