Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-02

boy off a moving train.
In a tenement house fire in Kansas
City, Mo-, Mrs. Henry Ruyter and Bud
Payne were suffocated.
A passenger train on the Santa Fe
road was held up near Belen, N. NJ, by
two men who robbed the express car.
Dasey, Seller and Russell, riding a
triplet, broke the worlds bicycle record
for one mile at Denver, COL, the time be-
ing LAG is.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country were all
favorable.
The thirty-second annual encamp-
ment of the Wisconsin G. A. r. opened
at Appleton.
The United States Supreme court an
nounces the final adjournment of the
court for the term on the 31st inst.
OF the 5000 Kansas volunteers mus
tered into service fully 600 are school
teachers.
William II. Slayton's suit to recover
$4,000 from Mrs. Hetty Green for legal
services has been discontinued.
George Francis Train, Jr., who
claims to be son of "the sage of Mad
ison square," attempted suicide at Co.
ney Island by taking laudanum. He
will recover.
Gov. Tanner has decided upon June
81 as Illinois day at the Trans-Missis-
sippi exposition in Omaha.
Two American girls and Mexican
girl were drowned near Cuero, Tex,
while bathing in the Guadalupe river.
The Mennonites of Newton, Kan, will
hold weekly prayer meetings to invoke
divine Intervention in the present war,
with the result that it shall cease
John M. Douglass, convicted of muir
dering his wife, was sentenced in Og-
den, Utah, to Imprisonment for life.
Gen. T. S. Clarkson, of Omaha, past
grand commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, has been appointed
general manager of the Trans-Missis-
sippi exposition.
The semicentennial anniversary of
Prof. Joseph Emerson's connection
with Beloit (Wis.) college was celebrat-
ed. He was one of the first two pro-
fessors of the institution.
Ebert Harris (colored) was whipped
to death by a mob at Iva, S. C. He was
charged with burning the railroad de-
pot.
A reign of terror prevailed in Key
West because of tough characters as
sembled there and the citizens asked
for martial law.
Alfred Lamble killed his wife and
then committed suicide at San Diego,
Cal. Jealousy and drink were the causes
of the crime.
The Massachusetts, legislature passed
a bill forbidding the printing on United
States flags of the names of any but
state militia and grand army veteran
organizations.
DR.. John G. Ferguson, prominent
dentist, and William NJ. Smith, switch
man on the Missouri Pacific road, killed
each other in st. Louis in duel over q
girl.
Bailey Decker (colored) fatally shot
his white wife at Tottenville, Staten ISL
and, and then killed himself.
Dick Oliver, young negro, was
lynched near Donaldsonville, Ga, for
attempted assault upon a white woman.
The population of Chicago, according
to the forthcoming issue of the new city
directory, is approximately 1,ssO,O0O.
During the week ended on the Goth
the exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States aggregated
$1,325, 81, against S., S,O16,74S the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1897
was 36.1.
A break in a levee near Quincy, ILL.,,
flooded $4,000 acres of farming lands,
destroying the crops.
A large section of a slope in an iron
mine near Meyersville, Pa, caved in
and four men were buried alive.
A tornado swept parts of Fannin and
Red River counties in Texas, causing
extensive damage to property and some
loss of life.
A tornado which passed through a
portion of northwest Arkansas did i'm
mense damage to property and caused
the death of seven persons.
train carrying st. Louis soldiers to
Chickamauga was wrecked near Ross
vile, Tenn, killing George Walker and
injuring six other men.
Personal AND POLITICAL.