Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-06-02
M,sceInneou, News.

s1iscelaneous News.
JACK Daily has challenged Lavigne to
fight.
The American mission at Tung Shou,
China, has been looted and burned by
mob
Henry S. Foraker, father of Senator
Foraker of Ohio, died at 1iillsboro, O.
Monday. aged SO.
The 2lSth renewal of the English
derby was run at EPSON Downs We'd
nesday, and was won by Jeddah.
The public funeral Of Eduoard Re.
menyi, the violinist, took place Sunday
at the Lenox Lyceum, New York.
The conference of Dunkrads at Naper.
vile, Ills, was augmented Monday by
the arrival of several trainloads of
delegates.
The Republican congressional con-
vention of the Fifth Tennessee district
met Saturday in Shelbyville and nomi-
mated +. V. Elliott of Murfreesboro
The plant of the Stoughton Wagon
company, one of the largest concerns of
its kind in Wisconsin, was damaged
$4,000 by fire Wednesday,
Bya vote of "A to 10 the directors of
the Transmississippi Exposition have
decided to keep open the gates of the
exposition on Sundays from D. m. to
10 p. m.
Gen. Erastus N. Bates, prominently
identified with the civic and military
history of the volunteers of Illinois and
Minnesota, died at Minneapolis Sunday
night, aged 70 years.
Joseph j. Ebanks, West India
mulatto, was hanged at San Quentin
Friday for the murder of Mrs. Harriet
Stiles and her father, John Borden, in
San Diego county, Cal.
The Wisconsin commission of the
Transmississippi exposition decided
that Wisconsin should have two DAYS
at the exposition and the dates were
fixed for June II and 49,
Bailey Decker, colored, shot and IA
tally wounded his wife, white woman,
at Tottenville, Staten Island, Wednes-
day. He then killed himself with the
weapon he had used upon his wife,
AS the outcome of an election dis
pute, M. Henri Rochefort, the editor of
lIntransigeante. and M. Gerault Rich
ard, the former socialist deputy, fought
duel at Paris Saturday. NJ. Roche
fort was wounded on the right hand.
The British warships Partridge and
Columbine arrived at St. Johns,
N. f., Sunday from Halifax to form a
part of the fisheries protection squadron
on the French treaty coast These
were probably the warships sighted off
Trepassey Saturday.
The residence of A. Richeter on West
B street, Iron Mountain, Mich, was de-
stroyed by fire last Thursday night.
Two children, boy aged 8 and girl
aged II, were burned to crisp, and
two Others, aged and 6, girl and q
boy, were so badly burned that they
cannot live.
Corning mill of the Hazardville Pow
der company, in which fuses are pre-
pared, exploded Friday. Alfred dun
din was killed and Foreman James Col
burn was seriously injured. The mill
was small building, one of hundred
constituting the Hazard Powder COM
pany, Hazardville, Conn.
A terrific rain and wind storm broke
over St. Louis Friday afternoon and
prevailed for half an hour. It being
the second anniversary of the terrible
tornado that caused such destruction of
life and property, many people were
terror stricken, fearing another such
visitation. No reports of damage have
been received.
While miners were working in the
Kaska William colliery, about 10 miles
east of Pottsville, Pa, Friday, a
large body of water was struck and six
men are supposed to have drowned.
They are: William Morgan, William
Derr, single, II years old; Martin Ma
lochis, Peter Durkin, married; Paul
Kosciaski. Wendell Krovichkis.
The east pier of the big bridge of the
Northern Pacific railroad at Bismarck
N. D., weighing over 100000 pounds,
was moved from it's foundation sub
day morning and slid on rollers to a
new foundation, a distance of nearly
four feet. This is the first engineering
feat of the kind ever accomplished.
Mrs. Pullman has renounced the terms
of her husbands will and chosen her
dover rights. The share which, under
the dover arrangement, will fall to her
is conceded to be materially greater
than under the provisions of the will.
She will secure one-third life interest
in all the Pullman realty and one-third
of the personal property absolutely.
At St. Louis Wednesday, the Mutual
Life and Accident Assurance company
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers elected the following officers :
W. Futch, president; L. Zeigenfus,
vice president. and William E. Premier,
general secretary and treasurer. Re-
ports of the officers show that the asso-
citation is in prosperous condition.
The Populists, the Liberty party, the
Social Labor, the Free Silver Republi-
cans and the Negro Protective party
held mass convention at Columbus
o., May %, and succeeded in formin.
what they will call the union reform
party. In their declaration of princi.
Piles, they took but one stand and that
was for the initiative and referendum
form Of government.
By large majority voting viva voce
the Presbyterian general assembly at
Winona Lake, Ind, last Friday decided
not to inaugurate another heresy trial
in the case of Professor McGiffert, but
to ask him to withdraw if he cannot
reconcile his views with the churchs
standards. Professor McGiffert was
practically directed to act as Judge,
jury and e1ecutioner upon himself.
Dun's review of trade says: The
nation faces war with reviving vol
ume of business. The west is doing its
part and more, but at the east also the
volume Of business is now expanding