Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-05-25
Monday.

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General Brooke at Havana reported
to the war department the death of
Private Clarence Rowlen, light bat
terry A, Second artillery, at Buena
Vista, from typhoid fever.
The independents, published at Ha-
vana, claims large majority of intel
ligent Cubans are opposed to the per-
sonnet of Brooke's supreme court, de-
claring the judges deficient in quail
fications.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas NJ X.
Smith, Tenth infantry, has been re-
tired after thirty years service. This
retirement promotes Major Egbert B.
Savage, Eighth infantry, to be lieuten-
ant colonel.
A summary of twenty-five reports
from the leading seaboard and interior
markets received by the Hay Trade
Journal shows an advance in the price
OF hay of more than 20 per cent over
the average price for the year ending
May II, 1898.
Governor Roosevelt of New York
made the positive statement that he
would issue the call for an extra ses-
sion of the legislature, to meet on
Monday, the 22nd, and that If by the
9th no satisfactory substitute for the
Ford bill had been passed he would
sign the Ford bill.
Governor Roosevelt of New York
was the principal guest and speaker
at a dinner given by the Independent
club in the banquet hall of the Eli
colts Square club, Buffalo. The hall
1nI
given a most enthusiastic reception.
His address was upon the important
subject, The Use and Abuse of Prop
erty."
The fourth and last of the $4,000, 900
treasury warrants paid to Spain for the
Philippine islands was presented at
the National City bank, New York, by
a representative of the French en-
bassy. Not 81 of tie $4,000 900 al
ready paid to Spain has really gone
out of this country, the entire trans
action having been conducted on the
bassi of foreign exchange.
| Tuesday.
The undivided earnings of the rub
Der trust the last year are SASS, 1854;
surplus for the year, $S23,522.
The Congo mines at Columbus, o.,
have been shut down indefinitely.
! throwing 500 men out of employment.
The company failed.
The block coal operators and miners
at Terre Haute, Ind, met to consider
an agreement to end the strike. Min
ers will vote on it today.
The commercial bodies of st. Paul,
Mimi, rendered a banquet to Sena-
tor Cushman X. Davis and Congress-
man F. c. Stevens last night.
The London Daily Mail announces
dhe cessation of its Sunday edition
and states that the action is due to
hostile public opinion, but is also In
fiuenced by the appeal from it's own
employees. A Saturday weekly edition
| will be published instead.
Captain F. E. Buchans return home
from the Philippines ON the United
States transport Valencia was a sad
one. He brings with him the body OF
his wife, who succumbed to the eli
mate in the Philippines. Mrs. Blu
chan had been a bride but a few
months.
The Madison, one of the largest no.
tells in Cleveland, O., narrowly escap-
ed total destruction by fire. the Dlaze
originating from a disturbance in The
electric light wires disarranged by the
storm today. There was a panic
among the sixty guests, but they made
their exit mainly by fire escapes N
their night clothes and no lives were
lost The loss will be nominal.
United States ambassador, General
Horace Porter, gave a dinner in Par
is at which the invited guests includ-
ed Count and Countess De Castellane,
Count and Countess Torie1li, Mrs. AS
tor, Mr.. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Prince
CantacuZene, Miss Julia Dent Grant,
the Duke of ARGOS, the newly appoint
ed Spanish minister to the United
States, and the duchess of ARGOS.
wedn esday.
Diamond match officials say the alb
sorption of all independent companies
is now assured.
The refrigerator store ship Glacier
has sailed for the Philippines with
supplies for Dewey.
Michigan report has it that the
Vanderbilts will soon secure control
of the Flint & Pere Marquette.
The closing scenes of southern army
camps will occur today when the gov
eminent sells the stores at Macon. Ga.
DR.. Clarence Lloyd Wheaton, son of
General Wheaton, and Miss Caroline
Georgiana Wilt, Chicago, were mar
ried at Chicago.
The plan of consolidation of electric
street railways and electric lighting
companies in Massachusetts and Rhode
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$24, 100000.
Almost s50O,o00 worth of property
was destroyed by fire in the lumber
districts of Chicago The flames were
confined to the block bonded by
Loomis and Latin streets. Four large
lumber firms suffered by the fire and
the combined loss will probably
amount to over 100000.
The war department is satisfied with
! the dispatch of General Merriam, and
! the belief is expressed that he mas only
\ assisted the governor of Idaho, and
that the military will not be used for
any other purpose than that for which
| IL was sent to the disturbed regions.
The national Dewey home committee
held meeting at Chicago and decided
to send letters to leading newspapers,
national banks and postmasters ask
ing them to cooperate with the COM
mittee by receiving contributions from
the public and forwarding the same to
the treasurer at Washington.
Lord Salisbury, Sir Julian Paunce-
fote and Ambassador Choate have con-
ferred with the result that an attempt
will be made to resurrect the joint |