Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-03-16
GENERAL. uEws NOTES.

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congressman from the Third Massa-
chusetts district and u member of the
law firm OF Ranney & Clark, Is dead
In Boston, aged ~ years. He served
as member OF the Forty-seventh
Forty-eight and Forty-ainth congress-
eS,
Knit goods manufacturers In Utica
and in the Mohawk valley have re-
ceived invitations to meeting to- be
held at New York March Is for the
purpose OF forming knit goods COM
bination. The proposed combination
will be capitalized at $50, 100000 IL 1t is
organized.
The officials of the navy department
are feeling grateful for the small meas
| ure OF relief extended by congress In
| the increase of the force of enlisted
men, though the total is still made
quate under sound practice for the
needs OF the navy. Congress author
lied the increase OF the force to $500
| men.
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio,
| always keeps a tin box on his desk
allied with bits OF peppermint candy.
When attacked In debate or before a
set speech the first move Of the gen.
,leman from Ohio Is to dive into his
| desk and begin to jam his mouth full
of peppermint candy. The gallery
can thus always tell when the general
Is loading up.
| A cablegram from General Otis, ut
Manila, received in Washington, indi-
Gates the satisfactory and agreeable
reception accorded to the American
troops which recently landed at the
island OF Negroes. They were sent
there by General Miller, at Ioilo, IN
| command of Colonel Smith 20 take
formal possession for the United
States, which they did without trouble.
Tho welcome announcement was
made by the financial secretary of the
treasury, Mr., X, w. Hamburg, in the
| house of commons, that the govern
ment has decided to introduce compe-
tition In tho telephone service OF the
| country. He asked for credit OF $l0,.
100000 as starter In order to enable
the postofilce department to dGyeolp
the telephone communication Of Lon
don.
Miss Mary pooner, OF Acushnot,
Mass, who has just celebrated hor
l05th birthday, Is probably the oldest
woman in Massachusetts. She Is on
titled to the distinction of having lived
in three different towns without haW
| ing changed her residence. BY ~
terations In the boundary lines of TIN
towns the Spooner homestead has bect
first In New Bedford, then IN Falrhes
On, and finally in Acushnet.
The British Railway association has
arranged to send five prominent rail-
/ al To- N. hn Init al StntA IN
investigate the facts upon which tho
government bases the bill compelling
the adoption of automatic couplings
a measure which would give the board
| Of trade power, Ave years from its
adoption, to compel British railroads
to supply the whole OF their rolling
stock with this device at an estimated
cost of !G10,000.000.
| A statement compiled In the adju-
tant generals Office shows the number
Of deaths from disease at Camp Thorn
as. The figures are taken from tho
muster rolls Of each regiment or bat
terry. Upon these every death and It's
cause Is entered. The total deaths
from disease, from the first occupation
of the camp, the middle OF April, to
It's abandonment. the middle of Sep
TENDER, and including the four battal-
ions which remained to January =,
were BAL, the percentage being little
less than " Of | per cent.
The plans for the three battleshlps
authorized by the naval appropriation
bill just passed are being worked out.
The battleships will be thousand
tons larger than the Maine and Mia-
souri, class, though laid on almost tho
same basis as the former, with "A total
displacement of 1850 tons, making
them by far the largest ships in the
American navy and about equal In di-
mansions to the best type of battle
ships now being constructed abroad
under the new practice. They will
carry four twelve-lnch guns In turrets.
Although General Wade Hampton
Is more than 80 yers old, he performed
feat the other morning that proved
him to be still active and vigorous.
Discovering that the roof OF his house
IN Columbia, s. c., was on fire, with
out permitting any Of the household
to be awakened he fastened out and
himself proceeded to climb to the roo.
Reaching the blaze, he managed to eS-
tinguish the flames. IL was not until
the breakfast hour that members OF
the household were aware OF the fire
or of the aged soldiers risky but et-
fective climb upon the roof.
Chief Justice Fuller rendered I'm
opinion sustaining the validity OF the
state law of Arkansas, requiring rail-
road companies operating in the state
to pay employees when discharge and
fixing a penalty for failure. The law
| allows the amount of wages for sixty
days as such penalty. In the present
case Charles Paul, discharged day
laborer on the st. Louis, Iron Noun
tain e. Southern railway, brought suit
for S21, a part of which was on account
of penalty earned under the law. Tho
railroad company resisted the suit in
the state courts and In this court on
the ground that the law provided for
taking property without due process
of law and was therefore repugnant
to the constitution. The supreme
court OF the state declined to accept
this view of the case and held the law