Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-22
Monday

Canadian Pacific earnings for the
week ending June z, 1854 900; increase
$42 ,000
A number of German cities have be-
gun to provide sanitariums for the
poor, as a result of the tuberculosis
conference.
An electric street railway deal, which
will unite Indianapolis, Anderson
Marion, Muncie, Elwood and Summit
vile, Ind, has been completed.
The engagement between Prince
Macmillan of Baden and the Grand
Duchess Helen, daughter of the Grand
Duke Vladimir. has been definitely
broken off.
Assistant Secretary Davis has been
invited to deliver an address on the
occasion of the reunion of Roosevelt's
rough riders at Las Vegas, N. NJ, June
24-26. He may accept.
The Mechanics institute of San
Francisco has received permission
from the authorities at Washington
to bring to this country for exhibition
purposes forty Filipinos, the depart
ment STIMULATING that they be abso-
lutely no expense to the government.
1t is understood that the Bank of
England mas bought $2,500,000 in
American eagles to strengthen it's re-
serve, to which end more of the gold
now on it's way hither will be devoted.
The report that Russia is buyer of
gold in New York is regarded there
as being significant.
The proposed reunion of the rough
riders in connection with the fall fes-
tival and federal building exercises in
Chicago next October has been aban-
done, the members of the regiment
having practically completed arrange
ments to hold their reunion in Las
Vegas, n. NJ, this month.
In his testimony before the sena-
torial committee which is inquiring
into the pure food question, Captain
Fred Pabst, of Milwaukee, said a ma
tional law covering a government in
spection of beer would be a very good
thing as it would protect the honest
manufacturer and the honest consumer.
The Westminster Gazette says a
rumo ri current from well Informed
source that it has been proposed in a
responsible quarter that the United
States mediate between Great Britain
and Transvaal. 1t is said a suggestion
Is being considered, and sit is even not
improbable that such mediation may
be undeytaken."
Tuesday.
Judge Egbert Jameson of New
York has declined the presidency of
the Chicago street railway system.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
e 900 (S5,000) toward the establish
ment of a public library at Banff,
Scotland.
The American National bank of
Kansas City has been approved as a
reserve agent for the Grayson County
National bank of Sherman, Tex.
Frank r. Patterson of Missouri, a
cabin passenger on board the steamer
Finance from Colon, died during the
voyage to New York and was buried
at sea.
Admiral Ivashintoff of the Russian
navy reached New York yesterday on
board the French line steamer La
Touraine. He is on private business
and will return to Russia via San Fran
cisco and the Pacific.
Advices to the navy department an
nounce the Wilmington has put into
port at Rio to undergo repairs to a
shaft. Authority has been cabled to
remain in port fifteen days. Officials
do not regard the accident as serious.
A respectfully dressed elderly man,
who gave his name as ]. c. Dickey,
was arrested in front of the White
House and driven to police headquar-
ters. He was arrested because ~ an
swered the description of a man who
had escaped from the insane asylum
of Washington county, New York.
The United Labor league of Phila-
delphia has taken up the cause of the
5000 seamstresseS, mostly soldiers
wives, widows and daughters, who
complain that the government has
soldiers clothing made by contract,
taking from them their means c. live
lihood. 1t Is said about 81 900, 900
worth of contracts are to be given out
and, If so, the seamstress will have no
work at all.
Governor Tanner has received the
resignation of r. w. McClaughrey as
warden of the Northern penitentiary
at Joliet, III. Former Congressman E.
j. Murphy of East St. Louis, of the
state board of pardons, and former
warden of Chester penitentiary was
this evening appointed successor of
Major McClaughrey. Major McClaugh-
rey has accepted the position of gov
ernor of the national military prison
at Omaha, Neb.
Wednesday.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard has arranged
n nj 10 %
famous theater at Stratford- Avon,
the town where Shakespeare was
BORN.
A complimentary dinner was given
the Hon. Ferdinand w. Peck, Unit
States commissioner to the Paris
EXPOSITION of 1900, by the members
4 his staff at the " aldorf-Astoria,
New York,
Herr F. Stockinger, the Austrian
hungarian consul at New York, has
zen appointed deputy consul general
t London and director of the CONNER
ial department Of the Austrian-Hu
;arian embassy there.
The commissioner of tensions has
endered decision that the receipts
Il municipal pension by widows of
iremen, policemen and other NUM-
'ipal employees, does not violate their
right to federal pension.
The Congo Independent state, ac-
;ording to dispatch from Brussels to
the Daily Mail, of London, has offer
ed Spain 100000 pesetas for the Ca
nary islands.
The proposed combination of brew
cries in Boston has been abandoned
The reason ascribed is that sufficient
outside capital to take UP stock was