Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-03-16
The News Briefly Told.
Friday.

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Friday.
According to dispatch to the Lon
don Times from Sydney, N. S. W., no
fewer than 200 persons persisted in the
hurricane on the north coast of that
island.
A combination has been effected
whereby all the leading shipbuilding
plants on the lakes, except the Union
Dry Dock company Of Buffalo, are in
cluded In what will be known as the
American Shipbuilding company
Chief Quartermaster Lee of the de-
partment of the lakes will open bids
March 80 for the erection of large
refrigerating plant and jce-making
and specifications recently revised by
experts.
The following statement has been
issued. showing the total number of
deaths reported to the adjutnnt gem
erals Office between May 1. 1898, and
February 2S, 1899: Killed In action.
1923; died Of wounds. 1876; died of dis
ease. 5.277; total. 5.731.
Companies ID and + of the Tenth
immunes were loyalty welcomed by
the colored people on their arrival in
Washington. Captain Charles l.. Beatty
denounced as false the reports that
the members Of the regiment had fred
on citizens and children.
A dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Malaga, Spain, says "A
mailman leaped yesterday from the
highest tower of the cathedral OF La
laga, 26O feet, to the ground. and was
dashed into an unacceptable mass.
A large crowd witnessed the leap"
In the house of commons the secre-
tary of state for the colonies, Mr.
Joseph Chamberlain, answering q
question, said the exports from the
United Kingdom and Canada from July
last to December 81 showed an in
crease of over 6 per cent, as a result
of the preferential tariff.
In pursuance of the administrative
policy of bringing home all the volun-
teer troops for muster-out in antici-
patton of the exchange of Publications
of the treaty of peace with Spain,
orders were issued for the muster
out at Savannah, Ca, of the One
Hundred and Sixtieth regiment of the
Indiana volunteer infantry. now at
MatanZas.
The Cortez brothers, the Philippine
natives who have been in Washington
seeking the return of their property
in the islands, have empowered Eu-
genie Lucas Of Manila, a former clerk
of the family, as their agent and the
war department has cabled General
Otis to turn over the estate to Lucas
So far no report of the restoration Of
the lands has been received here.
Saturday.
The Midland Railway company. of
England, has ordered ten more loco
motives from the Baldwin locomotive
works at Philadelphia.
Judge William Margrave, who has
been a justice of tn. peace in Fort
Scott, Kan, for forty-five years, has
been legislated out OF Office by the
state legislature.
The body of the late Princess Bis
marck will be transferred from Val
Yin to FREDERICKSBURG, where on April
1t will be buried with the body of tho
prince in the Bismarck mausoleum.
p. H. Sprague of Chicago, who has
made his large fortune in poultry, fig
ures that 3,350,000 chickens and 49,
000,0O0,000 eggs, valued together at
1920, 100000, were produced in the
United States during 1898.
The total amount received by the
Red Cross society as the result of the
endless letter chain started during last
summer by Miss Natalie Schenck of
Babylon, L. l., is $4,000. She still
receives an occasional letter.
John S. Cooke. president OF the
Cooke Brewing company, Chicago,
and well known among liqro" dealers
throughout the west. died % heart
failure after short illness, aged 81
years.
John Kelly and J. Burns were ar
rested at Wausau, Wis, suspected of
being implicated in the Amherst rob-
berry. When searched over $1,000 was
found in their possession. Several 9TH
ers were rounded up after an exchang
Of shots and $500 more recovered.
The will of Herbert Stewa", a veal
thy New York engineer AMI contract.
or bequeaths $4,000 to establish the
Herbert Stewart scientific fund at Yll
university. It's purpose is to assist
deserving young men who need aid
to secure higher scientific cdncation.
The Paris Eclalr confirms the report
that the government inquiry regarding
the explosion of the naval powder
magazine at La Goubran has shcwn
that it was not OF accidental origin,
and much credence Is now given to
the rumor that it was an anarchiseic
outrage. 49,
At the meeting or the BOARD or di-
rectors Of the st. Paul Globe company
George +. Clifford was chosen editor
of the Globe. vice George F. Spinney,
who has been in charge Of the paper
the last thirteen months. Mr.. Spinney
resigned because Of a disagreement
with the directors.
Monday.
The navy department is informed by
Admiral Dewey that the supply ship
Nanshan has left Manila with supplies
for the new naval station at Guam.
The position of the Spanish prison
ers in the Philippine islands, it is