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

Young was one of the scouts with Gen.
eral 0. o. Howard in the Nez Perces
campaign through Idaho and Montana
some years ago.
Thursday.
Admiral Schley, The hero of Santiago.
arrived in Omaha.
Gustav Book of Havana is In New
York to arrange the union of his
company with the Havana Commercial
company.
The officers of the trans Mississippi
commercial congress. which is to meet
in Topeka May 81, have invited Presi-
dent Mckinley and President Dia@ of
Mexico to be present.
At it's session yesterday in Omaha
the Episcopal council, by a vote that
was subsequently made unanimous.
elected Rev. Arthur L. Williams of
Chicago coadjutor bishop of the uio-
cese of Nebraska.
Rev. r. F. Sample, d. D., Westmln-
ster church, New York, was elected
moderator of the one hundred and
eleventh annual assembly of the Pres
byterian church in the United States.
which convened in Westminster
church at st. Paul, MINI.
M. Deschanel, president of the
French chamber of deputies. has been
elected a member of the French acad.
envy, in succession to the late Anne
Marie Edouard Herve, editor Of the
Soleil, who died on January 4 of the
present year.
Letters received in Washington iodi-
cate that Senator James X. Jones Of
Arkansas, chairman of the democratic
national committee, had a pleasant
voltage across the Atlantic, and that his
health is much improved The sen
ator himself says that he has not ielt
better at any time during the past ten
years.
w. c. Hunt, w. A. King and w. F.
Wilcox, chief statisticians in the ZEN.
sus office, have been appointed a Corn
mission to make a practical test Of
the electric counting or tabulating ma
chimes which may be presented for
consideration by the director of the
census. The competition will begin at
the census office June II.
Friday.
Michigan yesterday welcomed her
last home coming regiment, the Forty
first volunteer infantry, at Detroit.
News of the wreck of a sloop, with
three passengers for Juneau, with
Blanche Lahore among them, near
southeastern Alaska. Is reported.
Carnegie & Co. have bought $4,000
tons of pig iron from the Associated
blast furnaces of the Mahoning and
Shenangi valleys. paying SIG per ton.
Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Nc
Clernand assistant adjutant generaD
has been ordered to MatanZas, Cuba,
as adjutant general of that depart
ment.
The house of the Texas legislature
passed it's bill levying l per cent tax
on all personal incomes in excess of
$4,000 year. 1t is believed it will
pass the senate.
The national grand lodge of the
Mosaic Templars of America, the lead
ing colored fraternal organization of
the south, has been called to convene
at Vicksburg, Miss, July II, in seven
teenth annual session.
William Rockefeller, William G..
Rockefeller, H. II. Rogers and A. c.
Burrage have been elected trustees
of the Anaconda Copper company.
They represent the Standard Oil inter
ests in that corporation.
The American Glass company, the
combination of window glass concerns,
has issued a new list, advancing the
price of its product 5 per cent, to go
into effect June l. This is the second
advance in window glass recently.
Lieutenant Colonel Marion p Maus,
inspector general, has been relieved
from further duty in Washington and
ordered to San Francisco for assign
ment to duty as inspector OF that de-
partment. Colonel Maus has been on
the staff of General Miles for several
years.
1t Is understood that among those
under consideration for membership
on the new isthmian canal commits
sion as engineers from civil life are
Messrs. Bogue of New York, formerly
chief engineer of the Union Pacific
railway; Morrison of New York, a
prominent bridge engineer, and Noble
of Chicago, at present a member of
the deep water way commission.