Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-05-04

armed by the pope bishop of Santiago.
The British government has decided
to contribute to British columbia
Australian cable.
Twenty thousand cigars were Sc
cured at Knoxville, Tenn, by revenue
collectors, boxes having counterfeit
stamps.
The japanese war ship Hiyei has
arrived at Esqrimalt, b. c., where its
crew will be richly entertained by res
ident Japs.
Roland Quentin, secretary of the
Eagle Boat Store company, st. Louis.
now missing, Is found to be short
$4,000. with more appearing.
The verdict for $4,000 has been set
aside and new trial granted in the
suit of ]. M. Maxwell against Nat G.
GOODWIN, involving the right to use
The play, Ambition"
Captain Urias Rhodes, who is to sail
the yacht Defender in the trial races.
has spent all bis life on the water and
Is friend of such old sailing masters
as Norman Terry and l.. A. Jeffrey.
James H. Merrill, mayor-elect Of
Oshkosh, Wis, bears striking re.
semblance to the cartoons Of Uncle
reputation for his after-dinner speeches.
James p. Taliaferro, the newly elect
ed United States senator from Florida,
was private In the confederate army.
lie is a party leader In his state, but
was never candidate for Office before.
Robert ii. Hit, chairman OF the for
eign relations committee OF the last
congress, began life as a newspaper
a. ITa, II. tv.er t9n a q n
correspondent and then entered the
diplomatic service.
The Canadian government has been
| advised from the Yukon to allow the
military contingent to remain there
pending the settlement of the bound-
| airy question. No action has been
taken In the matter.
Nearly 5000 claims for pensions on
account Of disability resulting from
wounds and disease have already been
lled by the Sixteenth regiment or
Pennsylvania volunteers, which took
part In the Porto Rican campaign.
General Arthur Macarthur, when
appointed adjutant Of the Twenty
fourth Wisconsin volunteers In 1867,
was so small of stature and OF voice
that he was Familiarity known as the
Boy" name which still sticks to him
in the Philippines.
General S. Nj. b. Young. who is ii
command at Augusta, Ga, was In
Washington. He will return to hts
station to muster out the volunteers.
IL is expected that as soon as this duty
Is completed General Young will DO
ordered to the Philippines.
Mr.. Du Patty De Clam, who is in
volved In the Dreyfus scandal, Is re-
ported to have remarked to friend:
"My fate Ia written In my name. Patti
in Latin, means to suffer, and clam,
secretly, In silence. without saying a
word. am following out my destiny!
l suffer in silence"
Harry Irwin, the son of May Irwin,
the actress, has received an appoint
ment as cadet In the United States
Naval academy and will undergo his
entrance examinations early next
month. Harry is brighNNoy of II
years and greatly resembles his mother
in appearance and disposition.
Honolulu has one theater, n ram
shackle building. in which various
crude performances are given by ma
tives. Once in a long while ORA
matte company makes the trip from
San Francisco, the latest doing so last
summer without pecuniary pront.
Single entertainers stop there on the
way to Australia
Rear Admiral Howell has been re-
lieved as senior member OF the naval
retiring board by Admiral SchleY.
heretofore n member of the board.
CAPTAIN Cook, formerly commander or
the Brooklyn, who was recalled to this
country by the recent death OF hrs
wife, has been ordered to duty as a
member Of the board.
Colonel Uyehara, Captain Sakamo
and N. Ariga, delegates on behalf or
Japan to the peace conference at The
Hague. were interviewed at Vancou-
yer. 1T is by no means foregone
conclusion that we will advocate uni
yersal peace" said Ariga. 1T seems
that we are living In martial times.
Great issues are at stake particularly
in the orient, and the Japanese en-
peror would not at this critical stage
wish to give voice to any sentiment
thereon which might afterward en-
barrass him."
Not since Tie days when the last
spike was driven in the line OF rail-
road connecting the Atlantic with the
Pacific coast has there been built
railway OF such tremendous and far
reaching influence as the Trans-sibe-
rian railroad In Ainslee's Magazine
for May Hon. John w. Bookwalter OF
Ohio supplies The first extensive ac-
count OF this railroad from the view
point of an American. Mr.. BOOK
walters paper is charmingiy written
and replete with news about the vast
nIains of Siberia, which are so like
our own far and fertile west about
the comfort OF the Trans-Siberian cars,
the luxury OF the stations, etc. These
interesting and important details are
further enhanced by rich collectlon
of illustrations from photographs
never before published.