Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-01
Monday.

The big troop transports on the Pa
cific coast are being rapidly fitted with
refrigerators.
Colonel Alfred E. Bates has reported
for duty as assistant paymaster SEN
eral.
1t is probable that Colonel Alfred
E. Bates will succeed Paymaster Gen
eral Carey July 10, when Carey re-
tires.
President an1 Mrs. Mckinley enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. st. Clair Nickel
way of the Brooklyn Eagle at Dime :
last night.
Word was received at Buffalo of the
death of Mile. Rhea, the we'll known
actress, in Montmorenci, France. The
communication came in the shape Of a
large black bordered envelope con
tanning an announcement of her fu-
neral.
Director of Posts Vaille at Manila
has notified the postoffice department
that he has established the railway
post service between Manila and Mllo-
los, the former Filipino capital. This
is the initial move in the direction OF
building up a railway mail service il
the Philippines.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared dividends in favor of the
creditors of insolvent national banks
as follows: Fifteen per cent, the
First National Bank of Larimora, n.
D.; 10 per cent, the First National
bank of Emporia, Kas.; 10 per cont,
the National Bank of Kansas City, Mo.
Specials to the Cincinnati Enquirer
announce the acceptance by Coicaei
w. J. Bryan to lecture ad speak at the
following cities in Indiana: ere
Haute, Monday, May 20, to lecture on
imperialism, under the auspices of the
Jacksonian club; at Evansville, Tues
day, May 80, to address a big demo
cratic rally.
The grain shovelers' Strike at Buff
falo has been settled. The agreement
signed late last night by sub-com
mittee representing the strikers, of
which President Keefe of the Long
shoremens association was a member
and Contractor Corners, has been aD
proved by the full committee of the
Grain Shovelers' union. The strike is
to be declared off and the men Will
! return to work Wednesday morning.
Tuesday.
The Baptist annual meeting will be
held at San Francisco today, and will
celebrate the semi-centennial of mis-
sionary work in California.
Charles F. Brush, the inventor of
the arc electric light, has been voted
the Runford medal by the American
Academy of Art and Sciences.
The Cumberland Presbyterians, in
session at Denver, have appointed a
committee to raise 100000 for
church educational institutions.
Secretary Alger has given authority
to the West Point military academy
to permit the resumption of football
games between that institution and the
naval cadets.
The navy department has cabled an
inquiry to Admiral Dewey regarding
the itinerary of the homeward cruise
of the Olympia. The Olympia will not
leave Hong Kong much before June,
spending a part of the time in dry
dock getting in shape for her $4,000
mile trip.
L. P. Mitchell, deputy comptroller of
the treasury, has decided that retired
naval officers cannot be appointed and
paid as expert aid in the preparation
of designs for new ships, ETC., under
the concluding paragraph of section 3
of the naval act of March 3, 1897, hold
ing that a retired officer is not civil
ian within the meaning of the act.
The war on cigarettes has been re-
newed in Cincinnati and the WON en-
of Boston are protesting eloquently
against southern lynching outrages.
In both cases victory Is looked for in
the future.
The transport Sherman has sailed
for the Philippines, bearing 1900 men,
the largest number of soldiers to leave
the San Francisco port on a single
transport, and seventy-fve officers,
among them Brigadier General Bates.
The entire Sixth infantry, under Colo
mel kellogg, made up the greater part
of the Sherman's human cargo. She
carries a large cargo of supplies for
the army and navy.