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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
Queer Attempt at Suicide.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Oct. 29.-Miss Mary
Gait, the keeper of fashionable board
ing house, who has been i'll for the
past two or three weeks, attempted to
commit suicide in most peculiar man
ner, while laboring under temporary
fit of insanity. Slipping quietly away
she went to her room, and crawling
into large trunk, closed down the
lid. She had been there more than an
hour when found and was almost dead.
There is some hope for her recovery.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
NOT ON PROPERTY.
Tax Against Foreign Insurance Com
panies is On Business.


panies is On Business.
DIES MONIES, Oct. 2S.-Insurance
companies got another blow from the
supreme court yesterday. This time
it is the foreign companies. The court
holds that the "a per cent tax against
gross receipts imposed upon them by
section 1888 of the new code is on their
business and not against their proper
ty, and therefore not in contravention
CT the constitutional provision that the
property of corporations shall be taxed
the same as that of individuals. 1t is
this constitutional provision upon
which the supreme court knocked out
that clause of section 1888 which pro-
vides that the l per cent tax against
the gross receipts of home insurance
companies shall stand in lieu of all
others. The case was brought by the
Scottish Union and National Insurance
Company, of Edinburgh and London,
to recover taxes paid under protest.
The case was decided against the insur-
ance company by Judge Holmes, and
the company appealed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
WORST FEARS REALIZED.
British Forces Compelled to Retire From
Glencoe and Dundee.

Glencoe and Dundee.
LONDON, Oct. 25.-The war office
dispatch seems to realize the worst
fears. General Yule has abandoned
not only Dundee, but Glencoe also, and
so far as present news would indicate,
he has neither joined General White
nor reached Ladysmith. General
Whites successful action" announced
in parliament by Mr.. Wyndham, seems
to resolve itself into mere engaging
of the attention of the Free State
troops, while General Yule is slipping
| southwark. 1t is evident from the Of
fetal dispatches that both Commandment
General Joubert's column on the north
and the Orange Free State troops on
the west now occupy strong positions
and that nothing binders the Beers
from following up General Yule's re-
tirement and getting around Lady
smith from the southeast. Until rein
forcements arrive it seems that GEN
eral White is obliged to concentrate on
Ladysmith. 1t is believed that the
government has other dispatches that
nave uOO NSG DccH puDllSneu. he
secretary of state for war left Mr..
Choate's residence Immediately at the
end of the banquet to General Harrison
and proceeded to the war office, where,
even after midnight, there was consid-
cradle activity, many visitors calling
to inquire for information.
Gen. Yule's acts were actuated by
sound judgment, since he soon would
have been surrounded and in desper-
ate position. The combined forces at
Ladysmith, now amounting to $4,000
men will be amply sufficient to act on
the defensive. A few more victories
like Glencoe and Elandslaagte, how
ever, would leave the British troops
without officers.
While the Beers have failed to take
| advantage of their strategic position,
owing to the incompetence or haste
of their leaders, the British have
no cause for congratulations over the
results of Natal operations. They
have suffered heavy losses in men, and
their victories have practically gone
for nothing, the whole of northern
Natal now being abandoned to the
Beers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

Kiplings story, "The Man VINO
Would Be King" has found a strange
parallel in central Africa, where
romance as weird and bloody as any
ever penned by the English writer has
lust reached it's finale. Two French
officers, dreaming of great empires
with themselves as rulers, headed
mutiny and murdered their command
er. Then, with their supposedly devoted
followers, they plunged into the will
derness and were there in turn MUIR
dered by the native soldiery on whom
they counted for the arms that could
win their kingdoms. To make fitting
climax to the story, the news Of their
fate reached Paris on the very day
when memorial services were being
celebrated for the officer they slew.
Fiction's pages can furnish few more
thrilling narratives, and the novelist
would indeed be dull who could not
weave a tale of fascinating interest
around the ambitions, crimes and end
ings of the soldiers who wanted to rule
a tropic world.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
THREE ARRESTS ARE MADE.
Grew Out of the Recent Rioting at
Mitchellyille.

Grew Out OF the Recent Rioting at
Mitchellville.
Dies MONIES, Oct. CSC. E. Daily
and Webster Fogg, young men living
in Mitchellville with their parents, and
James Patterson, a Mitchellville res
taurant keeper, were brought in from
Mitchellville by Sheriff Stout and De-
tective Eli Hardin to answer to crimi-
nal charges growing out of the riot at
the girls industrial school there.
Daily and Fogg are charged with as
sisting inmates of the school to escape
and "a charge of rape was lodged
against Patterson. All three men gave
bonds for their appearance. They in
sist that they are entirely innocent
and can readily disprove the charges
made against them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

The latest report Of the pension Of
nee has just been given to the public.
The rolls now contain 991 900 names,
of which one-fourth represent widows
and other dependents. The amount
paid on this account during the last
fiscal year was $13S.5OO,OOO. The total
outlay for pensions UP to date has
been 81 ,400, 000, 900, sum which, as the
Outlook intimates. would have paid for
all the real estate In the seeding
states. Economically considered. the
afterclap OF war strikes quite as hard
as the original blow.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
BRITISH LOSSES.

Indica tions That the Beers Are Pretty
Hard Fighters.
LONDON, Oct. 26.-The war Office re-
turns show that the total British cas-
ualties since the beginning of hostil-
tiles reach 597, eighteen officers having
been killed and fifty-five wounded, and
seventy-six men killed and 435 wound
ed. There are thirteen unaccounted
for. The report of heavy losses sent
from Rietfontein came as an unpleas-
ant surprise, as General Whites tele-
gram to the war office yesterday gave
the ;mnress;on that there were merelv
brushes.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
RELIEF FELT IN LONDON.
News Received of Junction of Generals
White and Yule.

News Received of junction of Generals
White and Yule.
LADYsMTH, Oct. 27.-General Yule's
brigade arrived here early yesterday
morning and was received with great
enthusiasm. The column left Sunday
river valley at 6 o'clock Thursday
evening, in heavy rain, which con-
tinued throughout the march. In spite
of the great fatigue of the men, the
retreat was effected in mastery fash
ion, General Yule completely outman-
euvering the enemy. The service rem
dered by the colonial guides deserves
special mention.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The official an
nouncement of the joining of General
White and General Yule has come as a
great relief, and all the more so in view
of the fact that later dispatches have
shown that only the incapacity of the
intelligence department of the Beers
saved General Yule's column from .
great disaster.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
FIGHTS AS WELL AS EVER.
Bob Fitxsimmons Exhibits Shiftiness
and Strength.


CHICAGO, Oct. 30.-Jeff Thorne, of
England, was knocked out by Bob
Fitzsimmons in one minute of fighting
at Tattersall's. Thorne, who was evil
IDENTIFY very mach afraid of Fitzsim-
mons, did not land single blow, and
only made one light attempt to lead
with his Left, the blow falling short by
several inches. The blow delivered by
Fitzsimmons was short left jolt,
which did not pass through six inches
of space before landing on Thorne's
jaw. After Thorne was counted out,
Fitzsimmons picked him up bodily an d
carried him to his corner, placing him
on chair, which Sam Fitzpatrick
who had been confident of Thorne'a
victory, had placed hurriedly on the
platform.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
SAYS HE WILL RESIGN.
If Republican Convention Does Not d
clare Against Expansion.


clare Against Expansion.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2S.-William f. Mason,
junior United States senator from Hi
nois, declared yesterday that he would
resign if the republican national con-
vention of 900 did not declare against
criminal aggression" in the Philippines.
Mr.. Mason even went so far as to say
he would resign if the convention
favored Offering the Filipinos canned
freedom, as he thought it might do
There must be no evasion on the vital
issue of pure and unauthorized free
doom or the senator will step down
and out. Then. Mr.. Mason proposes to
stand for reelection to see whether
the Illinois general assembly sides
with him or with the policy of the
Nc Kinley administration.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
NOW NORTH OF SAN IsIDRo.

General Young Establishes Outpost Near
Cabanatuan.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s.-The following
cablegram has been received at the
war department from General Otis, at
Manila:
"Lawton's advance under Young
north of San Isidro, near Cabanatuan.
Established permanent station, three
months supplies being forwarded by
San Juan river route. Lawton meets
little resistance. Twenty-sixth volun-
teers and battalion of Nineteenth in
fantry sent to Iloilo."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
STATE PRISON BUTTON MAKING.
Plan Projected to Contract Fifty Men at
the Fort Madison Penitentiary.

Plan Projected to Contract Fifty Men at
the Fort Madison Penitentiary.
Dies MONIES, Oct. 30.-The law of the
state provides that the wardens - the
state ,penitentiary may contract the
labor of the men confined therein. The
law requires the state board of control
to approve all contracts made by the
heads of institutions. Warden Jones,
of the penitentiary of Fort Madisan,
has recently contracted the labor of
fifty convicts at SIS cents per day for
five years to an institution for the pur-
pose of moulding buttons out of clam
shells. This contract has been pre-
pared by the warden and signed by
him and the company contracting the
labor. The contract has not been ap.
proved by the board of control.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
Hapeman Ia Hinder Arrest.

Dies MONIES, Oct. 3O.-J. d. Hage-
man was arrested and charged with an
assault with intent to kill Frank
Moody a month ago. The informa-
tion was sworn out before Justice of
the Peace Blyler. Hageman gave bond
and was released. Moody's brother,
from Ogden, Utah, swore out the in
formation, charging the crime against
Hageman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

PRETORIA, Oct. 27.-The lombard
ment of Mafeking by General Cronje's
command began Tuesday morning. The
women and children were given ample
time to leave town.
PRETORIA, Oct. 25.-The Smelling of
MafelSing was resumed at daybreald
this morning. Several houses are in
James.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
ANOTHER VICTORY REPORTED.
Battle North of Kimberley I'm Which
Beers Suffered Heavily.

LONDON, Oct. 2S.-During the mo-
mentary lull in the fighting in Natal
comes news from the western border
which temporarily shifts the scene of
chief interest to the beleagured' British
force at Kimberley. The sharp strug-
gle there on Tuesday appears to have
been the result of sortie with a view
to breaking the Gordon surrounding
the place. The British, apparently
500 strong met 700 Beers and, accord
ing to official and other accounts, rout-
ed them after severe fighting in which
the armored trains appear to have
done valuable service. The Beers
were entrenched strongly seven miles
northward, and the British brilliantly
carried the enemy's position without
SeriouS loss
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
Conductor Killed.

CLEAR LAKE, Oct. 25.-Tom Howard,
freight conductor on the Milwaukee,
was thrown from the top of moving
train and instantly killed, several cars
passing over his body, nearly severing it.
Howard had been on the road for
twelve wears
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

MUsCATINE, Oct. 29.-Representative
Giesler and Senator Titus have tele-
graphed Il protest to the board Of
control against placing button ma
chimes in the penitentiary.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
Big Russian Fleet.

BERLIN, Oct. 27.-The Berlin Tage-
blatt learns from st. Petersburg that
rumors are current there that the 10
Russian men-of-war in the Pacific will
shortly be reinforced by six ships from
the eastern squadron The Tageblatt
sees in this a connection with the
Chino-Japsnese alliance.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
Symons Is Dead.
- FsNr

LONDON, Oct. 27.-The death of GEN
eral Sir William Penn Symons, who
was wounded in battle with the
Beers at Glencoe, on October Goth, was
announced in the house of commons
Yesterday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
RUSSIA AND FRANCE ACT.
Send Squadrons of warships to tho vicir
ity of Cape Town.

ity OF Cape Town.
PARIS, Oct. 2s.-The Journal asserts
that five cruisers of the French squad
ron now at The Piarous, the port of
Athens, have been ordered to place
themselves in readiness to go to the
Cape.
PARIS, Oct. 2s.-A dispatch to the
Petit Journal from Toulon says:
1.-TWO or three of the fastest cruisers
have been ordered to go to Delagoa
bay and Russian warships will follow
themo
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
JAPAN sCOURGED.
Typhoon and Tidal Wave Does Great
Damage.

Damage.
VICTORIA, b. c. Oct. 26.-The steamer
Rinse Maru, which has just arrived
here, brings reports that the typhoon
through which the steamer Empress of
India and transport Senator, carrying
the Iowa troops passed, proved more
disastrous on land than on sea. In
Toxic and Yokohama it ragged with
great ferceness. Hundreds of houses
were wrecked in all districts, though
the storm seemed to be attended with
less loss of life than usual.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

Admiral Schley still gives the chief
credit to the men behind the guns.
The admiral has never come out strong
for the strategy board.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

A woman begins to realize that she
is getting old when the policeman
ceases to take her arm at street
crossing.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

Never despise the little things II you
would succeed. Even the elephant is
not too big to concentrate his mind on
an Insignificant little peanut.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

There is always room at the top
probably because the experienced trav-
eler prefers a lower berth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

Whisky may be mans worst enemy
but some men make specially of low
ing their enemies.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

Toronto, which has population of
200 900, boasts of having more uni
versities than distilleries, more col
leges than breweries, more churches
than barrooms" Good for Toronto!
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02
Trade follows the drummer.

1t is quite natural for a full man to
appear occupied.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

A policeman doesn't seem to be SO
important after all when you get to
know him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

The strong minded woman is always
the first to sneer at other women for
doing things she does herself.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

Even after marriage fireman loves
to talk of his old flames.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

The football player may come early,
but not to avoid the rush.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

No woman can look intelligent and
talk to baby simultaneously.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

There isn't enough meat on some
arguments to make an intellectual bite.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

The report of the medical register OF
the North London Hospital for Con-
sumption at Hampstead states that 1873
cases have been treated on the open
air principle since January, and OF
these 43.7 per cent left the hospital to
return to work, 1928 per cent distinctly
improved, 7.6 slightly improved, 4.3
did not improve, and 3.9 died. 1t Is
stated to be a common occurrence for
patients to enter the hospital with
marked signs of the disease and to
leave after nine or ten weeks with no
sign of active disease and an increase
Of ten to twenty pounds in weight.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

Consul Heenan at Odessa reports on
a curious device to prevent rats carry
ing contagious diseases into ships.
The cable of the ship was run through
a piece of iron pipe about foot IN
length. and welded on the end OF the
pipe was a flange or funnel, which
looked like the end of trumpet with
the wide end facing the ship. The iron
pipe was stuffed with oakum to pre-
vent rats from passing through II.
This novel construction was quite
close to the ship. The Russian au-
thorities furnish these appliances and
oblige all ships to use them whenever
they come from part infected with
the plague, in order to prevent the rats
on the ship coming on shore. 1t is
generally conceded that the plague has
been carried and spread by rats which
have left ships coming from infected
ports. 1t Is known that rats make use
of the cable to come on shore, and this
iron pipe, with it's funnel-shaped ar
rangement was employed to prevent
such visits, if possible. These devices
are attached to each cable by which
the ship is moored. In addition to this
precaution the master of the ship is
Obliged to take down his loading
stages every night and erect them
again the following morning In order
to prevent the rats coming on shore
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-02

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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-11
COOKED MEATS
For A NICE LUNCH rRY

=: B. j. BERTELS ::::
Cooked Ham, Beef and other Tongues,
Corned Beef, fine German Bologna, the
best kind of Frankfurts and other Sau-
sage, with Potato Salad or Sauer Kraut
Pickles and Olives All kinds Of Imported
and Domestic Cheese of the best variety.
We put up our own Horse Radish and
Table Sauce
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-11
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
TAILORING.
GIVE US A TRIAL. an %; we w ba t. N Msfs

Pants Pressed, 10 cents; Pants Cleaned
and Pressed, Is cents; Suits Pressed, %
cents; Suits Cleaned and Pressed, 80 cents p;
0vercoats Pressed. Is cents; Overcoats
Cleaned and Pressed. so cents: Cleaning
and Pressing for $1.0O per month. We cali
for and deliver goods free of charge. A
postal card brings us to your house. All
work guaranteed. Kid Gloves Cleansed, 5
cents. Worcester Tailoring and Cleansing
Co, 554 Main St, room g.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-03-04
RAILROAD NEWS.

Railroads entering West Superior
will build new union depot.
The Southern railway has absorbed
the Mobile and Birmingham railroad by
lease for 80 years.
An attempt is being made to drive the
Pennsylvania and another railroad out
of Ohio for pooling.
The Wabash road has awarded to the
Baldwin. the Richmond and the Rhode
Island works q contract for 40 new loco
motives.
The Columbus, Hooking Valley and
Toledo railroad has been sold to the re-
organization company, the price being
s., 900, 900.
The Milwaukee will soon control the
EScanaba and Lake Superior and will
build 30 miles additional to connect
with its line.
The Western Passenger association
requests the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific to withdraw excursion tick
cts from sale.
The Illinois railway and warehouse
commission will consider a protest made
by Chicago mixers, who ask that rates
On -four from Chicago to the seaboard
be pat on proportional basis of Mime
apolis export rates.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-03-04
FOREIGN NEWS.

An epidemic of influenza is raging in
Stockholm and Christiana.
A collision has occurred between
French and Brazilian boundary COM
missions.
Residences of royalists in Paris were
searched by the police Sunday and
propagandist literature seized.
There are persistent rumors among
the natives Of Peshawur that the ameer
of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan,
is dead
An epidemic of influenza has prevailed
in the greater part of Europe for some
time past. In England mild type of
influenza IS very prevalent.
Deroulede and Habert, it has been de-
cided by the French chamber of depu-
ties, of which they are members, will
be prosecuted for their revolutionary at
tempt following the FaUre funeral.
A Managua, Nicaragua, dispatch says
President Zelaya's army under Generals
Saenz and franco Estrada has captured
Gill mountain and Aqua Calientas, thus
virtually terminating the Bluefelds
revolution.
According to the semi-official Ham
burgisher Correspondence, the German
foreign Office, complying with petition
OF Germans in Samoa, has requested
the Washington government to super
code Chief Justice Chambers.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-03-04
THE DEATH RECORD.

x-RepresentatiVe Levi P. Maish of
Philadelphia, is dead. Mr.. Maish was
in his 62d year
Baron Paul Julius de Reuter-, director
and founder of Reuters Telegram COM
pany is dead at Nice, aged SO years.
Right Rev J. B. Verify, bishop of
the Catholic diocese of Sault Ste.
Marie, died suddenly of heart failure
brought on by the grippe.
Major General J. J. Reynolds, U. S.
A, retired, n years of age, is dead. A
month ago General Reynolds had an
attack Of paralysis, which eliminated
into cebebral hemorrhages.
Sir John Struthers, NJ D.. Ii. D. vice
president of the Royal College of Sur
geons. Edinburgh, and examiner in an
atomy Royal College of Surgeons, is
dead. He was born in 1923.
Daniel OConnell, literateur, poet and
playwright, is dead at his suburban
home in Sausalito, Cal, Of pneumonia
He was of the same family as the IA
NOUS iberator of that name
A dispatch received in Brooklyn an
nounces the death Of Congressman D.
M. Hurley at Hot Springs, Va. He was
serving his second term as representa-
tive from the Second New York district.