Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30
Saturday.


Havana exports of tobacco during
February aggregated l3,44S bales.
A reception was rendered General
Douglas at Havana Friday night, al
q farewell. Several hundred members
of the Seventh corps were present.
Robert J. Burdette, the humorist.
and Mrs. Clara b, Baker were married
at Pasadena, Cal. Mr.. and Mrs. Bur-
dette will make their future home in
Pasadena, where the humorist will I'LL
the pulpit of the First Presbyterian
Church.
Captain James Mcqueen Forsythe,
who has been recovering in the naval
hospital in Philadelphia from So
we're illness received word from Wash
ington of his appointment to the
cruiser Baltimore now In the Philip
pines. ;
The Berlin correspondent of the
Morning Post says: In their desire to
effect friendly settlement OF the Sa-
moan difficulty, the German officers
have decided to discontinue their sup
port at Mataafa, hoping that this will
induce the United States to recall Chief
Justice Chambers.
The United States cruiser New York
and the gunboats Vicksburg and An
napolis arrived in Santiago. Rear Ad-
miral Sampson, accompanied by Cap
tain II. II. Chadwick, called upon Ma
jor General Leonard Wood, the mil
itary governor, salute being fired In
honor of the admiral.
President Mckinley spent quiet and
restful Sunday at brownsville, Ca, at
N htta N fau
rangements for the return trip TO
Washington. and listening to what
Postmaster General Emory Smith had
to say Of his observations OF condi-
lions in Cuba. The weather was very
warm, the thermometer registering So
degrees, but breeze was blowing.
Colonel Henry c. Egbert, whom
General Otis reports among the killed,
was born in Pennsylvania and APP
pointed first lieutenant In the army
from civil life on September %, 1861.
He served continuously as line Off
Ger for nearly forty years. He was
more closely identified with the
Twelfth infantry than any other or
ganization, having served with dis
tinction In that regiment during the
civil war.
Monday.
NJ Delcasse has presented the An
glo-French-African convention to the
French chamber OF deputies.
Minister Loomis. at Venzuela. re-
ports many opportunities there for
American investors and manufactu..-
erS.
The order of British railroad to the
Baltimore locomotive works for TWEEN
ty engines is exciting much comment
in the British press.
1t Is reported that the Baldwin To-
connective works has received orders
for a number of engines to be used ia
India and Australia.
The state department has received
word from Honduras that no Ameri-
cans are arrested there, as reported.
General Royal T. Frank, assigned
to the command of the department VI
the Gulf. Is exected at Atlanta We'd
nesday night.
Lieutenant Wells, commanding the
naval recruiting station at Chicago,
will enlist an unlimited nuIsber Of
flrst-class machinists for Dewev's
feet at Manila.
Brigadier General Pennington, re-
Gently mustered out of the volunteer
service. expects soon to resume COM
mand of his former regiment, the Sec
ond artillery, at Havana.
Canadian and New york capitalists
have organized corporation to ex-
hibit the Yukon resources at the PARIS
exposition. Among the exhibits will
be $5,000,000 in old dust and nuggets.
The extradition warrant for Mrs.
Ingersoll and John Collins, alleged abb
ductors of Gerald Lapiner of Chicago.
has reached gainesville, o.. but SER
vice is delayed by habeas corpus pro-
ceedings.
The paymaster's department of tie
army has decided that volunteers who
enlisted prior to the act Of April 36
arc not entitled to extra pay, even
though promised it by the published
notices to recruits.