Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


Spanish war Is Mrs. s. C. Gibrreath
Of Austin. Tex. whose husband, a ma
jor in the eleventh infantry, died in
Porto Rico last summer.
Lord Salisbury once handled a pick
and shovel During the great Austral-
ian gold craze he set out as gold
hunter, and the howell In which he lived
rs a rough, red-shirted miner, is still
standing.
The wife of Genera Il. s. Otis, COM
mander of the army in the Philippines.
is the daughter of soldier and GEN.
eral Otis laid siege to her heart for
twenty-three months before she ca
pitulated.
At Avilla, twenty miles north OF
Fort Wayne, Ind, Walter Goodrich,
aged 10, fatally shot his brother Wal
lace. aged S5, and then blew his own
brains out The brothers ouarreled
over a horse.
At St. Louis. after two hours spent
In the examination of number OF wit
nesses the coroner's jury held Frank
A. Galloway responsible for the death
of his wife, whom he murdered in cold
blood in a downtown store.
An effort Is being made at Virden,
H., between w. ID. Ryan of the State
Miners Association and L. G. Loucks
of the Chicago-Virden Coal company,
to adjust differences between them. 1t
is thought an agreement will be easily
reached.
Emperor William has issued an or
der that official reports submitted to
him hereafter shall be in typewriting.
This is great innovation, as hereto
fore the typewriting of such reports
has been considered great breach of
etiquette.
Henry e. J. Boardman, a wealthy
resident of Marshalltown, Ia, and gen
eral counsel for the Iowa Central rail-
road company, lies critically Ill at st.
Joserh's hospital in Chicago, and ht;
physicians say his illness probably will
prove fatal.
A special to the st. Louis Republic
from Montrose, Mo-, says: Miss Eta
Wilson, aged 20, daughter of County
Judge William Wilson, took her own
life with a shotgun last night because
her betrothed, Vigil McCarry, had en-
listed In the army and declared his in
tention of going to Manila.
Colonel John Jacob Aston has arrived
at Constantinople on board his steam
yacht Nourmahal. DR.. Wier Mitchell
of Philadelphia Is also there. On the
invitation of Mr.. Straus, the United
States minister, he professionally at
tended the wife Of Tewfik Pasha, Tur-
kish minister Of foreign affairs.
Lieutenant c. M. Perkins, mentioned
meritoriously in the Associated Press
cablegrams from Apia, is from Rome,
Ga. His father was q veteran of the
Mexican war and great friend of Gen
eral Grant. Lieutenant Perkins was
stationed for number of years at the
Mare Island navy yard, San Francis
co, and was recently made captain OF
marines on the Philadelphia.
By a vote of So to So the Missouri
house refused to engross the bill intro
duced by Burleigh of st. Louis allow
ing glove contests and sparring match
es, ETC., to be conducted in st. Louis
and Kansas City by incorporated ath-
letic associations, paying an annual Ii
cense of 1000. The measure was de-
feated because it was believed that it
would license prize fighting.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Morning Post says: Lord
Salisbury, | learn, has definitely an
nounced his adhesion to the principle
of unanimity in the Samoan commits
sion, although filed with grave appre-
tensions as to the detrimental effect
1t may have on the commissions use
fulness. The British and German gov
ernments have now arrived at an
agreement.
A dispatch from Bassett, Neb., says
a prairie fire Of extraordinary proper
tions and of great fierceness Is raging
throughout Rock county. The resi-
dents of that entire section are fight
ing the flames, but a strong wind Is
driving the fire, and all efforts to con-
troll it have failed. From Bassett to
Newport, a distance of twenty miles,
the whole country Is mass of flames.
That section Is made up largely of
hay fats, and these afford fuel for
the flames.
Robert Mazet, the New York legis-
lator who originated the present in
vestigation of the New York City po-
lice force, and who Is a lawyer, a resi-
dent of the city OF New York and a
first lieutenant in the Seventh regi-
ment. He was a member of the last
state legislature and a member Of the
committee for the investigation OF
trusts in 1897, known as the monster
hunters" Of which Lexow was chair
man. He Is said to be brusque and
bustling in manner and without per-
sonal magnetism.
According to mail advices from
Auckland, brought by the Mariposa
from Samoa, 1t Is reported that the
British cruiser Porpoise, Captain Stur-
dee, suddenly found itself boycotted.
no natives being allowed to trade with
It. Captain Sturdee demanded an
apology and cessation Of the boycott
from the provisional government. The
president of the government intimat-
ed in his reply that the boycott OF the
Porpoise was due to the presence on
board of Chief Justice Chambers. This
added insult to injury, and another de-
mand was made for an apology, which
was Immediately given abjectedly. This
rIoaad tho incident ..... ....