Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-05-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The writing paper combine, capital
$42,0O0,000, is about completed.
The American Tobacco company has
increased its capital stock to $685.
900.
General Miles has received an invi-
cation to be present at the coming mil
itary maneuvers at Windsor, England.
New york authorities are making it
warm for the "healers," but the heel
erS" are still having things largely
their own way,
Percival w. Clements, Rutland, VT,
has been appointed receiver of the Og-
densburg Transit company, which is
in financial trouble.
When Roswell p. Flower was boy
he worked in a brickyard for $3.50 a
week. Later he secured clerkship at
$3.50 and out of this salary he saved
81 900 in six years. Then he went into
business and the rest followed natur-
ally.
The late Ex-Governor Flower was
cnce asked by less successful finan-
5ier how to succeed in Wall street. BY
working harder than at any other trade
or profession on EARTH" was the an e.
swer. But won't that wear you out?"
Not before your time"
General Won Falkenstein, command
or of the Fifteenth army corps of GET
many, garrisoned in Alsace-Lorraine,
rose from a bed of serious illness to
receive the emperor last week, labored
hard at parades and maneuvers for one
day, dined the emperor in the evening
and was found dead in bed the follow.
ing morning.
General Funston was recently spok-
en- to about the conduct of some Kan.
sas soldiers on leave in Manila. They
were very noisy and harmless. "Yet
don't you think they're keeping 1t up
pretty late?" Not for Kansas. They
always keep 1t for forty-eight hours
there. 1t may be a little late for night
before last, but for tonight it's light
in the shank of the evening.
The difficulty of getting men to serve
on juries has reached such a point in
New York that the appellate court JUS
tees have obtained from the clerks
a complete return showing how many
talesmen responded to the calls upon
them, with the number excused and the
exact reasons therefor. 1t is said that
in many cases fifty to sixty out of ev-
cry hundred talesmen are excused.
The United States ambassador, Cen
eral Horace Porter, gave a dinner in
Paris, at which the invited guests in
cluded Count and Countess de Captel-
lane, Count and Countess Laughter
Villars, Count and Countess Tornielli,
Mr.. Aston, Mr.. and Mrs. Potter Pal
mer, Prince antacuZene, Miss Julia
h. .e . A
newly appointed Spanish minister to
the United States, and the Duchess OF
ARGOS.
Bills of indictment were submitted
to the grand jury in the United States
district court at Philadelphia against
the principals and alleged conspirators
In the great revenue cigar stamp
counterfeiting case recently exposed
by secret service men. Included among
the bills are one charging Former
United States District Attorney Ellery
Ingham with conspiracy and his law
partner and former assistant In the
district attorneys office, Harvey X.
hewitt, with bribery of Secret Service
Operative McManus.
Andrew Carnegie left London for
Skibo castle. In an interview just pub
lished he Is quoted as saying: Il am
looking forward to protection In my
highland solitude from the army Of
mendicants that every hour Is imUor-
tuning me for subscriptions to every
conceivable object. Even were | dis
posed to accede to these applications
for promiscuous assistance my re-
sources for philanthropy have already
been fully hypothecated and lombard
ing me with further appeals Is simply
adding to the postal revenue"
The United States transport McPher-
son, which left San Juan May 8, Ponce
May 10, and Santiago May IL, arrived
and anchored at quarantine, In New
York, last week, having on board Cen
eral Guy V. Henry, the former mill AIRY
governor of Porto Rico, staff and fam
lily; Lieutenant Commander A. Ward
of the United States steamer Palmer
and family; Colonel c. G. Hood. Unit
ed States army, seventy-five cabin pas
sengers and $50 discharged soldiers be-
longing to the various regiments.
A trial which has caused a great
sensation at st. Petersburg, owning to
to the high station of the prisoner,
has just been concluded. The evidence
disclosed that the accused, Maria Mer-
shwizka, a woman of noble birth, mad
led an extraordinary career of intrigue
and crime. The court found her guilty
of poisoning her lover and two women,
owing to jealousy; with kidnapping
child and with forging documents
and bills of exchange. She was sem
fenced to fifteen years penal servitude
in Siberia and to be deprived Of her
title of nobility.
The richest gold strike in Custer
county, s. D., Is not in the Black Hills,
was made few days ago by Rancner
Carr and his son on their ranch, three
miles southwest of this city. An
eighteen-inch vein Of free milling ore,
which assays up to $4,000 per ton, was
discovered, and in addition to the gold
there is considerable sylvanite. a
small gulch, which heads near the
vein, was extremely rich in placer gold,
but the vein from which 1t came,
though supposed to be near, was never
before located. The vein Is only about