Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-27

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he was playing. Ebby is on his way
from New York and does not know of
the tragedy.
Friday.
William ID. Whiting, one of the most
prominent insurance lawyers in the
United States, died at his home in New
York city.
The criminal court OF Brunswick.
Germany, has sentenced Court Secre-
tary Konnocke to two years impris-
onment on the charge of lese majestic.
Director of Posts Elliott of Porto
Rico has reported to the postoffice de-
partment that during last February
the total postal receipts of the island
were $5,772 and expenses $6,370.
Ex-Congressman John r. Wait died
at his home in Norwich Conn, aged
So years. Death was due to old age.
Mr.. Wait was a republican member
of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
congresses.
The Vienna military papers
announce the invention of a fifteen
barreled quick-fring rifle, carrying
fifteen cartridges at time and firing
forty-fve per minute. The weapon has
been successfully tested at the impe-
rial arsenal.
The Washington Evening Star prints
the following: 1t is said that Senator
Wolcott has decided to recommend
Mrs. H. w. Tabor as postmistress at
Denver, Colo, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of ex-senator Ia
Dor, her husband.
Orders have been issued for the
| Ninth immunes to return to the United
States by the steamer Meade via New
York for muster out at Camp Meade,
| Pa. The Fifth immunes are to return
to the United States by steamer Thorn
as via New York for muster out at
Camp Meade, Pa, April q.
The recall of General Guy V. Henry
to the United States is regarded re-
gretfully at San Juan. He says he
/ was obliged to ask for relief on ac-
count of poor health and he feared to
stay here through the summer. The
general knows Brigadier General Geo.
w. Davis, his successor, and congratu-
lates the people of Porto Rico upon
having such a capable governor.
Minister Corea of Nicaragua inform
ed the state department that he would
return to Nicaragua on the Goth inst.
for conference with President Zelaya
on a number of subjects in which this
country and Nicaragua are mutually
interested, including the canal ques-
ton. 1t is expected also that Senior
! Correa will use his influence to termi-
nate any i'll effect which may remain
on account of the Bluefields incident,
| Saturday.
Charles A. Sinclair, a well known
railroad and hotel financier of Boston,
is dead
Thomas Kahn, an assistant door
keeper at a Cleveland hospital, has
fallen heir to 100000
Havana papers report the killing OF
child by bandits in Holguin province
and the subsequent capture of two of
the bandits.
The duke to Tetuan, former minister
of foreign affairs, has been appointed
SPANS delegate to the international
peace conference, which is to meet at
The Hague next month.
The Paris academy of moral and po-
litical sciences has awarded the Au-
differet prize of $1,000 francs, given
yearly for the greatest act of devotion,
to Major Marchaud for traversing At
RIGA.
Thomas Durkin, the messenger who
was sent by the Chicago Tribune with
a communication to the Daily Mail,
reached the Office of the latter paper
and delivered his message at 1859
| Sunday evening.
Rudyard Kipling has sued G. M.
D,,ty te, n lAt4 q
| Co., Doubleday & Mcclure, Charles
Scribner's Sons and the Century Pub
| fishing company for $685. 900 cleaned as
damages for alleged infringement Of
copyright.
The remains of Colonel M. Lewis
Clark the widely known turfman, who
committed suicide in the CASTOR hotel
at Minneapolis, were taken to Louis
vile on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad by sorrowing friends. The
train will arrive at it's destination at
an early hour today.
The semi-official North German Ga
zette denies the report sent out In
dispatch to a news agency in London
yesterday, saying the German protect
ed cruiser Gefion had been ordered to
proceed to Apia, Samoa, after en-
barking an extra supply Of ammuni-
ton at Kiau-Chou, China, and that an
other cruiser was to follow.
Ferdinand w. Peck. United States
commissioner general to the Paris ex-
position, has informed the exposition
authorities that he approves the plans
for the buildings for the American
section.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Berlin says: On the historic
Warthburg, where Martin Luther
hurled his ink pot at the devil, the
duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha pre-
scented to the kaiser his brother, the
duke of Connaught, as heir apparent
to the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Co
tina, thus giving effect to the decision
Of the family council nresided over