Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-06
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

with the confederate priyateer Ala
bama, outside the harbor of Cherbourg,
France, and who later served under
Farragut in Mobile bay, is dead in
Brooklyn, aged 81.
The president has appointed Colonel
| Edwin V. Sumner of the Seventh cav
airy to be brigadier in the regular
, army. General Sumner will inmedi-
ately retire and Colonel Thomas NJ.
Anderson of the Fourteenth infantry
will probably be appointed to the va
cancy. Sumner was a brigadier gen.
eral of volunteers and Anderson a
major of volunteers.
The maple sugar harvest in Vermont
is believed to be a total failure this
year, and If the worst fears of the
sugar makers are realized the industry
will be crippled for many years to
come. The sugar orchards were stripped
of leaves last summer by an army of
| caterpillars and this spring the trees
are found to be sapless.
Judge Shiras, in the federal court
at Dubuque, has decided that under
the bankruptcy act innocent third par
ties can hold their securities. The
court holds that mortgages cannot be
SOhpCliCu ylcIu pOSSSSSlOu VI pTUp-
erty in their hands which passed into
their possession before the proceedings
in bankruptcy were begun.
The following was posted at the war
| department: Recruiting for the reg
ular army Is progressing most salts
| factorily-both in numbers and high
class of young men Offering Returns
received by the adjutant general up to
the close of yesterday show the en-
listed strength as being over $4,000
within less than 5000 of the maximum
which, at the present rate of enlist
| ment, will be reached within ten days.
A deed was filed in the county clerk s
Office at Louisville from Dennis Long
& Co., of Louisville, to the United
States Castiron Pipe and Foundry COM
pany of Burlington, N. j., transferring
the plant and all property of Dennis
Long & Co. to the new combine. The
plant is one of the largest in the
country. The Ohio Pipe company was
formally transferred to the United
States Castiron Pipe and Foundry COM
pany, better known as the Sewer Pipe
combine
At the last cabinet meeting some
attention was paid to the campaign OF
the troops in the Philippines, and the
administration is confident of the cap
ture of Malolos, the insurgent capital
in a few days. The arrival in Wash
ington of delegates from the Cuban
| assembly was touched on, and the dis
| cussion brought out q reiteration OF
the conclusion to pay no attention to
| their demands. 1t is felt the assembly
delegates represent disturbing ele-
ment, and under no circumstances
would they be formally received by this
government.
Lieutenant Jonas Lien, adjutant OF
the First South Dakota volunteers, who
was killed recently in the Philippines,
was a brother of B. H. Lien, mayor
of Sioux Falls, native of Brookings
S. D., "a years Of age. He served two
years ago as chief clerk of the house,
| completed his education at Lincoln
Neb., soon after his return from which
place the call for volunteers found him
| one of the first to respond. He was
recently commissioned by Governor
Lee as captain of Company I, Captain
Denny having returned from the Phil
| ippines He was unmarried.
William Waldorf Astor, owner of the
Pail Mall Gazette, when he arrived in
New York the other day on the White
! Star liner Majestic, in answer to the
! interrogatories of one of the customs
officer, described himself as foreigner
and a resident of Great Britain. This
reply relieved him of answering such
| questions as are required by law to be
put to returning Americans regarding
purchases made while abroad. Mr.
Aston said he was accompanied by his
sons, Waldorf and John, and his daugh-
| ter, Pauline. Mr.. Astor refused to be
| interviewed. In the course OF a week
he expects to be on his way back to
England.
Attorney General Griggs has advised
! the secretary of the interior that the
act of congress approved March 3, 1899
providing for the taking of the twelfth
census. makes the operations of the
| director of the census Independent in
all respects save in the matter OF
| accounts, which are MADE subject to
| the regulations of the secretary of the
interior. Under this ruling the director
| is authorized to make all appointments
to perfect plans for the taking of the
census, to rent quarters, to make con.
tracts for supplies and to perform al
| other acts necessary TO the carrying
out Of the law, independent of the Sec
rotary of the interior.
Ainslees Magazine for April has
distinct flavor of original investigation
and discovery. The editors have
thought it timely to present to the pub
lie the man who built the wonderful
fast-sailing Oregon, Irving M. Scott
How he rose from poverty to wealth
and how he organized the great sys
tenn which turns out vessels like the
Oregon is related in charming nara
tive fashion and illustrated most pro
fusely. In the same number is curl
GUS article on some Indian picture
writing recently discovered which tell:
the story of the Custer massacre al
it appeared to the Indians. The mattel
is most conservative in its nature ant
makes, as written by ]. r. NICHOLS