Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-11-10
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In the cheek while driving along a
dark road near Hartford City, Ind.
There is no clew to his assailant
+. A. Heinze in a speech In Butte,
Mont, denied that he had sold out his
mine holdings and said John w. Gates
never had an option on his properties.
The three scout cruisers authorized
by congress last spring are to be
unique and especially useful. Score.
tary Morton In Washington approved
the draft Of the chief characteristics.
The total registration for the pres
ent year In Cornell university Is an
nounced as 1857. The total for 1903
was 1855. The greatest falling off Is
in the arts and the greatest gain in
civil engineering.
Russia's exhibits in two Of the ST.
Louis exposition palaces have been
closed by the exposition management
as a result of the reopening of the dis.
pute regarding the payment of a per.
centage on cash sales to the fair.
It was stated unofIicially at the war
department in Washington that Pr.
vate John 4. Smith, stationed at Sa-
lem, Mass, who recently attracted at.
tention by marrying a negress, will be
discharged from the army "for the
good of the service"
The cruiser Tacoma arrived at New
York from San Juan, p. r., and will
go to the navy yard for repairs.
The trustees of the National McKin-
ley Memorial association will meet In
New York Tuesday. Nov. 22.
The failure of contractors to furnish
imitation stone for the construction OF
the Washington navy yard will result
in shutting down the work on the cleo
trio power building there.
The south Florida fair and midwin-
ter exposition will be held at Tampa
Nov. IA to &c.
No. furnace Of the Warwick Iron
and Steel company at Pottstown, Pa,
has been blown In.
The heads of the department Of the
Lewis and Clark fair corporations
publicity committee have been appoint
ed
jured. one probably fatally. in street
car accident at North Andover, Mass.
The British schooner Dorothy, from
Black Tickle, N. r.. was sunk in col
lision with the British steamer Adana
In the Mediterranean.
The value of the merchandise and
produce shipments from San Francisco
to the orient in October was $3,S37 1902,
against 1898, 1896 last year.
Miss Ida Peltz, while suffering from
dependency due to i'll health, jumped
into the lake at the city park at Rich.
mond. Ind, and was drowned.
During the month Of October the
general land office at Washington Is
sued 10000 land patents, the largest
number ever issued during any one
month.
Daniel O'Neill Of Bloomington. H.,
the murder Of Alfred Ashby at Prince
ton. Ind, and sentenced to prison for
life.
Assistant Secretary Ryan Of the In
terror department has recommended
that the government buildings at the
st. Louis exposition be sold at auction
on Nov. 26 or 81.
Postmaster General Wynne signed a
supplemental treaty with the Hungar-
ian government relating to money or
ders, in which the rate Is reduced by
one-half.
In the absence Of Secretary Hitch
cock and Assistant Secretaries Ryan
and Miller the president has designat-
ed Assistant Attorney General Camp.
bell to act as secretary Of the interior.
The committee on foreign missions
of the Friends, in session at Rich
mond, Ind. has declined to build an
educational institution at Victoria.
Mexico.
J. c. Megensdorf, joint ticket agent
at the downtown station of the Sub
urban electric lines in Cleveland, has
been missing since Oct. 81. The trac-
ton companies claim a shortage of
$4,000.
John Cushing, president of the
South Omaha Trades and Labor Coun
Gil, and Henry Hauflaire, the secre-
tary, were arrested in Omaha, Neb.,
charged with using the malls to de-
fraud at the time of the butchers
strike.
Col. Alfred M. Flagg. an editorial
writer on the News.Tribune of Duluth,
Mimi, committed suicide. A sister,
Mrs. Young Of Rockford, ILL.,, and Mrs.
Archibald McClennahan of Chicago, a
niece, have been notified.
The jury In the case of former May.
or McCue of Charlottesville, Va, on
trial there for the alleged murder OF
his wife, called negro servant who
had not been called by either side. He
testified for McCue.
J. Ogden Armour of Chicago, A. ].
Drexel of Philadelphia and Joseph
Pulitzer sailed for Europe on the
steamer Baltic.
Two Italians were drowned and five
others narrowly escaped, through the
sinking of a steam dredge In Boston
harbor.
Joseph C. Hendrix. former president
Of the National Bank Of Commerce of
New York and widely known in finan-
cial circles, is III from typhoid fever
at his home In Brooklyn and grave
fears are entertained regarding his re-
covery.
The United States cruisers Des
Moines and Cleveland and the flag
ship Olympia have sailed from Eng
land for Gibraltar.
The Royal Academy of Music at
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