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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07
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Lucas county, >. >.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Ia the
senior partner of the firm of +. j. Cheney
Co., doing business in the city Of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said Arm
will paw the sum of one hundred dollars for
each and every case of Catarrh that can not
be cured by the use OF Halls Catarrh Cure.
Frank }. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9th day Of December, A. d. SO.
tseal A. w. Gleason, Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly upon the blood and mucus sur.
faces Of the system. Send for testimonials
DRUGGISTS, 75 cents
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoris,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

To the Editor:-please inform your readers that |
have a positive remedy for Consumption. BY its
timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured shall be glad to send two bot
Ties of my remedy FREE to any of your readers who
have consumption If they will send me their Express
and p. o. Address. Respectfully, T. A. sLOCUM,
NJ c., Isl Pearl ST. N. Y.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

The State of Texas on coming into the Union
reserved to itself its public lands, and after
ward devoted the alternating sections to pro-
mote schools and aid railroads. The Houston
and Texas Central r. r. Co., was the first road
to build and select from the then public domain
For some years it has been at the mercy of Its
creditors, but has been recently reorganiZed
and is now ready to part with its landed estate
and make title thereto. BY an announcement,
to be found elsewhere, it will be seen that set
tiers can have time in which to complete pur
chases.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07
Hermann, the we'll known prestidigi.

Hermann, the well known prestidigi.
tator, was cleyerly outwitted by spir-
itualist in Newark, N. ]. Hermann was
explaining how messages from so-called
spirits were produced on states. The
spiritualist, who went on the stage from
the audience, stole the states from Her.
mann and substituted clean states sew
eral times without being detected
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

/ suffered for two weeks with neuralgia Of
the face, and procured immediate relief by
using Salvation on. Mrs. WIN. G. BALD,
433 N. Carey St., BALTIC, Md.
A Chicago lover bet his girl that he could tell
what she was thinking of. He thought she was
thinking OF him, but she wasn't; it was about
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup, which had just cured
her of a dreadful cough.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

A lynching party always travels at a break
neck pace.
Houston, Texas, has a woman dentist, Mrs.
A. B. Stocking.
Wide braid in gold or copper is used in
many odd ways upon new cloth gowns.
When pugilist won't pugil he should be
made to pugiI-er come of the perch.
Weather poets ought to know meterology.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

For Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds,
etc., effectual relief is found in the use of
"Brow,t'S Bronchial TrocheS." Price 25 cts
Sold only IN bo1eS.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07
Cbean Excursions to the South.

On March 18th and Goth the "Wabasn West
ern Ry.' will sell tickets to points in Alabama,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, at one
fare for the round trip, tickets good to return
90 days from date of sale. For all information
regarding rates, points, etc, apply to or ad-
dress the undersigned at Des Moines, Iowa.
W. G. MARTIN, T. p. A. l.. NJ. MARTIN, G. A.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

The most ornamental new hat pin is moss
rose Of enamel in natural colors.
Recently made pocket handkerchiefs are
very pretty and highly ornamented.
Double-breasted vests of MANILA linen are
among the threats Of next summer.
Solid twilled serges, soft and fine, viii be
long favorites for spring gowns.
Coats and cloaks of Russian red are a fea-
ture of recent outdoor wraps.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

The Marguerite gauntlet sleeve is very
stylish, and is in fashion when added to an
artistic costume whose general effect is an
tiuup
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

There has been more black and other colored
velvets sold this winter than for ten years
past
A prophet of evil predicts the ruffied shirt
for the near future.
The shortest veil now admissible completely
covers the face
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

"Thc floating vote" Is probably 50 called
he ,au>e il mater ally assists In sending a can
didate up salt river.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

The Hungarian diet, which attracts unusual
attention just now. must be too high-spiced,
judging from its exciting effects.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

In Paris, japanese Grape is the fayorite neg
stuff for tea gowns.
Dainty red slippers are worn with stockings
of a matching color.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

Tha bible contains a,5G5, $50 letters, 773, 476
WORKS ~, l73 verses, l,lS3 chapters and 90
books.
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Dropped Into the Sea.

A BOYS MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM A
SAVAGE OCEAN vULTURE.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

Some of the lovely pale-tinted satin brocades
for evening wear have very novel and artistic
designs.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

The house at its session on the 22d
completed the consideration of about
one-third of the general deficiency bill.
Among the items agreed to was one APP
propriating S15, 900 for repairs of build
ings ct Fl. Sidney, Neb.
Mr.. Springer, on the 22d, received a
note from the president announcing that
at II o'clock he had signed the terrific
rial bill. The message was shown about
the house, and the friends of the bill
gathered in knots and congratulated
each other over the successful compile
ton of long and tedious work.
The house committee on war claims
has reported bill to authorize the court
of claims to try the case of the Citizens
bank of New Orleans against the United
States and adjudicate the claim. 1t is
alleged that General Butler, at the time
of his occupation of New Orleans, at.
tached S219, 900 in gold in the bank, and
it was subsequently turned into the
treasury.
Representative Morrow, of Califor
mia, who returned from Indianapolis
says he does not know any more about
the cabinet than he did before he lef
| Washington. He does not speak will
authority, but he thinks only four mem
beers of the cabinet are absolutely set
tied on. These are Blaine, Window
Wanamaker and Noble. The remaining
places he thinks will not be filled unit
after the arrival of General Harrison il
Washington.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

eSyIn applying to any OF the above aoyer
tisers, do not forget to say that you saw tho
advertisement in this paper.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07

Look at my face and my hands-not pim-
pie,
Such as you saw there some time
ago.
See my fresh cheeks. and I'm getting dim
pie,
don't look at all like used to, I
know.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09

Before leaving town the reporters had
been informed by the railroad officials
that they could not get nearer
Johnstown that night than Boli-
var, which is IS miles this side Of the scene
of the accident. In most of the signal tow
ers along the Pennsylvania Railroad only
railroad business is permitted over the
wires, but on this occasion it was known
that by hiring an extra operator at Bolivar
the press matter could be sent through to
Pittsburg by 'relaying" or resembling it
from BIairsville Intersection.
Bolivar was reached at $50. There was
plenty of news to be gathered. Both dead
and dying were being taken from the river
there and at Lockport, two miles above.
By interviewing the rescued men and
women some rather startling and accurate
news was soon obtained about the character
and
EXTENT OF THE FLOOD
at Johnstown in spite of the absence of all
telegraphic and railroad communication
with the belated city. The extra operator
was speedily ferreted out from among a
crowd of blockaded railroad crews, his
salary paid in advance, and off went the
first news before 10 o'clock. Among the
most important nuggets Of news sent out
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endeavor to sleep after his kilograms were
gone, he saw but one vision,
THAT WAS A COFFIN


gone, he saw but one vision,
THAT WAS A COFFIN.
Now and then whole family is identi.
fed among the dead; they are cofined and
the caskets are piled one upon the other tc
await burial. In this way the grave.
diggers are able to, know family of corpses
when they begin removing the cofins, and
they are either put in the same grave or in
group of graves close beside one another.
Of course, however, where surviving men,
( bers of the family identify remains they are
allowed to conduct the funeral themselves,
and thus family burial lots in regular ceme-
teries are filled up.
Before leaving Johnstown 1 understood
that if the death list reached even 5000
several additional acres of ground would
have to be purchased to make the city's
largest cemetery big enough to hold all the
new residents of that new city of the dead
In the years which are to come the marble
cutters of all Western Pennsylvania will be
kept busy making tombstones for these
graves. But, ahi how many of the little
mounds will have to remain unmarked and
unknown? And along the forest-clad
mountain slopes between Johnstown and
Nineveh new graveyards have already been
laid out, and the travellers of future days
will be told that they are the last resting
places of Pennsylvania s food victims.
VAST MONETARY LOSS.
Vast indeed has been the monetary loss
involved in the disaster. As far as Johns
town is concerned it is estimated at any,
where from $Ss, ,OOO, 900 to SAL, ,OOO, 900. More
than two-thirds of all the mercantile and
manufacturing establishments of the thriv-
ing city and its environs have been swept
out.of existence. The largest of these has
already commenced to repair its main build
ings-the Cambria Iron Works-and the
firm will rebuild the Gauntier steel mill
and the wire mill, both of which were COM
pletely annihilated, as soon as possible.
Some other industrial concerns there will
do all in their power to resurrect the city,
SO far as business and the industry goes.
The loss to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany by damages to its property is at least
$2,000,000 The complete suspension of its
through passenger and freight traffic for
more than week will possibly add many
hundreds of thousands to that. At Cone
maugh yards, just above Johnstown, Mr..
Miller says that four of the most perfect
tracks made up the road here. Two were
new and had never been used. Now they
can be seen with the ties standing on their
ends in the middle of the river and on the
hillside.
A BURIED RAILROAD.
There were enough cars and engines in
the yards to equip many a railroad. Just
"a Locomotives were carried away, and some of
them can be seen now projecting above the
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Youngstown. She lost her whole family,
land am so heart-broken," she said, ''that
I have left Johnstown and never want to
zee it again"
That woman did not register as among
the living. She left no relatives in the
ruined city to inquire about her, and con-
sequently neither she nor her family will
probably ever be missed. So it will be
with scores of other families. Johnstown
being a comparatively large city, it is more
than probable that new families were con-
stantly moving there.
THEIR SAD FATE UNwEPT.
As is the case in all large communities
where laborers are employed for manufact-
uring purposes new arrivals, and especially
foreigners, were little known. Suppose
whole families were swept out of existence
in the crowded quarters of Johnstown.
Very many of them had no relatives short
of thepl country, and were not on terms of
speaking acquaintance with their neigh
bors-did not even know their names, Con-
sequently who will even think of inquir-
ing whether such families were drowned.
Yet, it is known positively that hundreds
of Just such families were annihilated
1t is perhaps we'll that the authorities at
Johnstown have devoted their efforts more
to making register of the living rather
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09

Over the remains Of those found the first
few dsys more attention was devoted by
minister and priest, but of late immediate
interment has become so imperative from
sanitary point of view that promptness is
more
OF A FEATURE THAN CEREMONY.
In a great many instances people are be-
ing buried without any knowledge of who
they are. So fast is decomposition going on
that there is no time for Identification. In
other cases as many as Is bodies have been
buried in the same ditch. Old undertakers
say the horror of the Johnstown burials in
this respect surpass the quick and silent in
terment in Pittsburg during the great
cholera plague.
Cofins soon became the most familiar OBJ
jects in the stricken town. They were to
be seen everywhere-on the street corners,
in the yards of homes, at the depots, and
even between every box of food handed off
provision train was passed out coffin.
Thousands of them have already been used.
1t is difficult to walk along the streets with
out kicking casket. One of the Oldest
newspaper correspondents sent to Johns
town, a man who has in his day reported all
sorts of horrors, and whom supposed had
become hardened to CHASTITY sights, told me
that every time he shut his eyes in the vain
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09

was scale weighhouse. Only two men
can write in it at once. The others write
their matter sitting on railroad ties, door
steps OF on the ground. The other newspapers
domiciled their men in brick kiln just
across the roadway. On the second story of
this shanty there was established Associated
Press telegraphic and reportorial head
quarters. A few New York Herald men
are to be seen in the picture
SITTING UPON GRINDsToNEs
in this apartment writing their "stuff."
Also on the second floor of this build
ing is haymow, in which the
writers tried to snatch a few hours
of sleep at intervals. This was impossi-
ible, however, on account of rats, until the
blankets sent by newspaper proprietors at
Pittsburg could be received. Later on
tents were furnished the reporters. All
newspaper representatives, having to take
their chances with the common sufferers in
receiving food from provision headquarters,
and not having time to go out for it. were
almost starved. When this news reached
Pittsburg several of the newspaper proprie-
tors sent ample food by courier to their
representatives.
But columns more could be written with
out telling all the privations, hard
ships, exposure, dangers, and loss of
sleep the corps ofjournalists have under
gone in Johnstown during the past week.
Thirty-six and 4s hours without a wink of
sleep was common occurrence with them.
The first Eastern newspaper men to arrive
on the scene were two representatives of the
New York Sun, and Harper's Weekly artist.
They reached Johnstown Monday at 1:3O P.
NJ. by special train over the Baltimore and
Ohio from Pittsburg. They left
New York Saturday morning at
o'clock. Reaching Harrisburg they found
a corps of six men from the World bound on
the same mission. The latter had lett the
two hours sooner than the Sun
party. West of Harrisburg the foods had
demoralized the P. r. r.
Afraid there would be serious delay there
the Sun BOYS returned to New York at once,
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| metropolis, furnishes an illustration of how
far-reaching the present sympathy extends,
and how sure the heart of the whole coun-
try will be to soften in the next decade
whenever the name of "Johnstown" or
"Conemaugh" is mentioned,
SUSTAINED BY FAITH.
The pulpit will cherish some of the mem
ories of the disaster. Religion has been
left some remarkable testimonials in the
stories of death and escapes at Johnstown.
The thrilling and strangely beautiful incl
dent Of how the nuns of the Catholic con-
vent we're saved while gathered in the far
ther wing of the church on their bended
knees when the balance of the church went
down with crash, while they surrounding
the holy sacrament were the only survivors
in that section of the town. The recovery
of many bodies, the hands of which were
still elapsed in prayer, and the knees bent
stiff in the kneeling posture of prayer; the
statement of John Reed, survivor, that as
he was washed past a floating mass of
debris on which was bed occupied by an
apparently sick woman, he heard her sing
ing, clear and sweet, a religious hymn; the
authenticated stories OF bravery and Chris
tian courage with which SO many young
women perished; the fact that the Methodist
Church stood like perfect Gibraltar in the
part of town where the food was most vio-
lent; that churches generally seemed to
have been of superhuman strength, as evi-
denced by the fact that their walls were left
standing where not brick remained of
other great structures supposed to have been
built upon rock, so to speak-all these
things are materials for clergymen to work
morals out of for years to come.
LINGERING MEMORIES.
Three generations must live and pass
away before the people who now remain,
and will remain at their homes in the Cone
maugh Valley, can get rid of the horrible
vision of Friday, May 81, 1885, Thus will
the memories be hardest to bear in that
stretch of country lying between the Laurel
Hill and the Allegheny Mountain. Years
and years to come will not people the
church yards and burial grounds up there
as fast as has the one great cemetery of
Johnstown grown up, as if by magic, in one
week. New York City, with her character
istic cosmopolitan practicalness, will very
soon forget the hundreds Of thousands she
has given, aye, even forget the location of
such place as Johnstown. Philsdelphis
will turn her attention shortly to the needs
of the living multitudes. Even Pittsburg,
sincere and hearty always, will in the course
Of human affairs let JohnstoWn people
themselves take up their own affairs again.
The nation Wiil 60 on as it has forever gone
on, and the grass Of decades will gradually
become greener and more profuse over the
mountain tombs.
L. 3. sEoF1EL.
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stony gaze is upturned to heaven with
look of commingled supplication and con.
tempt.
'Lighti Lightp' All, no. They die
not say that. You misunderstood the faint
voices.
'Nightl Nightr' was what they echoed
over and over again. The other words
they would probably have told you, could
have been nothing more than the mockery
Of fate.
THEIR REASON ToTTERED.
Few, indeed, were those who confessed
themselves able to see Providence towering
over the stupeEdous wreck After the first
rush Of waters and the subsequent discovery
of the frightful loss of life, the popular
tendency was to curse the Almighty. The
swfulness of the calamity set people crazy
q sense Of their tremendous loss made then
think they were forsaken. Think, did ]
say? No, people could not thinki Il
seemed to be something like an inherent
rising against heaven, earth and hell
Reason was well-nigh dethroned. That il
why, during the first few days of the ex.
citement, so many incidents crept into the
newspapers similar to that of the woman
who had survived her family of seven, ask.
ing the reporter with demoniacal laugh,
"God, why where was Hep
But as each succeeding morning has
come and the survivors have gradually
learned to realize that their relatives and
friends are really dead, that inquiry which
is almost part of every human heart
''Whence have they gone?"-has checked
this wholesale drift toward doubt of an over
ruling Providence.
THE BLAsPHEMoUs ANATHEMA,
born OF vast sorrow, has gently melted
away as the star of hope appears in an un-
friendly sky. Cowper's lines, quoted above,
contain the sentiment that will heal thou
sands Of the wounded hearts. And besides
that, even torn and bleeding hearts may be
touched. Something has touched those
which abound along the polluted Cone
maugh. 1t was the wonderful wave of SYM
pathy which, starting in Pittsburg, rolled
westward to the Golden Gate, and eastward
to the Atlantic's silvery strand. The gen.
erosity which knows no South, no North, is
feeding the suffering survivors, burying
their dead, and preparing for the rebuilding
of a blighted city. All this reawakens
hope. An Omnipotent Interpreter is trying
TO make it plain.
More than week has passed since the
first body was taken from the river and the
wreck. Yet it is not possible to state how
many have actually perished. The recov-
cry of corpses has gone steadily forward all
this time, but no man is yet able to tell how
nearly
THE CHASTITY WORK is COMPLETED.
After awhile all efforts to further prose-
cute the search will cease, but even then no
one will suppose that all who were drowned
will have been found. The truth can never
be known. Even such perfect system as
registering the survivors in order to find
who are missing has pretty nearly failed of
its purpose. Last week one poor woman
passed through Pittsburg, bound for
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ing by wagon over the mountain to New
Florence, six miles east, and the others re-
turning to Derry station, near Latrobe.
From these two points they sent away news
from to Z A. M. In the meantime The
DISPATCH moved its locomotive all along
the line between Bolivar and Blairsville,
picking up the news and
|. KEEPING THE OPERATORS AWAKE.
At A. NJ Superintendent Pitcairn's pri-
vate train, laundering westward, announced
that the water had receded from the tracks
and the line was open as far as New Flor
ence. To that point the locomotive pro-
ceeded with the dawn of day. A few hours
later the party divided, andwhile some took
regular passenger train for an experimental
trip to Sang Hollow, the other reporter rode
horseback over the mountains from Flor
ence to Johnstown, reaching there at 1890.
Another DISPATCH man came IN from
Somerset by carriage about the same time.
That evening the nearest point to get the
news telegraphed was at Hoovlersville,
small settlement IS miles south of Johns
town, on the Baltimore and Ohio branch
railroad. Another special locomotive was