Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-08

PhCcI nave htu an cApctt db NOIk ripI
a few weeks past examining the coal
fields south OF Waterloo. As result
of the examination the company have
leased nearly 1000 acres of the lands
and propose to begin prospecting with
in Thirty days. They undertake with
in six months to begin the sinking Of
one or more shafts, and if coal is found
in sufficient quantities to warrant, they !
will undertake to build line of rail-
road from Webster City to the mines.
The rental paid is 10 cents ton for
coal mined during the first two years. |
after that they pay 81 per acre for
lands not being worked. The company
is now running mines at What Cheer |
at the rate of / 900 tons day, but the |
mines there are about exhausted and |
they have all the machinery there |
ready TO take to Waterloo TO begin |
operations.
Harry Him. workman in the |
brick yards at Springdale, near Sioux |
City, was locked up at police headquar.
tiers on the charge of rape. Mrs. !
iioliutS, WIN ilNto az hif 'CSN N'CNVush
street, Sioux City, is the complaining
witness She says that she went to
Springdale with her daughter, a 4-year-
old child, to see about position there.
While she was talking the child strayed
away and when she got ready to leave
was not in sight. She called to the
child a couple of times and then waited
awhile, when Him came up leading
her by the hand. When she asked her
where she had been, the child made
criminal accusations against Him, that,
upon investigation, she found were
true. When she accused Him, he de-
MED his guilt, and she attacked him
and struck him several times in the
face. Hmm still stoutly denied his
guilt. but the child reiterated her state
ments and told her mother that Him
got her to go to secluded spot near
the Floyd river on the prctext that he
was going to show her some fish. The
child was not injured and is playing
| about as usual.
Three cannon, weighing in all about
2l5,000 pounds, passed through the
state recently on the Burlington road,
on their way from Altoona, Pa, where
they were manufactured to San Fran.
sisco, Cal, where they will enter upon
their new duties ot protecting Uncle
| Sans western boundary from any and
all corners. The largest of the three is
one of the most terrific firearms that
has ever been turned out OF the factory.
1t is forty feet long and weighs little
over 100000 pounds. 1t is forty-five
inches across at the breech and will
carry a shot foot in diameter thirty
miles, it is said. The barrel would
serve as hiding place for several militia
men who might be overtakcn by the
enemy before they had chance to get
away, and when in actual use the can
non would be able to NOW down quite
a swathe of men before its force would
be spent. This gun is intended to be
used on the coast The two "little"
ones weigh 5000 pounds each and 'are
about two-thirds the size of their larger
companion. They look rather insig
niicant beside the big one, but they,
in turn, would throw into deep
shadow the ordinary cannon that
awakcns the people on the Fourth of
July. They are to be two of the six
cannon that are to be mounted on the
new United States warship Monterey"
Each cannon occupied special car
The bulletin of the state board of
health is being prepared by Secretary
Kennedy, from which the following OBJ
scrvations IN regard to the cholera are
quoted as they will likely prove of IN
tercst to all in view of the threatened
invasion Of this country by that disease:
THAT cholera will reach this country
we have but little, if any, doubt A
quarantine short of preventing absolute
intercourse between this and othercoun.
tries, whether by commerce or immi-
grafton, will not-indeed cannot-pre.
vent its introduction here, provided the
disease is prevalent IN European ports.
The character of the poison is such,
and its mode of propagation such that
vitalized infectious material is almost,
if not absolutely, sure to be conveyed
to persons through the most rigid quar-.
antine. And yet quarantine of the
most rigid and watchful character
should be established and maintained
at all our ports Of entry, so that the
foci of reinfaction in this country may
be as few as possible. If it appears IN
New York. and we have not the least
doubt the deaths on the Moravia at.
tributed to cholorine were from true
Asiatic cholera, rigid isolation o. pa
tients and disinfection of all their ex.
creta, clothing, etc, would arrest the
disease or greatly lessen the number of
cases. We have already seen one of
the unmis TAXA BILE evidences that IT will
surely effect q landing at New York,
that is the naming of the disease chole-
rinc. Whenever you hear diphtheria
called 'tonsilitis,' 'diphthertic Group,
or some other name less alarming than
diphtheria, you may look out for other
cases through Intellectual isolation, and
disinfection So when scarlet fever is
called scarlatina' or scarlet RASH or
when small pox is called 'varioloid;' or
when cholera is called 'cholorine.
They are all milder but not less infec-
tious forms of the disease they are mis-
named for. These names are deceptive.
We believe at this writing September
9TH at least three great blunders have
been committed respecting the Mora
via. First, as soon as cholera was found
on board, the ship should have returned
to the port from which it sailed; Sec
ond, ship having had twenty-five
deaths on board during its trans tan-
tic passage and haiing from an IN
fected port should not have been al.
lowed to pass the quarantine station,
and among the New York shipping as
it did; and third, the disease should
not have been named 'cholorine, which
means nothing if it does not mean a
mild form of cholera Can disease,
however, consistently be deemed mild