Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-11-24
DURING THE WEEK,

win seven counties missing, the OF
ficlal count in Indiana is said to give
Cleveland s,037.
Official returns in Ohio from all but
two counties give the republican head
elector 1914 majority over the demo
cratic leader.
General Master Workman Powderly
was reelected as chief of the order of
knights of Labor at the recent general
assembly at ST. Louis.
Mrs. Lease says she would accept the
United States senatorship frora Kansas
If offered her, but will not engage IN a
scramble for the place.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, SI,, father of
| the governor of Ohio is dying at his
| home in Canton. A few days ago he
celebrated in apparently good health
his eighty-fifth birthday.
The Amalgamated lodges at Home
stead held a meeting and by vote 81
| 10l to 81 decided to declare the strike
off. Applications for work were placed
at once by the men and the company
is considering them in turn. Many OF
them will be refused for cause, while
| others will find no places vacant tor
them. The situation at one time IN
volved nearly 10000 men and the loss
in wages Is said to amount to about
S9,0O0,O 900.
George |. Bagley, messenger of the
United States express company, was
en- route from Omaha to Chicago with
a big lot of bank money in transfer.
He got off during the stop ut Daven-
port, gave orders for sending to his
house some potatoes purchased by him
on the road, and did not get on his
train again. 1t left at p. IN. without
him. 1t is learned that he planted the
money, crossed to Rock Island and
! then took another Rock Island tram to
| Chicago, He was taken into custody
there, and Jos. Shepard, assistant gen
| eral manager, and Geo. A. DeLong,
general superintendent of the company,
returned to Davenport with him. He
unearthed the money and they re-
turned to Chicago. The sum is placed
at 100000. Bagley has been with the
company two years and was always
trusty and competent. He is between
55 and 40 years old and has wife and
children living in Davenport. II is the
belief in police circles that he premedr
tated the robbery, but weakened after
he realized the enormity of the theft
and went to Chicago intending to sur.
render or fail into the hands of the ex.
press officials. The latter are trying
to cover the matter and make it appear
as mere blunder. Davenport detec-
| tives believe that he weakened after
planting the money, thought it impos
sible to escape and went to Chicago to
make terms for its restoration without
prosecution. The company's officials
declare that all has been adjusted and
that there will be no proceedings of a
legal nature,
The probability of reduction in the
tariff duties and the possibility that in
some instances they will be taken off
altogether, seem likely to place the
treasury department IN an embarras-
/ sing position before the close of the
present fiscal year, inasmuch as i'm.
porters will not be inclined to import
materials while there is probability
that by waiting they may save tariff
duties, and as the margin in excess of
the requirements of the government
has been but $40, 900, 900. 1t is acknowl-
edged at the treasury department that
Senator Carlisle's statement, that a
deficit is threatened is in all Xix elihcod
correct.
1t is announced that James G.. Blaine
is quite i'll, being confined to his bed.
| Two physicians are in attendance.
A wild train ran down grade on the
Mexican National railroad near Saltillo
at the rate of ninety miles an hour,
jumped the track and killed the con-
ductor and one brakeman.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury,
Spaulding, has issued circular to
eastern officers IN regard to the entry
of vessels carrying immigrants, in which
he points out that the danger of cholera
infection still exists, and says that the
measures of precaution which have
been heretofore observed cannot be ma
terlally relaxed without importing the
public safety.
AT the twenty-sixth annual session of
the knights Of Labor, held recently at
st. Louis, General Master Workman
Powderiy in his address referring to
strikes and lockouts said that during
the last six months the people of this
land had witnessed such attempts at
making the power of aggregated wealth
supreme as were never dreamed OF be-
fore. Whether it was at CGur d Alene,
at Homestead, at Buffalo or in Ten
nessee, the instinct which guided the
rapacIous hand was the same. The
underground wires which directed
these attacks all ran to the same center
Centralized wealth drew the scattering
fire of divided labor, and, as natural
result, labor lost In each battle. If
the lessons are carefully taken to heart
the sacrifices may not be in vain. The
mines of Tennessee were made by
Almighty God. He gave no deed nor
warrant to men to take absolute pos
session of them that they might levy
tribute on all others and make unhung
murderers, violators of virtue and con-
victed burglars the ins trumcnts through
which this coal should reach the peo-
pie. The great highway that runs
from Buffalo to New Yory sends its
earnings across the ocean to pay for
eign stockholders who violate Ameri-
can law. The great, seething mills of
Homestead could never turn out an
ingot of steel were it not for the skill
and labor of the workmen.
In the Garvin murder trial at Pitts
burg, In which a young newspaper
correspondent was charged with the
murder of his wife, formerly Cora Red
path of Chicaon thraa days ofta, ,,,, 81