Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-04-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Happenings of interest to Our
Readers-National News Cas-
ualty and Crime-Foreign.

ualty and Crime-Foreign.
A cyclone passed over Usage, Kas.,
destroying about forty houses of an aver
age value OF about $500. Possibly two
score of persons were injured, two Of
whom have since died.
The court of arbitration held at
Paris on the 3eripg Sea trouble de.
cided not to admit the present British
supplementary report. This is a vic.
tory for the United States,
! Strikers in Belgium are causing
serious disturbances. The police and
soldiers have been compelled to use ex-
IRENE measures to qucll the uprising,
and it is feared the affair may take on
the aspect of a revolution.
Nearly all the shop men en- the
| Union Pacific system are out on a strike,
the difficulty being over a question of
the number of hours work ths EN-
ployes shall be entitled to. About
! $500 men are effected.
In the federal senate on the 18th a
memorial signed by scventy-seven
members of the Kansas legislature
against the right of Martin to seat
as senator, and stating he was not lc-
galiy elected, was presented and re-
ferred to the committee on privi-
leges and elections
The Island of Zantc, one CT the Ion
ian group, was visited by very destruc-
| tive earthquake. The greater part of
| the city of Xante was destroyed and the
| citizens panic-strlcken. 1t is said that
| dozens of persons were killed and hun
dreds injured. Thousands are without
| shelter.
Hamburg suffered from cholera,
according to DR.. Vrchow, the eminent
European physician and scientist, be.
| cause of contaminated water supply.
Owing to the threatened prevalence of
| that dread disease In our own country
the coming season, it is wise prccau-
ton to use nothing but pure water.
This can be obtained by ordering pure
mineral water from the Colfax bottling
works. Colfax, Iowa.
Gov. Hogg of Texas has issued
| proclamation quarantinIng all vessels
| or persons from infected ports, to go
| INTO effect May 1. Quarantine is de-
ciared against persons with cholera,
yellow fever and similar diseases. The
borders of the state will be watched by
an efficient corps of physicians under
| State Health Officer Swaringen, and
every effort is being made keep cholera
out Of Texas this summer.
The Belgian chamber of represen-
tatlves passed a law providing for UNI.
versal suffrage, with an additional pro-
vision for plural voting by property
owners. As this was mainly what the
uprising of the workingmen and social
lists was started for, it is now supposed
the riots will cease. 1t is now ac-
knowIedged all over Belgium that had
not this action been taken a revolution
would have been imminent.
| "A Washington dispatch to the New
| York World says: Senator Hill has be-
! gun his fight for the control of The ted.
| eral patronage in New York state. He
has persuaded the postoftice committee
Of the senate to demand from the post.
master general copies of papers con-
| tanning the recommendations of appli-
cation of presidential postmasters re-
Gently appointed in New York. The
| purpose of Senator Hill Is evident and
the administration accepts it as chal-
lenge.
Commissioners Blount, sent to la
waii to investigate the condition of
affairs in that country, has created
sensation there by withdrawing the
! American protectorate, sending the
! american seamen back to their vessel,
and hauling down the American Gag
and hosting in its stead the old flag of
Hawaii. This action created general
surprise and dissatisfaction in Hawai-,
but the commissioner stated his object
IN SO doing was to place the provisional
| government on plane of independence
so that in his dealings with It there
should be no imputation of coercion.
He also announces that he will allow
no foreign interference.
Judge White has handed down
an opinion in the three appeals from
the decision of Alderman Rome IN the
cases against Charles " Houston, the
! business manager of the Pittsburg
Press who was recently fined SIS and
costs by the Alderman for publishing
and selling papers on Sunday, in vic.
lation OF the Sunday laws of 1904. At
the conclusion of his opinion, Judge
White says: 81 am of the opinion that
defendant comes within the statute pro-
hibiting worldly employment on the
| Lords day and he is adjudgcd guilty.
The council will prepare formal iudg-
ment in each case" The case will ue
! Appealed to the supreme court.
The New York journal says the
startling Intelligence has reached that
city from Rome, officially stating that
| the pope had reccded from the position
/ taken by Monsignor Satoll last No
vembcr in respect to the liberation by
the Catholic church of the American
| public schools. The bishop OPP
! posed the whole fourteen propositions
of the apostolic delegates and raised a
storm, especially about the famous
! sixth proposition, which declared that
the Catholic church, while reservlng to
herself the right to give instruction in
| faith and morals, saw nothing wrong
in permitting Catholic children learn
| ing the first elements or even the high
or branches of the arts and sciences in
schools controlled by the state. When
the pope was recently Induced to take
| poll of the American bishops upon
the question OF the sixth proposition, it
| is said the verdict was - TO Is against
! the Satolli scheme.
! Exhibits are now coming into the
| Worlds Fair grounds faster than ever
before. The daily average OF cars re-
ceiyed is over three hundred The
| work of unpackiug the exhibits is