Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-08-10
DURING THE WEEK.

The democratic congressman renom-
mated Speaker Crisp and the republi-
cans named Tom Reed for the place.
The French blockade of the Siam.
csc coast has been raised.
The grand jury at Chicago is in-
vestigating the recent cold storage
building fire at the far grounds.
John Duggan, an ex.saloonkeeper, tes
titled that theft was carried on extern
sively by the cold storage employees in
conjunction with number of outside
accomplices, and that the fire was
started to cover up the crime.
At the recent silver convention at
Chicago lengthy resolutions were
adopted declaring that the "object of
this attack on silver was to double the
purchasing power of GOLD thus reduc-
ing the price of all commodities, arrest
ing enterprise, Impoverishing the toiler,
degrading mankind; that the awful
consequence of this act now brings
upon the whole people unparalleled
distress in the shadow of impending
calamities which is beyond estimate"
The resolutions then 60 on to say:
1--WE assert the only remedy for purely
metallic fin ancial troubles is to open
the minis of the nation to gold and sill.
yer at the old ratio-siXteeu ounces of
silver to one of gold. Whenever silver
bullion can be exchanged at the minis
for legal tender silver dollars worth
100 cents, that moment 4l2 Il grains
standard silver will be worth
100 cents, and as commerce equal
ICES the price of all commodities
throughout the world, whenever 4l2ji
grains of standard silver are worth 100
cents in the United States, they will be
worth that every where else and cannot
be bought for less While 1T may be
urged that such results would enhance
the price of silver bullion, it is sufficient
for us to know that Il similar case will
be made in the price of every kind OF
property, except gold, and the credit
in the civilized world would not be IN
the hands of shallow, selfish class,
that would deny living to the mining
industries, at the cost of bankruptcy
to the whole people" Allen w. Thur
man, of Ohio, was permanent chairman
of the convention.
At Lancaster, Pa, hundreds of acres
of tobacco were ruined by hail.
-Four more jurors, making eleven in
all, have been selected to try NJ. b.
| Curtis for murder at San Francisco.
Paymaster John Clyde Sullivan of
| the navy pleaded not guilty at his
court-martial, which reconvened at
Vallejo, Cal
Near Malvern, Ark, +. Jones, a
tramp, killed Ed Ryan with a scythe.
The murderer is being pursued, and,
t is believed, will be lynched.
The body Of John Phillips, a miner,
was found in pond at Hartshornc, !.
T, Cuts on the head indicate that the
man had been murdered.
Anna Gray Orr, aged l6, ran away
from her home at bridgeport, Conn,
July %, and though bloodhounds have
been on her trail she has not been
| found.
The inquest into the death OF Capt.
talist ii. s. Elmore at Kansas City,
No, has been concluded and the cor
oner reserved his decision. There was
evidence that Elmore used morphine.
William Kersten, u ranchman OF
New Forks, Fremont county, Wyo.,
was found dead near his ranch, There
was bullet-hole in his breast one eye
was knocked out and he was other
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