Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-11

As the result of the discussion in the
ca binet recently of the. serious con-
dton of affairs existing In Nicaragua
arising out of the revolution, the
United States war steamship Atlanta,
Capt. Higgins, has been ordered to pro-
coed Immediately to Greytown, on the
east coast of Nicaragua, to protect
American interests in that country,
especially in connection with the work
on the canal.
Mrs. Chauncey Depew dlcd very sud
denly on the 18th.
Gladstone has offered the place of
poet laureate to the distinguished art
critic and writer, John Ruskin.
News is received from Martinsburg,
w. Va. of the death of Colonel Ward
Ii, Lemon, President Lincoln's private
secretary, and the author of THE Life
of the Martyred President"
A fast vestlbuled passenger train on
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Il
st. Louis railway was wrecked as it
pulled into Lafayette, Ind. Ten per-
sons were killed and about dozen in
jared.
President Cleveland has issued an or
der virtually closing the White House
to office seekers. He says that appli-
cants for Office will only prejudice their
prospects by repeated importantly and
by remaining at Washington to await
results
The British parliament on the Sth
resumed the discu ssion of the home
rule bill. Gladstone declared the gov
eminent would retain without altera-
ton the clause providing for Irish rep
resentation IN the imperial parliament.
A motion 10y Chamberlain To postpone
clause of the bill was defeated after
considerable wrangling by a vote of
42O to 213.
The German army bill has been re-
jected in the reichstag by vote of 2l0
against the bill to- 1862 in favor of the
bill. The rcscrIpt signed 10y the kaiser
dissolvng the reichstag was at once pro-
solved. Immediately upon the result
of the vote being announced in the
reichstag, Chancellor Caprivi read the
imperial message decreeing the d;ssolu-
ton of the reichstag He then left for
Potsdam to tender his resignation to
the emperor.
The town of Kowoal, in Poland
about eighty miles south of Warsaw,
was recently visited by destructive
cOntlagratlon, resulting in the loss of
many lives. The town has II popula-
ton of between three and four thous-
and. The fire consumed 1l6 houses, in
Guiding the intirmary and the asylum
No less than eighty persons persisted IN
the calamitous visitation, and 300
families were made homeless rs well as
destitute
Wall street came very near having
another black Friday on the 9Th. Late
| IN the evening before receiver was
appointed for the National Cordage
company. On the opening of the ex-
! change slump in Cordagc stocks took
place, followed by similar tumble in
other trust stocks. At the close Of the
stock exchange a sharp rally had been
experienced and prominent men en- the
exchange predict that no further trou-
BILE need be anticipated During the
day the failures of S. V. White, Ferris
and Kimball and w. l.. Patton e Co.,
were announced as was also that of
Francis Henshaw & Co., of Boston.
Governor Flower of New York has
denied the appiica zion for clemency in
the case of Carlyle w. Harris, the
young medical student of New York
convicted of poisoning his young wife,
and whose trial recently attracted so
much attention in New York papers.
He will be electrocutcd next week.
At recent meeting of the national
commissioners of the Worlds Fair 1T
was decided to take no action regard
ing Sunday opening.
Secretary Hoke Smith of the Interior
Department has received dispatch
from Indian Inspector ISson, saying the
Choctaw outlook is altogether peace
full The Locke forces and militia are
disbanding.
A tornado passed through a portion
of Lexington and Newbury counties,
South Carolina, unroofng houses and
mills and destroying barns and out
houses Much damage was done to or
chards and timber. A woman was killed
and a number of persons injured.
The supreme court of Kansas has
granted a writ Ct custer against State
Railroad Commissioner Mitchell, re-
moved by the populists when they
came into power before his term of
office had expired; but who refused to.
give up the Office, and compelled the
popuists to begin proceedings to re
move him. He will not appeal from
the decision.
The gold in the federal treasury is in
creasing slowly and the situation is re.
garded as satisfactory. II is hoped by
the department officials that Secretary
Carlisle has made arrangements with
Chicago bankers for large addition to
the treasury gold. There has been
some criticism of the statement that
Chicago national banks held more gold
coin than those of New York. The
last official report on the subject
showed the Chicago national banks
held over s., 900, 900 more gold coin than
the New York national banks.
The Interior Editors Ass )ciatiou
began its excursion to the Worlds
Fair from San Franc SEQ.
The directors of the Tamaracll Min.
ing Company have declared dividend
of 81 per share, payable June 20.
John Fitzhum, the Buffalo. n. Y,
murderer, who was to have been elec
trocuted this week at Auburn Prison,
has been granted stay of execution.
A certificate of consolidation anc
merger of the Philadelphia, Honesdale