Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-04-27

stated as G704, 1914, The reserve fund
was stated this year as e5oo,00o, and
further liabilities of shareholders as
500, 925. The bank has eco branches
in Australia. The failure is due to the
heavy withdrawal OF deposits.
"A dispatch from Meridian, Missis-
sippi, says Clark ana Jasper counties
suffered from cyclone on the evening
of the goth which was more deadly to
human life and more destructive of
property than the one Of a few weeks
previous IL followed almost in the
track of its predecessor, and it is re-
ported forty people were killed and
destruction of property will amount to
hundreds of thousands of dollars,
Count Kalnoliy, Austrian premier,
has gwen notice to the American min.
will not grant exequatur to Max Judd,
of ST. Louis, appointed by President
Cleveland to be consul general for the
United States to Vienna. Count Kali
noky states the reason for refusing eX-
equatur is because Judd is an Austrian
by his former allegiance and engaged
in the emigration business. Count
Kalnoly also stated that hls decision
was not affected by Judd's religious
belief.
An abstract of the reports made to
the comptroller of the currency show
ing the condition oil all the national
banks in the United States at the time
of the last call, Monday, the sixth day
of March, is prepared at the treasury
department The aggregate resources
are SO, 459, 72i ,223. In this connection
it is interesting to note that the gold
coin held aggregates 500, S57,235 gold
certificates, 500, 09S, 100; gold clearing
house certificates, Si,939, 0O0 The
loans and discounts reached the enor-
nous sum Of 81, 13s, 100000, Among
the liabilities the capital stock paid in
aggregates SGss, 900, 600, and the IN
diviuual deposits 81, ISL. ZOO, 900.
AT the conclusion of the Worlds
Fair the monster Krupp gun, the
largest piece Ct ordnance in the world,
will be presented to Chicago by Herr
Krupp and mounted on a fort built in
Lake Michigan opposite Hyde park,
permission for the construction of
which has been secured at Washington.
The fort will be five acres in extent,
and will be for business as well as
pleasure Mounted on 1t, the great
gun will be able to protect the entire
city front from attack ny water, as it
could sink an Ironclad with single
shot. Work on the fort will be com
menccd at once, and pushed with the
greatest rapidity, so as TO be in work.
ing order before the fair closes. II
will cover five acres with the most APP
proved defenscs.
"A cablegram received at Washing
ton from st. Petersburg by the state
department says the car has signed
the extradition treaty with the United
States and that it was exchanged by
the United States minister and Russian
foreign Office. The exchange of rati-
tcatons leaves now only one more step
to be taken to put the treaty into ef-
feet. That is the official proclamation
by President Cleveland. The procla-
nation will be issued in short time,
probably on receipt of the forma! Off
cial notice by the state department
from Minister White of the fact of the
exchange. Until the date of publ
cation of the proclamation, whenever
! that may be, the exact text of the
treaty, is expected to remain secret
of the executive department.
Some young women students at
Monnett hall, belonging to the Ohio
| Wesleyan University of Delaware, O.,
caught the hazing spirit, and got n
strong solution of nitrate silver and
their school friends on necks, breasts,
arms and hands, for the purpose, it is
claimed, Of so disfguring them that
they would be unable to wear an even
ing dress at the senior reception that
evening. This occurrence, coupled
with similar outrage on the male
students, added fuel to the excitement
! Some students later set one of the
buildings ON the campus on fire, and it
was entirely consumed. All nine stu
dents were arrested the next morning
and taken before the mayor. Their
cases were continued and they were
released under bonds of $500 each. A
| civil suit has been commenced by the
victims of the branding for 100000.
| The faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity will hold an extra session to
| investigate the outrage.
"A New York dispatch says new
| ested in Harlem. The inventor claims
| that one ounce of maximite is equal to
one pound of black powder, and that
| from ten to eleven ounces of the explo-
sive is equal IN force to a pound of dyn-
ANTE. The tests show that the cXplo-
s,ve will not freeze, that it is smokelcss
and does not ignite easily. Nine hun
dred tons of rock were torn away by a
blast and the amount of maximitc used
was only three-tourths as much as
would have been required by the cx.
plosives usually employed in quarries.
Four cartridges placed in drill holes
twenty feet deep were exploded by
electricity. The rock at the bottom
was shattered into small bits, but near
the surface the pieces were consider
| ably larger. The whole mass shivered
apart almost noislessly and fell forward
in a great heap. A quantity of maxim
lite in bottle was placed in a pail of
ice and salt, together with bottle of
water. The water froze solid, but the
cold had no effect upon the maximite,
which was taken from the ice and ex
| ploded.
| Wells and the Canadian Champion shIr.
TORONTO, Cpt,, April TO- Masshall
Wells. who holds the bicycle cham
! pionship of Canada, and who recently
returned to New York from Freehold,