Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-19

DURING THE WEEK.

Marshal Mcmahon, ex-president OF
France, diedat his home at Chateau La
Foret, on the river Loire.
A fierce storm which swept over the
lake regiondid immense damage to ship
ping and caused great loss of life.
The steamer Dean Richmond went
down on Lake Erie with all on board.
Three small streamers were wrecked
on Lake Superior. The schooner Min
nehaha was beached and went to
pieces. Four lives were lost. The
steamer Wocoken went down and
thirteen were drowned. Numerous
smaller disasters are reported and a
large number OF steamers are missing.
Another severe storm passed over the
southern and eastern states on the
14th. The wind was very high and
telegraph communication was destroy.
cd 1t is impossible to learu the extent
of the damage.
The third of the series of interna-
tlonal yacht races between the Am eri-
can yacht Vigi,ant and the English
yacht Valkyrie was woh by the Vigi.
liant, making three successive defeats
for the Val!Syr!e, and the cup will stay
in America.
A wreck occurred right in front OF
the Depot of the Michigan Central at
jackson, Mich, on the 14th, which is
said to be the most awful railroad dis.
aster of the year. The first section of
a Worlds Fair train had stopped for
breakfast, when the second section
came up at good speed, The air
breaks failed TO work and the engine
dashed into the rear of section one at a
speed of twenty miles an hour. Twelve
persons were killed and about fifty
mutilated and injured.
The barns of the Chicago City Rail-
way company on Wallace street, burn
ed on the night of the 18th, and 46l
horses were burned to death in the
in the holocaust. The loss will amount
to about Sl20, 900.
Carl Rorrke, resident of Trail
county, North Dakota, and the largest
man in the state, if not in the United
States, died at Belmont recently. His
weight before he died was $40 pounds.
A telegram from Louisville, a coal
mining town of roo inhabitants and
situated twenty-five miles north of
Denver, says the town is sinking.
The town is built over the Welsh coal
mines, and the destruction is being
caused by the sinking of the surface
above the mine.
Gen. Lucius Fairchilds of Wisconsin
was elected commander-in- chief of the
Chicago, to succeed the late x-Presi-
dent Hayes. Ex-President Harrison
was the choice of large number of
the order, but he came to the meeting
for the especial purpose of declining
the honor. The next meeting will be
at PHILADELPHIA IN October 1894.
The situation of the unemployed on
the Gogebic range at Hurley, Wis, is
Oecamlng serious. BredO rlOtS nave
already occurred and the problem of
providing for the unemployed miners
on the range is becoming more serious
every hour. At least 500 people this
side of the Wisconsin line are out OF
employment. In Elmwood and across
the Michigan line the number is at
least 1000, and no prospect of work for
them. 1t is estimated that one-half of
these people have families. In the
iron belt over 100 men congregated and
threatened to loot the village store,
provided they were not given work.
They were finally talked into adopting
pacific measures and no damage was
done.
John Redmond, leader of the Par
nellites, in recent speech at Dublin,
announced that hereafter the Parnell-
ties consclentiously act with Gladstone,
who had acted in bad faith, abandon
ing the irish interests in the fall ses-
sion