Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-12

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Il On Chicago day at the Worlds Fair
the paid attendance was 7l2. 646. The
largest previous day at the present
faif was Independence day, July 4th,
when the attendance was $780, The
greatest day at the Paris exposition
was 3o7, $50 and at Philadelphia, 2l7,-
500.
1t is estimated that the attendance
at the Worlds Fair on Chicago day
reached nearly.7oo. 900.
The second of the international
yacht race between the American
yacht, Vigilant, and the English yacht,
Valkyrie, was also won by the Yankee.
She crossed the line almost twelve
minutes In advance of the English
yacht.
On the nth the first of the interna-
tional yacht races for Americas cup
was run at New York. The American
Vigilant defeated the English Yacht
Vallyrie by five minutes and twenty
eight-seconds.
At the state convention of the dem
ocrats of Ne braska, held at Lincoln on
the 9th, after the convention had
adopted the majority report of the
committee on resolutions favoring the
repeal of the Sherman silver purchase
clause and rejected Congressman
Bryan's amendment favoring unlimited
coinage of silver, Bryan announced his
withdrawal from the party.
Pallas, the anarchist who, September
"a, made an attempt on the life OF
Captain General Martnese Campos, at
Barcelona, Spain, by throwing two
bombs at him, was shot at BARGE
Iona recently according to the sentence
of the court martial which tried him.
CHARGED WITH CRUELTY.
Hearing of a Case in Chester, England,
Worse Than the Montague Case.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE hearing in
the case of Constance Helen Phelau
and her husband, charged with ex.
treme cruelty to their two children in
their home in Chester, reveals story
that is in many respects worse than
that brought out in the celebrated
Montague case. The society for the
prevention Of cruelty to children has
charge of the prosecution of the ease.
The court room at Chester was
crowded on Saturday when the hear
ing was begun.
AS the prisoners entered the court
they were loudly Kissed. One of the
former servants of the Phelans tcsti-
fed that the pris ners were most
cruel in the treatment of their chill
dren. Five days after the witness
had entered the employ of the prison
ers she saw Mrs. Phelan put the
younger child into bath tub, holding
it by the hair. This cruel act she re
peated nearly every morning. In the
day time the child Ernest was gener-
ally strapped to chair and left on
the lawn until late in the evening.
1T times he was not brought into the
house before 10 o'clock at night
His meals were taken out to
him. Tue witness said that on
one occasion he saw Mrs Phclan
strike Ernest repeatedly on the head
with an ivory hair brush and did not
desist until the brush broke. On an
other occasion when Ernest refused TO
take castor oil his mother took him by
the arm and leg and threw him a dis
lance of three yards to the landing.
At another time she saw Mrs. Phelan
strap up her younger child in a cruel
way while he was in bed. She also
beat Ernest with dor whip and
strap with a buckle at the end of it.
The elder child was beaten by both
Mr.. and Mrs. Phelan, but not so often
as the younger one was punished. The
witness then made the remarkable
statement that she was promised 81
advance in her wages and u handsome
present it she would consent to beat
tho children during the confinement
OF her mistress.
Another servant saw her mistress
seize the baby, when it was only 10
months old, by the threat and fore
head with such force that it seemed rs
if the child's eyes would fall out. Wit
ness thought that the mother intended
to strangle the child. On one occaS ion
Mrs Phelan forced spoon down the
elder child's mouth and brought up
blood.
Much further testimony showed the
unnatural manner in which the pris-
oners had treated their children. The
prisoners were admitted to. bail, their
solicitors saying that the defendants
were persons of means and position
land it;would be very serious matter
to them if they were deprived Of their
liberty.