Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-05

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very severe storm visited the lower
part of Louisiana on the evening of the
I'd. In the parishes below New Orleans
the damage was immense. In the
town of Point a la Hache, place of
1000 inhabitants, not house escaped
without damage, and in the vicinity
more than dozen persons were killed.
The loss to the orange crop will
amount to S350,000, not an orange re-
naming on the trees in that vicinity.
Great damage was done to shipping
and the levee at New Orleans was dam
aged. At New Orleans several build
ings were blown down and three per-
sons were killed. The total number of
fatalities resulting from the storm will
reach about twenty-five.
The Farnham street theater at Olna-
ha was completely destroyed by fire.
Ing toldi ioSs Is cStlindleu dJ T~o@,ooo'
Six persons, five of them tiremen, were
injured by falling walls. They are:
j. M. Gayner spectator, head and spine
injured, will probably die, ]. S. Scott
pipeman, bruised on head and body;
Ed Simpson. ladderman, arm broken
John Mcbride, fire captain, cut about
head and legs, dangerously injured;
PIpeman Klesuer, cuts about head and
conclusion of brain; Pipeman Maleson,
severe cuts about head. Pipeman AL
Jerome was caught under the wall and
killed, his body being recovered the
next day. Mcbride and Klesner are
said to be fatally injured.
NJ. Dcville, the French minister of
| foreign affairs, received a dispatch
| from M. Lcmrc Dc Viola, the French
| special envoy to Siam, stating that the
new convention between France and
Siam had been signed.
Advices from Rio Janeiro say that
the rebel fleet in the bay is lombard
ing the forts necessarily and that the
inhabitants of the city are pauic-striclS-
en-. Provisions are selling at famine
prices Another dispatch asserts that
| the crews of the rebel vessels are de-
serting and that the insurgents are In
bad way.
With roar AMI rush the waters of
Michigamme river broke through the
| the Mansfield nine, at Crystal Falls,
Mich, drowning twenty-eight of the
employees at work directly under the
stream. The eighteen men who es-
capped were employed IN the lower
levels. None of the bodies have been
recovered and it is believed it will be
necessary to divert the channel of the
river before they can be secured. The
property is worth upwards of 100000.
Massachusetts democrats, at their
| recent convention, re-nominated John
| ID. Russell for governor and Jas. Il.
| Carroll for Neutrality-suspicious. by ac-
clamation. The remainder of the
| ticket is as follows: Secretary of state,
J. w. McDonald; attorney general, c.
5. Little, auditor, J. ID. Wheelwright
just at noon few days since a man
named Casslus Belden, who had but
short time ago been released from an
insane asylum, appeared in the gallery
| of the Chicago Board of Trade, drew
revolver and fred five bullets into the
pit. Two men were hit, one of them
receiving shot which shattered his
| e. No;t fat
injured. He claimed that they were
irving to sell his soul on the board of
| trade.
Representative s. B. Cooper, of Tex
as. presented the following joint res
olution In the house, which was re-
terred to the ways and means com.
mlttee: "Whereas, In the enactment
of all laws, the will of the majority
should control, and Whereas, There is
divided opinion among the congress
sembled, in the legislation as to the
will of the people upon the question of
the coinage of money by the United
States; therefore be it Resolved, That
the governors of the several states are
respectfully requested to request or
cause to be held an election in their
respective states on the first Tuesday
in November next for the purpose of
ascertaining the will of the people up
on the question of the coinage of money
by the United States, and at such
election those in favor of free coinage
OF both gold and silver, without DIS
elimination against either metal, shall
have printed or written upon their
tickets, For free coinage and those
opposed to free coinage of both gold
and silver, without discrimination
against either metal, shall have writ
ten or printed upon their tickets,
Against free coinage and said
election shall be held and returns
thereof made in accordance with the
laws of the respective states governing
the election of representatives to the
legislature OF SAID states, and the re-
turns and results of said election sub
mitted to the congress of the United
States by the governors of the several
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In recent address to his Midlothian
constituents at Edinburg, Gladstone
severely arraigned the house of lords.
In course of his speach he said:
Home rule might by some be regarded
as a failure. Depend upon it, it is not
failure" determined nation would
not be baffied by phalanx of 500 peers.
'If the house of lords ever mean to
force dissolution of parliament, it
may depend upon it that the irish
question will not be the only one con-
sidered, but that their own independ-
ent and irresponsible existence will be
taken into consideration.