Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-04
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of its chief living rival, the Manhattan
OIL company.
The committee of the German
reichstag on the budget has approved
the credit asked for by the government
for the purpose of elevating the German
legation at Washington to the rank OF
embassy.
The total number of persons who
met death in the recent storm which
swept over Oklahoma now reaches
ninety, and the injured number about
two hundred and fifty, about ten per
cent of them being fatally injured.
Over $4,000 has already been sub
scribed as n relef fund to aid the sur.
amount will be doubled
Six families from Kansas arrived
in Chicago few days ago who mad
baskets that were filled with cooked
provisions that will last ten days even
lfthe members of the party are hungry
at every meal. When told that the
rates would not be exhorbitant, they
shook their heads and said that they
knew that by camping in a few rooms
they could save money.
AT Cisco, Texas, cyclone blow
the passenger depot to pieces and
twenty-five people standing on the
platform were killed outright. The
freight depot was also destroyed and
five miles of telegraph line literally
swept out of existence. The town
proper was nearly demolished and l25
persons were injured. The property
loss will exceed s., 200, 900. So.
AT the recent meeting of the
Worlds Fair National Commission Mt
Chicago Commissioner Eiboeck OF Iowa
introduced u resolution that the com
miss,oners request the authorities of the
| state of Illinois and the Chicago city
| authorities to request the local board of
directors to take the necessary steps to
test the Sunday closing provision in the
state and federal courts, and it was
/ adopted.
The Catholic church authorities at
! the City of Mexico received letter
from the priest at Acape, giving par.
hculars of the robbery of the magni6-
cent cathedral in that city. The rob
berry was one of the heaviest aud most
Gastarily ever committed in Mexico.
J The church contained ornaments and
| valuables to the amount of $4,000, and
everything was taken by the vandals
from the altar.
"A general uprising has taken place
throughout the eastern portion of
| Cuba. 1t started on the cath of last
month and has spread rapidly in several
districts. The province of Santiago dc
Cuba has been declared in state Of
siege by the captain generals. All the
available troops are being hurried to
the scene of disorder The revolution
is being led by the Sartorious brothers,
men of good family.
The Michigan worlds fair building
was formally dedicated on the Goth,
All of the state officials and many other
J prominent Michiganders were present.
The building was presented to the gov
ernor IN an address by the Hon. A. M.
Weston of Grand Rapids and was ac-
cepted by Governor Rich. Then fol-
followed short addresses by other
Michigan officials, legislative and ex-
ecutive, and by officials of the worlds
fair.
superintendent Tucker Of the de-
partment of admissions Of the Worlds
Fair gave out the following statement:
"As near as can ascertain 3lj, 900 per.
sons attended the opening day. The
methods of arriving at the number OF
tickets used by deadheads are very
crude. There were no turnstilcs.
have put down the number of free adj
missions at 140, 900, leaving the numb Der
paid as l75,OO). This consider con-
servative estimate.
Choctaw Nation are in fair way to
peaceful settlement. Indian Inspector
Faison has left Washington for the
Choctaw country. 1t is underst God
he has full powers from the president
To bring about settlement of the DIFF
6culties. This adjustment, it is said,
will be along the lines of upholding the
Choctaw government and allowing its
courts to determine in legal way tine
questions which have arisen.
Two distinct cyclones terrible
hail storm and waterspout, combined
TO wreak awful destruction in the new.
ly built towns of Oklahoma on the
26th. 1t is reported that sixty-two
human lives were sacrificed. 1t is posi-.
tive that forty were killed, while sew
eral were fatally and scores seriously
injured The damage to property is
inestimabe. Orders for thirty-onc
collins were received at Oklahoma City
from various places. The most dam
age was done at Norman, where thirty
one people were killed. dozens injured
and the town almost wholly destroyed.
The villages Of Downs and Keokuk
Falls were nearly devastated, Moore
was greatly damaged and number OF
lives were lost. The country for miles
around is In state of complete devas-
taton.
The Belgian senate by vote OF
ffty-two to one, with fourteen absen-
tees, approved the Nyessen plan to es-
tablish universal suffrage with plural
voting basis on the ownership Of prop
erty and possession of certain educa-
tional qualifications.
The department congress OF
Daughters OF American Revolution has
been called to meet May 10th in the
art palace at Chicago. under the
auspices of the women's branch OF the
Worlds Congress Auxiliary President
General Mrs. Stevenson will preside.