Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-15
DURING THE WEEK.


Biddeford, Maine, for higher wages
and fewer hours of work. The mum.
Der involved is about $780,
James Whelahan, aged 10 years, a
stable boy at the Gloucester race track
was killed by being thrown from Hat,
tick FLY, which he was exercising.
In railway collision between q
freight and passenger train near But.
Ter, Indian Territory, the engineer and
fireman of the freight tram were
killed. and those OF the passenger
train were fatally injured.
At New York six story building
filled with Sweater shops" at Nos. lC
and IL, Montgomery street, caught fire
and in the mad rush to the street OF
$50 souls working there at the time
three were killed and several injured.
THE president has appointed J. G.
Donnelly, of Wisconsin, consul gen.
eral at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; N. n.
b. Ashby, of Iowa, consul at Dublin,
Ireland; William Brinton, of Illinois.
United States marshal for the southern
district of Illinois.
At st. Gabriel, La, in duel be-
tween Ell. Leche, a prominent rice
! planter, and 2. Jumet, son of Hon. Jul
met, ex-state auditor, IN front of the
postotfice, as a result of an old feud,
the latter was killed and the former
dangerously wounded.
Judge Woods in the United States
circuit court at Chicago decided to al.
low the Worlds Columbian exposition
toappeal from the Sunday closing de-
cision. The time and place of hearing
the appeal will be fixed by Judge Full
Ter. The application for supercedeas,
which would suspend the effect of the
decision and allow of the gates being
opened next Sunday, was refused and
an order for injunction entered
A large number of workmep on the
Illinois and Michigan drainage canal
are on a strike. On the 9th these men
made an attack upon the contractors at
Romeo and the men in their employ.
| A hand to hand battle ensued, and a
number of deputy sheriffs came to the
assistance of the contractors. num-
Der of shots were fred and when the
riot was finally quelled it was found
that three persons had been killed and
two fatally injured. About a dozen
others were seriously injured. Gov.
Altgeld was called upon tor assistance
to help in protecting life and property,
and he ordered the Second and
Third regiments to the scene.
A dreadful disaster occurred in Wash
ington on the morning of the 9th.
Ford's old theater building, in which
occurred the assassination of Presiden
Lincoln, and which for many years has
| been used by the records and pens IN
division of the surgeon generals Office,
] collapsed when about 400 clerks were
in the building. Workmen had been
excavating under n portion of the
founda don, but it is said that the col
lapse was in no way due to this, as the
building was unsafe and had been
known to be unsafe for years. With
the collapse occurred one of the most
appalling disasters which the records
of casualty have ever been called upon
to chronicle. Every ambulance in the
city was at once called TO the scene
and workmen at once began the work
of rescuing the unfortunate victims.
| The bodies of the dead and injured lay
on all Sides and from the mass of de-
bris came the means Of the dying. In
a few hours the hospitals had been
filled with the wounded and the morgue
contained the bodies of twenty.four
whose lives had been crushed out. The
fatalities may run up to much larger
figures and the list of injured Will not
number less than hundred. In the
latter list are two Iowans, A. l.. Ames,
who is probably fatally injured, a..
| n. j. Sicklow.
The majority OF the United States
circuit court has decided the Worlds
Fair must close Sundays. Judges
Woods and Jenkins ordered that an in
junction BE Issued restraining the Off
Gals from opening the gates of the fair
grounds Judge Grosscup dissented,
recommending that the injunction APP.
piled for by the United States district
attorney be not granted. Attorney
Walker for the directory at once ap-
| pealed to the United Sta ties court of
appeals.
On the 18th and sth the repu biicans of
Ohio met in state convention and nomi-
mated the following state ticket: Gov
ernor, William Mckinley; lieutenant
governor, Andrew L. Harris; state
treasurer, William II. Cope; attorney
general John l.. X. Richards; supreme
judge, Joseph p. Bradberry; member
of board of public works, Frank j. Nc.
Cullock; food and dairy commissioner
Dr. f. b. Mcneil.
Fire started from hot ashes thrown
out behind restaurant at Fargo, S.
d., and was soon beyond control of the
tiremen. A fierce wind was blowing
and before the flames were su bdued an
| area five blocks wide and ten blocks
iohS hau oScu cudHSeu 10 DlacKened
waste. Three or four fatalities are
reported. About three thousand peo-
pie were rendered homeless The
property loss is estimated at about
three million dollars
Mrs. Muddleston. a wealthy lady of
Avon, Penn, was arrested on the
charge of numbering her daughters
newborn babe, together with w. c.
Gayle, intended husband of the girl,
who was arrested for infanticide.
The financial furry in Chicago, which
made itself felt by runs on number
OF banks on the 5th, continued on the
9th. During the night the Illinois
Trust and Saving bank kept seven tel
lers paying off depositors until the last
OF the line appeared at 3 a. n. Ex-
element has been allayed and none of
he banks have been compelled to sus.
pend payment.