Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-03-30
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Miss Cleghorn, Princess kaiuianl)
has returned &c England, accompanled
Ivy her guardian and the other friends
who came to America with her.
In fire which DESTROYED fash.
ionable boarding house at Cleveland,
O., five persons were barned to death,
and several were seriously injured.
A dispatch from Madrid says the
Spanish steamer Malaga reached
Malaga from Hamburg with cholera on
board. The steamer was quarantined.
A Mannheim, Germany, tailor has
invented a preparation which, applied
to cloth, renders it impervious to rifle
bullets. The government mas tested 1t
and adopted it for use in the army.
The three girls, Anna Hammel,
aged II years; Maggie Froberg, aged
Is, and Nora Rogers (colored) aged II,
who ran away from the Industrial
School at Mitchellville, March II, are
still at large.
Two robbers named Starr and
Newcome robbed the bank at Caney,
Kas.. at midday, of $4,000, after the
manner OF the Daltons, and then es.
capped. Starr was a member of the
Dalton gang, and had but recently
escaped from prison.
"A bill was introduced in the lower
house of the Minnesota Legislature pro
hib,ting Cinnamon from wearing their
shirts outside their pants" and requir.
ing them to dress like other citizens,
under penalty of a fine and the forfeit
ure of their pig tails.
-Messrs. Castle and Thurston, of the
Hawaiian commission, and Mr. Paul
Neumann, attorney for Queen Liliuoka-
lani, left Washington few nights ago.
Mr.. Castle is en- route home, intending
to sail from San Francisco for Honolulu
on the 3lst. The others will return to
Washington and await the outcome of
Blounts visit to the Hawaiian islands.
Assistant United States Treasurer
jackson, Of San Francisco, says the
San Francisco banks last week offered
to exchange nearly a million dollars IN
gold for notes, receiving the latter at
New York at no expense to the govern
ment. Jackson telegraphed the ten
der 10 Secretary Carlisle, who replied
it must be declined, as no dearth of
gold now exists.
4 al, 4 l.
which the great cotton mills strike in
England has been ended. The spin
ners agreed to a reduction in the wages
of pence on the pound. This strike
has been on five months and has been
| contested with unexsmpled stubborn
ness by the strikers, who have endured
the greatest privations of cold and
hunger through the severe winter.
The thirty-seventh general as
sembly of Missouri adjourned sine die
on the 23d. The house joint resolution
asking congress to pass legislation re-
straiulng the federal judiciary from
encroaching upon states rights was de.
! feated in the senate. This leaves the
governor without the support of the
general assembly in his position con-
corning the federal and state courts.
Mrs, Langtry is said to have heard
of the death of George A. Baird,
esquire Abingdon" Pugilist Mitchells
hacker, while making cruise on the
| Mediterranean IN her Yacht. The
boat Immediately put in at Nice and
| Mrs. Langtry started for England. 1t
| is said that Baird left her 5000, 900
year with the whole OF ms racing stud
and his establishment at Newmarket.
As King Humbert of Italy was
| passing along the streets of Rome a
religious fanatic named Berardi hurl led
stone at the monarch. He was at
| once taken in charge by lumber of
citizens and taken to prison. The king
was enthusiastically cheered as he pro-
ceeded on his way to the palace. Der
ardi said he wished to insult the king
for declining to become reconciled TO
| the pope.
Col. Elliott L. Shepard, editor of
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h,s home in New York City on the cath,
as result of the inhalation of ether,
which had been administered to HIM In
contemplation of an operation to re-
move stone in the bladder. Mr.. Shep-
ard had not been previously indisposed
and had attended regularly to his
business affairs He was brother-in.
law of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Jules Ferry, the French statesman,
was buried with military honors at ST.
Die. All the shops in town were
closed, the street lamps lighted, and
the lampposts wound with Grape.
Hundreds came from neighboring viii
lagos to attend the services, and more
than 300 wraaths were laid around the
coffin by the admirers of the dead
statesman. Senator Demole, General
Tricoche and others delivered orations
! at the grave.
q 1t has been decided by the council
| of the Worlds Fair subcommittee that
the Liberty bell, the ringing of which
| proclaimed the independence of the
| thirteen original states shall be taken
! to Chicago, the date of the departure
from Philadelphia being fixed for April
as The bell will be transported in
special car and four policemen will go
along as ITS special custodians and will
never lose sight of the precious charge
while it is IN Chicago. On the way to
! the fair stops will be made in all the
large cities on the route SO that their
citizens may have an opportunity of
seeing the bell that rung out liberty to
| the land.
Pope Leo few days ago gave
ceremonial audience 10 the Princess of
Wales, her daughters and Princess Vic
toria and her son, the Duke of York,
attended by their suites. The royal
! visitors were received with honors due
TO sovereigns and the occasion was
made one of unusual splendor. The