Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-26

News has been received from Rio
Janeiro that Frederick Guilherem De
Lorena has been proclaimed provisional
president of Brazil by Admiral Mello,
in command of the insurgents. Lorena
is the captain of one of the rebel war
ships and the provisional government
of which he is now declared resident
was established several days ago at
Desterro, which is the capital city of
the state of Santa Catharina. The
bombardment of Rio Janelro has been
suspended.
Advices from Brunswick, Ca, state
that there are now $50 cases OF yellow
fever under treatment at the hospital
and that the number Of new cases Is
increasing Deaths are of daily occur
renee, with the number increasing.
A Washington dispatch says the dem.
ocratic steering committee of the sem
ate has virtually completed its labors
on the compromise silver repeal bill
1t extends the provisions of the pres
ent silver purchase act until October /,
1894, provides for the coinage of the
silver now IN the treasury and retire
ment of all paper currency except sill
yer certificates below ten dollars.
The senate confirmed the nomlna-
ambassador to Italy by vote of 80 to
20
At Battle Creek, Mich, on the Goth,
occurred the worst wreck and holo-
caust that the railroads have had to
answer for during the year. Two pas
senger trains on the Crank Trunk were
behind time. One was TO leave Battle
Creek and the other was coming in.
The first left, having orders to side
track at siding near by. The engin-
eer ignored the order and minute
later the trains had crashed into each
other, each going at nigh rate of
speed. The outgoing train was com.
posed mainly of sleeping cars, none of
which were seriously damaged and
none of the passengers were killed.
But both engines were smashed to
splinters and half of the incoming tain
was demolished, the debris taking fire.
did heroic service, but when the fire
was at last put out, twenty-siM burned
and blackened bodies lay in the morgue,
| only SIX of which could be identified.
The Inst of wounded will reach almost
hundred. The responsibility rests
entirely with the engineer who ignored
the order, and who is now in jail at
Battle Creek.
South Park commissioners and
Worlds Fair counci of administration
held a prolonged conference at Chica.
go. Two things were positively ir-
revocably decided. There will be no
fair next summer and the park COM
mlssioners will hold the Worlds Fair
directory strictly to the requirements
of their 500, 900 bond for restoring the
grounds
Mrs. Roscoe Conkling died at her
home in Utica, n. Y, on the 18th.
She was sister of the late Horatio
Seymour.
Thirteen of the crew of the British
steamer which arrived at Boston re-
Gently from Mexico, are sick with
what Is supposed to be yellow fever.
The vessel is held at quarantine and
will not be allowed to come to the
city until the nature of the disease has
been dete rmined. Two died at sea.
Advices from Denver say that the
evidence is pretty conclusive that the
suicide of Dr. Graves, the poisoner of
Mrs. Barnaby, was hugh joke. That
he was not buried but that he was
secreted out OF the Jail by high officials
and secret society men and that a pine
log took his place in the coffin. 1t is
SAID that when the coffin reach ed
Connecticut it was opened and such
was found to be the case.
A Guthrie, o. r., dispatch says:
Every town in the territory is filling
up with people from the Cherokee
strip, who come in hungry, cold and
without cent of money. Every day
brings the news of the death of one or
more unfortunate settle rs, and the
suffering among the lmprovident peo-
pie who rushed into the strip with no
money and no means of making a live
lIhood is terri ible.
Directum, the five-year-old stallion,
was sent against time at Nashville,
Tenn, and succeeded in smashing all
stallion records. The time was 2:O5L.
The famous old Bears Head hotel
oil Hampton Beach, Exeter, N. H.,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 600;
insurance Sl0,5
The remains Of Mrs. A. j. Wagner
and her two children were found at
Ripley, Ohio. The woman had evi.
IDENTIFY killed the little ones and her.
self
The constitutionality of the Ken
lucky separate coach law is attacked
by a suit filed at Louisville against
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad.
William and George Winnegar of
Dexter, who went shooting on Perch
Lake, were found Saturday dead in
their hunting boat. The police arc
searching for clcws of possible
murder.
Miss Sallie Wheeler died in Phila-
delphia, aged 1903 years. She was
born in birmingham, Eng, Dec rs,
1870. Up to the time of her death she
was in possession of all her faculties.
One department in an Oliver Iron
and Steel company's mill and factory
OF United States Class company at
Pittsburg has resumed non-union.
Puddlers at Sligo mill reject reduc-
ton and expect TO be replac by non
union mon.
Judge IIebbard of the Superior Court
appointed r. Wiley receiver Of the
Pacific bank at San Francisco, Cal.
Phil Evans. colored, charged with
assault at Bardstown, was brought to
Louisville 20 prevent him from being
lynched.
DIR. j. NJ. Pratt, one of the best
known physicians Of Hill county,