Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-28
items OF GENERAL news

| the Cuban army.
! Kansas City had million dollar fire
in the packing house district.
Mckinley a few days ago announced
that ''if the republican party should de-
clare for free silver, / should decline
| then it's candidate and would quit the
party forever"
! Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese viceroy,
who was sent to Japan as peace
| envoy. was shot in the face few days
ago by young Japanese, who, it is
claimed, is insane. The assailant
rushed from a crowd when Lis
panlenquin was passing and fred at
! the Chinese statesman. The bullet
entered the viceroy's left cheek, caus-
ing serious wound, but it is reported
that the prince is rapidly recovering.
! The assassin has been arrested and it
| is said he will be charged with treason,
as the assault was not only against the
person of Ii Hung Chang, but also
against the japanese government.
The Japanese diet passed resolution
of regret at the occurrence, and the
emperor rendered his earnest regrets
and sent his private physician to at
tend the aged diplomat.
The complaint upon which Minister
Thurston's recall was requested states
that he made statements to the press
rejecting upon Minister Willis at
Honolulu and intended to discredit him
and impair his usefulness.
A dispatch announces that John L.
Waller, former United States consul at
Tamateve, Madagascar, has been tried
before a French court martial and
found guilty of having been in cor
respondence with the -Hovas,, and
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment. The secretary of state will
investigate.
In the reichstag few days ago the
proposals of Herr Won Levetzow, pres
ident of that body, to send congrat-
ulations to Bismarck upon the celebra-
ton of his sOth birthday were rejected,
1853 to LAG. Won Levetzow at once
rendered his resignation. Vice-Pres-
ldent Burklein also resigned. Emperor
William sent a message to Bismarck
expressing profound Indignation at the
action of the reichstag.
A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says
that three days battle with the revo
lutionary factions was fought in that
city and that over thousand unburied
dead bodies lay in the streets. A pro-
visional government has been arranged.
A frightful explosion in the Central
Pacific mine at Red Canyon, five miles
north of Evanston, Wyo., shook the
earth and caused the frightened people
to rush into the street. 1t wrecked the
power plant. fan house and several
other buildings, entailing heavy loss;
blocked the slopes and entrances to
the lower workings by wreckage and
caves: killed nearly every man in the
neigh borhood of the mouth of the
shaft and imprisoned all the miners
below. Later a rescue party pushed
into the mine and succeeded in recov-
ering the bodies of fifteen men. There
is no hope that any of the imprisoned
miners are alive, and the total death
list will reach siXty-one. Thirty of
these were members of the A. o. U. W.,
in which they were insured for $4,000.
The dispute between Guatemala and
Mexico seems now to be in fair way
toward settlement.
Indictments have been returned
against thirty-ive participants in the
recent riot at New Orleans.
A dynamite explosion at Salmouth,
Germany, blew up several vessels,
| killed thirteen people and did other
| damage.
A large number of negroes left
| Savannah for Liberia recently.
The Harvard faculty has passed a
resolution condemning foot ball.
Ii Hung Chrng's journey to Japan is
the first step he has ever taken from
Chinese soil.
1t is asserted that Secretary GreSh-
am has demanded the recall of Lorin
A. Thurston, Hawaiian minister to
Washington, on the grounds that he
is persona non grata.
The Sabbath Observance Association
of st. Louis began action against
saloons, etc, and the saloon men have
begun fight against all other viola
tors of the Sunday law.
Ten members and ex-members of the
New York police force have been in
dicted on charges of corruption.
1t is said that Ambassador Bayard
will be instructed to ask Great Britain
as to her purpose in sending the recent
ultimatum to Nicaragua.
The vessel which fired upon the AL
lance is said to be the Condo de Vena-
ditto. Her commander says the Al
lance hoisted the British flag.
Rumor is rife that the schooner
Irene, of Key West, was fired upon
and dismantled, near the southern
coast of Florida, by a Spanish gun
boat.
TEN members of the New York police