Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-04
items OF GENERAL news


outright and a half dozen injured.
The National League of Republican
Clubs has been called to meet in con-
vention at Cleveland, o., on the 18th
of June.
The would-be assassin of Ii Hung
Chang, the Chinese peace envoy, has
been convicted and sentenced to penal
servitude for life.
Anthony c. Hesing, former editor
and proprietor of the Illinois Stats
Zeltung, died in Chicago on the 3lst
from stroke of paralysis.
Bismarck was so years old on the 1st
and all over the fatherland a general
celebration of the event was par
ticipated in by the many admirers of
the greatest civilian Of the empire.
The event was also celebrated at
numerous places in this country.
The Oregon express was held up by
two robbers near Wheatland, Cal.
They compelled Engineer Bowsher to
stop the train and go back and open
anything there the robbers went back
and started to rob the passengers.
Sheriff Board of Tehama county was
on the train and opened fire on the
robbers in the smoker, killing one. and
was himself killed by the other robber.
The fireman was shot in the neck and
leg. A passenger named Sampson of
Redding had his head cut. Several
passengers were robbed. The dead
robber was not identified. The other
robber escaped.
England and France are engaged in
a dispute over affairs in the Upper
Nile region.
The commander of the Spanish YES
sci which fired upon the Alliance has
been removed pending investigation of
the affair
The emperor Of Japan has declared
an unconditional armlstice with China,
to continue during the negotiations for
peace. The assault upon Lii Hung
Chang is said to have Influenced this
action, which it is thought will be
very unpopular with the military.
Troops will not be withdrawn from
Chinese territory pending the
armistice
All pensions below So will be raised
to that point at the next pay day,
April 4.
1t is reported that the American
commission will find the reports of
the American atrocities well founded:
The Japanese emperor has issued
rescript expressing deep regret at the
assault made upon Ii Hung Chang and
commanding that the severest punish
ment be meted out to the criminal.
Six Kentucky mountaineers tried to
rob train on the Queen & Crescent
railroad. The officials got wind of
their intention and they were met by
three detectives, who succeeded in
killing one of them, fatally wounding
another and seriously wounding a
third. The others escaped.
Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, has
lelI NdSnlHS lOh loI lIOAoIuIu'
A Chicago negress who murdered a
negro has been sentenced to hang.
Muruaga, Spanish minister to Wash
ington, has rendered his resignation.
In honor of Prince Bismarcl's S0th
birthday, Emperor William, on horse
back, surrounded by brilliant
military staff, escorted by a detach-
ment of infantry, cavalry and artillery,
marched to the open space in
Bismarck's park deploped in parade
order on the morning of the Goth. The
emperor then took a position in front
of the troops and delivered an address
of congratulation to Bismarck, and, in
the presence of the army, presented
him a sword of honor of antique form,
richly embossed and inlaid with gold.
Bismarck then retired to the carriage
and the troops. led by the emperor,
passed in review before him. The
emperor afterward lunched with
Bismarck in the palace, the troops
standing outside as guard of honor.
The emperor proposed Bismarck S
health and presented him with a seal
from the writing table of his grand
father Emperor William l.