Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-05-05
War News,

Lead and sugar are advancing rapidly
IN London owing to the war.
A steamer chartered by Hong Kong
banks has gone to Manila to bring away
the specie there.
A dispatch from Havana says the en-
tire American squadron has sailed, prob
ably in the direction of Key West.
Portugal's neutrality decree was pub.
lished Friday. 1t forbids the equipment
OF privateers in Portuguese waters.
Governor Black OF New York has
commissioned Frederick Dent Grant as
colonel OF the Fourteenth regiment.
The German cruiser Irene, carrying a
crew OF over $50 men, has left Nagasaki
for Manila to protect German interests.
Secretary Alger has submitted to con-
gress deficiency estimates of $34, O00, 900
to cover additional army expenses to
July l.
governor Lee OF oourn Dakota Sc.
cured change in the order of the war
department making Huron the rem
devious Of state troops, and the CEN
tralization will be at Sioux Falls.
The house military committee agreed
to increase the number of volunteers to
be raised from the United States at
large from 5000 to 1900. This will
allow the enlistment of 10000 immunes.
General Manager Doddridge of the
Missouri Pacific, has announced that
the positions of any of the employees of
the road who enlisted would be re.
served for them until hostilities ended.
An American sugar estate in Porto
Rico W as plundered after the declara.
ton of war. The British consul, in
charge of American interests, has asked
for the p resence of a British warship,
Sixty torpedoes, ordered by Brazil at
the Whitehead torpedo factory in
Flume, have been coded, with Brazils
consent, to the United States. Forty
five have already been forwarded to
Key West.
Owing to the arrest of some English
men III Cuba as American spies and
their iltreatment, representations have
been made to the foreign office and ne.
gotiations have been made for taking
off British subjects by British men.of.
war.
The Red Gross ship, State of Texas,
with nurses and medicine, arrived at
Key West April % from New York. She
will proceed to Sagua la Grande. The
State OF Texas carries supplies from
N ebraska, western Iowa and South Da.
kota.
The British ambassador at Washing
ton, Sir Julian Pauncefote, is to be sue
ceeded by Sir Thomas H. Sanderson,
the permanent under secretary of state
for foreign affairs, one of the most ex-
perienced diplomatic officers in the
British service.
Miscellaneous News
There will be q meeting of the Ma
tlonal committee of the Populist party
IN Omaha on June 10.
The New Athens, ILL.,, brewery plant
was entirely burned, Friday, causing a
loss estimated at 500, 900 fully insured.
The French court of agriculture has
decided to favor the suppression of
wheat duties at French ports until
July l.
The First National bank of Carthage,
N. y, closed its doors Tuesday. The
president of the bank has abs conded.
An investigation of his accounts is be.
ing made.
Fifteen hundred stonecutters and
helpers, struck at Chicago Monday,
against cut from 81 per day to So. It
is feared other building trades will be
called out.
John Y. McKane, the former Gear
OF Coney Island,' completed term of
five years in Sing Sing Saturday and is
now free man. McKanes crime was
a violation of the election laws.
Judge Asquith, Is years of age, and
his wife Marion, aged ", were found
dead in bed Friday in their home at