Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-06-09
NEWS BOILED DOWN.
Railroad Notes,

tAo esGluuateu gross earnings OF tne
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific railroad
both east and west of the Missouri river,
for May are 81, 900, 545. an increase as
compared with May, 1897 of 1884 ,055.
Foreign Gossip.
The new Russian cruiser Svetlana,
of 3,S2S tons displacement, has been
ordered to the Pacific.
The Corean government has decided
TO open three more ports and also to
make Ping Yam an open market.
The race for the Grand Prix de Paris
was run at Longchamps Sunday and
was won by Baron de Rothschilds'
LIE Roi Soleil.
A confagration at Peshawir, which
was not mastered for "a hours, has de-
stroyed 1900 houses, doing damage to
the amount of about $4,000 900. This
is supposed to be the record fire of India
The report that revolution has brok-
en- out in Santo Domingo is confirmed.
1t is rumored that the insurgents have
captured the town of Santiago de Los
Cabilleros 1t is also reported that
President Heaureaux of San Domingo
was assassinated.
Great excitement was caused at Bel
fast, Ireland, Monday, by a Nationalist
demonstration in honor of the revolu-
ton of 1898. Several collisions occurred
between the demonstrators and the op-
posing crowd. Stones We're thrown, a
general melee followed and arrests
were made.
A sensation has been created in Rus
sian official circles by the news of an at
tack by 900 natives on a Russian post
garrisoned by 800 infantry, at the town
of Andijan, province of Ferghana, Tur-
kestan. It is said that 20 of the SOL
diers We're killed and that is were
wounded. No such reverse to the Rus
sian arms has occurred in Central Asia
IN many years.
War Talk.
The United States gunboat Marietta
arrived at Key West, June 4, after
long voyage from Valparaiso.
The war department Saturday chart
cred the Gate City and the City of Ma
con for transport purposes for the Cuban
army of invasion.
The cruiser St. Paul, it is believed,
will follow the St. Louis on scout to.
ward Spain to spy out the movements
of Camara's Cadiz fleet
A dispatch from Madrid says a special
izing the issue of an international loan
OF LOCO, 900. 600 pesetas at 4 per cent.
The torpedo boat Dupont arrived at
Mobile Monday to go into the dock for
repairs to her hull, she having been in
collision with some vessel at Key West.
Representative Lacey of Iowa has in
troduced bill to enable volunteer SOL
diers in the field to vote in congress-
ional elections during the present war.
The board of officers appointed to
investigate the alleged unhealthful con-
ditions at Camp Alger, Va, has made
its report. They recommend that no
more troops be sent there.
A Paris dispatch says considerable
quantities Of large and small ammuni-
ton are traversing the Pyrenees from
France into Spain, and that there is no
attempt to stop the traffic.
Vessels just from the Havana Car
denas blockade report there has been no
excitement along the line for the last
10 days, but they say the Spaniards are
beginning new Notifications at various
points.
The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Co., has
made and shipped to Watervleit arsen-
al, New York, the largest cannon forg.
ing ever turned out III America It is
the first one Of the 16-inch group ordered
for Sandy Hook.
The Spanish troop ship Alfonso XIII,
with troops and coal on board was cap
tured on Monday off Cape Maysi by the
auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, Captain
Sigsbee. The St. Paul fired II shots
before the troop ship surrendered and
several of them took effect.
1t is said that consignment of 40
Krupp guns, suitable for battleships,
has been sent from Essen, Germany, to
Cadiz, and is now on its way to Spain.
1t is said that the guns passed through
the German, French and Spanish Gus
tom houses as Kitchen furniture
Jose Castellanes and Frank Miller,
who are believed to be spies, were
brought to Atlanta Friday from Tampa,
in charge OF Lieutenant johnson of the
Fourth artillery. No papers were found
on them. The two men We're locked
up in the military prison at Fort Nc
Pherson.
General Merritt has been instructed
by Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
john to see to it that the First regi-
ment, Nebraska volunteers, now at
San Francisco, goes in the next expedi-
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the troops will start the fore part of
next week.
Reports from various northwestern
states indicate that President McKin-
ley's second call for volunteers, asking
for 10000 men, will meet with hearty
response Independent companies are
already organized in many states and
these will be offered to the service of
the country.
General Fred Grant took the oath of
brigadier general at Chicamauga We'd
nesday. The oath was administered by
Judge George A. Harris of Rome. Ca,
an ex-confederate, and the ceremony
was witnessed by large concourse of
people, in which were confederates and
ex-federal soldiers.
The little sloop Spray, which left
Boston three years, one month and
seven days ago, to circumnavigate the
globe, has arrived at the island of An
tigua, West Indies. Skipper Slocum,
who is also the sloop's crew, is well, and
expresses determination to complete
his trip around the world.
Steps have been taken by which it is
expected that Lieut.. Carranza, who has
conducted the Spanish spy system from
Montreal with his associate, Senior Du