Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-07-07
Foreign News.

ter has increased t439, 921, as compared
with the same period of 1897.
There was violent earthquake shock
at SIM, u town of Palmatia, early Satur.
day morning. Several houses collapsed.
General Jiminez has been put in prison
at Nassau by the British authorities.
He will be tried for violating the inter.
national laws by enisting in foreign
country.
A Madrid dispatch says: The Spanish
government has ordered the formation
of q flying squadron composed of the
cruisers Alfonso Kill, Meteor formerly
HaveD, and the Ciudad de Cadiz, under
command of Lieutenant Commander
Jose G.. Sobral, former naval attache OF
the Spanish embassy at Washington.
Chief Mahomed Ali Khanlif, and five
other ringleaders of an attack recently
made by 1000 natives on a Russian post
garrisoned by 300 infantry, at the town
of Andijan, province of Forghana, Tur-
kestan, when 20 soldiers were killed and
10 wounded, have been publicly hanged.
Chief Ischan had summoned his follow
ers to take part in holy war.
King Leopold of Belgium has COM
missioned r. Dorsey Mohun, formerly
United States consul and commercial
agent in the Congo Free State, and who
has since occupied a similar position at
Zanzibar, to build telegraph line from
Lake Tanganika to Wadelai on the Up
per Nile, via Nyangwo and Stanley
Falls. Mr.. Mohun, it is said, is to be
allowed free hand in the selection of
his staff and will employ American and
British engineers.
Mnrtuorx RacDr
Captain f. L. Shoemaker, of the
Fourth United States cavalry, died
Friday at Brighton, England
Patrick Haggins, said to be the oldest
man in Pennsylvania, died at Scranton
Tuesday night, aged III. His age is
authenticated by records and certificates
which show that he was born in county
Londonderry, Ireland, November 1, 1881.
John j. Finnegan, president of the
American Federation of Steam Engi-
neers, died at Chicago Saturday, the re-
suit OF an attack upon him by some men
supposed to be members of the stone
cutters union. John A. Weber, an
other member, was assaulted by the
same men, and is at home with a broken
leg. For several months the stonecut-
tiers union has had a grievance against
tAC OIlsolICSAS.
Hon. w. H. Camp, a member of the
city council, died at his home in Dallas,
Tex, June 80, of general physical col
lapse. Mr. Camp had been sick for sew
eral months. Mr.. Camp was formerly
chairman of the state Democratic ex-
ecutive committee Of Kansas and later
was national Democratic committeeman
from that state. He was at one time a
wealthy stock raiser in Kansas, but for
the last several years has been travelling
salesman.
Michael Schwab, the anarchist, died
in a Chicago hospital July l. Schwab was
held responsible with Parsons, Spies,
Lingg, Fischer, Engel and Neebe for
hurting the dynamite bombs on May 4,
1886, which caused the death of seven
policemen i'll the Haymarket riot The
punishment melted out to him was life
imprisonment in the Joliet penitentiary,
but June 26, 1898, he was pardoned and
restored to citizenship by Governor
John P. Altgeld. Returning to Chicago
he resumed his position as editorial
writer on the Arbeiter Zeitung, but be-
came involved in quarrel with its
directors and was forced to resign in
| 1896. His lite since then was marked
by extreme poverty and he finally fell a
| victim to consumption.