Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-07
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| oeHutOT quay " a. oilcTeu TcSOlu-
ton in the United States senate on the
1st providing that the committee on
| foreign relations be and is hereby in
Etructed to report on or before the 5th
! inst. bill for the recognition of the re-
public of Cuba. The bill providing for
| the purchase of the Danish islands in
the West Indies for coaling stations
was indefinitely laid aside. Adjourned
to the 4th. In the house the naval APP
preparation bill $3.50, GOO. OOO) was passed
with an amendment providing for three
first-class battleships, ~ fast torpedo
boats and IL torpedo boat destroyers.
Adjourned to the 4th.
The opinion held in Washington by
public men and diplomatists is that the
crisis will reach it's climax this week
and that the question of war with Spain
or peace will be determined within the
next seven days. The disposition to
| hurry the president seems to have dis
appeared in congress since members
realize that his message must be a docu-
ment that is to Justify congress in it's
| action, whatever his recommendations
The pope has sent an urgent message
| to the queen regent of Spain asking
that the Cuban war be brought to an
| end in the interests of progress and
| Christianity.
In duel at Waco, Tex. w. C. Brann,
editor OF the Iconoclast, and Capt. NJ.
L. Davis killed each other.
Orders concentrating $4,000 troops in
Florida have been prepared and will be
issued by telegraph the instant HOSTILE
ties are declared.
A boiler explosion near Campbles-
vile, KY. killed four men outright and
| fatally hurt another.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt decreased
$1,3s7,S65 during the month of March.
The cash balance in the treasury was
SS53,79s,46S. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,oos, 716,351.
dispatch from Madrid says the
Spanish torpedo boat flotilla has ar
rived at the island of Porto Rico.
Word comes from Madrid that Gen.
Woodford. the American minister to
Spain. is preparing to leave there in the
S'Sht vi q
Prince Bismarck celebrated his
eighty-third birthday at his home in
| Berlin.
Noah Raby, an inmate of the aims
house near New Brunswick. N. j., cele-
| brated his one hundred and twenty
sixth birthday.
1t is reported that a shanty boat
sunk three miles above Mount Carmel,
ILL.,, and family consisting of five per-
sons lost their lives.
At a cabinet meeting it was an
nounced that SPANS answer to the ulti-
matum of this government was unsatis-
factory, and policy which seems GER
tainly to involve hostilities was de-
cided upon. President Mckinley will
send message to congress explaining
the status of affairs and asking the CO.
! operation of the Legislative body in
dealing with Spain. One of the signifi-
cant happenings of the day was an Of
fer of mediation by France, but it was
automatically declined by the presi-
dent.
NJ. Whrendorf, his three children and
sister and brother-in-law, were drowned
in the river near ST. Francis, Ark, by the
upsetting of boat.
The state department has ordered all
consuls in Cuba to repair at once to
Havana, there to be in readiness for in.
slant departure.
John Harris and his wife and child
and two men named Hicks were drowned
near Spottsville, KY, by the capsizing
of boat.
Mrs. Mary Ann Mcbride (colored)
died in Mount Carmel H., aged 102
years.
The report that the Spanish torpedo
flotilla had arrived at Porto Rico was
untrue. The flotilla is at Cape Verde
islands, where it will remain until fur
ther orders.
The Mexican government will prevent
any raising of troops by Spaniards, as
has been contemplated, along the from
tier.
Mrs. Glover cut the Threats Of her six
children at Hobart, B. c., and then
drowned herself while temporarily i'm
sane.
Commodore Schley has notified the
navy department that the flying squad
ron at Hampton Roads is ready to sail
at an hours notice.
Mrs. Louise Brewer, wife of Justice
Brewer, of the United States supreme
court, died at her home in Washington,
aged 60 years.
The Missouri popu1ists Withhold their
state convention in ST. Louis on July ?.
Shawneetown Qll.) place of 1900 in
habitants, was practically wiped out Of
existence by the breaking of levee,
and it was reported that $50 persons
were caught in the sudden flood and
drowned. Hundreds of others were
swept into the Ohio, clinging to the
roofs of houses or floating on pieces Of
board. The food extends four miles
inland, and people were fleeing for their
lives from all lowland hamlets.