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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
NEWS In GENERAL
APPALLING CATASTROPHE
Scores OF Lives Lost In Costly Dock
Fire at Hoboken, N, J.

New YORK, July almost $40, 0oo,-
900 worth of property was destroyed,
many lives were lost, many persons
were injured and at least 1900 lives
were imperilled by fire that started
among cotton bales under Pier of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany, in Hoboken, N. j., at o'clock
yesterday afternoon. In less than
fifteen minutes the flames covered an
area quarter of mile in length, ex-
tending outward from the actual shore
line to the bulkheads, from 600 to 200
feet away, and had caught four great
ocean liners and a dozen or more
smaller harbor craft in its grasp.
Stories in regard to the loss OF life
are conflicting, the number being
variously estimated at from fifty to
200. Up to midnight ten bodies had
been recovered, but they were all
burned and blaclsened SO that identi-
fication was impossible. The hospitals
in New York. Hoboken and Jersey
City are crowded with the injured.
hC hoAhCs tCu ~ SuuuChiN uhu
gained such Roadway that the people
on the piers and on the numerous YES
sells locked were unable to reach the
street. There were great gangs of
workmen on the piers, and these, to-
gether with number of people who
were at the docks on business and WIS.,
iting the ships, scattered in all direc-
tions. As all means of exit were cut
off by the flames, they were forced to
jump overheard, and it is believed a
great number of people were drowned.
At the docks of the North German
Lloyd were the Saale, a single screw
passenger steamship of 4,965 gross
tons; the Bremen, a twin-screw pas
senger and freight steamship Of 1886
tons, and the Main, twin-screw
freight and passenger steamship of
10000 gross tons. They all caught
fire and were burned to the waters
edge. The Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse,
which had Just come in, was the only
one of the big vessels at the dock that
escaped, and it was slightly scorched.
Then by shift in the wind the flames
were sent in the direction of the dock
of the Hamburg-American line, at
which the steamship Phenicia was
locked. The flames got good hold
on the Phenicia and she was lowed
out into mid-stream ablaze. and was
badly damaged, but not destroyed.
Men working in the holds of the
steamships were shut in by walls Of
flame and it was impossible to reach
them. 1t probably never will be
known how many men persisted in the
ships, as the flames were SO fierce they
would leave but few If any remnants
of the human body.
The loss of the North German Lloyd
docks alone is placed at $4,000, 900.
The value of the great quantity of
cotton, oil and various other merchan-
disc on the docks has not been esti-
mated at this time. The loss to the
North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany alone will probably come close
to SIC, 900, 900.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
WERE SAFE JUNE as.
An Imperial Decree Says tho Ministers
Were in Pekin at that Time.

An Imperial Decree Says tho Ministers
We're in Pekin at that Time.
LONDON, June 3O.-There is abso-
1utely no authentic word as to the
whereabouts of the members of the
legations, although abundant reports
from Chinese sources say that they
were safe few days ago. The Daily
Mails Shanghai correspondent says:
IAN imperial decree has been sent
to all the viceroys advising them that
the foreign ministers were safe in Pek-
ing on June 25, and affirming that the
government would protect them. This
is authentic and reliable. i received
it through high Chinese official hav-
ing means of communication from
Picking to Shanghai by courier to Pao
Ting Flu, and thence by telegraph"
(, There is no doubt that the Chinese
government fully recognizes what the
safety of the ministers implies at the
present time, and for this reason there
is less uneasiness about them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
TROOPS ORDERED TO PEKING.
Gen. Adna c. Chaffee to Have Com
mand of American Forces.

Gen. Adna c. Chanee to Have Com
mand Of American Forces.
WASHINGTON, June 27.--The purpose
of the government to place adequate
military force IN China was made per-
fectly clear yesterday when orders
were issued to Brig. Gen. Adna K.
Chaffee to take command of forces in
China and to proceed at once to as,
sumo his new duties. More signifi,
cant, probably, than the assignment
itself was the wording of the formal
orders to General Chaffee, issued late
in the day, Acting Secretary of War
Meiklejohn directing Gen. Chaffee to
command troops ''ordered to China, =
and to proceed to Picking by way of
San Francisco and Taku, accompanied
by his aides. 1t has been expected
that military forces would be concen-
trated at Che Foo or some other con-
venient military base, but the direc-
ton to proceed to Picking, the capital
of the Chinese empire, indicated a firm
determination on the part of the gov.
eminent authorities to have strong
military force at the Chinese capital.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
URGE SPEEDY SETTLEMENT.
British Columbians Think Alaskan
boundary Dispute should End.

British CoIumbians Think Alaskan
boundary Dispute should End.
LONDON, June 30.-British Columbia
has sent representatives to London to
warn the imperial government that
the unsettled Alaskan boundary ques-
tion is still pregnant with danger.
Robert Ward of the British Columbia
board Of trade in Victoria, who has
come to urge the necessity for action
at the congress of chambers of COM
merce of the British empire, now in
session here, said to correspondent:
1.-THE temporary agreement between
the United States and Great Britain is
wholly unsatisfactory to British sub
jects, on the ground that it is source
of constant irritation. While we be-
lieve that all points of difference are
capable of adjustment by arbitration,
the temporizing policy which seems to
recommend itself to the home govern
ment is fraught with serious possibili-
ties. The gold fields and the extern
sion of the British trade which is GER
tain to follow in it's wake make an
early final settlement of the matter Of
the most vital Importance.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05

Sioux CITY, July 2.-Homer Robb,
alias Homer Chase, is locked up on the
charge of conspiracy to rob and muir
der. His arrest is the result Of an in
vestigation which the police have
been conducting since the Sunday of
the big excursion into Sioux City,
June 10. On that day Chris Schroeder,
tailor in the employ Of Barrett Bros,
at Dunlap, was taken by two strangers
onto a sand bar in the Missouri river
at a point north of the city. Schroeder
was intoxicated. There the strangers
stripped him of his clothes and robbed
him of $40. They carried away his
clothing and left the unconscious man
to the mercy of the waters. He awoke
the next morning, reached shore and
managed to find his way to farm
house, where he got some clothes.
Robb denies his guilt.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05

Iowa county. Wis, lays claim to hav-
ing the lowest salaried official in the
employ Of the United States govern.
ment. The government hires Franz
Lynch for one cent year to carry the
mail between Dodgeville, the county
seat OF Iowa county, and Mineral
Point. nine miles distant. Every -four
years the postoffice department con.
tracts to lowest bidders for transfer OF
mail sacks. Last year there was the
liveliest competition ever known fol
the Dodgeville-Mineral Point contract
Several different Lien signified theii
intention Of going into the contest, and
the talk" was kept up until each bid.
der knew that he would have to &c
pretty low to get the prize. The. man
who then held the contract had been
receiving about $40 per year for carry
ing the mail. 1t is said that when the
bids for the new contract were opened
in Washington 1t was found that the
three lowest offers for carrying the
mail per year were l cent, 80 cents and
$1.50. Frank Lynch, being the one
cent bidder, was awarded the contract
for four years.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
PUSHING ON TO PEKING.
Relieving Column Has No Rest Afte
Rescuing Seymour.

Relieving Column Has No Rest After
Rescuing Seymour.
LONDON, June 29.-The casualties OF
the international force attacking Tien
Tsin were: American killed, 3; wound
ed, 2; British killed, 2; wounded, 1;
Germans killed, Is; wounded, %; Rus
slams killed, 10; wounded, 81. The
gun FIRE of the Americans and British
is described as beautiful" After the
relieving force pushed on to relieve
Admiral Seymour, Chinese regulars
under General Mich, says dispatch
from Shanghai, again attacked Tien
Tsin fiercely and bombarded the for
eign settlement with terrific fire.
Railway communication from Taku
to Tien Tsin has been restored, and
the force is. advancing toward Picking.
Fighting was in progress Wednesday
in the vicinity of Use Chulin. Large
preparations are being made to sup
port and reinforce the Picking relieving
column. Twenty thousand troops of
all arms, largely Japanese, have now
been landed. The fate of the members
of the legation is still mystery. If
they are alive and unframed at Picking,
the Chinese government deserves some
credit, Shanghai correspondents think,
for restraining the fanatical mob.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05

The mud volcanoes situated in the
vicinity Of Laytonville, CAL, have
burst into alarming activity. The
first intimation the inhabitants had
Of the phenomenon was when an i'm
mense cloud of vapor issued from the
mouth Of the craters, accompanied by
n sound like faraway thunder. The dis
turbance is SO violent that great red
VIC I'd trees are swayed when the mud
and vapor shoots high over the rims
Of the crater and flows down the hill
side like lava stream into one of the
tributaries Of the Eel River. The
murky craters are filled with blush
mud of about the consistency Of boil
ing tar, but the mud is icy cold. The
roar of the volcanoes can be heard
for miles around.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
THE GROUNDING OF THE OREGON
indicat lions Are That the Vessel is Badly
Damaged.

managed.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The navy de.
partment received a cablegram from
Captain Wilde, of the Oregon. dated
Che Foo, confirming the report that
his ship is aground fifty miles from
Taku. The Iris and another relief
ship are now with the Oregon. Capt.
Wilde says that there is much water
in the forward compartment, with a
hole in the side of the vessel and small
holes through the bottom. Pinnacle
rock, where the Oregon is aground, is
about rs feet high, encircled by a
shoal, and should not be approached
nearer than three cables. There is a
strong current always prevalent in the
vicinity, and this fact, together with
the dense fog which prevailed at the
time, realty enhanced the danger in
navigating the Oregon. The officials
of the navy photographers Office say
there is great rise and fall of tide
and it is possible the Oregon will be
lifted off in this way. 1t is probable
that she can be saved If the weather
does not become rough. Unfortu-
nately this is the season of storms in
Chinese waters.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
DIES MoINEs. Julx .. 1000.

DIS MoINEs, July 2, 1900.
A few weeks ago there was a SUI
plus in the state treasury of Iowa
about 100000 This has been dr.
pleted by two months of state insti-
tuition warrants and other outgo not
met by the income during the summer
months from tax collections, and Is
now about Ss75,00O. This, it is ex-
pected, will continue to go down until
September when the annual collection
of taxes will mean considerable in
crease.
The state board of control has made
$1,000 within few weeks out of the
advance in wheat. The board had
contracted for -four on a basis Of 60, 900
bushels of wheat or more IL wanted for
state institutions, to be delivered as
wanted. The prices quoted when the
contracts were made several weeks
ago were very low.
Iowa soldiers will return the confed-
crate flag captured by them in 1865,
from the state house in Columbia, s. c.
This flag is a garrison flag and is now
in the possession of the Iowa State
Historical Society at Iowa City. Col.
H. III. Rood, OF Vinton, is member of
the trustees of this society, and is also
president of the Crocker Brigade.
Soldiers from this brigade captured
the flag. The society has planned to
turn the confederate flag over to the
brigade through Colonel Rood at its
meeting in Keokuk, in October. This
is with the expectation that it will be
returned by the brigade to the confed-
crate veterans from whom it was cap
tured, or to the state of South Caro-
lima. About 1891 a confederate general
came to Iowa and returned flag that
was captured from one of the Iowa
regiments during the war, much to
the delight of the veterans here. The
return OF, the confederate flag will be
a return compliment.
Chairman Weaver, of the republi.
can state central committee, has as
sured Sidney A. Foster, j. q. Rounds
and !. Friedrich, of the executive COM
mittee .of the Auditorium company,
that the republican convention of
August will come to Des Moines, as
agreed. Weaver attaches one con-
dition to his promise. lie spoke for
the committee, and assured the local
managers that if the progress on the
rebuilding of the auditorium has
reached such point by July 20, as to
insure the completion by August /, no
change will be made in the conven-
ton plans. IL on that date the in
dications are that the work cannot
be finished in time, the committee will
take steps to take the convention to
Cedar Rapids or elsewhere. Mr..
Weaver himself expressed perfect con-
fidence in the ability of Des Moines
to fulfill its part of the agreement
and said he has no doubt the convesi-
ton will be held here. The execu-
tive committee has determined Ito
work at least two shifts of men on
the auditorium, with the purpose of
getting it done by August l without
fail.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
JONES CASE is TAKEN UP
Investigation Of Charges Made by
Treasurer Herriott.

lTC0SuTCT IlCTTtOtts
Dies MONIES, July 2.--Jesse Miller
has filed with the governor his report
concerning the conduct of the Office Of
the clerk of the supreme court. The
commission was made because OF
charges by Treasurer Herriott that
fees belonging to the state were not
turned into the state treasury. Mr..
Miller states he had free access to all
the books in the clerks Office and that
amounts received from all classes Of
fees are easily ascertainable therefrom.
He finds that all but the following
classes were turned into the treasury:
Money received for copies of supreme
court decisions furnished West Pub
fishing Co. of st. Paul.
Money received for copies furnished
attorneys.
A portion of the money received for
certificates of admission of attorneys
to the bar.
Money received for making examina-
tions of judgment docket as to judg-
ments
Money received for making tran
scripts of cases appealed to the supreme
court OF the United States.
The report states that copies were
furnished the West Publishing Co. at
25 cents a page and that the amount
received by the clerk from January,
1895, to January, 1900, was SO, 1876. &C. :.
The copies were furnished during
the April term, 1900, by special con-
tract with Miss FANNIE Jones, the ar-
rangements being made by Chief JUS
tice Granger.
An investigation OF how the present
custom originated shows that ever
since 1879 the West Publishing Co. S
business has been a personal matter
with the clerk. The supreme court in
1885 over-ruled an application from
Blank Bros, law book publishers OF
New York, asking that the West Pub;
fishing Co. be denied the right t.
make copies of the opinions.
S1,249. As has been received by Mr..
Jones for copies furnished attorneys.
1t is found that former clerks turned
these fees over to the state.
From January, 1895, to the present
time s12 students have been admitted
to the bar and the clerk has accounted
for S405. so of the fees. A small mum.
Der paid no fee but it is believed they
belonged to the class admitted on
motion and of whom none was re
quired; S49.7O was received by the
clerk for examinationsIas to whether
there were judgements agasnst Ger.
tain persons.
The report goes into lengthy
statement regarding the affairs of the
Office but is not sensational in charac-
ter. The business with the West Pub.
fishing Co., is that of which most has
been said and in it Mr.. Jones is backed
by the precedent of his Office. The re-
port resolves the matter into a ques.
ton of law as to whether the clerk
can make personal contracts and the
chief justice of the supreme court evi.
IDENTIFY believes he can.
The governor has not yet decided
what action he will take.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
POWERS TO SEND 10000 MEN.
An q agreement Reported for Maintenance,
of Status nun

An q greement Reported for Maintenance
of Status Quo.
PARIS, July IA representative OF
the Associated Press was informed
that as result of negotiations be-
tween the powers, an agreement has
been arrived at which provides for the
maintenance of the status quo, as re-
CARDS spheres of influence and COM
mercial agreements, and also respect
ing the nature of the guarantees and
compensations which will be demanded
from China. According to the under
standing, the international army of
occupation will consist of $4,000 men.
Russia and japan will provide $4,000
each, Great Britain will provide 10000
men, France 5000 and Germany, Amer
lea and the other powers 5000 each.
The Russian army corps In Siberia,
which has just been modified, will
only cross the Chinese frontier in the
event of the crisis becoming aggra-
waited.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
No Crime to KIN an American

HAVANA, June GA Cuban police
man who recently killed an American
named Welsh and against whom the
evidence was apparently complete, in
the opinion Of army officers and others
who saw the whole affair, has just
been acquitted by the judges in cir
cumstances SO extraordinary that Gov
Gen. Wood will order an investigation
The Americans in Havana are very in
dignant over what I hey claim is a
studied attempt to show the Cubans
that it is no crime to kill an American.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05

The climax of imperial patriotism
has surely been reached by Victorian
named Melville. He was an applicant
for admission to the Bushmen's Corps
from that colony for South Africa
but, failing to pass the prescribed
tests was rejected. He then proceeded
to a lofty bridge and jumped into the
river. He was rescued with consider
able difficulty. owing to his violent
resistance. When brought to land he
said he did not want to live any long
or. as he was not allowed to fight for
the empire.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
WARS VICTIMS NEGLECTED.
Exposures ON MIsmanageme In South
Africa Stir British.

Exposures ON Msmanagement In South
Africa Stir British.
LONDON, June 29.-The exposures
regarding the hospitals in South At
rica have made a great sensation in
Britain. They began with three coll
umns of restrained language in the
Times from w. A. Burdett-Courts,
conservative member for parliament
for Westminster. His disclosures have
been widely reproduced and they are
supplemented with denunciatory tele-
grams and interviews with survivors
and army medical men. The Arch
bishop of Cape Town, in an address
before the society of GOOD Hope in
the Cape government house, expressed
great dissatisfaction at the way IN
which the sick and wounded were
treated. HIS declared that the warm
clothing that was absolutely necessary
was freely offered, but was rarely II
ever distributed by the army doctors,
that the sick slept on the bare ground,
and that even in Cape Town the way
in which the hospitals were misman-
aged made ones blood boil.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
PREPARE FOR PROLONGED WAR.
Extensive Preparations Are Being Made
In South Africa.

Extensive Preparations Are Being Made
In South Africa.
LONDON, June 30.-Outside of minor
conflicts in the Orange River colony
showing continued Boer activity in
Senekal district, kilograms from South
Africa merely indicate preparations
for final operations and tedious pros
longed war. A Capetown dispatch
reports an attempt by Beers to blow
mp the artillery barracks and maya
zine at Pretoria. Al artillerymani
who frustrated the attempt by with,
drawing lighted fuse, was killed by,
Boer, whom the soldiers afterwards
attempted to lynch. British authori-
ties are deportiag large numbers of
Hollanders to Holland to be dealt with
by their own government for not OBJ
serving the state ofneutrality declared
by the Netherlands. Capetown re-
ports that Kruger is still at Macha-
dodorp, afraid to move for fear the
bridges are undermined
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05

In California new business has
been discovered. 1t takes the form OF
drilling oil wells in the sea, and is the
latest and most remarkable. as wei.
as the most picturesque, feature Of the
great crude oil industry. This new
and radical departure. a difficult and
expensive undertaking, to say the
least. has been successfully carried out
at Summerland, the only place where
1t ever has been attempted, and there
the precious brown fluid is now pump.
ed from beneath the Pacific ocean.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
HORRIBLE SCENES.
Awful Carnage which Occurred In Tien
Tsin.

Tsin.
LONDON, June ETA dispatch has
been received at Berlin confirm
ing Admiral Kempff's announcement
of the relief of Tien Tsin on the 23d.
According to the report Of Chinese
refugee, who arrived at Shanghai, the
conditions at Tien Tsin are horrible.
Everywhere in the streets are bodies
Of massacred men and women Of all
nationalities. The Hong Kong and
German banks were destroyed during
the bombardment. Shanghai also re-
ports that the American and Russian
relief force was SO badly ambuscaded
that the forces were obliged to aban-
don several field guns and much am
munitiop. One hundred and eighty
Russians and eleven Americans were
killed and wounded. A German gun
boat and Russian torpedo boat were
destroyed while patrolling the Pei Ho
river, raking with machine guns the
native villages on the river banks,
which were filed with concealed
"snipers"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05

Bishop Nelson Of Georgia has drawn
up bill which is now before con-
gress and which provides for the es-
Enlistment of an industrial school for
negroes wherever ten thousand dol
lars can be raised for a nucleus. In
this event, seven trustees, residents of
the south, may obtain from congress
s150,000. one-third for building, equip
ment, and preliminary expenses. and
the remainder for permanent en-
dowment. The number Of these
schools is to be lifted to one for each
hundred thousand of the negro popu-
lation Of the state.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT ALBA.
Colorsd Man Shoots His Wife and
Himself.

Colorsd Man Shoots His wife and
Himself.
OTTUMwA, June 3O.-Richard Bell, a
colored man of Abba, shot and killed
his wife and then committed suicide at
the home of his wife's father. Domes-
tic troubles which have been brewing
for some time were the cause of the
tragedy. The woman had fled suit
for divorce, which was to have been
heard at the coming term of court. 1t
is supposed that Bell was trying to fix
matters up with her. Mrs. Bell spent
the night at the home of her father,
Oliver Marshall. Bell went. there and,
calling her out Of the house, shot her,
death resulting instantly. The muir
derer then tuI n ed the revolver on him
self and sent bullet through his
heart,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-05
Death Resulted From Accident.

CEDAR RAPIDS, June 2s.-The cor
oner's jury, after investigating the
death OF Express Messenger William
J. Finley, returned verdict finding
that he came TO his death by the acct.
dental discharge of his revolver, while
in the performance of his duties. While
there were some suspicious things
connected with his death, at the same
time no motive could be found for sui.
eide