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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
LABOR RIOT AT CLEVELAND.
Strikers Attack Nonunion Iron Workers.
RiupleaderA Arrested

hlnsleauerS Arrested.
CLEVELAND, May 2.-The police were
called upon to quell a riot in the Big
-Four yards yesterday, where 20 nom
union iron workers We're engaged in re-
pairing bridge. They were attacked
by about go members of the Structural
Iron Workers union. The trouble
came as the result of the refusal of the
nonunion lien to astop work, strike
having been declared by the union
Clubs, stones and pieces of iron were
used by the combatants and several of
the participants received bad cuts and
bruises. The police arrested the leaders
in the fight.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
Beebie Charged With Murder.

LONDON, April 3o.-A despatch to the
Daily Mail from Johannesburg, dated
Thursday, says: Personal examination
at the scene of the Begbie works show
that the works were destroyed by the
explosion beyond repair, probably this
side Of the declaration of peace, although
the shell-making plant may be trans
ferred to another foundry. It is said
that II workmen are still unaccounted
for. Mr.. Begbie IS charged with mur-
der. He is suspected by the Beers of
having blown up his works, which cost
100000. in order to revenge himself for
the affront of being compelled to manu-
facture munitions of war for the en-
emy.'
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
NIurdered bv Unknown Men.

OTTUMwA, Ia, April 30.-Josiah Carr,
an aged farmer living five miles south
of here, was brutally murdered by un-
known men. His body was found in
a cellar, where he had been dragged.
The old man lived alone and was con-
sidered well. The sheriff and dep
uties are searching for the murderers.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
Boer Envoys VIII Sail Thursday.

The HAGUE, April 30.--The members
of the Boer Peace commission will sail
from Rotterdam for the United States
next Thursday by the Holland American
line steamship Maasdan. DR.. Leyds
and DR.. Mueller will not accompany the
delegates.
The sudden decision of the Boer peace
delegates to 60 to America is attributed
to the fact that the government of the
Netherlands, after sounding all the
European capitals, told them they had
nothing to hope for from Europe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
viii Reprimand ChadwicK.

New YORK, May "A special to the
Herald from Washington says: "Secre-
tary Long will formally reprimar 4
Captain f. f Chadwick for his recent
criticisms Of Rear Admiral w. S. Schley.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
cripple wearIes of the word.

AKRON, Ia, May miss Lodrinia
Dixon, an unfortunate cripple, was
burned to death here and the circum-
stances point to case of suicide. 1t
was found that kerosene had been
emptied from a bowl and it is supposed
the woman put it on her clothes and
then set them on fire.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
IOWA HAPPENINGS.
Instructed for Lacey.

S1GoURNEY. Ia, May 2.-Keokuk
county Republican convention yesterday
instructed its delegates unanimously to
the Abba onvention in July to vote for
Hon. J. f. Lacey for congress.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
Governor Shaw Sign. the New La,

governor SnaW signs the new LAW.
Dies MONIES, May 2.-Governor Shaw
yesterday attached his signature to the
new building and loan law, which be-
comes effective in July. Under its pro-
visions all building and loan associa-
tions doing business in Iowa must
amend their articles by July 10 to agree
with the provisions Of the new law or
go out of business. Many of the build
ing and loan men say the law will force
them to leave the state
CLARINDA, Ia, April 30.-There will
be more rigid enforcement OF the
Clarinda city ordinance against Sunday
business than heretofore. Bootblacks
have been ordered to do no more shin
ing on Sunday, and no newspaper will
be allowed to be sold on the streets on
Sunday. For about two years no papers
have been allowed to be sold in this city
on Sunday except on the streets. Now
they will not be allowed to be sold here
at all on that day.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03

One step won't take you very far,
You've got to keep on walking;
One word won't tell who you are.
You've got to keep on talking;
One inch won't make you very tall.
You've got to keep on growing;
One little "ad won't do it all,
You've got to keep EN- going.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03

General Botha Personally Commands q
Force Opposing the Reinforce
ments Hurried to Hamilton-Helievetl
Heavy Battle Must Shortly Be Fought.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
Gervnany'r Meat Problem.

Consul Pitcairn reports that the Ger
man naval authorities at KEEL have
been compelled to buy canned and pre-
served meats in foreign markets in or
der to provision their China feet. Ger
man stock raisers and packers cannot
even supply the home demand, and
they can do nothing toward provision
ing the German fleet in an emergency.
Yet the Agrarian element in the
Reichstag has compelled the passage
of a meat exclusion act intended to
keep the meats of the United States
and other countries out of Germany
Though the law has not yet gone into
effect, 1t is already causing much in
convenience to the Commissay depart
ment at Kiel. as all the available
canned meats in the German market
have been taken up in anticipation o:
the shortage that will follow the
operation of the law.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
First Smoked Herring,

Red herring are said, like roast
pork, to have been discovered by &C
Cident. In the days of King John,
so the tale goes, Yarmouth fisher
man hung up some sailed herrings in
his hut and forgot all about them.
They hung where they were exposed
to the smoke of his wood fire, and
when he one day CHANGED to notice
them he was attracted by their strange
appearance and sampled one of them.
The taste pleased him and accordingly
he hurried to present the rest to King
John, who was then near Norwich. BY
the king they were esteemed such a
dainty that he at once expressed his
intention Of granting a charter Of in
corporation to the town from whence
they came. Only one portion Of this
interesting tradition is known to be
actual fact, and that is that the first
charter of Yarmouth was granted by
King John.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
Cells of Conditions TN China.

This touches the third and most d.
rect cause of the present outbreak. The
breaking up of China, the partition
among European nations, has been
freely discussed throughout the evils
lied world not to the pleasure or edifi-
cation Of the Chinese. Spheres Of in
fluenCe have been freely laid out on
paper by men who do not know that
the true meaning Of sphere of influ-
ence' is simply center of trouble
China Is weak. but Cinnamon are
strong, and the future of the tropical
Orient lies in their hands. Even in
Siberia the Chinese gain foothold fast
er than Russian influence spreads in
China. China cannot be conquered,
nor divided, nor retained by outside
powers il it is once awakened and
united. Some men foresee the forma-
ton of two strong nations-Manchuria
and China-instead of one nation, head
less and irresponsible. Some concede
Tartar Manchuria to Russia, in which
case Japan will take Korea which she
uOSS uOL want save do pdLl VI NhO
strategy of nations. This, Japanese
gentlemen freely concede, but it is felt
Japan will have to do it, as they have
already taken the Improbable island
Of Formosa.
Il may sum up public opinion as it
reaches me in these propositions:
Il. The foreign powers must protect
their own legations and citizens
against official weakness and local IA
naticism. This they are doing, Shout
der to shoulder-a fact of which the
people of Japan seem very proud.
''2. The foreign powers must not
make this an excuse for the partition
Of China. This is a thing impossible,
and China once aroused not al Eu-
rope could furnish the men to conquer
the country or to hold it in check.
80. The European powers, as Lord
Salisbury has distinctly pointed out,
cannot guarantee the interests of syn
dicates doing business under Chinese
jurisdiction. They can protect their
citizens under ordinary conditions, but
they cannot foster enterprises by
show of force.
a. 1t is for the general interest of
the world to hold China together, to
strengthen her government so that it
can maintain order at home and dig
nifty abroad or to treat Chinese people
wherever they go just as people OF 9TH
er nations should be treated. 1t does
not, for example, help our own trade
or relations with China to subject her
people to statutes which apply to imml-
grants or travellers from no other ma
ton.
There is no desire in Japan for war
with Russia or any other nation. There
is a feeling that Japan will not again
be made cats-paw of any European
combination. If Russia seizes Man
churia Japan will feel it her duty to
take Korea, a weak irresponsible, and
badly governed neighbOr. Every one
hopes that the flames of war will be
confined to the region where they have
been kindled."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
At Low Rates Via the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad


Visitors to the Farmers National
Congress, which meets at Colorado
{ Springs August u to 81, 1900, will
have a good opportunity to view the
scenery of Colorado travelling via the
Denver q Rio Grande railroad. The
Rio Grande road, called the Scenic
Line of the World" will sell tickets
from Denver, Colorado Springs or Pu-
eblo to all points in Colorado at one
half the usual fare for the round trip.
These tickets will be on sale Aug.
IS. Some are good for return within
ten days and some are good for 30
days. On some OF the trips stop-overs
will be allowed.
On August 80 and 81 tickets will be!
sold to Salt Lake City and return at
$40, good ten days in each directions;
stop-Overs allowed; final limit, thirty
days.
y special excursion to the Royal
Gorge will leave Colorado Springs on
August 20 at a. m. and arrive on the
return at about p. IN. This trip will
afford an opportunity to view Pueblo,
The Pittsburg of the West" and
Florence, in the center of the oil and
gas fields of Colorado.
The ID. & r. G.. has some thirty-five
or forty tours called "circle" trips
among the mountains, one of which is
the famous 1000 mile tour passing La
Veta Pass, Poncha Pass, Toltec Gorge,
Durango-Dolores Canon, Rico, Lizard
Head Pass or Las Animas Canon, Sill
tPrton, Ouray-Cimmaron Canon, Black
Canon, Marshall Pass and the Royal
Gorge. Another noted tour is from
going via the narrow gauge line, climb
Denver to Grand Junction and return,
ing Marshall Pass and winding
through Black Canon of the Gunnison,
returning over the broad gauge
through Glenwood Springs and the
Grand River Canon. over Tennessee
Pass, through Leadville and the Royal
forge.
The shorter "circle" trips are all full
of interest and wonderful scenery.
Words cannot adequately describe the
Colorado mountain scenery-it must
De seen to be realized, and the more
one sees it and gaZes upon it the more
wonderful and beautiful it becomes.
The famous Manitou Springs are on
" five miles from Colorado Springs.
from Manitou starts the Cog road
70 the top of Pixies Peak, 14,147 feet
sboye sea level In the immediate
,icinity of Colorado Springs and Man
.tou the Cheyenne Canons, Grand
,averns, Cave of the Winds, Rainbow
md Minnehaha Falls. the Seven
Falls, Ute Pass and the Garden of the,
Gods. y
Tickets will be on sale via the lines
from Chicago, st. Louis, st. Paul and
nlI points. east of the Missouri river
on August IS and 10 at one fare, plus
81, for round trip. Stop-overs allowed
on going trip after reaching Denver,
colorado Springs or Pueblo until Sept.
l. Tickets may be purchased to read
going one route and returning an
other west of the Missouri river, and
will be good for return passage un-
| til Sept. 3.
Special tourist tickets, round trips,
| half fla e. plus SO. Tickets good to
| Oct. 81. sold Aug. 1st, 18th and 21st.
Furthrr information can be had by
| address, lg any agent of the Denver &
| Rio Grande Railroad.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

OF that ill-starred Duchess d'Alencor
who lost her life at the Charity Bazaa,
hre. She was daughter of the Duke
Macmillan of Bavaria and a siste,
OF the late Empress of Austria.
1t so happens tnat the Duke de Ven
dome is the husband of Prince Albert's
elder sister, Princess Henrietta.
Hence 1t was not strange that the
young people should meet at the home
OF the duke and duchess
The duchess took a deep interest in
her brothers affair and contrived
many secret meetings for the sweet
hearts. Knowing how furious her
uncle King Leopold, would be she
kept her counsel.
There was a great fuss in the Bel
gian court. King Leopold stormed.
Prince Albert stood firm. He meant
to marry the girl he loved; and be-
sides, he said Princess Elizabeth
would be a wife fit for an emperor.
In the end love triumphed over diplo-
macy and marriage will be the re-
suit.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
kruGer the ESSue.

The world will watch with great in
terest to see what Great Britain will
do in case, as now appears not impos-
stble, it receives the surrender OF
President Kruger. The rumor that the
president is meditating a surrender,
but wishes to know first what England
proposes to do with him, may be pre-
mature. but it is certain that if he is
taken the question of his ultimate
disposition will have to be met. Tho
ground upon which Napoleon was sent
to st. Helena was that he was a pub
lie enemy and a menace to the peace
OF nations. In order to keep him in
restraint in Europe it would have beer
necessary to imprison him and so h.
was placed in tolerable comfort on tn.
remote island The same plea car
hardly be urged in the case Of Kruger
who has waged war with but one
foe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
DdOid Starr Jordan SgIrifes
from SbiSua, Japan.

President David Starr Jordan of the
Leland Stanford university, writing us
from Shigua. Japan, says:
The outbreak is the expression Of
a dissatisfaction which has been grow
ing a long time in the north of China,
which has relations with the outside
world very different from the trading
and wandering people of the southern
parts. The first source of trouble and
perhaps the least, Is found in the work
of Christian missionaries. Wisely or
unwisely, some of these put themselves
in direct opposition to tlme-honored,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

More potent toward immediate
trouble has been the invasion of rail-
way and mining engineers who wan
der about the country often reckless of
native customs or preJudices, asking
nobody's leave and needing nobody s
objections. The Chinese do not want
railroads. Still less will they consent
to have them run through their grand
fathers graves, and almost every foot
Of land is somebody's graveyard. They
do not like mines, least of all those
conducted by foreign devils in sacred
hills, and they are incensed when ore
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

is knocked off from the tombs Of tenn
pies.
Everywhere are found agents of
syndicates eager to secure concessions.
often doing nothing with them save to
hold them for future speculation The
that jurisdiction and ownership are
two different things. Jurisdiction is
costly, and unless it is in full accord
with the will and the customs of the
people over whom it is exercised it is
ineffective and improbable.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
STORYETTES.

Among the assembled officers at a
recent supper in South Africa was al
very pompous, self-opinionated ma
lor, whose rank commanded for him
respectful hearing, but whose hab-
1t of instructing his brethren in mat
ters military, both in and out of sea-
son, made him rather unpopular.
Winston Churchill and the major sat
side by side at the table, and the
martial potentate voiced his opinions
In his usual manner. Churchill bore
the infection dumbly for a season;
then, taking advantage of pause,
when the major wanted to take
breath, he said, very complacently and
t'relevantly: "Do you know, major,
met man this morning who would
gladly forfeit fifty pounds for the
pleasure of kicking YOU kicking
ne, sir!" roared the angry major;
Kicking me! l must ask you to mem
ton his name immediately" "But
the fact is, major, am not sure that
ought to tell you," replied Churchill,
with well-assumed caution. But /
insist on knowing his name at once,
mr." shouted the truculent officer,
aow red with rage. swell, sir, /
suppose L must tell you. 1t was a
poor young fellow in the hospital who
las lost both his legs by the bursting
of a she'll"
A newly engaged clerk in the en-
ploy of the Standard Oil Company
vas sent to work in a small room
that contained a health-lift. Every
morning at about 10 o'clock, when
his clerk was particularly busy with
figures, a small, black mustached
nan, quiet and diffident in manner,
entered, said: Good morning"
walked on tiptoe to the corner, and
exercised for a quarter of an hour.
It became bore to the clerk, who at
asst, one day, remarked with con-
siderable heat to the stranger: "How
10 you expect me to do my work
properly while you are fooling with
that blasted machine? I'm getting
tired of it. Why don't you put it
where it won't worry a person to
ieath?" 81 am very sorry it annoys
you" said the stranger, flushing; "I
will have it removed at once" A
porter took it away within an hour.
few days later the clerk was sent
for by Mr.. Flagler, whom he found
in earnest conversation with the
small, black mustached man. The lat
ter smiled at seeing him, gave Flag
Ter some instructions. and left the
room. ''Will you tell me who that
gentleman is?" the young man asked
a light beginning to break upon him.
THAT was Mr.. Rockefeller" was the
quaintance with the head of the great
reply. 1t was the clerks first ac-
corporation by which he was en-
plOyed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

The two and one-half mile tunnel OF
the Great Northern Railway, under the
Cascade Mountains, will be completed
in October, 1900. This summer offers
to passengers to the Pacific Coast their
last opportunity of crossing the Cas-
cade Mountains on the world-famous
Switch-Back, one of the great engi-
neering triumphs of the century.
Write for booklet, Last Year of the
SwitCh-Back," to F. |. Whitney, Gen
eral Passenger Agent, st. Paul, Mimi,
or to any agent OF the Great Northern
Railway.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

but doubtless very Objectionable Gus
toms. The national feeling is weak in
China, but the feeling for ancient GUS
toms. the feeling which we call con-
lscience, bigotry or fanaticism, accord
ing to the way it affects us. is exceed
ingly strong.
, In the south of China the people
grow rich through trade or service
with foreign devils and they have
learned the tolerance which commerce
always brings. In the north Digotry
has freer sway.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
Soldier Clothes for the Japs.

The Japanese government, through
an agent, has just made very large
purchases of shoes. cloth and iron for
the Japanese army. in st. Louis, MO.
Said the agent: Our men VIII wear
American shoes and boots into China
and when they reach Pekin will hang
American shirts on the walls to dry"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

Birmingham, England, turns out
every week sOO,oOO.OOO buttons. 1000
miles of wire of different Sizes hve
tons of hairpins, 500 tons OF nuts and
90 900 pairs of spectacles.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
P.ris' New Fire Motor.

The new motor fire engine OF the
Paris municipality Is doing excellent
work. 1t carries six men, and travels
at the rate OF thirteen miles an hour.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

Paris was the scene of the courtship,
which was pursued without difficulty,
owing to mutual family relationships.
The Duke de Vendome is the Princess
Elizabeth's first cousin. He is the son
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

Last year forty-one lives were los,
in the Colorado coal mines. This is
one for each 173 miners employed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

Congressional bills have given way
10 the mosquito bills.
L.apland is truly the land OF the
iufant industry.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
HE TALKS OF THE GOOD DONE
BY CITIES.
They Are the Birthplace OF Civilization
and Are Not Necessarily Evil -
The Farmer as Dishonest as the
Merchant.

Copyright, 1900 by Louis Klopsch.)
From st. Petersburg, the Russian
capital, where he was cordially re-
ceived by the emperor and empress and
the empress dowager, DR.. Talmage
sends this discourse, in which he shows
the mighty good that may be done by
the cities, and also the vast evil they
may do by their allurements to the un-
suspecting and the unguarded. The
text is Zechariah 1. II, MY cities
through prosperity shall yet be spread
abroad"
The city is no worse than the coun-
try. The vices of the metropolis are
more evident than the vices of the
rural districts because there are more
to be bad if they wish to be. The
merchant is as good as the farmer
There is no more cheating in town
than out of town-no worse cheating;
1t Is only on larger scale. The coun-
tryman sometimes prevaricates about
the age of the horse that he sells, about
the size Of the bushel with which he
8
at the bottom of the basket as being
as large as those at the top, about the
quarter of beef as being tender when
it is tough, and to as bad an extent
as the citizen, the merchant, prevari-
Gates about calicoes or silks or hard
ware
And as to villages, I think that in
some respects they are worse than
the cities because they copy the vices
Of the cities in the meanest shape, and
as to gossip its heaven is country
village. Everybody knows everybody's
business better than he knows it him
self. The grocery store or the black
smith shop by day and night is the
grand depot for masculine title tattle,
and there are always in the village
u half dozen women who have their
sunbonnets hanging near, so that at
the first item Of derogatory news they
can fly out and cackle it all over the
town. Countrymen must not be too
hard in their criticism of the citizen,
nor r1ust the pillow run too sharply
against the yardstick.
Cain was the founder of the first
city, and l suppose it took after him
in morals. 1t takes a city long while
prisons are the shadow of those foun-
der Where the founders of a city are
criminal eXiles, the filth, the vice, the
prisons are the shadow of their foun-
ders. 1t will take centuries for New
York to get over the good influence of
the pious founders of that city-the
founders whose prayers went up in the
streets where now banks discount and
brokers bargain and companies de-
clare dividends and smugglers swear
custom house lies. and above the roar
of the wheels and the crack of the auc-
tioneers mallet ascends the ascrip-
tioG, I'VE worship thee, o thou al
mighty dollar" The old church that
used to stand on Wall street is to this
day throwing its blessing on the scene
Of traffic, and on all the ships folding
their white wings in the harbor. In
other days people gathered in cities
for defense-nOne but the poor, who
had nothing to be stolen, lived in the
country, but in these times, when
through civilization and Christianity it
IS safe to live anywhere, people gather
in the cities for purposes of rapid
gair,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
COLORADO EXCURSIONS

In life's milk bucket the creme de
la creme rises to the top.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

The Peruvians have admirable pub
lie roads. One is 500 miles long.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16

People who like to "talk" about
others soon get talked about them.
selves