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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
HOOT Is INDICTED.
Formal Arraignment on Two Serious
Chnrgca,

Formal Arraignment on Two Serious
Charges.
WATERLOO. March 1.-THE grand
Jury has made it's final report, return
ing two indictments against Jerome
w. Hoot. The maximum sentences for
the two crimes for which Hoot is in.
dicted are ten and twenty-five years
respectively. The first indictment
charges him with assault with intent
to commit murder and the other in
dictment is on the charge of throwing
or depositing dynamite into an inhab-
tied dwelling. The court fixed the
bonds for each case at $4,000, making
the aggregate bond necessary to secure
release $50, 900.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
Russia's Suspicious Movements.

LONDON, March 1.-THE Constanti-
nopla correspondent of the Times says:
"There is a rumor that Russia intends
to ask Turkey for coaling station in
the archipelago, eitherin Lemnos, I'm
bros or Mitylene." The st. Peters
burg correspondent Of the Times says:
Fresh alarm is spreading abroad from
South Russia with regard to furt..er
suspicious military movements Rus
sian troops are concentrating at Odessa.
Perhaps, however. il is only in timely
preparation for the grand manGuvers."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE text Of
the Porto Rican bill passed by the SEN
ate yesterday is as follows:
Be it enacted, ETC., that the sum of
Sc, 095, 455, being the amount of Gus
toms revenue received on importations
by the United States from Porto Rico
since the evacuation of Porto Rico by
the Spanish forces on October Is, 1898,
TO January /, 1900, shall be placed at
the disposal of the president, to be
used for the government now existing
and which may hereafter be estab-
hshed in Porto Rico, and for public
education, public works and other
governmental and public purposes
therein, and the said sum, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated for the purpose herein
specified, out Of any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

DAVENPORT, March 1.-THE Lee
Broom and Buster Company has suf-
fered again from fire, the loss this
time amounting to $1,000. The fire
was caused by the overturning of a
stovepipe IN a back room, setting fire
TO the broom corn, the flames rapidly
spreading. The building and machin-
erv were damaged considerably, but
the company expects to be running
again in a couple of weeks.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
Alleged Dynamiters Arrested.

CEDAR RAPIDS, March 10.-Seven
young men have been arrested charged
with placing dynamite with intent to
destroy building. Recently, fol-
lowing canvass for new
petition of consent to operate a
mulct saloon law in Cedar Rapids
an empty beer keg and stick of dyna-
mite with a fuse and cap attached
was found on the steps of st. Paul's
Methodist church. The young men
arrested have confessed to placing the
keg on the steps but did it as a joke.
The men do not belong to liquor or.
carnations.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
Kentucky Prisoners Arraigned.

FRANKFORT, KY. March 17.-Caleb
Powers, John Davis, w. FL. Coulton
and Harland Whitaker were brought
here from Louisville in charge of Sher-
if Suter and deputies. A special de-
tail of police and deputy sheriffs met
them at the train, and they we've
marched to Jail through streets lined
with people who had anticipated their
coming. There was no disorder. They
were, with w. L., Hazlip, arraigned
before County Judge Moore, and after
some argument between the attorneys,
Hazlip was released on $40, 900 bail.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Secretary
Long has cabled instructions to Adj
miral Watson, at Cavite, to send war
ship to Taku, China. Mt the mouth Of
the Tieho river, to look after Ameri.
can missionary interests that are
threatened.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
OPEN DOOR POLlCYIN DANGER.
Attitude OF the Empress Dowager De
trimental to Reforms.

VFfHIbHtHf 10 NtoIUTIHss
SHANGHAI, March 1.-THE Ameri-
can Association has telegraphed to the
United States government that the
attitude of the empress dowager to-
wards reforms will upset the "open
door" policy. They also say rebellion
and anarchy is expected to the detri-
ment of foreign interests and advocate
prompt and concerted action on the
part of the powers. The Chinese asso-
citation will appeal to the British min
lister, Sir Claude Macdonald, ON the
same subject.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

DIES MONIES, March 16.-The demo-
cratic state central committee met in
Des Muines and fixed Thursday, May
3, and Des Moines, as the date and
place for holding the state convention
for the purpose of selecting delegates
to the National convention to be held
at Kansas City on July 4.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
TAYLOR APPEALS TO PRESIDENT.

VIII Send a Committee to Washington
to Ask for Intervention.
FRANKFORT, KY, March ls.--Gov-
ernor Taylor is said to have prepared
statement making second appeal
to President Mckinley. John w.
Yerkes, of Danville, and other republic
can leaders, were called in conference
at the executive mansion and the paper
was submitted to them. A committee
to be headed by Mr.. Yerkes is to be
sent to Washington to lay before the
president whatever message was agreed
on by the conference.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

MANILA, March 16.-Flowes, Agui-
naldos secretary of war, has surren-
dered to Gen. Macarthur. Aguinaldo's
infant son. who was captured in No
vember, and who has been suffering
from smallpox. is dead.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
Topeka Capital Remains Religious.

TOPEKA, Kansas, March l9.-F. A.
Papenoe, the banker-owner of the Cap
ital, makes the announcement that
the paper will be continued perma-
nently along the Sheldon lines. lie
says the paper will pay little more
attention to the current news and some
other things may be modified, but that
as the only religious daily in the
country 1t ought to succeed. Thus is
Mr.. Sheldon's experiment to be put
upon permanent trial.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
Frost Kills Tennessee Crops.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March IT,
The worst to be feared by the fruit
growers of eastern Tennessee and
northern Georgia was realized in the
cold wave Thursday night Reports
show the mercury dropped to "a and
every thing was frozen over this entire
section. Fruit growers lost heavily.
An underground railroad in to be
constructed in Berlin at cost of $685.
oO0,00
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
Street Car Fire at Dubuque.

DUBUQUE, March ia portion OF
the power house of the Dubuque street
railway was burned and five cars des-
troyed. Loss, SIS, 900; Insurance, geo..
900
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22
PEACE CORRESPONDENTS.
Appeal for Peace by AfrikaRders and
Britain's Answer Thereto.

Appeal for Peace by Afrikaaders and
Britsin's Answer Thereto.
LONDON March 15.-Following are
extracts from the peace correspon-
dence:
Presidents Kruger and Steyn to
Premier Salisbury: This war was un-
dertaken solely as defensive measure
to maintain the threatened indepen-
dence of the South African republics
and is only continued in order to Sc
cure and maintain the incontestible
independence of both republics as SOW
ereign international states and to OBJ
tain the assurance that those of her
majesty's subjects who have taken a
part with us in this war shall suffer no
harm whatever in person or property.
On these conditions, but on these con-
ditions alone, are we now, as in the
past, DESTROYS of seeing peace re-estab-
lished in South Africa; while, If her
majesty's government is determined to
destroy the independence of the re-
publics, there is nothing left to us and
to our people but to persevere to the
end in the course already begun.
Premier Salisbury to Presidents
Kruger and Steyn: At two days no.
tice, after issuing the insulting ulti-
matum, the South African republics
declared war upon her majesty's gov
eminent. ~* A large portion of her
majesty's dominions were overrun.
with great destruction of property and
life. - This great calamity has
been the penalty Great Britain has
\
acquiesced to the existence OF the two
republics. In view of the uses to
which the two republics have put the
position which was given them, and
the calamities their unprovoked at
tacks have inflicted on her majesty IS
dominions, her majesty's government
can only answer your honor's telegram
by saying they are not prepared to
assent to the independence of the
South African Republic or the
Orange Free State,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

WASHINGTON, March io.--Goverpor
Leary has issued proclamation pro-
Albiting human slaverv In Guam.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-22

Representative Temple, of Clarke
county, in an address before the Grant
club at its regular monthly meeting.
declared that Imperialism is here and
is here to stay. He advised his repub-
llcan friends to frankly make this
ayowal in the coming campaign.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
The STATUS OF PORTO aIco.
Case That VIII Decide 1t Brought to
the SuDreme Court.

Washington, April 2S.-In the Supreme
Court to-day Frederick D. McKenny fled
a petition for a writ of certiorari to the
provisional court OF Porto Rico in the
case of the municipal officers of the town
of Guavama against whom that court has
issued a judgment of custer on the ground
that the election in which they claim to
have been chosen was irregular. The pro-
ceeding of thu provisional court is at
tackled as uncOnstitutIonal because OF its
want of jurisdiction
A similar motion was fled by Mr.. Nc
Kenny in the case of Dr.. Thomas NasQuez,
who claims to have been a citizen of the
United States before the acquisition Of
Porto Rico. He was sentenced to fine
or imprisonment on the charge Of fraud
in connection with the elections of 1888.
In this case also the constitutionality Of
the provisional court is attacked and the
point is made that there was no authority
TO set up q civil government in Porto
Rico in the absence of congressional au-
thority.
Ii also is cOntended that after the Paris
treaty Porto Rico became a, part OF the
territory of the United States. and that
its Inhabitants were entitled to enjoy the
personal rights, privileges aud immuni-
ties guaranteed by the constitution of the
United States to all persons resident
within the territory thereof"
The court has recently for technical req
sons refused to pass upon the merits of q
case similar to these cases and the gov
court refuse to take cognizance of these
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
USED EVERYTHING ON BOARD.
steamer Burned All Her Wood work
to Get to Port.


Norfolk. Va, April 23-The Spanish
steamer FL Salto, Capt. Londa, from Rio
for Queenstown, via Philadelphia, limped
into port here a mere iron hull, every
thing combustible on board having been
fed to the furnaces to help her reach
coaling port.
The Salto sailed from Rio March q,
with a big cargo of manganese ore, ship
and cargo being valued at $500 900. Her coal
supply was barely enough TO take her 10
Philadelphia, where she was TO rent her
bunkers. but a bad storm off Hatteras
used up this scanty supply and to keep
her head onto the storm the captain be-
gan TO feed her woodwork into the fur
nac's. She hattled through the gale and
headed for this port, but masts spars
rails, decks and furniture all had to be
sacrificed to bring her into the Roads.
She could not even make the coal piers
with her last remaining steam for there
was literally nothing left in her to burn,
and she anchored down the harbor, where
a lighter of coal was sent to fill her bunk
erS
Her crew of twenty-eight men reported
wei though badly worn out by their ex-
perence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
TRYING TO SAVE PROPERTY.
Railroad and Lumber Men Excrtins
All Their Efforts.


Moolle' Ala'' April ga heroic hght
is going on at Scranton and Moss Point
bv railroad and lumbermen to save the
=. ,......- - -. IN,
80
Inc Louisville ana NashNlHe halroau
men, headed by General Manager Met
calf. are irving to hold the track against
+bo eooa
'iio AooN'
Inc logs ana ollItWoou coming GOWN
on the Hoou nave 10 DC SuueG petWeeli
me nehts OIL tne tressie ana pusseu away
Wien lueY UuSe' ms VIZ W ie'uii,'-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
FLOOD STU ALTON is WORSE.
Citizens of Small Towns Are Grow
ing Desperate.

Citizens OF Small Towns Are GROW
ing Desperate.
Meridian, Miss, April 23.-The flood sit
uation of Meridian has changed for the
worse. Heavy rains last night caused a
decided rise in the waters of the Okati-
bee, Chunky and Chickasahay rivers,
streams that have caused much dam
ages to the three railroads running south
from Meridian.
News reached here tonight from the
Chunky chat that river is even with it's
banks and is still rising. Every report
to-day was disheartening to railroad Of
ficals, who fear fun traffic cannot be re-
sumed inside of three weeks.
The citizens in small towns, shut out
from the outside world. are growing des-
perate, it being one week in many in
stances since they have received a pound
of freight or mail.
Here the situation is bad. only the Mo-
bile and Ohio road being able to handle
freight. The Ala bama Great Southern
is finding great difficulty in handling one
passenger train daily. The company is
unable to say when freight traffic will be
resumed. The merchants have an abund-
ance of goods on the roads. but are unable
to say when they will be received. The
demand on stocks in hand is fast empty
ing shelves
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
JUMPED INro A COKE OVEN.
Wen Dressed Stranger Lenpcd to Al
speedy Death.

Wen Dressed Stranger Lenpcd to al
Speedy Death.
Connollsville. Pa, April 23-Leaping
high into the air as an expert diver would
in taking a fancy plunge into the water,
an unknown man committed suicide this
morning at the foundry works of the H.
c. Frick Coke Company by diving into a
coke oven.
In less than a minute what had been
a man apparently in the full vgor of life
had mingled with the curling smoke of
the ovens, distinguishable only by its
blush brown color and nauseating odor
from the gas smoke of the burning coal.
A more tragic death never occurred in
this region The coke workers saw him
only for an Instant as he prepared for the
leap. He was well dressed, of medium
hight and weight. and smooth shaver.
For the slightest possible space of time
he seemed to pause on dne sloping ground
behind the ovens, then quick as a flash
he ran down the slope, taking the quick
short steps of trained athlete who cages
them precisely for the jump he intends
taking. Eight feet from the oven tops
she man shot into the air, his hands pois-
ed above his head in the fashion of a
diver and descending swiftly, dropped
head nrSt into the trunnei heau OF an
oven that had burned to the sizzling white
heat Of coke just before it is drawn.
For an instant the body clogged the
trunnel head and the leg wriggled as
though a desperate effort was being made
to squirm through and meet death quick
ly in the blazing oven pit. A rush was
made for the oven door by the Mortified
coke drawers. All there was to show
for the man who but a few seconds be
fore had been in life was a chaTed mass
of flesh not three feet in length. There
is no means of Identification.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24


Mr.. Quarles of Wisconsin was the next
speaker. He took strong grounds against
the seating of Mr.. Quay. 1t was really
Mr.. Quarles maiden speech in the SEN
ate, and he received many congratula-
lions.
He urged that Mr.. Quay should not be
seated, for, If he We're, a new precedent
would be created and a long line of adj
judication would be disturbed.
! In the course Of an extended constitu-
tional argument Mr.. Quarles developed
some new points, but his chief contention
was that the constitution did not admit
of the Interpretation placed upon IL by the
| friends Of Mr. Quay. He argued further
| that in this particular case the Governor
not only had no constitutional right to
make the appointment, but that in maxi
ing 1t, he violated the law of Pennsyl-
vanla. This, he claimed the Senate was
bound to take cognizance of in its con-
sideration of the case,
Discussing the authority of Congress TO
regulate the election of senators and
representatives, Mr.. Quarles said:
Under the last clause of section four,
Congress has undoubted power to make
complete regula lions as to time and m6n-
ner of elections, and thus displace all
local regulations heretofore made or IL
may alter such state regulations 1t may
seem startling, at first blush that Congress
may prescribe 10 the states the tlIIle HHeil
legislatures shall convene, but a refer
ence to the debates will dlspel all doubt
that this is exactly what had been con-
tended and insisted upon far as might
be necessary TO insure elections of mem
bers of the second housee. The power of
Congress under the constitution to pro-
vide the time for legislative action upon
senatorial vacancies cannot be doubted"
He pointed out the alleged danger in
the Senate afixing it's approval to this
case.
Thus" he said, the power of tempo
rary appointment will swell the regular
patronage of the executive office, and the
constitution of Pennsylvania will forever
remain a dead letter"
PenroSe Did Not Finish.
Mr. Penrose, speaking In support Of MIR.
Quay's right TO a seat, reviewed the sit
uatlon in the Pennsylvania Legislature at
the time indicated the eventual deadlock
was unexpected and a resolution finally
to adjourn on a specified date had been
adopted by the Legislature before II was
supposed a deadlock would result.
Mr.. Penrose maintained with Mr..
Chandler that the question presented was
one purely of stltutional construction
and on that premise he presented a long
constitutional argument.
He did not conclude his speech At $50
o clock, p. m, the Senate adjourned
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
Not nm international AFFAIR.

Toronto. Ont April 22.-Rlchard Har-
court, Minister OF Education, said today.
regarding the attempt 10 blow up the locks
Of the Welland canal, that he did not
think II was AN International affair. Had
the dynamltora he continued, gone 90 the
aqueduct nine miles further down, they
could have destroyed s,DO0.OO0 worth VI
property.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
FREIGHT WRECK ON SOUTHERN.
Due to FIagman's Failure to Stand mt
Proper Distance.

Danville, Va, April 23.-Fast freight No
u dashed into local freight No. 81 at
Dry Fork on the Southern Railway to-
day north of Danville, wrecking the en-
gine of No. Y and five cars
The accident was due to the hagman's
failure to- stand the proper distance from
the local, which was standing on the
track at the time. The engineer, fireman
and brakeman on No. 70 were reported
slightly injured,
Information received later as the wreck
at Dry Fork is that Engineer Norvell Of
No Y was baby injured.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24

Berlin. April 23-Ierr Maubach, a high
Prussian official, has been sent with full
powers to Konitz, where there has been
considerable rioting as the result Of sus-
pcions OF ritual murder, with a view OF
arranging matters as to prevent further
disturbance and secure the lives and prop
erty OF Jewish inhabitants In that dis
trict He IL empowered to summon larger
military forces % necesaary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
HUSBAND UNDER SUSPICION.
Mrs. Lille Kuhn Found With Leg
Broken and Badly Bruised.

Philadelphia, April 22.-Mrs. Lille Kuhn,
wife of former Stale Senator William
Kuhn of Richmond, Va, was found in
the side yard Of a boarding house at us
North Sixteenth street shortly after mid
night this morning with her head and
face badly lacerated, one leg broken and
her body badly bruised
She was removed to st. Joseph's Hos
pital. where her husband with his throat
badly cut was also sent under the guard
OF two policemen.
He is under surveillance on suspicion to
await the result Of mis- wifes injuries.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
OPPOSITION rs GROWING.

Chinese Are Against the Open Door
Policy.
Paris, April "a. 5:45 a ma special dis
patch from Pekin says:
Chinese opposition TO the open door
policy is growing and endangering foreign
capital, and the lives OF foreigners. Rus
STA is most feared and America is beast
disliked because least aggressive.
"The Manchus are losing military pow
err. There are now only $1,000, 900, out of
350OO00O0 and they only retain their as
tendency by keeping the people in ignor-
ance
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
PRESIDENT GOES TO CANTON.
lie and Mrs. Mckinley VIII Inspect
Their Homo There.

Washington, April 23.-President and
MIS-. Mckinley left here at 1920 o'clock
Tonight via the Pennsylvania Railroad for
several days visit TO Canton.
accompanying them were Secretary Cor
"F"u Or. p. NJ. Rixey, George Barber,
""phew Of the President, Mr.. William
3. Hawk, q friend aud Mr.. Leonard, a
''.nosrapher.
'A' President and Mrs. Mckinley viii
.. poet the work which has been in prog
on their Canton home. and return to
Wngton probably Friday.
D N' presidential party returned from
York this morning and the President
'i his desk by o'clock looking over
"'lHulalcd business.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24

But the l.. and n. Is Probably I'm for
n Weeks Siege at Least.

New Orleans. April 2S.-The Illinois Cen
trial and Mississippi Valley trains resumed
to-day and the Northeastern expects 20
be all right in a day or two
The Louisville and Nashville is prob
ably in for a weeks Siege Of It with
the Pascagoula bridge. although the rail-
road people have already landed piling on
the spot. The only Interference Is with
freight, the mails and passengers being
transferred across the break.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
MORGAN AND HEPBURN.
Were in Conference on the Nicnra-
qua Canal Measure.

Washington, April Ex-senator Morgan,
chairman of the Senate Committee on In
teroceanic Canals, was to-day in confer
ence with Chairman Hepburn of the
House committee discussing ways and
means of securing consideration of the
Nicaragua canal bill at the present ses-
sion of Congress. The Senator expressed
the opinion that his committee would ac-
cept the amendments suggested by the
House committee and that il would act
favorably upon the bill as amended when
passed by the House.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24

New York April 23-Chancellor No
Cracker OF the University Of New York
has received the acceptance OF chief Jus
tico u. r. Taylor OF Florida. 90 serve on
the board OF judges for tho hall Of fame.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-24
FREIGHT WAS BADLY WRECKED.
Cars Were Broken Open and Mer-
chandise Scattered.

chandtAe scattered.
Marion, N. c.. April 23.-Freight train
No. 73 on the Southern Railway was
wrecked four miles west of here this
morning. Engineer Pitts was caught I'M
Ger his engine and seriously injured. He
was brought here and his wounds dressed
ana is resting easy this afternoon. one
o'aer man was slightly injured. Seven
loaded freight cars and Two engines are
badly damaged. One engine turned over
The wreck was caused by the front
wheels on the front engine jumping the
track The cars We're loaded with general
merchandise for Asheville, and straw
mars ribbons, pineapples and oranges,
pears coffee, lard, sugar and candy We're
pehiltul A temporary track was built
around the wreck and trains are now
pa ny all right. Passenger train No. 81
was run by way of Spartanburg this
morning.