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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
THE NEWS in IOWA
HOMER HOLLAND KILLED.

Victim of a Bullet Fired by A. NJ. Hun
ter, "a Gambler.
Mt. Ayr, Nov. liza. Nj. Hunter
shot and instantly killed Homer Hol-
land on the street at 1880 Saturday.
They had had dispute over mis-
understanding arising out of ganb-
ling game. Hunter is a. professional
gambler, 80 years old, and is a mar
vel of nerve and cold bloodedness.
He recently did time in Jail for keep
ing a gambling house. He is sec
ond cousin to the noted bandit, Polk
Wells.
No one saw the shooting, although
many persons heard the report and
were soon on the ground. Hunter
stood with the smoking revolver, a
44-caliber Colts, in his hand, and
avowed the act. He had also pre-
viously told Captain Holland, Homer's
father, that he would get back a GER
tain $40, no matter what road he had
to travel to get it. AS his victim lay
dying, Hunter lighted cigar. He
then went home, asked his mother
how she felt and said goodbye to
her without telling her what he had
done.
He went down town and told q
friend that he was going to give HIM
SELF up, but changed his mind and
hid in a livery barn hay NOW, where
he was found at o'clock. He sur
rendered without a struggle. lie
claims Holland started to attack
him.
An empty revolver was found under
Holland, which evidently jolted out
of his pocket when he fell. The bull
let from Hunters revolver went
clear through Hollands body, shat
tering the lower one-third of his
heart. The gun used is the one
which Hunter had been flashing fire.
quently.
When arrested he said:
Its a d. bad job, but I never
could stand imposition"
Hollands mother is chronic in
valid. His father, ca. tain A. f. Hol-
land, was formerly sheriff. Homer
was 23 years old last February. His
athletic record at Drake university
and with the Chicago Athletic asso-
citation, in 1898 and 1899, are familiar.
He was looked upon as the most per-
feet specimen of physical develop
ment ever known here. 1t was free
ly predicted, when he left Drake, that
he would become one of the great
est athletes in the country. He held
the running hop, step and jump rec
ord for Iowa, AS feet one-half inch,
made at the Iowa intercollegiate field
meet in 1898. At the intercollegiate
fald naat hold in hes MninaS I'm
May, 1899, he won for Drake five
firsts and one second place. In that
meet Holland won first in the 50-yard
dash, making the distance in 5 As
seconds; first in the 100-yard dash
in 10 2-5 seconds; first in the broad
jump, making % feet, 8 12 inches;
third in the high jump, second in
the 120-yard hurdles, and first in the
hop, step and jump, making 20 out
of brakes 40 points.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
TURKEYS CRUCIAL POINT.
Submission to Demands of France May
Have Lasting Effect.

nave Lasting Euect.
New York, Nov. 1.-THE sultan's
yielding to the French demands
brings out the full gravity of the
possibilities of the effect of the
French seizure of AIitylene upon the
crumbling edifice of Turkish despo-
tism, says the Constantinople corre-
spondent of the World. The whole
of European Turkey is seething with
disorder. In Armenia the annual
butcheries have been in full swing
for the past three months, and in the
remainder of the empire there is the
perennial violence, corruption, waste
and lawlessness. Down to the mag
istracy, every part of the machinery
of government is in hopeless con-
dition. In the opinion of the diplo-
matte body at Constantinople, any
attempt at patching things up will
be merely futile effort. The news
of the French intervention was sup
pressed at Constantinople for three
days, but the sultan's cabinet being
in constant session showed that a
serious crisis had arisen. The sultan
has been in a condition of epileptic
fury, and his ministers. who live in
perpetual terror of their lives at his
hands, were helpless and afraid to
do or suggest anything. 1t is be-
lieved in Constantinople that Russia
is behind France in this business,
and it is felt that the present trou-
BILE is inevitably destined to lead to
developments in the eastern question
in which England will be powerless
to make her influence felt.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
GRAND OLD MAN is DEAD
Ii Hung Chang Passed Away After
n Short Illness.

Pekin, Nov. Iii Hung Chang died
at IL o'clock this morning.
Robert Coltman, an American, who
IS one of the physicians. attending
Earl Ii, told the correspondent of the
Associated Press that when he was
called to act with DR.. Velde of the
German legation, November /, he
found the patient very weak from a
severe hemorrhage due to liberation
of the stomach.
"The hemorrhage was readily con-
trolled," said DR.. Coltman, "but ow-
ing to the underlying condition of
chronic gastritis and persistent nua-
sea only the mildest liquid food could
be ingested. Tuesday he was cheer
full and without padn; but at 2 o'clock
yesterday morning he became uncon-
scious and was no longer able to rid
himself of the collection of mucus,
which he had been freely expectorat-
ing"
Earl Lis persistent refusals to re-
frain from attending to government
business have aggravated his malady,
while the refusal of the family TO per-
init certain measures customary in
western medical practice for relieving
the stomach, has contributed TO bring
his end near.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
TURKEY YIELDS FULLY
Comedies Every Demand Made By
the French Government.

Paris, Nov. 9.-France has scored a
complete triumph in the Turkish dis
pute. The foreign office has received
advices announcing that the sultan
has yielded to the entire demands
formulated by the French government
and only the question of form re-
garding the execution of the agree
ment remains to be settled. This
may be done within the next twenty
four hours, or, it is expected, at the
latest, in two or three days. Then
Admiral Caillard will relinquish his
occupation of the island of Mitylene.
President Loubet presided yester-
day at the cabinet council. The for
eign minister, NJ. Delcasse, announced
that the porte had just advised him
that it had decided to give satisfac-
ton in the case of the various French
demands, to which M. Delcasse re-
piled that as soon as the sultan's
order regarding the porte's decision
was communicated to him Admiral
Iaillard's squadron would leave the
island of Mitylene.
The Temps prints dispatch from
Constantinople which says that the
sultan, in accepting the French de-
mands, firstly authorizes the conduct
ing of the French schools, hitherto
unrecognized; secondly. he recog-
nizes, officially, the existence of the
religious and hospital institutions
already founded and accords them
customs immunity and exemption
from certain taxes, and thirdly, he
authorizes the reconstruction of the
schools and hospital institutions de-
stroyed at the time of the Armenian
troubles, of which detailed list is
attached to the French note.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
ANGER CAUSED HIS DEATH
Quarreled With Russian Hinister
and Collapsed.

Picking, Nov. "a violent dispute
with M. Paul Lessar, Russian minis
ter to China, over the Manchurian
treaty, appears to have been the i'm
mediate cause of the death of Ii
Hung Chang.
The diplomatic events preceding
this tragic climax nave enabled Japan
for moment to Illustrate the de-
signs of Russia. A fortnight ago the
Japanese legation secured a reliable
outline of the terms of the treaty,
and thereupon demanded that the
Chinese plenipotentiaries lay before
them the text, basing this demand
on the allegation that Japanese in
terests were involved i'm any change
of the status of Manchuria.
The Chinese plenipotentiaries re-
fused to comply with the demand.
Thereupon the Japanese govern
ment from Toxic communicated with
the southern viceroys and induced
them to use their influence with the
empress dowager against the treaty.
In the meantime the empress dow
ager instructed Lii Hung to commune
cate the treaty, after certain modifi-
cdtlOnS, 10 lht IIlllllSlcTS OI Tic pow
ers, and, if they did not object, to
sign the same.
Ii Hung Chang visited NJ. Lessar
and explained to him the instructions.
The Russian minister strongly OBJ
jected to revealing the text of the
treaty to the ministers of the other
powers. and stormy interview en-
sued. Ii Hung Chang went home in
violent passion and had hemor-
rhage, which the doctors attribute to
the over-exertion of weakened sys-
TEN.
While these things were happening
at Picking, the southern yiceroys sent
to the empress dowager a memorial
against the treaty. On receiving it
she telegraphed to Ii Hung Chang,
countermanding the order to sign.
This instruction came after Ii Hung
Chang had become unconscious. When
NJ. Lessar endeavored to have Ii
Hung Changes seal affixed to the
treaty Chou Flu, provincial treasurer,
who had arrived from Poa ling Flu,
had taken charge of the seals as the
temporary successor of Earl Lii.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
CHANGES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The Number of Military Departments Is
Reduced to Two.


Washington, Nov. lion recon-.
mendation of General Chaffee, com.
manding the division of the Philip
pines, the secretary of war has is
sued an order for the reorganization
of that division. Up to the present
time the division has comprised four
military departments, viz: Depart
ment of Northern Luzon, commanded
by Major General Lloyd Wheaton;
Department OF, Southern Luzon, COM
manded by Brigadier General j. S.
Wade; Department of the Visayas,
commanded by Brigadier General r.
p. Hughes; Department of Mindanao
and Jolo, commanded by Brigadier
General G. w. Davis.
In accordance with the action of
the war department this division will
be divided into only two military de-
partments to include within their lin
its the entire Philippine archipelago.
They will be known as the Depart
ment of North and South Philippines.
The northern department will be
commanded by Major General Wheat.
on and will include the islands of
Luzon, Mindora and Masbate, and all
ehS 'h'eiNchihB ttIiiloTy.
The southern department, which
will be commanded by Brigadier Cen
eral Wade, will embrace the remain
der of the archipelago, and include
the large islands of Samar, Panay,
Mindanao, the Visayas and Jolo.
The consolidation of these depart
ments is in accordance with Chaffee's
plan to institute vigorous and ag-
gressive campaign against the insur-
rectionists who recently have become
active and troublesome in the islands
of Samar, Leyte and in the extreme
southern portions of Luzon. 1t is un-
derstood that large bodies of troops
are to be concentrated in the dis
tricts where outbreaks have occurred,
under the command of officers of
high rank, with the full purpose of
promptly stamping out the spirit of
insurrection. 1t is said furthermore
that the reduction in the number Of
the departments, in addition to max,
ing the military forces more com,
pact and efficient, will result in a
reduction of expenses.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
TAMMANY is DETHR0NED
Seth Low Elected Second Mayor of
Greater New York.

New York, Nov. 7.--Complete official
returns from every district of Greater
New York give Seth Low, fusion
candidate for mayor, 2o4,992, and Ed
ward M. Shepard, democrat, 265,12s,
making Lows plurality 29,s64.
Edward NJ. Grkout, fusionist candi-
date for controller, received 299,713
votes to 25i,737 for William Ladd, his
democratic rival, making the plural
ity of the fusion candidate 1876.
Unofficial returns from every cleo
ton district of New York county
give William Travers Jerome, fusion
list, lead of 1850 over Henry w.
Unger, democrat, in the race for the
district attorneyship. The vote of
the two follows: Jerome, 163,959;
Unger, 14s,079.
There will be five republicans and
fifteen democrats in the senate of
1902, which is the same number each
party had in the senate of 1901. The
assembly of 1902 will probably stand
as follows: Republicans and fusion
lists, los; democrats, AZ. This is in
all probability fusionist gain of
three, leaving the democrats in a
minority of sixty-two.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
CLINTON STREET BATTLE.
Two Negroes Under Arrest Open Fire on
Oficers and Escape.

Clinton, Nov. Captain William
Dougherty, who was shot by Joe Nc
Neil last summer, the bullet passing
entirely through the body, and Con-
stable George Huber figured in an ex-
citing gunplay here at an early hour
yesterday morning, when two desper-
ate negroes whom the officers had
arrested opened fire on them and sue
ceeded in making their escape by
lodging behind buildings. The pris-
oners are desperate characters and
are wanted by the officers of several
eastern Iowa towns. Wednesday
night these same men, it is charged,
robbed Chicago electrician by the
name of Cox, who was riding on a
freight train near Stanwood. After
having robbed Cox, who was riding
on the bumpers, the highwaynen
struck him on the head with the butt
of pistol, rendering him uncon-
scious. He fell from the train, which
was running at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, but miraculously es-
capped without injury from the cars.
However, he has a severe scalp
wound from the pistol. The same
negroes also, it is charged, held ur
and robbed farmer near Upton.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14

The members of the church board o.
The African Baptist church, of Frank
tort, KY, have been arrested by the
:ity marshal for violating the building
ordinance of the city requiring a per
init from the council to erect building
In the city limits. The negroes recent
" bought ground just opposite the ex-
ecutiye mansion and the governor and
adjacent property owners raised objec-
ton to the building of a church upor
1t. The city council refused to grant a
permit. The church board, ignoring
the action, let the contract and the
contractor had begun work on the
church. The matter has been in con,
.roversy several months. and Gov
Beckham threatens to recommend the
removal of the capital if the church is
Quilt.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14

BURGLARS FRUSTRATED.
Partially Successful Attempt to Rob Two
DIVA BANKS.

Sioux City, Nov. 11.-Bandits crack
ed the safe of the Turin bank at
Turin, Iowa. They were discovered
by o. ii. Swanson, the cashier. They
fired fusillade of shots, driving
the citizens to cover. One bullet
passed entirely through the building.
The men fled. The safe was blown
open with nitroglycerine, the same as
that at Scotland, S. d., and at Hinton,
Iowa. They were unable to pene-
trate the money chest, which con-
tanned $1,000. The robbers got S35.
There is no clue.
Coggon, Nov. 11.-Burglars made
an unsuccessful attempt to rob the
State bank here. They broke into
the bank at the rear door and sue
ceeded in gaining entrances to the
vault, where they took the contents
of the till, amounting to about S25.
They were evidently frightened off
before getting the inner vault open.
There is no clue beyond the fact that
suspicious looking man boarded
the evening train at Ryan.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
GRAIN MEN ASK RELIEF.
Demand Better Freight Rates to tn
South.


Omaha, Neb., Nov. 1.-THE McCauli-
Webster Grain company, operating a
large line of elevators in Iowa and
Nebraska, has begun suit to compel
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company to give shipments
of grain destined to southern points
for export the same privileges en-.
joyed by shipments going by the way
of Chicago and New York. The grain
company claims that rates via Chi.
cago to New York have been made
prohibitive by eastern trunk lines.
and that the Milwaukee road is dis.
eliminating against the grain com.
pany in the way of switching and
furnishing cars to carry grain be.
yond its lines to the gulf seaboard
via this city and st. Louis. Thus il
asks a restraining order to prevent
the railroad from refusing to accord
the elevator company's grain all the
privileges of other freight. The case
is of widespread Importance as il
will govern the routing of export
grain to great extent from both
Iowa and Nebraska, whether it shall
go by way of Chicago and eastern
trunk lines or st. Louis and southern
railroads.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
GoRMAN WINS IN MARYLAND.
Democrats VIII BE In Control of the
Legislature of That state.

Baltimore, Md, Nov. 7.-Returns re-
ceived in this city up to midnight
and including every county in the
state, partly official and partly I'M
official, indicate result in the leg
islative contest which is almost with
out parallel in Maryland. The most
careful estimates and calculations
give the democrats forty-six delegates
and seven newly elected senator's,
which, combined with the ten who
hold over in the senate, assure the
friends of Mr.. German a total of
sixty-three votes on joint ballot. The
republicans. it appears, have elected
forty-nine delegates and six senators,
which, added to their three hold over
senators. gives them a total of fifty
eight votes on joint ballot.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
CoNyIcrs MAKE ESCAPE.
Mutiny In the Military Prison at Fort
Leavenw0rth kas.

Leavenworth, kas.
Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. S.-One
man was killed, five others danger
ously wounded and twenty-six des-
perate convicts are at large, as a re-
suit of a mutiny late yesterday after
noon at the site of the United States
prison, two miles southeast of here,
where four hundred prisoners from
the federal prison, in charge of thirty
armed guards, were at work. The
convicts secured two revolvers and
forced the guard into submission.
They then made an effort to pass
through an opening of the stockade,
but were met by an armed guard.
The guard was shot twice, and the
prisoners then started for another
opening. Here another armed guard
was met and he also received two
bullets. The prisoners then made a
grand rush for the main entrance and
twenty-six of them succeeded in es4
Gaping. Most of the men ere from
the Indian territory. Closely followed
by the guards the men ran to a near
by forest and succeeded in evading
their pursuers. The men went in the
direction of Easton, Kan, and it is
reported here that they have held up
many farmers, taking horses and
clothing en- route.
Leavenworth, Kan. Nov. 9.-All the
police, deputy sheriffs and farmers in
the country adjacent to Leavenworth
were on the lookout yesterday for
the twenty-six federal convicts who
escaped from the stockade. AS re-
suit, two convicts have been killed,
two wounded and one captured I'M
hurt. The casualties took place in a
fight near Nortonville, Kansas, and
resulted in the death or capture of
five men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14

In more than three thousand schools
IN Great Britain the boys are studying
text book on Canada which set forth
her history, explain her system of gov
eminent and lay stress upon her nat
hral resources. These books are sup
piled free by the Dominion, and Lord
Strathcona, Canada's high commission
sr to the mother country, will give
valuable medals next spring to the
scholars who pass the best examina-
lions on them. The laudable aim OF
Strathcona and his countrymen is to
impress British youth with the advan-
lagos of the Dominion as a field for
emigration. 1t should be easy. Geo
graphically speaking, and in other
ways, too, Canada is the next best
place to the United States.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14

A pack of ivory playing cards, SAID
to have been carried by Prince Eug 5na
the colleague of the Duke of Marlbor-
ough in the campaign against the
French under Marshal Villars, has just
been purchased by Queen Christina of
Spain. The court" figures are all
hand-painted, but of no particular
merit. The pack was at one time in
the possession of the Duke of Sake
Coburg Gotha, father of the Prince
Consort, and grandfather of King Ed
ward VII. The cards were given by
the duke some sixty years ago to a
Spanish nobleman, who visited his
court in diplomatic capacity, and a
grandson Of the latter is in such re-
duced circumstances that he was GLAD
to dispose Of the pack to the queen.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
TT. GATcHELL FALLS DEAD.
Wen known Des Moines Man Expires a,
n Hospital Meeting.

Des Moines, No. s.-Theodore +.
Gatchell, secretary and manager of
the Des Moines Fire Insurance COM
pany and one of the best known res
idents of Des Moines, fell to the floor
last evening at the Methodist hospi-
tai Train School for Deaconesses, just
as he had his hand on the door knob
preparatory to leaving a meeting of
the board of directors of the Iowa
Methodist Hospital association, of
which he was a member, and soon ex-
pired, as a reasult of heart failure.
Mr.. Gatchell's last public act as a
member of the board eXemplified the
sentiments which had marked his
whole life. He had pleaded for poor
patients; that they might always
have admission to the hospital and
that the hospital might never be con-
sidered a money-making institution.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14

New York, Nov. 1.-THE revolu-
tionary gunboat, Darien, which was
captured from the Colombian govern
ment recently, stopped the TELEGRAPH,
a government vessel proceeding from
David with troops under Captain Del
busto, cables the Panama correspond
ent of the Herald. The Darien cap
tured the soldiers and the arms and
ammunition. While the Darien was
towing away the TELEGRAPH, barge
bringing the remainder of the fed
eral troops to Fort Aguadalice came
into sight. The Darien then let go
the TELEGRAPH and steamed at full
speed for Chorivera,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14
SAFE BLOWN AND NO CLUE.
Bank Robbers at Hinton Get Away with
$1,000 In Cash.

Sioux City, Nov. s.-Two expert safe
crackers blew the safe at the bank
of Hinton, getting $500 in bills, gold
and silver. Nitroglycerine was pump
ed into the safe and the explosion
shattered the safe, but the banks
collateral was found to be intact.
There is no insurance against loss.
The bank will continue operations.
Before entering the bank the robbers
warmed themselves in a small of
fee, lighting lamp and acting with
great elaboration. Ahere is no clew
to the robbers except a necktie. A
suspicious character seen near Hin
ton is believed to be one of the rob-
bers. This is the, fourth job of the
kind in small banks near here in ten
days, the robberies occurring at Mat
lock, Salix and Jefferson, S. ID
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14

An electric automobile recently came
20 the rescue of church in Stratford,
Conn. Something went wrong with the
lighting facilities and the church was
eft in total darkness. Kerosene lamps
had been proposed when Up came an
automobilist member of the congrega-
lion, connected the feed wire with his
storage battery. and in minute had
the church brilliantly lighted. After
ward he unhitched the automobile and
look his family home.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-14

BRICKER is ACQUITTED.
Was Charged with Murder of Two Men
Near 1t. DOdRs.

Fort Dodge, Nov. s.--rhe sensa-
tional trial of George Bricker for the
killing of Clarence Guild has ended,
the jury bringing in verdict of ac-
quittal after being out just an hour.
The trial has been stubbornly fought
and the issue was in doubt until the
verdict was given. The trial was the
result of the killing of C. A. Guild
and son, Clarence, by George and Oil
yer Bricker last June in a neighbour
hood feud over land. Oliver Bricker
confessed to the shooting and claimed
self-defense, but Charles Guild, son
of the murdered man, claimed that
George Bricker did the shooting. The
trial has lasted two weeks. Three in
dictments are remaining against the
Brickers which will be tried.