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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
CALEBPOWERS CONVICTED
Sentenced a Second Time to Life
Imprisonment.

Georgetown, KY, Oct. 2s.-Ex-Sec-
rotary of State Caleb Powers has
peen again convicted as accessory be-
fore the fact to the murder of Gov
ernor VIM. Il. Goebel in January,
1900, and the second time sentenced
to imprisonment for life.
The second trial began October s
and has continued with three sessions
daily. The case went to the jury
at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon and
a verdict of guilty soon followed.
Powers sat pale and motionless
when the verdict was announced by
the foreman, b. S. Calvert, his old
schoolmate. Opposite Powers, on the
other side of the court room with
the attorneys, sat Arthur Goebel,
brother of the late senator and gov
ernor, with his eyes fixed on the pris-
oner. The attorneys for Powers
shook his hand, expressing aloud
their belief in his innocence. Women
crowded around Powers, embracing
and kissing him, and tears were shed.
The defense filed motion for a new
trial, but it was overruled and the
case will be appealed. The sentence
was read and judgment suspended
pending the decision of the higher
tribunal. Powers was taken to
Frankfort and committed to bail
without trial.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
MANY DEGREES CONFERRED.
President Roosevelt and Others Become
Doctors OF Laws


New Haven, Oct. 24.-Degrees were
conferred upon large list of can
didates by Yale college yesterday.
Among them were Secretary John
Hay, Joseph II. Choate, Chief JUS
tice Fuller, Archbishop Ireland,
MARK Twain" Seth Low and Rear
Admiral Sampson. When the long list
had been finished, President Hadley
advanced a step or two and with
great impressiveness said:
There yet remains one name"
In an instant the great audience
was standing. The band played and
the theater rang with cheers. The
programs. Remarking that Yale had
chosen for the degree this candidate
before he became president, Presi-
dent Hadley announced that all Yale
men were now doubly honored by
greeting "the man and the president
as son of Yale"
Especially addressing the president,
President Hadley spoke as follows:
Theodore Roosevelt, while you
were yet a private citizen we offered
you most worthily the degree of
LII. ID. Since. m His providence, il has
pleased God to give 80 Theodore
Roosevelt another title, we give to
him ON that account q double portion
of welcome.
"He is q Harvard man by nurture,
but we are proud to think that in his
democratic spirit, his broad national
sympathies, and above all, his purity
and truth, he will be glad to be an
adopted son of Yale"
President Roosevelt advanced,
bowed profoundly and tried to speak.
Again the audience cheered. and it
was fully minute before he was
allowed to proceed. He said:
president Hadley-I have never
yet worked at task worth doing
that I did not find myself working
shoulder to shoulder with some son
of Yale. ] have never yet been in a
struggle for righteousness and de-
cency that there were not men of
Yale to aid me and give me strength
and courage.
"As we walked hither this morning
we passed by gateway which was
raised to the memory of young
Yale lad who was hurt to death be-
side me as he and great many 9TH
ers marched against the gun fire of
the heights and with those memories
quick in my mind / thank you from
my heart for the honor you have done
me, and i thank you doubly, for you
planned to do me that honor while
was yet private citizen"
The hymn america" was then sung
and the audience dispersed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
MANY IowANs ARE HURT.
Wreck on Burlington g. Kansas city
Near Exline.


Near Exline.
0ttumwa, Oct. 25.-While rounding
a curve at the terminus of a deep cut
on the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas
City railroad two miles east of Ex-
line, a flag station between Moulton
and Cincinnati, a rail lowered and
ditched the combination baggage, ex-
press and mail car, the combination
smoker and passenger coach and
chair car. Considering the manner in
which the cars piled up and the
frightful leap they took down the
forty-foot embankment it is mirac-
ulous that all the passengers were
not instantly killed. Three or four
were fatally injured and a dozen or
fifteen more OF less hurt.
Following is a list of Iowans in
jured so far as known:
Miss Sophie Peterson, Cedar Rap
ids, limbs broken, otherwise badly
and probably fatally injured; II. c.
Moore, Bloomfield, mail clerk, iniur-
ed about the face and head; Mrs.
Honly, wife of, station agent at
Bloomfield. arm and leg broken; Mary
Corydon, j. f. Huffman and George
Headly, Moulton; j. w. Hayes. Drake
vile, and r. b. Browning, Keokuk.
Owing to the fact that the injured
are being cared for in farm houses
near the scene of the wreck, the ex-
act nature of their injuries cannot
be learned
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
ROBBERS RI,n BOOTY.
Bold Safe Robbers at Berea, Ohio, Secure
Loot valued at 100000.

Bold Safe Robbers at Berea, Ohio. secure
Loot valued at 100000.
Berea, Ohio, Oct. 2S.-One of the
boldest safe robberies ever perpe-
trated in this vicinity occurred at an
early hour Saturday in almost the
heart of the village. The hardware
store of Lawrence & .Brightman was
entered, the large safe was wrecked,
and the robbers made good their es-
cape, carrying with them booty ag-
gregating more than 100000.
Baldwin university bears the heav-
lest loss. C. C. Brightman, the jun
Tor member of the firm, is also the
treasurer and trustee of the Baldwin
university, and all of the valuable
papers of the institution which were
left in Brightman's custody were kept
in the safe. Bonds, deeds, notes and
mortgages of the university, aggre-
eating 100000 in value, were secured
by the. robbers. Many of the notes
held by Baldwin university were of
long standing and bore numerous
endorsements, making it impossible
to produce their duplicate. A dill
gent search for the thieves has been
instituted, but as yet no clue to- their
whereabouts or identity has been
established.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

Lud Madison, who was to have been
hanged at Parkersburg, w. Va, for
murder recently, has been respited by
Gov. White for sixty days. Madison
claims that he has already been legally
executed, and that it is not lawful to
hang man twice for the same offense
Two years ago he was sentenced to be
hanged. but stay of execution was
granted, and the state supreme court
granted him an appeal. Through an
error, the records of the court in which
he was convicted showed that he was
executed instead Of respited. Madison's
lawyers claim that, according to the
records, Madison is dead and cannot be
lawfully hanged again. They will ap-
peal the case to the Supreme Court OF
the United States.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
CZOLGOsZ READY TO DIE.
Meets His Brother and Appears Glad to
See Him,


Auburn, N. Y, Oct. 2s.--Leon f.
Czolgosz, who is to be put to death
in the electrical chair on Tuesday
morning for the murder of Presi-
dent Mckinley, had an hours inter-
view with his brother Valdez, Sat
urday. At the conclusion the latter
stated that the assassin had shown
no emotion, had inquired as to the
otner members of the family and had
declared that he did not care to see
a priest again.
Valdez Czolgosz and his brother
in-law, Valdez Thomas Bondowski,
arrived from Cleveland Friday night
and secured lodging with a Polish
family here. They did not visit the
prison until Saturday morning Ward
en- Meade satisfied himself of Wal
dek Czolgosz's relationship ana adj
united him to the prison. Bondow-
ski was permitted inside the prison
gates. The interview between the
brothers took place in the Office of
the prison. They eonversed in Eng
lish for more than an hour. After
the interview Valdez said his broth
er was never demonstrative, but APP
peared to be glad to see him. The
assassin expected to die Tuesday and
will make no effort to appeal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
HAMMoNDTREE UNDER ARREST.
He Is Charged With Completely in the
Hurder of Doctor Faiior of Newton.

He Is Charged With Completely In the
Hurder of Doctor FaiIor of Newton.
Ottumwa, Oct. 24.-Harry Ham
mondtree, aged 80 years, wanted at
Newton for alleged completely in the
murder of ID. M. Tailor on the night
of September Il, walked into police
station and shook hands with Chief
John Gray. He started to leave the
Office, but the chief remembered his
face and placed him under arrest.
The prisoner offered no resistance
and appeared to he under the influ-
ence of some drug. He admits hav-
ing been in Newton on September IA,
and says that DIR. Failor, whom he
knew well, did favor for him that
day. He first said he left Newton
after the murder and then denied
making the statement, saying he left
before the murder. He went to Mar
shalltown, Mason City, Ackley, Al
bert Lea, then doubled back to New
ton and then to Ottumwa. He for
merly played the piano at house
of i'll repute here. He denies having
had a hand in the murder, and says
he thinks he knows who did it. He
says he did not know he was wanted
until his return to Newton. Chief
Gray thinks he has the right man.
He has telegraphed the sheriff at
Newton to come after the prisoner.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

At a regular meeting of Magnolia
Lodge, knights Of Pythias Of Sharps-
burg. Nd, resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing United States Senator We'll
lington of Maryland, member of the
order, for the remarks he is alleged to
have made in regard to the assassina-
ton of President Mckinley, who was
also member of the Knights of Pythi-
as. The resolutions declare that the
remarks made by Ssnator Wellington
were most disgraceful, unpatriotic and
'unbrotherly; that he violated the prin-
ciples Of the order, and that he is no
longer fit to be member. They con-
clude by demanding the senator's ex-
pulsion from the organization. Noun
tain City lodge, Knights OF Pythias of
Frederick, Nd. passed similar resolu.
lions.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
Jorevin de Rochefort, who published

Jorevin de Rochefort, who published
In Paris in 1871 an account of his tray
els in England, tells the following:
While we were walking about the
town (Worcester) he asked me If It
was the custom in France as in Eng
land that when the children went to
school they carried in their satchel
with their books pipe of tobacco,
which their mother took care to fill
early in the morning, it serving them
instead OF breakfast, and that at tho
accustomed hour every one laid aside
his book to light his pipe, the master
smoking with them and teaching .hem
how to hold their pipes and draw in tile
tobacco"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
GREAT BARN DESTROYED.
state College Experiment Station a
Ames suffers Loss.

state College Experiment Station at
Ames suffers Loss.
Ames, Oct. 26.-The large expert
ment barn at the Iowa State college
experiment station burned yesterday
morning. The fire was discovered
in the old building just north of the
experiment barn at IL o'clock. 1t
quickly spread to the newer and
larger structure, which burned rap
idly, and at o'clock the large barn
had burned to the ground. The col
lege hose company had Some trouble
in getting water on the fire on ac-
count of the distance of the barn
from hydrants and the scarcity of
hose. The Ames fire company went
out on a special motor at 1880 with
supply of hose and helped save
the new judging pavilion and the
large stock barns on the west. The
building contained a hundred tons
of hay, valued at S1,S00, and about
1000 bushels of grain, which was a
total loss. A large amount of farm
machinery was also burned. The
barn was built in 1894 and cost, with
it's equipment, about $4,000. In ac-
cordance with the policy of the state
there was no insurance. The loss
will probably reach $1,000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
THE NEWS In IOWA
rAMA INDIANS IN SERIOUS DANGER
Smallpox Threatens to Work Havoc with
the Tribe.


Smallpox Threatens to Work Havoc with
the Tribe.
Des Moines, Oct. 2S.-The state
BOARD of health has taken action
respecting the outbreak of smallpox
among the Tama Indians. DR.. A. M.
Linn of this city, a member of the
board, visited the tribe last week
for the purpose of ascertaining the
extent to when smallpox had taken
hold among its members. The boards
of health from lama and Toledo had
already examined into the facts. DR..
Linn found, as did the boards of
nealth at those places. tnat small
pox existed in malignant form.
Five deaths have already taken place
from the disease. 1t is supposed the
entire tribe of about 500 Indians has
been exposed. A part of the Indians
have been yaceinated, but many of
them are opposed to it. The state
board of health is concerned over
the spread of the disease to the
white people living about Tama and
Toledo, as the Indians object to
quarantine. The state board of health
is anxious to have rigid quarantine
regulations enforced. and has rec
commended that a Gordon of police be
established by the local authorities
about the reservation. For the pur-
pose of avoiding any legal complica-
tions, in view of the fact the state
has 10 jurisdiction over the reserva-
ton, it has been advised by the state
board of health that the police be
stationed on the land adjacent to
the reservation and not on the res
ervation proper. 1ne white people in
the vicinity are much alarmed at the
prospective spread of the disease.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

Holding her three-months-old baby
by its clothing in her teeth, and with
one arm clasped about her four-year-
old daughter, Mrs. Theodore Pria,
climbed two stories down the fire es-
cape to get away from her insane hus-
band, after he had attacked her and
the children with revolver. Pria is
Cuban barber, and lives at 745 Tin
ton avenue, in the Bronx, New York.
The neighbors say that he was 1t one
time well-to-do tobacco grower in
Cuba, and that the loss of his planta
ton there had made him insane.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
To CALL VOLUNTEERS.
England May Call Out All the Volunteers
In the Country.


London, Oct. 26.-An error commit
ted by some of the provincial police
has led to the premature leaking out
of the fact that the war office con-
templates the possibility of having
to call out every volunteer in the
country. The war office has distrib-
uted to the police officers throughout
the kingdom bills ordering all reserv-
lists, militia, yeomen and volunteers
to report themselves without delay
to headquarters, with the view of ac-
tive service. These bills are accom-
panied by letters ordering that the
bills be kept in safe place until tel
egraphic orders to post them up are
received. The police of Lancaster
overlooked the letter and posted the
bills, causing widespread perturba.
tion-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

The singing Of the favorite hymns OF
the late president was perhaps the
most remarkable feature of the sery-
Ices held in memory OF him, across the
Atlantic as well as in his own land,
In synagogue as well as in church. The
circumstance shows that Nearer, my
God, to Thee and Lead, Kindly
Light express emotions that are felt
In every religious heart, be the body
that encloses it Jew or Gentle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

There was quite sensation In Rut-
land square, Dublin, recently, when a
Boer flag was found floating from the
roof of the Orange Hall. How it got
there is somewhat a mystery. 1t is
surmised that some of the members,
remembering that their patron Of
glorious, pious and immortal mem
DRY came of the same stock as the
Beers, took this method of showing
their sympathy with the burghers who
are still in the field.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
snor lx LINE or DUTY.
Omcial Report on the Death of Presiden
Mckinley.

Mckinley.
Washington, Oct. 2s.-"In the line
of duty, while receiving the people,
was shot by Leon +. Czolgosz," is
the official statement filed by sur
geon general of the navy, by DR..
Presley NJ. Rixey, medical inspector,
U. S. n, as the introduction for his
report upon the wounding, Illness
and death of the late President Nc
Kinley. The cause of death, "Gan-
creme OF both walls of the stomach
and pancreas, following gunshot
wound"
The report itself is remarkable
for its exhibition of the exact state
of the patient during his illness,
showing at intervals sometimes of a
single minute, rarely more than an
hour, the patients progress toward
the end, with the accurate register
ing of the medication-not single
morsel of food nor dose of medi-
cine is omitted.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

Sven Hedin has discovered second
Dead Sea in the Highlands of Thibet-
vast lake SO impregnated with salt
that indigenous life is out of the ques-
ton. 1t was impossible for him to get
his boat close to the shore, so that he
and his companions had to wade out
two boat lengths before she would float
and this was sufficient to coat their
legs and clothes thickly with salt. The
entire bed of the lake appeared to con-
sist Of salt, and the density of the life
less water was, of course, very high.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
IT WOULD HELP ENGLAND.
Tho Spectator Endorses the Abrog atioz
of tho Old Treaty.


London, Oct. 2S.-The Spectator,
dealing with the question on the
Isthmian canal, says:
"When once the canal is made by
the United States, opened to the
whole world on equal terms and held
so strongly that no power at war
with Great Britain will be able to
violate its neutrality, the British ma
ton will realize that instead of the
abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty proving an injury, it is q
great benefit to the nation.
THAT America, though she will
make, work and hold the canal,
should bind herself to preserve its
neutrality as regards power with
which she might be at war is absurd.
Such a stipulation would not and
could not be observed ten minutes
after war is declared. The Amerl-
can Isthmian canal, like everything
else American, will be used against
Americas enemies in case of war,
whatever jurists may say. We
should do the same in case of the
Suez canal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

Outbreaks of typhoid and diphtheria
OF a most serious character have oc.
CURED at Belfast. In ten days SO cases
of typhoid, all of severe type. were
admitted to the hospital, the total un-
der treatment being 254; while 10 cases
OF diphtheria had been admitted in
two days. One nurse has died of ty-
phoid and several others are ailing.
The number of doctors and nurses is to
oe increased.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

Owing to the incessant rains the
river Judrio, which flows along the
borders Of Italy, Austria, and the dis
trict of the Friuli, overlooked its
banks one night recently, inundating
all the land, the surrounding towns of
Romans, Medea and Varsa. Alarm
bells were kept ringing, and the coun.
try people fed in haste to the towns,
but eleven persons are reported to
have been drowned, and much damage
has been done to property and crops.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

Omaha, Oct. 2S.-The Chicago, Rock
Island &c Pacific road will let con-
tracts next week for three million
dollars worth of construction work
on the cutoff from Eldon, Iowa, to
Trenton, Mo. The new line will be
thirty-fve miles long and win be a
reduction of thirty-five miles in dis
lance from Chicago to the south
west. II will do away with numer-
Gus curves and grades.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
tho pIets.io and HysI.nIo Gazette

says; walter Baker & Co.. of Dor
chester, Mass, u. s. A, have given
years Of study to the skilful prepara-
ton Of cocoa and chocolate. and have
devised machinery and systems pc
culiar to their methods of treatment.
whereby the purity, palatability, and
highest nutrient characteristics are re-
tanned. Their preparations are known
the world over and have received the
highest Endorsements from the medical
practitioner. the nurse. and the intel
ligent housekeeper and caterer"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
MANY CHECKS AXE BOGUS.
swindles Perpetrated In Numerous Iowa
Towns.


Cedar Rapids, Oct. 25.-Secretary
Dinwiddie of the State Bankers asso-
citation says that there is an epidemic
of swindling by means of bogus
checks at the present time and that
many endorsers are being victimized.
A party issuing checks signed j. G.
Nichols, on the First National bank
at Sioux City is the latest. He has
secured money on these checks at
Sheldon Rock Valley, Spencer, San
born, Clear Lake and Wayerly. All
the checks thus far are signed by
himself and have been made payable
to Charles Clubbing. The checks are
worthless. Other operators have Sc
cured money an worthless checks at
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Oskaloosa,
Corning and Omaha. Their method is
to stay in town short time and
induce some new found friend to en-
dorse bogus check.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
al s5,o79, 4o3.29 $500, o95.54
BAD FIRE Ar DAVENPORT.
Chris Mueller Saw MIL Destroyed at a
Loss of 100000.

Davenport, Oct. 26.-The second big
sawmill fire this season occurred yes
terday morning when the Chris Muel-
Ter planning and sawmill burned to the
ground. The loss will reach 100000,
covered one-third by insurance. The
flames threatened adjoining property
and the city was endangered for a
time, but valiant fire-fghting confined
the fire to the Mueller mills.
The fire started in the planning mill
and spread rapidly till all the sawmill
was destroyed, but the office and the
books were saved. The mill is total
wreck. Whether it will be rebuilt is
not determined
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
NINETEEN KNOWN DEAD.
Fire at Philadelphia Causes Great Loss
of Life aud Property.

of Life aud Property.
Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 26.-Nineteen
known dead and property loss
amounting to upwards of 100000 is
the result of a fire which occurred
yesterday in the business section of
this city. The number of injured is
not known definitely, but fully a
score of victims were treated at the
various hospitals. Police and yari-
Gus firemen are delving in the ruins
in search of bodies supposed to have
been buried beneath the debris, as
it is feared that others besides the
known dead may have lost their lives
in the flames. The buildings de-
stroyed were the eight story struc-
ture at 1919 and 1921 Market street,
occupied by Hunt, Wilkinson & Co.,
upholsterers and furniture dealers,
and three three-story buildings oc-
cupied by small merchantmen.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31

"A gentleman tramp" has fallen into
[he hands of the Paris police. He was
found asleep outside the Notifications
and was arrested as vagrant. At the
police station he produced documents
proving himself to be the Count de
N, and the possessor of a large
fortune. Several hundred francs in
bank notes were sewn up in his frayed
and tattered jacket. He explained that
he liked the life and that he wanted to
be a tramp for reasons best known to
himself. The police were obliged to re-
lease him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-31
Pro- Boer Meeting In Germany.

Berlin, Oct. 26.-An enthusiastic
pro-Boer meeting was held in Wet
mar, attended by more than thou.
sand persons. DR.. Gadow, of Kimber-
ly, answered Herr Brandt, former
German minister to China, who had
ridiculed Weimar because of the pro-
Boer sentiments which have frequent
ly found expression there of late.
Resolutions were adopted condemning
the recent executions in South Afri.
ca, and denouncing the British mill
tary methods as predatory.