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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
persisted IN
A TENEMENT
Twenty-Five People Victims Of
Flames in House Of
All Nations"
FOOTBALL PLAYERS KILLED
Special Train Carrying Team and
Frierds From Purdue to indianap-
ole Was Wrecked With Appalling
Results.

New York, Nov. 2.--Twenty- one
men, three women and a baby were
burned to death or suffocated In a fire
yesterday that caused $1,000 damage
to the House of all Nations" a five
story tenement house at No. 426
Eleventh street. The police believe
the fire to be of incendiary origin. The
dead are mostly Italians. The fire
was extinguished in twenty minutes.
The only person injured is Mary
Jane Quinn, who was burned about
the face and hands and slightly
bruised by leaping from the second
floor.
In several apartments in the tene-
men Halloween parties were in prog
ress and the guests at these added
greatly to the number of persons in
the house and made the crush and
jam to escape, more than ordinarily
would nave been. The fire started in
the basement and, rushing upward
attacked the stairway leading to the
apartments. In short space of time
the flames developed the stairway.
The house from the third to the fifth
floor was destroyed. .....
At the windows, front and rear, bod
les of men and women were jammed,
showing that desperate struggle
to escape had resulted in the choking
Of these exits to the fire escape and
had been the cause of suffocation
When the flremen reached the build
ing there was mass of fame burst
ing through the roof, while the air
was filled with the screams of women
and the curses of men. Many daring
rescues were made by the firemen.
One fireman climbed to the fourth
floor where window was filed with
mass of people, damned in and
lighting to get out. He struck the
heads of all the men he could see with
his fist and they fell back. He then
handed down to the firemen on lad
ders below three women and a baby.
Another fireman performed q similar
Seat and rescued two girls form the
fourth floor.
Life nets played prominent part
In the work Of rescue. The firemen
dropped men and women, dead and
alive, from one floor to another and
finally, men standing on ladders on
the first floor, let them fall into the
nets held by policemen and firemen
in the street.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
LANDS CASE DECEMBER I.
Webster County Acreage viii Be Con
sidered BY REGISTER Howard.

sidered BY Register Howard.
Des Moines, Oct. 31.--Register T. s..
Howard, Of the United States land
office here, has set December as the
date to commence the hearing in the
land contest between w. e. Moses, an
Iowa script broker, and dozen farm
ers in Webster county, involving $50
acres of land, valued at from $40 to
SIS per acre.
The men now located upon the land
settled there in or near the year 1850,
taking the land from the county as
swamp land under the swamp land
act" Just half century later the
government sent an agent to Webster
county to adjust the swamp land
claims. He declared some of the land
not to be swampy, and on this Mr..
Moses filed soldiers additional right
claims. He was given patent.
The men in possession claim that
the land was swampy when they went
upon it, but because of their drainage
and tillage 1t has been made good for
cultivation. They appealed to the
land department for hearing, but
were turned down on the ground that
the governments agent had decided 1t.
They carried the matter up to the sec
rotary OF the interior and he has or.
dered that they have hearing and
given their rights. ...
Accordingly, December l will COM
mence the trial of the Webster county
land case, to show whether II was or
was not Swampy in 1850.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
FIGHTING IN PARIS.
Twenty-Three Policemen and Many
Rioters Wounded

Paris, Oct. 30.-A serious riot oc-
Cured yesterday in front of the
Bourse de Travail (labor exchange)
in the workingmens district. AS re-
suit of the fighting between the police
and rioters, twenty-three policemen
were injured, seven of tsem seriously
and a number of rioters were wound
ed. Fifty ARRESTS were made.
The authorities, in anticipation Of
disorders, had occupied the nearby
streets with strong force of mill
tary and police. The first speaker
urged the crowd to await the result OF
the parliamentary inquiry, which 1t
was predicted would report measure
for the suppression of the municipal
employment bureau. Other speakers
who followed, made infiammatory
speeches, crying:
Down with the employment offic-
ers." The crowd thereupon rushed
from the building and about 1000
swept into the Rue du Chateau d'Eau
where formidable barrier of police
had been drawn up. A free fight fol
lowed but the rioters gave way be.
fore q. charge of tie police The man.
ifestants then entered cafes and
shops, seized glasses, tables and
chairs and renewed the struggle with
the police. While the fighting was In
progress members of the Bourse dc
Travail stood at the windows encour
aging the rioters and shouting to the
police: "Assassins, assassins." In
order to prevent further disturbance
it is reported that the minister of the
interior has forbidden holding the
meetings which had been called for
tonight at the Bourse de Travail.
Later the riot was renewed. The po
lice determined to clear out the
Bourse de Travail. but the rioters bar
ricaded the place and threw projec-
tiles from the windows, wounding q
number of policemen. The militia
later were compelled to use swords
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.

Washington, d. c.. Nov. 1.-THE
president has issued his usual
Thanksgiving proclamation In the
following terms:
BY the president OF the United
States of America:
A PROCLAMATION.
The season is at hand when, accord
ing to the custom of our people. II
falls upon the president to appoint
day of praise and thanksgiving to
God.
During the last year the Lord has
dealt beautifully with us, giving us
peace at home and abroad and the
chance for our citizens to work for
their welfare unhindered by war.
famine or plague. 1t behooves us not
only to rejoice greatly because Of
what has been given us, but to accept
1t with a solemn sense Of responsible
ity, realizing that under Heaven IL
rests with us ourselves to show that
We are worthy to use Alright what has
thus been entrusted to our care. In
no other place and at no other time
has the experiment of government of
ShC pSopiSp W Vic pSoplS Iue
people, been tried on SO vast a
scale as here in our own coun-
try in the opening years Of the
twentieth century. Failure would
not only be dreadful thing for
us. but dreadful thing for all man
kind, because it would mean loss OF
hope for all who believe in the power
and the righteousness of liberty
Therefore. in thanking God for the
mercies extended to us In the past
We beseech Him that He may not with
hold them in the future and that our
hearts may be reused to war stead
lastly for good and against all the
forces of evil, public and private. We
pray for strength and light, SO that I'm
the coming years we may with clean
Illness, fearlessness and wisdom, do
our allotted work on the earth in such
manner as to show that we are not al
together unworthy the blessings we
have received.
Now, therefore, I. Theodore Roose-
welt, president of the United States,
do hereby designate as day of gen.
eral thanksgiving, Thursday, the TWEEN
ty-sixth day of November, and do rec
ommend that throughout the land
people cease from their wonted occu.
pations, and in their several homes
and places of worship render thanks
unto Almighty God for His manifold
mercies.
In witness whereof I have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
tSigaed) Theodore Roosevelt.
BY the president.
John Hay, Secretary of State
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
NEW iNTERUR5AN PLANNED.
Eastern Capital Backing Gigantic En-.
terprise,


Des Moines, Oct 30.-Des Moines
may have a new interurhan electric
road next year. One is being project
ed to the southeast. 1t will be COM
bined passenger and coal line, the OBJ
ject being to accommodate the i'm
mense coal fields in Marion county,
as well as the large rural communi-
ties in Warren, Marion and Monroe
counties.
1t is reported that the exact route
has not been selected, but that pro-
moters have been in that section of the
state several weeks comforting with
residents of various towns as we'll as
farmers and coal men. regarding the
most serviceable and least expensive
route. 1t Is said that the line would
go southwest from Des Moines in close
proximity to the %" road for several
miles, but would cut to the south from
about Palmyra, thence to Sandyville
and south to Dallas. Possibly a
branch would be run % Knoxville
from Sandyville, or the main line
might touch that city. The towns of
Columbia Coalton, Lovilla and Hite-
man have been visited by tbs advance
agent, and they have also conferred
with men at Abba. There is a rumor
that the line would be extended to
Centerville just as soon as it estab-
fishes q terminal at Albi.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
STRIKERS SHOT DOWN.
Foreign Consuls at Riiboa Unite in a
Demand for Protection.

Biiboa, Spain. Oct. 29.-During
fighting which took. place in the
streets yesterday afternoon. five
strikers were killed and large mum
Der were wounded. The troops are
guarding the banks and public build
ings and are occupying strategic posi-
tions throughout the city, in order to
prevent the massing of strikers. The
lighting between troops and strikers
was started by a rioter shooting from
a window while an infantry regiment
was passing. The soldiers thereupon
charged the crowd A captain Is
among the wounded In yesterdays
rioting woman was killed and
score Of people wounded. The foreign
consuis have demanded from the
military authorities protection for the
ships of their nationalities, now in
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
TRIED TO SAVE WIFE.
Leon Won Lear, Of TT. Dodge, Pleads
Guilty in Famous Case.

Fort Dodge. Nov. leon Won
Lear, better known as Leon DeEtta,
pleaded guilty in the district court
here to the charge of manslaughter.
He and his wife were managers of the
carnival company which put on the at
fractions here on the Fourth of July.
Among the attractions was a slide for
life on a wire from the top of the
court house to the ground, distance
Of seventy feet. Clara Rasmussen.
the girl who attempted the slide, was
making her first attempt, and on
mounting the wire fell to the ground
and was dashed to death on the pave
ment. The DeEttas were arrested on
the charge of criminal negligence in
her death. They were brought before
Judge Whitaker for change of plea
Leon Won Lear pleading guilty while
his wife retained her former plea. In
making a plea of guilty, Won Lear
sacrifices himself for his wife, and as
sumes all responsibility for the crime.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
GIRLS AWFUL FATE.
Charles City Maiden Burned to Death
While Hunting for Her Kittens.

Charles City Maiden Burned to Death
While Hunting for Her Kittens.
Charles City, Nov. Little Emma
Bachman, the 5-year-old daughter OF
Will Bachman, was burned to death
in a straw shed on her fathers farm.
Accompanied by little brother and
sister, the three children were hunt
ing for a nest of kittens which were
hidden away in the shed. Finding it
impossible to locate the animals with
out lantern, the little girl returned
to the shed, which was a board affair
with straw roof. with a light and
continued the search. The shed
caught fire, and while the two smaller
children escaped and gave the alarm,
the little daughter was held victim
within the shed. The child's form was
rescued from the mass of flames by a
neighbor. who completely saturated
his clothes in water, and with the aid
of pitchfork secured the body. The
lower portion of the form was entire
ly burned away and the head was a
mass of charred and burned flesh
totally beyond recognition. The par
ents are frantic with grief over the
affair
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
Officers Epworth League. .

Boone, Oct 31.--More than 700 del.
egates are in the city in attendance
at the fourteenth annual convention
of the Iowa Epworth League, which
opened yesterday. officers for the
ensuing year were selected yesterday
as follows:
President-George F. Whitfield, Of
Ruthven, Iowa.
Vice-Presidents-W. G. Tackaberry,
of Sioux City. Iowa: Rev. Chas. NJ
Page. Lone Tree, Iowa; c. f. Jones'
lndianola, Iowa; l.. E. Hill, Tama,
Iowa.
Secretary-Rev. e. T. Gruwell.
Hampton, Iowa.
Treasurer-Wm. ]. Tut. DEG
Moines, Iowa.
Superintendent Junior League
Mrs. S. p. McKim, Traer, Iowa.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
GIRL is FATALLY BURNED.
Lucy Howell, of Alton, Sustains Prob
ably Deadly Injuries.

Creston, Nov. Miss Lucy Howell,
of Alton, was seriously burned while
starting a fire. She had filled some
lamps previous to starting the fire. and
the keroseL- had run over and satur-
ated the front of her dress. When she
went to start the kitchen fire her dress
caught fire and she became panic
stricken and ran into the yard, thus
giving impetus to the flames. Her
mother, who was in the room, saw the
girls clothing catch fire, and started
towards her for the purpose of ex-
tinguishing the flames, but her flight
to the yard delayed the work, and be-
fore the mother could do anything,
the clothes were burned from her
body. Her neck. arms and body are
frightfully burned, and it is seriously
feared that she will not recover.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
ELDER DoWIE ANSWERS SON.
Brands Story Of Latter's Noble Par
entaqe as Fabrication.

Essex, Nov. John Murray Dowie,
crushed by the attack made upon him
by his son, John Alexander Dowie,
says: The statement that / am not
the father of John Alexander Dowie
is the greatest myth ever uttered by
the mouth of man. 1t Is scandalous
that my son should repudiate me after
l have done SO much for him. He is
my son and was born in lawful we'd
lock- No one can deny it. The
records may be had at the great reg
lister offices, Princess street, Edin-
burg. Scotland l have always lived a
quiet, peaceable, Christian life and it
breaks my heart to have this trouble
come toward the end"
The resemblance between John Muir
ray Dowie and John Alexander Dowie
is so close that the father has often
been taken for the son.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
MORE INDICTMENTS MADE.
One Woman in Tolls in Oregon ove'
Land Frauds.

Washington, Oct. 30.-Secretary
Hitchcock yesterday received a tele-
gram from Portland. Ore. announc-
ing the indictment of three more per-
sons in connection with the public
land frauds in that state. The tele-
gram gave the names of the persons
indicted as Emma L. Watson, Guy
Huff and Norman Williams. The
woman Is charged with conspiracy in
connection with the proceedings
against Miss Ware, the commissioner
of the United States district court for
Oregon, who already is under indict-
ment, and Williams is charged with
forgery in connection with the Nesbitt
case. The proceedings against Huff
are for forgery.
Upon being asked If he had anything
to say apropos of the indictments,
Secretary Hitchcock replied:
Nothing, except that the ball goes
rolling on. There haav been seven
indictments within week and there
Will still be many more. Our success
to the present time indicates pretty
clear that our investigations have
been quite thoroughly conducted"
So far many of the prosecutions
have been directed against those en-
gagged in fraudulent proceedings under
the timber and stone act, and II now
appears that the different irregular
transactions have been made.
1t appears so far that the frauds
extend eastward from the coast states
into .uano, Montana and Nevada.
The profit TO the government on
pennies pays the entire expense Of
tie mint.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
Mysterious Shootlna Scrane.

Iowa Falls, Nov. 2.-Joe Stone
breaker, young man living south af
this city, has one chance in a hun.
dred to live, and the bullet wound in
his chest may terminate fatally. He
was found in his room with a bad
wound, but whether self-infiicted or
not is a mystery. In company with
two young men he attended the
theater here and started for home
after the performance None of the
party will talk Of the affair, SO that
it is not known whether Stonebreaker
attempted suicide or was accidentally
shot
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
Robinson Guilty of Murder.

Cresco, Nov. "A jury found Thos.
c. Robinson guilty of murder in the
first degree and he was sentenced to
prison for life. Robinson tainted
when the verdict was read He was
charged with poisoning the twin ba-
bies of Hannah Dre!s by giving them
strychnine
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
HEAVY FAILURE AT LENox.
M. c. Sanders, Stockman and Ship.
per, Files Petition in Bankruptcy.

Creston, Oct. 3l.-One of the heav-
lest failures ever known in this part
of the state took place yesterday
when NJ. c.. Sanders, well known
stockman and shipper Of Lenox, filed
a petition in voluntary bankruptcy
with Referee Hugh NJ Fry. The H.
abilities We're given at s43,S37 and the
assets 260 acres of land in Platte
township with mortgage of $1,000,
also homestead in the city of Lenox
valued at $4,000, which he claims as
exempt Mr.. Sanders has held some
of the largest sales ever given in IN
ion county and was one of the largest
shippers and buyers of stock. The
heaviest loser will be the Union Coun-
ty bank Of Kent, which holds $4,000
worth of his paper. Heavy losses on
the declining market of cattle which
he has shipped was the cause of his
failura
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
BOY INSTANTLY KILLED.
Marshsiltown Lad is Struck by a Pas.
senger Train.

Marshalltown, Nov. 2.-Ralph
Friend, the 12-year-old son Of d. H.
Friend, was instantly killed by Chi
cago & Northwestern passenger train.
The boy had been sent up town on an
errand and was walking along the
Northwestern track at the time of the
accident. He heard the warning
whistle of the engine. but failed to get
entirely out Of the way, and the beam
of the pilot struck him at the base of
the skull and killed him
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.
Fred Mcclure, Aged IS, Admits the
Commission of MANY Eorueries

Ottumwa, Oct. 30.-Fred Mcclure,
aged 16 years, of Keosauqua, was
held to the Van Buren, county grand
jury on the charge of forgery. In his
preliminary hearing young Mcclure
admitted that he had repeatedly
cashed forged checks and that only re-
Gently he passed one for the sum of
1922. which he had signed with a rel
ative's name. The boy is the son OF
reputable farmer who lives near
Eldon. His guilt was discovered by
his parents and they brought him to
keosauqua and turned him over to
the Officials
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
All ON Board perisl,

Yokohama, Oct. 30.--A collision
occurred in fog yesterday off Hako
date, Japan between the Russian
Ynshen Kaisha company's steamer
Progress and Tokai- Maru. The lat
ter sank. OF the 100 passengers and
crew ON board tae latter vessel only
90 were saved.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

An actress down east got two col.
nmns OF press notices because she re
fused TO kiss the leading man, and
just when the publicity was coming
fast and free the theater burned down.
II might have been the same if she had
Kissed the leading man. but somehow
or other II looks as II unkind fate had
struck match.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Reports from Bogota indicate that
the Colombian statesmen have reach
ed the point where they are begin.
ming to consider what fun they could
have had with that canal purchase
money.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Now as to this angora goat bust
aess. In the first place the farmer
iesires to be thoroughly assured that
re will find a better market for his
product after raising the mohaiI
than he did after raising the Belgian
nare.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Standards which college students
are required to meet are becoming
higher and more severe. Nowadays
the ambitious collegiate has to sur
vive not only the football games but
the class rushes."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Henry C. Jarrett, who has just died
in London, and his PARTNER made 81,
100 900 out of the "Black Crook
largely because the piece was so well
advertised by the ministers who pro
tested so vigorously against it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

The new German trolley car may
make two miles minute, but it is
the testimony of those who have rid,
den on it that every minute seems
like an hour.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Some of the purists are troubled
over the question whether a hen sits
or sets. The ordinary individual, how
ever, IS more worried about the pres
emit pIlce of eggs.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Even If the people of this great and
glorious country do spend more than
500, 900, 900 year for confectionery
the dentists will not rise up and pro-
test.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
PRINCE GAL|Tz|N
MADE A TARGET
Narrow Escape From Death
of Governor General of
the Caucasia.

Tiflis, Russia Trans aucasia, Oct.
29.-Prince Galitzin, governor general
OF the Caucasia, had narrow escape
from assassination yesterday on the
outskirts Of the town. Three natives
stabbed the governor general thrice.
They fed, but were subsequently
shot down by Cossacks.
Prince Galitzin was driving with his
wife when the would-be assassins
rushed upon the carriage, daggers in
hand. Two seized the governor gen
eral and attempted to drag him from
the carriage, while the third man in
ficted two ugly wounds on the
princes head and third cut on the
hand.
A Cossack, who was in attendance
upon the prince, threw himself upon
the assailants. While hand to hand
fight was in. progress, the carriage
was driven off at gallop. Ultimate
ly the assailants fed, followed. by a
mounted guard of Cossacks, who had
hurried to the scene.
Dispatches from Trans Caucasia
within the last month show consider
able unrest at Titlis, owing to the
transfer of the Armenian church
property to the Russian government
under the decree of June 25. Demon
STATIONS have been reported at vari-
Gus points in which quite a number
of lives were lost and the Armenian
church authorities are said to have
threatened to transfer the pastors of
the Armenian church to another
country
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Abdul Hamld has sent a printer to
the hamstringing department because
he made typographical error. The
proofreader ought to be saying his
prayers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Alfred Harmsworth, the London edi
tor, announces that he will publish an
exclusively woman's newspaper, to be
called the Mirror. He hopes all tho
ladies will look into it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

Oh, horrors! We spend more on
chewing gum than on missions! All
but by keeping some jaws busy, other
wise than in talk, we do the best kind
of mission work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05
Looks Like a Murder.

Dubuque, Oct 31.-The bones of
Justus Herwig, Of Dubuque. were found
In the ashes Of hay stack, destroyed
by fire near Volga City. The skull
was fractured and 1t Is believed he
was murdered
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-11-05

That Denver man who broke the
worlds record by dressing a steer in
three minutes and twenty-three sec
1nds must have dressed it in a
Mother Hubbard. He could hardly
have put sill, stockings and buttoned
shoes on tne animal in that time.