Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Industrial, Political. Domesti,
and Foreign Happenings of Min Or
Importance Told In Paragraphs.

\ Jeremiah ". tarWell, son OF one OF
.he most prominent capitalists of De
troit, Mich, died in Harper hospital
from bullet wound through his stom
ach, fired, 1t is supposed, with sui
cidal intent. He was found at the
Woodward avenue car barns with
blood flowing and revolver beside
him. No reason for his suicide IL
known. He was So years OF age.
Four coaches. two Pullman day
coaches and blind baggage car in
the rear of southbound Pere Mar.
auette passenger train jumped the
Mich. Brakeman Ralph Edwards was
thrown from the train and received
severe injuries, but none of the pass.
engers was hurt. The falling of a
car beam is believed to have caused
! the accident. :
1t is stated that the detectives in
| vestigating the anonymous letters
| sent to the Southern Pacific company
demanding $4,000 under threat to
| dynamite trains have conferred their
| suspicious on five men now in the
| vicinity of Fresno and that one of
them has been picked out as the au-
| thor Of the letters. The men are said
to be under surveillance.
Three children of Louis Cohen were
suffocated at New York in a fire in
| a six-story tenement.
Louise Clements and Josie Rogers
were fatally burned at Omaha, Neb,,
by an explosion of gasoline. They
| were preparing meal when the stove
| exploded, burning both of them al
most to a crisp.
At San Jose, Cal, d. A. Pohlmann,
treasurer Of the Federated Trades
council of Santa Clara county, was
held up and robbed of $3.50 and gold
watch and was then shot, perhaps
| fatally.
Frank Dawson has been convicted
of numbering Anna Hartmann in the
Circuit court at Paris. Mo-, and sen
fenced tolbe hanged March II. Daw-
son killed Miss Hartman as the result
of broken engagement.
Jessie King, the 1S-year-old daugh-
ter of family of Mount Vernon, Mo-,
whose identity she declined to reveal,
has been placed in the county Jail at
San Antonio, Tex, on the charge OF
| bigamy.
Louis Starman, member OF com
| pany B of the North Dakota regiment,
who was in the Philippines with the
company, was shot and killed at Pi.
SEX, N. D. Joe Razum, who fred the
! shot, is under arrest.
John Dillon has gone to the south
| Of Italy under his doctors orders and
| will not return to ireland or engage
In politics for four months.
King Victor Emmanuel has signed a
decree appointing Signor Riva Italian
| minister to Persia. Signor Riva was
| at one time consul general Of Italy
at New York and later he was Italian
minister at Caracas, Venezuela. He
was recalled by Signor Prinetti, the
| then foreign minister, during the trou'
BILE between Venezuela and Germany,
Great Britain and Italy last year.
Representative Geneva offered a
/ III tuG H." pLO-
| posing an investigation of ex-Auditor
| Nerriam's conduct in office. Merriam
was charged by Gov. Cummins in the
latter's biennial message with extort,
Ing $4,000 fees from insurance com
| panies for examinations never con
Quoted.
| Commander Booth Tucker of the
Salvation Army is in Los Angeles
| looking into the feasibility of locating
a colony of the denizens of large cit
les in southern California.
| Athletic women in New York socl
ETY. are about to put into operation
plans for a clubhouse. Land has been
bought for the site. Land and build
Ing will cost about $250,000.
James Pratt of Bemidji. Mimi, who
was supposed to have been drowned
two years ago, returned to his home
He had gone for long trip in the
West and did not write to his friends
When the Denver express on the
Burlington Road crashed into an &C
commodation train at Gardeene Creek
Mo-, In a binding snowstorm, Ben
!amin Bennett, negro porter of st
Louis: X. William Conover of Denver
md Elmer English of Macon, Mo-, were
killed.
The eighteen-ounce babe recently
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Erwin o
Roanoke. Ind, said to be the smalles
infant ever born in southern Indiana
| Is dead of exhaustion
Foreign Secretary Lansdowne denies
the report that he intended to resign
A dispatch from Cape Town says tn
bushmen with the rebels in German
southwest Africa are committing tel
rible atrocities. The limbs of tn
dead are chopped off and prisoner
said to have been burned alive.
Mrs Mary Schaferenski of Menom
nee, Mich, said by her relatives t
have been 125 years old, Is dead.
Mrs. Robert Huffman Of Clinton
Iowa. aged AS, poured gasoline into
stove to start fire and was so bat
ly burned that she died in a fey
hours.
w. d. Stevens, a prospector, Is n
ported to have frozen to death
! Yakataga Beach, Alaska. Jan. IS. I
Rhodes and Martin Falkner, who wer
with Stevens and were also badl
frozen, arrived at Juneau for trea
ment.
The car and czarina have returne
to st. Petersburg from the iinperi'
residence at Tsarskoye Selc.
Near Dombrau, in upper Silesia,
pile of Stag which laborers were r