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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
GL|DDEN SUSTA|NS
HEAVY FIRE Loss
Armstrong Building, One of
Finest in the City,
Burns.
IT is COMPLETELY Quilted
Monetary Loss Estimated at $50, 900
Loss On Building Sic, 900, Fully
Covered BY Insurance - $4,000
Insurance Carried On Stock.

Giidden, Jan. 28.-Fire was discov-
cred by Nightwatch Head at o'clock
yesterday morning in the basement
of the Armstrong block. The fire de-
partment was summoned and were
prompt in responding but the smoke
was so dense that they could not
reach the flames with stream OF
water. In a short time the blaze had
reached the lower floors and the
building was then doomed. The. struc-
ture consisted of two rooms facing
the east 25x100. Over these was the
opera house and two large Office
rooms, one OF them occupied by r. G..
Rust, insurance agent, who lost ev-
erything save what was in his safe.
Besides these there were two rooms
facing south, 25x40. These rooms
above and below; the two facing the
east were occupied by B. w. Welch's
department store. The north room
was filed with fine new stock OF
furniture. The undertaking depart
ment was over one of the rooms facing
south. The balance of the building
was filled with dry goods and gro
ceries and a millinery department. Mr..
WEIGH is in Chicago buying spring
goods and no definite information is
Obtainable as to the amount of stock
on hand. A reasonable estimate -
from $4,000 to $4,000 with probably
$4,000 insurance. The building is
owned by Gulick & Voss OF Denison.
1t was valued at about $4,000 with
$4,000 insurance.
The residence of Homer Nichols
across the alley had narrow escape
as did the MOorhOuSe elevator and
lumber yard, the Farmers bank and
Inns hardware. These were dam
aged some, but on the whole 1t was
fortunate that the fire was confined
to the one building or set Of buildings.
1t is a severe loss to the town as
well as to the individuals on account
Of the fine opera house, which had a
seating capacity of about six hun
dred.
From the location of the fire when
it was discovered it Is very likely
that 1t caught about the furnace in
the basement, though there is no def
mite Information on this point.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
ENGLAND FEARS RESULTS.
Looks FORWARD to Change in Form
Of Government In Russia.

London, Jan. 26.--The foreign Of
flee VIEWS the situation in Russia with
alarm. 1t believes that while the pres
ent risings will be put down the af-
fair of Sunday at st. Petersburg is
certain to bring about a change in the
form of government. The Associated
Press learns Sat the foreign office
would welcome a government with
which it cou:~ enter into a treaty SIM
liar to the Anglo-French agreement,
feeling that a contract with the pres
ent regime would be repudiated at
will. But fears are entertained OF a
revolution which might result in in
ternational complications.
The remarks of War Secretary Ar
nold-Foster at Corydon when he ex-
pressed the sympathy of the people
of the United Kingdom with the peo-
pie of Russia, are exciting consider.
able comment, coming from a cabinet
minister. He seemed to voice the
general suspicion that the British gov
eminent has tired of Russian bureau
cracy. Mr.. Arnold-Iorster also made
the astounding statement that 1t
would be a bold man who would say
whether this movement would be like
ly to help or hurt the British nation,
but 1--WE must be on guard"
The British press as a whole takes
no less gloomy view. The papers
have been given up exclusively since
Sunday to alarmist reports from Rus
STA. hostile articles and scatning edi-
torials on the massacre" one OF the
mildest terms used for the affair OF
Sunday, and the Russian emperor ami
his government are generally compar-
er to beasts at bay" The whole
discussion of the question in Russia
serves again to reveal the poorly dis
guised hospitality OF the British press
to everything Russian. The dispatch
es to the London Papers al report
the conditions prevailing in Russia to
be worse than the Associated Press
accounts. The Russian ofYicial figures
of the killed and wounded are stig-
matized as 'ludicrously official."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
RECEIVE THREE YEARS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Learn Their
Doom at Carroll.

Carroll, Jan. 30-Judge Powers over
ruled the motion in the Harvey arson
case after deliberation of a week
and passed a sentence of three years
in the penitentiary at Anamosa. Tears
were seen to run down the cheeks OF
Clyde Harvey and his wife when the
Judge said the words, but the SEN
tence was considered rather light con-
sidering the awfulness Of the alleged
crime committed, and many were the
expressions in the court room to this
effect after court adjourned.
Harvey and his wife have one year
in which to perfect motion for an ap-
peal to the supreme court and Judge
Powers fixed their bond at $4,000,
which amount was Immediately given
in joint bond and they were permit
ted to return to their homes at Gid
den.
The crime for which the Harveys
were sentenced was the burning of
the City hotel at Glidden last August
in which the Hobbs brothers, who had
put up for the night, lost their lives.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
BIG FIRE AT HrLLS5ORo.
Losses viii Aggregate $4,000 at
Least.

Hillsboro, Jan. 27.-Six buildings on
Commercial street were destroyed by
fire which started at midnight We'd
nesday. The loss is $4,000, with only
partial insurance. The fire started in
B. H. Hixon's general store. The loss
es are:
b. II. Hixon, general store, building
and contents totally destroyed, loss
$4,000.
J. B. Backus, general store and res
idence, totally destroyed, loss $4,000.
Two story building owned by DR..
Hills Of Denmark and occupied by G..
F. Jay, harness shop, loss on con-
tents $500, on building, estimated,
$4,000.
Two ice houses, filled, owned by
w. A. Smutz and John Sprott, loss on
both 1900.
John Sprott, meat market, totally
destroyed, loss $1,000.
John Sprott, barn, loss S400.
B. F. Joy, whose harness shop was
destroyed, had just moved into the
building, coming here several weeks
ago from Ottumwa.
The ice houses and Mr.. Sprott' s
building had just been finished. The
former were nearly filed with the
winter harvest of ice.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
WANT sHERcLlFFE.
Officers From Colorado Unsuccessful
In Attempt to Extradite Him.

Officers From Colorado Unsuccessful
In Attempt to Extradite Him.
Des Moines, Jan. 29.--Agents of the
state of Colorado tried to take Frank
Shercliffe back to that state to an
swer to the charge OF murder, yester-
day.
They called at the office Of Governor
Cummins in the forenoon and attempt
to secure the issuance of warrant
for Shercliffe's return to Colorado, on
the strength of mere information,
unsubstantiated by any evidence what
ever. The application was denied by
Governor Cummins, pending the per-
lection of the papers Of the agents OF
the western state. their presentation
and hearing.
The Colorado officers left for the
west yesterday Whether they will
stop in Omaha is a matter of the mer-
est speculation.
While the officers are conceded to
be without information on the subject,
IL is strongly suspected that the move
of the state Of Colorado was In the in
terests Of Tom Dennison.
Whether pre-arranged to that ef-
feet or not, 1t wouldoperate to that
end to have Shercliffe dragged out of
Iowa at this particular time.
1t is commonly believed that the
United States supreme court will de-
eide Monday or Tuesday in the habeas
corpus proceedings appealed to that
tribunal from the supreme court OF
Lincoln by Dennison. II the highest
court should decide that the requisi-
ton issued by, the state of Iowa on
Nebraska for the return to Iowa OF
Dennison is valid, and should be hon
ored, 1t clearly would be advantageous
to Dennison to have the states chief
witness, indeed, the states only direct
witness, In the penitentiary Of another
state, awaiting trial for the serious
crime of murder especially were he
to be convicted and given life SEN
tence or hung.
Iowa cannot enforce subpoena out
side of the state, and II Shercltffe
once were in the clutches of officers
outside of Iowa it is improbable that
he could be brought back under any
circumstances.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
oMAHA'S LOSS FROM FIRE.
Half Block Of Four and Five Story
Buildings Is Destroyed.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. SO.--rnvestiga.
ton today showed that yesterday
mornings fire caused a loss of more
than 100000, and destroyed a half
block of four and five story buildings
in the wholesale quarter. The build.
ings belonged to the Mercer and Mil
lard estates. Insurance covers most
of the losses. Among the larger los.
ers of stocks are:
F. II. Kirkendall Shoe company,
s125, 900.
M. e. Smith & Co, dry goods
$4,000.
J. r. Snyder & Co., commission
house, $4,000.
Porter-Ryerson-H oobler company
$4,000.
Martin Colt Hat company, $4,000
In addition to these there were q
number of smaller losses.
Most of the firms will be ready to
resume business in new quarters to-
day.
No serious accidents occurred, al
though ten firemen were blown from
the Porter-Ryerson-H oobler Chemical
company's building by an explosion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
GUNS DRAWN IN
BLOODY RIOT.
Twenty-Five Men and Two
Women Killed at
Riga
RUSSIAN STRIKE NOT DEAD
Movement Is Spreading to Smaller
Towns-Good News of Fighting in
Manchuria is Expected to Have a
Pacifying Effect.

Riga, Russia, Jan. 2S.-Twenty-nine
men and women were killed and thir.
ty-seven civilians and eight soldiers
were wounded by revolver shots dur.
ing Thursdays rioting, according to
the returns madeFby the hospitals.
At the request of the workmen OF
Riga the theaters of this city have
been closed.
London, Jan. 2S.--The condition in
Warsaw is very grave, according to
the correspondent there of the Daily
Mail. When the bakers struck rich
people besieged the shops and bought
the stocks, and the supply of bread
is now exhausted. The socialist party
was instrumental in organizing the
strike. The correspondent says that
the general condition in Poland is pitt
able, owing to the bad harvest. There
are fully 100000 unemployed, not reck-
oning the strikers. Warsaw itself is
full of troops, and the gas works and
water works are being protected by
the military.
Mitau, Russia, Jan 28.-Labor
agents from Riga organized strike
here yesterday. Bodies of strikers
marched to the factories and work
shops and compelled the men at work
to leave their employment. Troops
have been summoned to the scene of
the disturbance.
The strikers subsequently were dis
persed peaceably and the troops with
the exception of few patrols in the
streets returned to their barracks.
LODI, Russia, Jan. 28.-A general
strike has commenced here.
st. Petersburg, Jan 28.-The news
of General Kuropatkins successful re-
pulse of the japanese advance comes
most oprortunely. The belief exists
here that Field Marshal Oyama sought
to take advantage of any depression
prevailing in the Russian ranks as
the result of the news from ST. Peters
burg to launch an attack against Cen
eral Kuropatkin's right, but the Rus
sian cOmmander-in-chief seems to have
nicely turned the tables, infiicting
considerable loss upon the Japanese
on Thursday and taking several posi-
tons westward along the plain Of the
Hun river. Evidently General Kuro-
patkin Is following up his victory, the
latest dispatches to the Associated
Press from the front dated 6 o'clock in
the evening Of January 81 indicating
that there is a rbatue in progress ex-
tending along the center and becom-
ing more and more serious. However,
1t seems to be confined to artillery.
The authorities are receiving the
news from the front with great salts
faction, being convinced that it will
serve to at least partially distract at
tention from the strike situation and
internal affairs generally. At the
same time, the strike situation gener-
ally is improving. In st. Petersburg
there is no longer any doubt that the
strike is practically broken. Fourteen
establishments, including the Franco
Russian, AbOkoff, Baltic, Russo
American Rubber company and Ropes,
American refinery, already have re-
sumed, and an entire starting up Of
factories seems to be assured for next
Monday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Cedar Falls, Jan. 27.-Four passen-
ger cars and a baggage car on an iii.
OILS Central train were ditched by
broken rail four miles north OF Cedar
Falls at six o'clock Wednesday night
and forty people had a narrow escape
from death. The coaches landed right
side up but fire broke out in the
wreck Immediately and It was with
difficulty that every one was liberated
although no one was hurt beyond in
significant bruises. The fire was ex-
tinguished with snow. The baggage
man escaped death because he was In
the smoker. The wreck occurred on
the Albert Lea branch and the pas
sengers were transferred to Cedar
Falls by an incoming freight.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
LAND FOR EXPERIMENT.
Tract Lies Along the Iowa River and
is Well Situated.

Iowa City, Jan. 28.-At the meeting
of the board of regents yesterday
morning. Prof. Bohumil Shimek, one
of the retired teachers of the school,
donated forty acres Of land along the
Iowa river to be used in experiments
in forestry. The land is especially
we'll adapted for the purposes, being
partly covered by we'll grown forest
and the rest adapted to the best
growth of any kind Of tree of this
climate.
Prof w. J. Teeters was elected dean
of the college of pharmacy to succeed
DR.. L. w. Andrus, retired.
The regents appropriated money 10
establish psychological stations
throughout the state.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
PEAT BEDS AND FUEL.
State Geological Survey Believes
Them Valuable.

ot6te Scolo9ICaI ouTNcy believes
Them Valuable.
Des Moines, Jan. 27.-The state geo.
logical survey Is quite certain that the
peat of Iowa will eventually become
a fuel utilized when the coal becomes
scarce. On this subject its bulletin
sent to the high schools, which dis
cusses at some length the specimens
sent to them in a collection recently
presented to them, says significantly:
In the sloughs of Iswa, MOSES and
the growth of one year is partly pre-
served by the water, and added to
that of the year following.
I'm this way beds Of organic matter
accumulate which, compressed and
macsrated by partial decay, form beds
which often attain thickness of many
feet.
This peat of Iowa differs In no way
from the deposits bearing the name
which are highly priced as fuel In
many parts of Europe.
When the price Of coal becomes
somewhat higher it is practically GER
tain that attention will be directed to
the many extensive peat boys scat
tered over Iowa"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
ADVOCATE MANY REFORMS.
Iowa Manufacturers Have Much to Say
About Law.

Cedar Rapids, Jan. 27.-The Iowa
State Manufacturers association yes
terday adopted resolutions favoring
Canadian reciprocity, general tariff
revision and giving the interstate COM
merce commission more power. They
also declared themselves in favor or
better patent laws and OF the gov
eminent utilizing the Mississippi riv-
er as a ship canal. Resolutions were
also passed in regard to the establish
ment of a manual training department
in all the principal high schools OF
the state. The policy Of the associa-
ton in the future will be opposed to
pooling by the railroads and declares
that government ownership of the
railroads at the present time Is the
only solution of the rate problem
The resolution favored the present
patent bills before congress and the
Hepburn bill creating a new inter-
state commercial tribunal was disap-
proved. The convention closed last
night when Governor Cummins and
Hon. John Cownie made addresses.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
QUIET m MOSCOW.
Thorouahfares Have Resumed Normal
Appearance.

Moscow, Jan. 27.-The day passed
with complete quiet, the strikers gen.
orally remaining quietly indoors and
not visiting the heart of the city. Tho
Tverskaia and other principal thor.
oughfares have resumed their normal
appearance. Several mills are re-
ported to have offered an increase OF
wages to their employees.
The Associated Press correspondent
visited the industrial district yester-
day and found that no factories were
in operation In the whole region south
Of the river, with the exception OF one
large establishment that was amply
guarded in order to prevent possible
intimidation of workmen, but there
was no attempt at such Intimidation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
MURDERER CAUGHT.
Charged With the Murder Of Lafey at
Sioux City.

Sioux City, Jan. 2S.-Jack Wilson
was arrested yesterday at Yankton
for numbering In cold blood, Charles
Lafey alias Joe O'Brien in Sioux City,
January IL. Lafey was a crook well
known in western cities.
The murderer escaped after shoot
ing Lafey in quarrel. Wilson's pic
ture identified as the murderer by
two eye witnesses to the shooting.
Wilson was brought here yesterday
morning. He was a member of the
gang Of Quimby bank robbers arrested
q year ago, but was released for insult
ncient evidence. His pals are in the
penitentiary,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
Firms RETURN HOME.
Exiles Are Permitted to Return "a
Their Own Land.

Helsingfors, Finland, Jan. 81
Thousands Of people gathered at tho
railway station here yesterday to wei.
come seven persons who have re-
turned from Punishment under the de-
cree permitting exiles to re-enter Fin.
land. Two others, the Counts Creutz,
father and son, have not arrived, hav-
ing been arrested while they were on
their way hither.
One of the worknen wounded In the
collision between Cpssacks and the
crowd Wednesday evening, died yes
terday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
Shotauns In a Love Affair.

Ottumwa, Jan. 27.-J. S. Farmer
and George Halsted, both farmers.
fought a duel yesterday morning with
shotguns, as the result OF Farmers
recent marriage to Halstead's daugh.
ter Farmer Is now In the city hos.
pital, with his face filled with buck.
shot and a hand riddled with shot.
Halsted is locked up in the wapello
county fail
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
Has Extra Month In Prison.

Des Moines, Jan. 27.-Leston Bal
Het, now in the Red Oak Jail under a
three months sentence, which would
terminate March l, must remain an
additional thirty days under the fed
eral law before he can take the pau
per's plea in court and be released
from the large Judgment for costs
against him. Hence he will not be
glen his liberty until April l, and not
then unless the affidavit of poverty is
taken in court before Judge Smith Nc.
PherSOn
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A girl complained to the police be.
cause a man remarked as she was
passing by: where are you going,
my pretty maid?" and yet the young
man says he was only refreshing his
mind with a daily bit Of poetry.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

That suit of electric clothing invent.
ed by Frenchman, where fine wires
run through the cloth connected with
a little battery carried in the pocket,
may be self-heating, but suppose the
current, by some accident, were
hort-circuited" The wearer. couldn't
get out of his clothes quick enough.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Now that some Pittsburg men have
offered prize of $1,000 for the best
peace novel, a good many people are
wondering just what the book will be.
OF course it isn't likely to be a story
of married life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A dyspeptic bachelor complains: 81
have never yet seen the woman who
can be made to realize the Importance
Of hurrying." Did he never observe
the results of an announcement of a
tempting bargain sale?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Gov. Pennypacker approvingly
quotes the history of an editor Being
shot by politician. If any politician
in Pennsylvania wants to shoot al edi-
tor he can get pardon in advance
from the governor Of the parrot-like
name,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A Portuguese scientist has produced
a great sun furnace In which the con-
centrated rays of the sun prove able
to melt every known substance. From
all accounts, he should try it on the
Boston girl.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A French scientist announces that
no woman who gossips can hope to
live to a great age. He's mistaken.
If he had ever experienced any OF the
pleasures of village life he would
know that gossips never die.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Humanity should show !ts gratitude
to those who have conferred great
benefits upon it. The earth is studded
with monuments to selfish and ambi.
tious potentates. Let us have more
to those who have lessened suffering,
not increased 1t.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Many of the men who have resolved
not to waste any money this year
started out by buying the most expen-
sive ledgers on the market to keep
their personal accounts in.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Friends of Cornelius Vanderbilt are
congratulating him on winning $1,750,-
900 in Wall street; but il he has won,
somebody must have lost. Don't
cheer, boys, those poor fellows are
tying!"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A new and excellent use has been
eled out in large quantities it has
been discovered that they act instant
ly in stopping a run on bank.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Harry Lehr has announced that he
is going to retire from society. This
could have been arranged years ago
without checking up the great throng
in the least.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A New York man has paid $4,000
for a variegated carnation. He should
be careful. The relatives Of rich men
who do queer things are having them
shut up in sanitariums.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

The Boston Herald says DIR. Chad.
wick appears to have come home to
put in the plea of Old Adam. But his
Eve seems to agree with him and
both deny that he ate the apple IN
this particular case. A misft smile
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Stoessel is meeting the usual fate
of the hero. A lot of generals who
did not have chance to try feel that
they could have held the fortress in
definitely.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

That Berlin magistrate who decided
that poker is not game of chance
probably had the experience of all
poor players.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

Col. Watterson writes that Paris IS
not as frisky as it used to be. The
colonel is sixty-fve years old.-Wash-
ington Post.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
Jans Seize a Steamer.

Toxic, Jan. 27.-The Japanese SELF
ed the Austrian steamer Burma Off
Hokkaido Island. She had a cargo
of 1000 tons Of Cardiff coal on board
and was bound for Yladivostok.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A Frenchman who had fought seven
ty duels died the other day from nat
.ural causes. Is it necessary to add
that they were French duels?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

The Chicago woman who has made
a record of fifteen children in twelve
years ought to have a gold medal or a
government pension.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

A Boston woman wants a divorce
because her husband forced her to
live in Philadelphia. Cruelty is
proved.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02

The price Of whisky has been re-
duced, owing to an oversupply. Some
of the people who swore off must be
sticking to it,