Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS

Elght men were killed and nearly
Two score Of persons were injured by
the explosion Of Illuminating gas in
the Market street subway at Sixth
street, Philadelphia.
Twenty-Five bodies have been re-
covered from the west fork of the Po-
cahontas Galleries company mine at
Pocahontas, Va, and a conservative
estimate places the total number of
dead at 70.
Clutched in each others arms, two
young men fell from the fourth story
Of the Lake Shore railroad office build
Ing at Cleveland, and were hurled to
their death Oh the pavement.
Announcement was made by r. A.
Ford, general traffic manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west, that on No
vember l next the local passenger
fares In Indiana, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania would be reduced to a
basis Of 2h cents mile.
Believing the board OF health ply
sicians were cutting the threats of
their children in a public school in
the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn,
$500 women, nearly all Italians,
stormed the school building.
Three Of the seven children OF the
family of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Vanier,
Of Portland, Me-, were burned to death
In fire caused by the explosion Of
a lamp which had been accidentally
overthrow.
Inundated because he was forced
to drink whisky, when he Is known
all over Buchanan county as a stanch
friend Of the temperance movement,
viii Hlte, a wealthy and highly re.
spected farmer living near Jessup,
Ia, committed suicide by hanging
himself In his barn.
The sultan officially received Am.
bassador' Leishman, who presented his
credentials as first ambassador Of the
United States to Turkey.
James J. Hill, president OF the
Great Northern railway, sold 100000.
900 tons OF ore to the United States
Steel corporation for $400,000,O0O.
While a party of 25 students of
Oconto. Wis, high school were stand.
Ing on foot-bridge at Oconto Falls,
Wis, watching the falls, the structure
collapsed, hurting the whole party 40
feet into the stream. William Ballou,
aged IA years, was killed and Viga
Sentil, Hazel Denizen and Frank Don.
levy seriously injured
Mrs. Z. J. Carroll, wife of the chief
clerk Of motive power of the Chicago
e. Alton railroad at Bloomington, ILL.,,
was fatally injured at the Union sta.
ton In Kansas City as the result Of
falling from a trolley car.
Mrs. Eli; abeth Zorn, e well-known
artist OF Danville, ILL.,, died from 10.
juries sustained when she was struck
by bicycle ridden by Harry Jordan.
Macy Bruuse, mayor of Kokomo,
Ind, died suddenly, aged 3S. 1t Is
thought that the cause OF his death
was diphtheria.
One man was killed and another in
jured In an attack on the Mobile jail
in an effort to lynch negro youth
who assaulted a young girl.
The eruptions Of the volcano on the
Island of Sayaii, Samoa, have been In.
creasing and further destruction has
been wrought. The lava streams are
flowing from places which were
thought to be safe. and the forests are
being moved down like wheat with a
scythe.
L. M. Jones, president OF the Mis-.
y-NI n
citation Of Kansas City. fs negotiating
with the st. Louis & Tennessee River
Packet company with the view of put
ting one or two boats into service be-
tween st. Louis and Kansas City dur.
Ing October and November.
The political prison at Petropav-
lovsk was attacked by crowd OF
workmen, bent upon delivering 81
prisoners. 1t took several volleys
from the guards to rout the angry
crowd, which fought back with re.
volvers and stones. Several guards
and workmen were wounded.
Prof. ]. II. Gore, of Georgetown uni
versity, returned from Europe on the
steamer Potsdam, OF the Holland
American line.
Edward II. Ozmun, who succeed
Charles NJ. Dickinson as consul gen
eral OF the United States at Constant
nople. has arrived at his most.