Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-03

yeslty OF Kansas, is wanted by the
Cambridge, Mass, police on the charge
of numbering his wife, and subsequent
ly having the body cremated to cover
traces Of arsenical poisoning.
At Quinnisec, Mich, over an acre of
ground went down with great roar,
carrying number of buildings with it.
The ground fell 100 feet, and 1t was
found to be cave-in over the work
ings of an abandoned mine.
While eating dinner Henry e. Wads
worth, for 81 years part owner and edi-
tor of the Laporte Qnd) Argus, died
Friday of heart disease. He was born
March 3, 1885,
Vast crowds massed on the Troca-
dero square in Paris to witness the I'M
yelling Of the Franklin statue and APP
plauded Alfred H. Smyth's declaration
that Franklin, as Carlyle said, was
"the father of all yankees"
William A. Brewer, Jr., formerly
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was indicted by the
grand jury at New York for perjury.
Mrs. Theodore Sutro died at her
home in New York. She was one OF
the best known women in New York
literary and club life.
All OF the nine bills of the New York
special insurance investigating COM
mittee are now state laws. Gov. Hig-
gins signed the bill generally amending
the insurance law, after signing the So
called anti-perjury bill.
Anthracite operators in a letter to
President Mitchell stand by their orig
inal position and say the sliding scale
would cost the public $12,000,000 a
year.
. A general tie-up of work on Chicago
buildings as result Of ironworkers'
strike is threatened.
Greeks showed intense feeling over
the continued successes of the Amer
lean athletes in the Olympic games.
The grand jury at Chicago returned
indictments against former Judge Alb
ner Smith, Gustav It. Sorrow, Jerome
v. Pierce and F. =. Creelman for al
legged fraudulent acts in connection
with the defunct Bank of America.
At Mt. Carmel, H., j. w. Murphy was
sentenced to 40 years in the penitentiary
for the murder of Ignatius Gillen, of
Youngstown, o., and Frank Miller, of
Cleveland, o. Cam Dodd, of Howell.
Ind, accused of completely in the
crimes, was acquitted.
Pope Plus, X. is reported as highly
approving the activity of women in law
and medicine, but opposing their partic-
ipation in politics.
The art collection of the late Joseph
Jefferson was sold at auction at New
York, total of 1929, 1876 being realized.
Mauve's Return of the lock" sold for
$42;500 The painting cost the actor
$4,000.
Two bombs, loaded with gun cotton
were found on a window sill in the
Union passenger station at Denver.
The London Daily Nails st. Peters
burg correspondent says that Father
Gapon is living quietly at Kukokola,
Finland.
Mrs. Jane Dowie visited her hus-
band, John Alexander Dowie, in his ho-
tel room. The call is said to have been
made at the request of the first apos-
tle," who is said to be at the point of
death.
A tornado which swept through
Bellevue, Tex, destroyed everything in
its path. The entire town is mass of
ruins, only three buildings standing.
At least IL persons are dead and a
number injured Stoneberg, village
in Montague county, was struck by a
tornado and 20 were killed. Hamilton
was also devastated by the tornado and
several lives lost.
John A. Cooke, of Chicago, former
clerk of the circuit court, Is charged
in bill for accounting with having
retained thousands of dollars belonging
to Cook county.
The prosecution abruptly ended its
case in the trial of Rev. Algernon S.
Crapsey. The defense endeavored to
present the testimony of clergymen as
to whether or not DR.. Crapsey's say
ings constituted heresy, but the court
ruled the testimony out, holding no
man could qualify as an expert in doc
trine.
Edward Dougherty, a prominent
farmer near Washington, Ia, died
from the effects of kick from a vi
cious stallion.
Edward Holland, an old soldier liv-
ing at Athens, ILL.,, loaded his coat
pockets with stones and jumped into
his well. He was drowned before he
could be rescued. Holland had been
grieving over the death Of his wife.
The crew of the French fishing
schooner Lannine arrived in Sydney,
N. s., and reported the loss of their
craft off Port Michaud.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road company has presented to the
Wisconsin state railroad rate commits
sion its reasons for Directing to the
proposed reduction of the maximum
passenger fare from three to two cents
mile and the commission has taken
the representations under advise
ment.
Miss Anna Helsing, OF Omaha, one
of driving party of four, was sing
ing Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven"
when a freight train crashed into the
carriage. Miss Helsing was killed in
stantly.
1t is reported from Esbowe, Zululand,
that the insurgent chief, Bambaata,
with 300 followers, has fed toward
Natal and that troops are pursuing the
fugitiVeS