Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08

An lnIectlOus, palnIut ana repuiSlvc
disease is reported by Admiral Rixey
as being prevalent in the Island Of
Guam. Naval surgeons are studying
| and treating the disease which has
SO far been confined to natives.
Rhinopharyngitis mutilars is the name
given to the disease, which is sort
Of liberation that destroys the nose
and upped part of the face.
The old employees In the Office Of
the late Russell Sage have received
In addition to their regular October
salaries checks from Mrs. Sage for an
equal amount, which virtually doubles
their salaries. Five men, all old en-
ployes, were rewarded by Mrs. Sage's
gift.
John D. Rockefeller made to the
American Baptist Missionary society
conditional gift of $4,000 toward re-
building of destroyed and injured
Baptist churches in and about San
Francisco.
Notwithstanding the repeated state
ments that there Is not the faintest
hope for reconciliation between the
Countess de Castellane, formerly
Anna Gould, of New York, and Count
Boni, her husband, which were made
In the opening address of the divorce
suit, 1t is claimed the count has not
given up hope OF such an outcome,
which course might be taken, 1t is
said, to prevent the exposures which
ire almost sure to come out.
Four men are dead as the result OF
battle near Kennewick, Wash, be-
tween officers and two men who had
robbed two stores in Kennewick.
The monthly coinage statement
shows that the coinage executed at
the minis Of the United States during
October, 1906, amounted to $s,172,317,
as follows: Gold, $5,900,000; silver,
$3,176,077; minor coins, $96,240.
Representative lockwood Hoar, of
the Third Massachusetts district, son
of the late Senator George F. Hoar,
died at Worcester, after an illness OF
five weeks.
Guy Samson, &C years old an insur-
ance broker and shipmate of Admirals
Sampson and Dewey during the civil
war, died at Pittsburg, Pa, as the re-
suit of a bullet wound through the
heart.
The Indian Territory Federation Of
Women's clubs, In annual session at
Tulsa, adopted, by unanimous vote,
resolutions favoring separate schools
for whites and blacks In the new state
of Oklahoma.
Reporting the most successful year
and the most profitable meeting in the
history of its organization, the execu-
tive committee of the Women's For
oign Missionary society OF the Meth
odist Episcopal church closed its
thirty-seventh annual conference at
Omaha, after a weeks session. The
Northwestern branch will entertain
the next meeting at Springfield, III.
BY almost a miracle the teachers
and pupils at the Gallatin public
school house, Springhill township, Pa,
escaped being crushed to death. Just
as they left the building and the last
teacher was closing the outside door
the walls began to bulge and In less
than a minute the structure was in
ruins.
Two passenger trains on the Union
Pacific railroad, eastbound overland
flyer No. 2 and the eastbound Pacific
Coast express No. 7, collided head-on
at Ridge, west Of Medicine Bow and
the engines were demolished.
Dilly Hit, left-handed pitcher Of the
Pacific coast league, has signed a con-
tract for next season with the Cincin-
natl National league management
Burris A. Jenkins, president of Ken
lucky university, has resigned his
presidency, because of i'll health.
Dalny was opened to the trade of
the world on September without any
ceremony whatever. At present no
business houses are available, but a
humber Of Japanese firms have OBJ
tanned permission to repair buildings
which were damaged in the late war
and merchants Of other nations prob
ably can obtain the same right.
Gerschunin, one Of the most famous
terrorists and head Of their fighting
organization" during the Sipiaguine
and Plehve regimes, has escaped from
the mines of Siberia concealed in a
water cask.
The third and last car of the Thor.
oughfare wreck has been lifted from
the water. When placed on the mud
bank the car was in such condition
that 1t actually fell apart of it's own
weight. Chief of Police Maxwell and
squad Of officers made a diligent
search for any bodies that may have
been wedged In the car, but found
none.
An explosion in a coal mine at OF
tumwa, Ia, killed Kinsey Houston,
fatally injured Oscar Lowe, and Sc.
verely hurt three other miners.
Jacob Swigert, banker of Farmer
City, ILL.,, and formerly member of the
state legislature, died, aged 70 years.
Thomas J. Devin, brother-in-law OF
President Benjamin Harrison, died at
Ottumwa, Ia, aged 80 years. He was
married to Sarah Harrison in 1889.
Mrs. Devin and two children survive.
The will Of William Scully, other
wise known as Lord" Scully, said to
be the largest owner of real estate in
America, was Aled at Washington for
probate. The document was executed
April %, 1901. All his lands, none Of
which are outside the United States,
are devised absolutely to his wife, E.
Angela Scully.