Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
scores of other persons and 100000
damage to property were caused at
Jellico, Tenn, when a carload of dyna.
mite standing on a track near the
Southern depot exploded with report
that was heard for 20 miles.
The Illinois conference of the Meth.
odist Episcopal church adopted res
olution memorializing other confer
ences to change the ratio of repre-
sentation to the general conference
from IA to 20, as it now stands, to %
and rs.
Despondent over the loss of prestige
and rank, Acting Drum Major Thomas
NJ. Doherty, Fourth United States in
fantry, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head at Fort Thomas.
The grand jury of Lee county, Vir
ginia, returned indictments against
Kentucky officials who captured Frank
Ball at Rose Hill, Va, on August 9
after a battle in which John Lee, a
member of Balls gang was shot and
killed. They are charged with the
murder of Lee.
Bernhard Dernburg, the new colonial
minister, will visit the German col
onies in the search for information i'm
mediately after the opening of parlia
ment in October. His tour is expect.
ed to occupy more than year
American Ambassador Meyer re-
turned to st. Petersburg from a
months leave of absence, which he
spent taking the cure in Germany.
George S. Budd, secretary-treasurer
of the employed officers association OF
the Y. NJ. C. A. of North America and
secretary of the Ohio executive com.
mittee, died in hospital at Columbus
O., following an operation.
Buffalo Bills midwest show closed
four years tour of Europe with a
performance at Brussels. Col. Cody
will sail from Antwerp to commence
the last American tour of the show be.
fore the retirement of Col. Cody.
Secretary Of State Elihu Root was
the guest of the Panama national as.
sembly, before which he delivered a
speech, which won for him the high
regard Of ali who heard it.
The first field court-martial was
held at Odessa, and a terrorist Jew
named Tarle was sentenced to death
and executed for the killing of a po-
liceman.
The jury in the Smith case at Cape
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guilty against Charles NJ. Smith and
Charles M Smith, Jr., and the five
tenants of their farms on the eleventh
count in the peonage case.
The suburb of st. Petersburg adj.
| joining the Narva gate was shaken by
the explosion of a powerful bomb.
which was thrown by one of three
! well-dressed men and which tore an
enormous hole in the ground and
broke all the windows in the vicinity.
There was no loss of life.
| Ten were killed and 16 injured in
plunge of London and Edinburgh ex.
| press THROUGH bridge.
Mrs. l.. w Cooper and Miss Nellie
Manning, of Charlotte, N. c., were Sc
verely injured in a collision between
| a street car and an automobile on
which they were riding at Denver.
Movement for higher wages started
by several railroad unions, following
lead of Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
Strong evidence bearing on the ex.
tensive land frauds of which the Union
Pacific is accused Is brought out In
the hearing at Omaha.
| Serious disorders are feared in Rus.
STA. Revolutionists say a great up
rising is near, and preparations are
made for the massacre of Jews.
Five deaths and seven vessels have
been added to the list of wrecks and
deaths due to the recent gale which
swept the coast of Labrador.
Mai Gen. John F. Weston, com
handing the department of Luzon
Philippine islands, in his annual report
states that Al stations have been
abandoned during the year and there
are % stations garrisoned by 1850
American troops and 2,4SS native
troops.
The Omitted States grand jury al
Boise, Idaho, returned an indictment
against George Loe of Meadows fol
timber frauds.
DIR. William Oates, a prominent
physician and health officer of Bridge
port, o., passed away at the North
Wheeling. w. Va. hospital