Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
Hurricane and flood from the gulf
devastated Mobile and Pensacola
causing a loss of life estimated at so
to Is in each place. Disasters else
where along the coast are expected to
bring the total of fatalities to 200 and
the property loss to $12,000,000.
Seven high school sorority girls
were injured, one of them probabl.
fatally, in a runaway accident al
Ypsilanti, Mich, while students were
being initiated.
Middleport bank, a private institu-
ton at Middleport, o., is closed, and it
Is believed nearly all the $4,000 of
deposits is lost. Aged depositor made
an attempt to kill the vice president
of the bank.
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana,
had rib broken in an automobile &C
cident at Marseilles ~&uce. At last
accounts the patient vas slowly re-
covering.
Mayor Mcclellan, Of New York,
gave out a statement in which he
said he would not vote for Hearst for
governor.
Fire starting from an explosion of
oil il the building of the Pittsburg
Plate Glass company at Cleveland, O.,
destroyed the six-story structure
Three firemen were hurt by falling
walls. Loss, 100000.
! Robert NJ. Snyder, of Kansas City,
and eX-Councilman Frederick G. Ut
hoff, of Denver, were indicted In st.
Louis, the former for bribery and the
latter for perjury in connection with
the passage of the Central Traction
franchise bill in 1898.
! Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, received
letter from John O'Neil, of Fort Col.
Inns, Colo, in which O'Neil admitted
he murdered J. S. Collins at Topeka
six years ago, for which crime John
Collins, son of the slain man, is serv.
Ing a life term.
Brooding over the failure of Bishop
Shaffer of Chicago, to assign him an
appointment, Rev. d. A. Basfeld, for
mer pastor of the African Methodist
Episcopal church at Centralia, ILL.,, be-
came insane.
Rather than pay taxes on the prop
erty the Boston e Maine Railroad
company began preparations to des.
troy the dam in the Deerfield river,
near North Adams, Mass, with dyna-
mite.
President Castro of Venezuela is a
very sick man and his friends fear he
will not recover.
Scores of people have been killed,
many wounded and hundreds of
houses demolished by cyclone which
devastated the south of Spain at San
!omera. Two hundred houses fell.
Theodore. Roosevelt, Jr, was arrest.
ed after policeman was beaten b!
Harvard boys, but was released later
Excessive speed, causing the engine
to overturn, brought on the Salisbury,
England, railway disaster of July
last, in which upward of a score OF
Americans on their way from Ply.
mouth to London lost their lives, &C
! a
Of trade inspectors.
( Announcement was made at Apple.
ton, Wis, that Miss Elsie Plants and
Irwin w. Church will receive Carnegie
hero medals for saving the lives of
three Lawrence girls who broke
through the ice in the winter of 1904-5.
The Hamilton county Democrats
nominated Thomas Bentham in the
First Ohio district and John Meyer in
! the Second district, for congress-
Former Congressman Richard H.
Clarke, of Mobile. Ala, died at st
Luke's hospital, st. Louis. from pneu-
monia.
While a performer at the Mitchell
| IS. d. Corn Palace was looping the
loop inside of the big ball weighing
500 pounds, the ball rolled off the
apparatus into crowd of spectators,
passing over the body of little girl
and injured her so that she may not
recover
The man who killed Gen. Koxlov in
the park at Peterhof in mistake for
Gen. Trepoff has been sentenced to
death by hanging.
The official call has been issued for
the national encampment Of the Unit.
ed Spanish war veterans to be held at
Washington beginning October s.
The Third Ohio district Democratic
congressional committee nominated
former Gov. James +. Campbell.
1t is rumored that two Russian war.
ships have seized a Swedish steamer
with a cargo of 5000 rifles off the
island of Bornholm in the Baltic sea.
The rumor lacks confirmation.
Secretary Harry Barter, of the In
ternational Longshoremen. Marine
and Transport Workers association,
announced his resignation.
The Democratic convention Of the
Ninth Michigan district nominated
Banker G. G. Wing, Of Ludington, for
congressman.