Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-23

or New orleans, was overcome by the
heat and exhaustion and died an hour
after reaching the hospital Thomas
A. Martin, senior vice commander of
the department of the Potomac,
dropped while marching and died.
George A. Penny, of Logan. Ia, was
seriously injured by an automobile,
which ran him down.
Rumors are rife in Zion City. 1t is
limited on all sides that a visit made
by Voliva to DR.. Dowie may have as
its object the compromise of the war
ring interests in the city and their.
union for the benefit of the city's in
terests.
The navy department has been in
formed that the estimate of the dam
age done to the battleship Illinois in
a recent collision with the Alabama
amounts to $4,000.
One woman perhaps fatally injured,
many others more or less seriously
hurt, is the result of bargain day
rush at w. F. Woolworth & Co.'S store
at st. Joseph, Mo.
of Kansas, stated he was willing to
pay $1,000 into the state treasury and
compromise the charges in the ex-
perts report of an alleged shortage.
r. II. Cadawalader, for 81 years edi-
tor of the Louisburg. Kan, Herald,
committed suicide by shooting. He
had suffered financial losses.
Cotton reports of the department of
agriculture and the ginner's reports of
the census bureau hereafter will be
published on the same day in Septem-
Der and October.
Following series of whippings
which has precipitated a race war, the
negroes of Slick, Mo-, are selling their
property and fleeing.
Two men lost their lives in a fierce
fire which broke out in the sail loft
of a ship chambers establishment at
Buffalo, N. Y. The dead are Capt.
James Robertson, a veteran lake cap.
tain, and Charles Johnson, a sail.
maker.
The subcommittee of the Interna
tional American conference on the
Drago doctrine agreed on resolution
even more general than the one on the
programme. 1t recommended that
each American nation at it's discretion
request The Hague tribunal to study
the questions of the forcible collection
of public debts and pecuniary claims
of all nations.
All Russian emigrants entering
Prussia must be provided with a
passport and sum of money, for
adults 500 and for minors SIS.
David R. Francis, president of the
st. Louis exposition, has arrived at
Berlin, to express to Emperor Will
liam the thanks of the city of st.
Louis and to present to him the medal
and diploma of the exhibition.
After devastating 10 Ogden vii.
lagos, the Mad Mullah, inflated by his
success, attacked the sultan of Mi.
jertain's territory. Both sides lost
heavily. The sultan had nine near
relatives and 700 warriors killed.
s Since the fire which destroyed the
greater part of Syrian, July 10, 9S
persons have been missing, and it is
thought they have persisted in the
confagration and that their bodies
were consumed.
The Philippine war veterans were
entertained at Fort Des Moines with
review of the Eleventh cavalry, the
regiment which was kept from the
Fort Riley maneuvers in order to at.
tend the encampment.
Plans are being perfected to have
all colored troops in the United States
army stationed at one post because
Of race feeling that exists at many
points where both white and colored
soldiers are stationed.
A new morning newspaper, to be
known as the Washington Herald
will be published at Washington, be,
ginning about October l. Scott c.
Bone will be at the head of the en-.
terprise.
United States District Attorney
Sullivan left Cleveland for Chicago to
resume his work in connection with
the grand jury investigation of the
Standard Oil company. Mr.. Sullivan
stated he had been informed that as
one result of work Of the government
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad had given notice to independ
ent oil dealers that hereafter their
mileage fees on tank cars would be
! computed on the same basis as the
| Standard Oil company.
Lightning will not only strike in
the same place, but will strike the
same place twice in the same day, as
was demonstrated when the wireless
station of the navy at Cape Henry
| Va. was put out of business.
If the recommendations of Capt. s
A. Cloman, staff officer of the general
army are adopted, the government
will purchase the land included in the
present maneuver territory ut Camp
Tacoma. Wash.
With a large force of assistants
| William H. Jarvis, chief of division
in the bureau of tho census Of the de
partment of commerce and labor, has
begun an inspection of the divorces
granted in Greater New York.
Chas. Smith, aged As, shot his wife
aged 40 years, at Avondale, w. Va.
with shotgun. The charge entered
her breast and probably will prove
fatal. They had quarrelled over the
putting away of some blackberries.
Details for the homecoming o.