Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-04-11

| Richard III. Lyon, associate editor
of the South Bend Qnd.) Tribune,
with which paper he was connected
for 33 years, died after long illness.
He was 50 years Of age.
| One person, an Italian, WIS killed
in hotel fire in San Francisco, and
16 persons were hurt.
Bishop James N. Fitzgerald, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at
Hongkong. His home was in st
Louis.
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy issued a
personal note saying that she had put
her estate into the hands of trustees
so that she might have more peace
and time for spiritual thought.
| Judge Jacob w. Wilikin, for 1S
years a member of the supreme court
of Illinois, died at Danville, aged 20
years.
The Michigan senate passed a bill
reducing railway fares in that state.
A fire following an explosion of q
tube Of benzine on the third floor of
seven-story building in New York,
occupied by fur manufacturers, die
damage amounting to thousands of
dollars and caused panic among 200
women and rs men.
| The airship which was brought to
| this country by Santos Dumont for
exhibition at the st. Louis exposition
and which was seized by the customs
| officials for non-payment of duty, was
| sold at New York for $50.
William Pore. retired steel man.
ufacturer of Pittsburg. gave $25 900 to
| Carthage college, Of Carthage, Ill.
After several months of suffering
from nervous malady, Mrs. Ellen
Berry Ryder, wife of Cornelius Ryder,
one of the wealthiest men In tho
| Gravesend section of Brooklyn, hanged
| herself
Contracts for three years were
| signed by the representatives of the
| st. Louis breweries and the striking
employees, and the strike was officially
declared terminated.
A warrant was issued at Greensboro,
N. c., against Earle Varetare, palm.
list and clairvoyant, accused of taking
| jewelry and money to the amount of
$4,000 from prominent women and
| others for telling their fortunes.
George S. McReynolds, who was
sent to Jail for fraud in connection
with operations on the Chicago board
of trade, was released on writ of SUI
persedeas.
By the explosion of an internal ma
chine believed by the police to have
been sent him by rival for the affec-
lions of woman Daniel Miller, of
Schenectady, N Y, was terribly
injured. If he RECEIVERS he will be to-
tally blind and a cripple for life.
An attempt was made to wreck
| Pennsylvania railroad express train
near Tacony, a suburb of Philadel-
phia.
A jury at Goring, Neb., brought In a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree against E. S. Kennison and rec
commended the extreme penalty. Ken
nison last December shot and killed
Sam d. Cox, a newspaper man.
DR.. w. H. Dwight, cashier of bank
at Goddard, Kan, killed himself be-
cause oSill health.
House owners of Colon complained
to Secretary Taft of unjust and intol-
cradle conditions" imposed in the car
rying out of sanitary improvements
| there.
Walter Scott of Boston shot and
| killed Agnes Bates, his sweetheart,
and seriously wounded himself.
Carpenters and other mechanics of
Newport, r. l., struck for Saturday
half-holiday
William Simpson, young farmer
near Montreal, killed his two little
daughters and tried to commit suicide.
Alfred De Cordova, wealthy New
York banker, is dead.
Walter Wellman, on arrival at New
York, said he would start for the pole
in his airship in July.
Marquis Bindo Peruzzi de Medici
committed suicide with a revolver in
his apartments at Florence. Italy. He
was 20 years of age and well-known
sportsman. His mother, who is
widow, was formerly Miss Edith
Storey, of Boston.
John O'Keefe, 10S years old, died
|
suddenly while repairing fence at
his home in Brooklyn.
Postmaster Fred A. Busse was
elected mayor of Chicago by a plu-
rality of 1921 over Mayor Dunno.
| The entire Republican ticket was sue
cessful except for city treasurer. The
| traction ordinances were approved
| by a majority of 1926
Fire caused loss Of $2,500,000 to
the plant of the San Francisco Gas
| & Electric company.
Albert e. Thornton, president OF
the Atlanta (Ga.) National bank, and
| well known throughout the south,
| died. aged IS.
The Arctic brotherhood has raised
$4,000 to send the crack Nome (Alas-
ka) basketball team on tour of the
United States.
A mother and four children per-
| ished in tenement house fire at Pas
sale. N. ].
CHINA Fischelto Caraggio and her
six-year-old daughter were burned to
death in a Milwaukee boarding house.
Four hundred motormen and con-
ductors of the Michigan United States
Railway company of Kalamazoo and
Battle Creek on the Battle Creek e
Jackson and Michigan Traction Inter
urban lines, the latter about rs miles
long, voted to go on strike.
Maj. H. w. Salmon, of Warsaw,
Mo-, convicted of illegal banking, was
refused new trial and sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
Congressman Rainey, of Illinois. re-
turning from the isthmus, declared
| there was graft in the commissary