Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-21

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wife and himself at Lorain, o., be-
cause Of jealousy
A S125,000 fire destroyed a four
story building In Pittsburg. The
Pennsylvania Door & Sash company
and the Pennsylvania Paint & Glass
company were the occupants of the
building.
Paraguay and Bolivia have ratified
the boundary treaty which was signed
in Buenos Ayres, Argentina, January
IL.
The volcano on the island of Val
DEE, near Unalaska, was in eruption
and earthquake shocks were felt In
Unalaska.
e. p. Joyce, Illinois Central rail-
brakeman, missing three months, was
drowned in a creek near Kankakee,
Ill. 1t is believed tramps threw him
from train.
A car in freight train on the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton G Dayton railroad
jumped the track on a bridge over a
creek, six miles east of Decatur, and
carried the structure down with two
cars and a caboose. Brakeman
Thompson will die and Conductor
Dowell is badly hurt.
Secretary Taft refused permission
for the diversion of certain portion
of the waters Of Lake Michigan into
the Chicago drainage canal through
the Calumet river.
The forces of President Bonilla, of
Honduras, were defeated near Tegu-
cigalpa by Hopduran revolutionists.
Quartermaster Sergeant Osborn
told the senate committee on Browns
vile that cast off khaki uniforms and
ammunition were left at Fort Brown
by the Twenty-sixth infantry where
citizens of Brownsville might easily
have picked them up.
Conferences arranged by the bust
ness interests of Louisville seemed
likely to bring the strike of street car
employees to an early end. There were
two rather serious outbreaks of VIC
lence.
The San Francisco board of educa-
ton adopted resolutions agreed upon
at the conference with President
Roosevelt at Washington, resembling
it's action in segregating Japanese pu-
pills in the public schools. 1t is I'M
derstood the board will abide by this
action, provided the president retains
his attitude regarding the limitation
of Japanese immigration.
James Hahnel, known to the world
as Brother Martin. the oldest member
of the Xaverian Brotherhood in the
United States, died at Louisville, KY,
of senility. He was born in Cologne,
Germany, in 1924.
H. L. Kerrick, one Of the wealthiest
farmers of central Illinois, was found
dead in bed at Bloomington, Ill. He
had just been elected president of the
board of trustees of the University of
Illinois.
Emma Kubicek. a student at the
Illinois state school for the blind at
Jacksonville, died Of pneumonia. She
was known as a second Helen Keller
and had been deaf, dumb and blind
since birth.
Twenty-three cadets Of the Missouri
Military academy at Mexico, Mo-,
many of them members of prominent
families, were expelled from the
academy for hazing Cadet Czane, OF
Peoria, Ill.
James X. Burnham, head OF a large
wholesale dry goods firm at Kansas
City, Mo-, and formerly of Detroit,
where he retained large financial in
terests, died, aged Ga years.
Trinity college, a school for negroes,
located at Athens, Ala, and owned by
the Congregational Society Of New
York, was destroyed by fire.
Roll calls show that the probable
number of deaths resulting from the
explosion on the French battleship
lena at Toulon Is 100.
Mrs. S. N. Castle, an early mission
airy in the Hawaiian islands, died at
Honolulu, aged 80 years.
Pat Egee, an insane farmer who
lived near Hill City, Kan, shot and
killed J. J. Plumb, a neighbor, and
then forced another neighbor to hand
him some poison, with which he com.
mitted suicide.
Harry H. Blake, we'll known Eng
lish actor who had been leading man
with Crane, Gillette and Nat Goodwin,
! died at Colorado Springs. Col, of
tuberculosis.
]. S. Nixon, president of a whole
sale grocery firm and one of the most
prominent men in Augusta, Ga, was
arrested on a charge of violating the
| bankruptcy laws by accepting more
than the ten per cent. that was due
him.
The supreme court at Columbus, o.,
| affirmed the decision of the Lucu3
county circuit court. The law, which
is sustained by this decision, gives
local option to cities by petition in
stead of by election.
The government Is investigating
land entries in Idaho which, it is said,
will disclose the greatest frauds ever
perpetrated in this country.
Two thousand persons were made
homeless by a fire that destroyed
most of the town of Borsano, Italy.
The Union Pacific railroad an
nounced that work on the Athol Hill
cutoff near Cheyenne, Wyo., would
be discontinued because Of adverse
legislation towards that road ending
in cut of rates.
Seven nephews and nieces of the
late Count John Creighton Of Omaha
are planning to contest his will.
The British tramp steamer Gowan.
burn went ashore off Blue Point on
the south shore of Long Island.
Col. John Temple Graves, editor of
the Georgian, was assaulted in the
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