Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-04-25

ana the second city OF the philippines,
vas totally destroyed by fire, with the
result that 10000 persons are home
ess.
The volcano Puyehue in the prov.
nee of Valdivia, Chill, is yet in active
eruption, and new craters have
opened. The losses in the neighbor.
ing country are enormous, and the
inhabitants are panic-stricken. Show
srs of hot ashes are falling and there
are continued earthquake shocks &C.
companied by subterranean explo-
sions. Earth shocks were felt in the
Island of Luzon, Philippines; in
Charleston, s. c., and in Algeria. On
the Atlantic there was an extraordin-
airy storm, presumably caused by seis,
mic disturbances.
Ten horses were shot to death by
policemen to end their sufferings in a
fire in the barn of the A. M. Forbes
Carriage company, Chicago. The po-
licemen and firemen saved 10 horses.
The Hotel Campbell at Athens, Pa,
was destroyed by fire and one man
was burned to death.
Fire in two garages in st. Louis
destroyed about 100 automobiles, the
total loss being s225,000.
Robbers dynamited the safe of a
bank at Bixby, l. T., securing several
thousand dollars.
Safe blowers wrecked a bank at
Weston, ILL.,, with three charges of
dynamite, terrorized the town and es-
capped with $4,000.
In what is known as the Peavy ele-
vator case, the interstate commerce
commission announced it's decision
against the Union Pacific Railroad
company. The commission holds that
the arrangement between the Union
Pacific and the Peavy elevators was
unlawful, as the allowance was in ex-
cess of the actual cost of the eleva-
ton Of the grain, and, therefore, a
rebate.
A rumored discrepancy of 100000
in the accounts Of the University of
Wisconsin was explained by Presi-
dent Van Hise as merely the result
of careless bookkeeping.
The supreme court of Illinois decid.
ed that the ex-treasurers and ex-audi.
tors of the state must make restitu-
ton of fees amounting to 1921, 900.
Mrs. David Mclean was reelected
president general of the Daughters
OF the American Revolution.
John Malang, of Joplin, Mo-, Repub-
lican, was elected state senator for
the Twenty-eighth district to succeed
the late Thomas Connor.
DR.. Oliver Crook Haugh, of Dayton,
c., convicted of the murder of hin
father, mother and brother at Day
ton, on tie night of November 4,
1905, was electrocuted in the annex
6: the Ohio penitentiary at Column
bus.
Fire n Montreal steam laundry
caused the death of three persons,
two men and woman, and the injury
of IL others.
Stewart c. Gay, 10 years old, and
Miss Mabel Pendleton, II years old,
committed suicide by leaping from
the suspension bridge across jackson
river at Clifton Forge, Va.
John Gunderson, who held up a
clerk in the Northern Express COM
pany's offices at the Union station in
st. Paul, Mimi, confessed and restor-
ed the $4,000 he stole.
John Alling. 3S years old, a mem
Der of q wealthy family, formerly
member of the Chicago Stock ex-
change and of the Chicago Athletic
club, and conspicuous in social cir
cles, went to his room In a Chicago
Eotel and committed suicide. To a
friend he had said shortly before that
being good fellow" had cost him
5000, 900.
Two lives were lost and a great
amount OF damage was done by a fu-
rious storm of wind and hail that
struck Jacksonville, Fla.
Ire Seattle Labor council has adopt.
ed resolutions denouncing President
Roosevelt for his criticism of Meyer
and Haywood. The resolutions accuse
the president of prejudging the two
men.
William M. Chase. who was presi.
dent of the old Society of American
Artists, has issued a statement tell
ing of plans to pay a tribute to the
memory of Stanford White as an archi,
tect.
Matthew Yankola, pastor Of the Sla-
vonic church at Hazleton, Pa. His par
sonage was blown up by dynamite but
he escaped. Parish troubles are be-
lieved to have caused the attempt.
A Nickel plate passenger train was
derailed at Fostorio, O., when the
body of a bridge foreman, who fell un-
der the wheels, caught in the rear
trucks.
The Columbus (O) grand jury re-
turned secret indictments against the
members Of the ice trust" in that
city on the ground that they had con-
spired In restraint of trade.
Regis H. Post was inaugurated gov
ernor of Porto Rico in succession to
Beckman Winthrop, who retired to
become assistant secretary of the
treasury at Washington.
Mrs. Leah c. Gilman, her son Col
Inns and daughters Bessie and Fayne
viewed preliminary hearing at Dayton,
o., and were bound over to the grand
jury on the charge of numbering Dona
Gilman. They were released on bonds
aggregating $1,000.
While attempting TO extinguish a
Ere in an clubhouse Mrs. Johanna Fren-
gel, aged 70 years, was burned to
death at Dubuque, la.
Mrs. Charles j. Holman, Of Pitts
burg, mother Of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,
issued long statement in her own
defense, in which she declares she