Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-21


Nine blocks of residences occupied
bs employees of the Cotton Belt shops,
several storehouses, tie Third Avenue
hotel and the Riverside Methodist
church at Pine Bluff, Ark, were de-
stroyed by fire.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral Others injured by an explosion of
gas in Los Angeles.
Two men were killed and others in
jured when locomotive boiler blew
up on the Ontario & Western road at
Luzon, N. Y.
Rodolphe Julian, the noted art
teacher, is dead in Paris He was 66
years old.
The st. Albert hotel, one of the
oldest in Charleston, w. Va, was
ruined by fire. The loss will be $780,.
600. ]. H. Grouse, of Baltimore. a
travelling salesman, leaped from a
window and was fatally injured.
Judge William B. Teasdale, of the
circuit court, died at his home in Kan
sas City, Mo-. of cancer. aged 81
years.
The safe in the Citizens bank at
Yeddo, Ind, was blown open by five
men and $1,000 was secured.
Policemen James Wright and James
Barrett, of Middlesboro, KY, shot AMI
killed each other in raid on an al
legged gambling resort.
The Western Union Telegraph CON-
pany announced an increase of ten
per cent. in the wages OF its operators
at the principal Offices.
An epidemic of meningitis has APP
peared among the cattle of Morgan
county, Illinois.
Frank Wayland Higgins, former gov
ernor of New York, died at his home
in Olean, N. Y.
M. Pobiednostseff, former procura-
tor general of the holy synod. is seri-
ously ill Of influenza.
An official bank messenger, while on
his way to a Moscow bank, was beset
by ten armed men and robbed of $685.
600.
The new battleship Vermont, built
by the Fore River Shipbuilding COM
pany, was formally turned over to the
government at the Charlestown navy
yard.
President Stickney told a Minnesota
| legislative committee that he sold wa
tered stock of the Chicago Great West
ern and intended to sell lot more.
Warren Beckwith was granted a di-
vorce at Mount Pleasant, Ia, from
| Jessie Lincoln Beckwith, a daughter of
Robert T. Lincoln and granddaugh-
ter of Abraham Lincoln.
The breaking of an ice gorge in the
Loup river near Columbus, Neb., caus-
ed flood in which a family of four
| drowned.
The last will of Count John A.
Creighton of Omaha is missing.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Albania, province of Murcia, Spain.
The Kansas senate passed a pure
food law already approved by the
| house.
One man was killed and 40 persons
| had perilous escapes in fire in the
| financial district of Philadelphia. Sew
eral were injured.
Rejection Of proposal to reduce
| ton of the Dutch cabinet.
Overseer Voliva, faced by a revolt
| in Pacific coast towns, dropped his
project for a new Zion City in the
northwest.
Col. John Kinnane, head of the. dry
goods house of Kinnane Bros. of
| Springfield, O., died in that city after
a weeks illness. He was SO years old.
Standard Oil officials at New York
announce raise of one cent gallon
| for kerosene, affecting the whole of
New Jersey.
The illness OF many miners at Brad
vile and Snydertown, near Latrobe,
Pa, following typhoid outbreak,
threatens to close the mines.
Harold S. Van Buren, of New York,
American consul at Nice, France, died
at the latter place.
the Cuban police in clash at Santi-
ago. Troops stopped the ARRAY.
Frank Tilton, for 33 years editor of
the Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate. is
dead.
Government policy in regard to the
control of grazing land in the public
domain and the interests of large and
small cattlemen and the sheepmen,
land the effect of protection of stock
men upon the homesteaders, were con-
sidered at public hearing before the
senate committee on agriculture.
President Bonilla of Honduras said
he expected an invasion by the Mica
raguan army and was prepared to re.
pei it.
President Alfred Walter of the Sea-
board Air Line died at New York.
A patient in the marine hospital at
Cairo. ILL.,, has a-aesthetic leprosy.
Shippers of Kansas City, st. Joseph
and Omaha have filed complaints
against the Rock Island railway in the
matter of through rates to the At.
lantic.
! One person was killed and two 9TH
ers were overcome by smoke in a fire
in the Wayerly house, a family hotel
in Charlestown, Mass.
| George A. Taylor, one of the first
settlers of central Kansas, died at
Junction City, Kan, of heart failure.
aged 70 years.
John Wachter, pioneer business
man of the upper Mississippi valley.
died at La Crosse, Wis, aged 73 years
Sentences ranging from. IA to 20
years were passed by Judge Goss
against the Sawyer bank robbers at
Minot, N. d.
John Mcclellan, a Dowieite teacher
at Showers Corners, Ind, was injured
| in an attack by the schoolboys be-