Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

Minnesota began action to prevent
the contemplated stock issue by the
Great Northern railway.
Archbishop Ireland's statement on
the Franco-Vatican conflict did not
please the pope.
Commissioner of immigration Sar-
geant says fewer Japanese are coming
to Hawaii now.
Half OF the town of africa, Chile,
was destroyed by an earthquake.
| Capt. James e. Lehman, famous
Pacific coast pilot, was drowned at
juneau.
Harrison Parkman, who first
brought alfalfa from South America
and planted 1t in the United States,
died at Emporia, Kan, aged 70 years.
Benjamin Brown, financial manager
of the American and United States Elk.
press companies, shot and probably
fatally wounded himself.
The Chicago Bar association COM
mittee found that Judge A. H. Chef.
lain had committed improprieties and
merited severe censure.
Count Eugene Zichy, the Hungari-
an statesman and Central Asian ex-
plorer, died of apoplexy. He was born
in 1887.
| The residence of Gov. McInnes, Of
the Yukon, at Dawson, known as Gov
| eminent House, was burned. Loss,
| 100000.
George Davis, aged 25, of Morris.
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cessful attempt to rescue John Arke,
an eight-year-old boy, from drowning.
Hiram Mullins and his son William
were shot and fatally wounded In a
feud battle fought at their home in
Kentucky with gang of desperadoes,
headed by Charles and Bud Little and
John Brewer.
The cotton harvest in central Asia
is extremely good, 1900 carloads In.
stead of the usual 10000, being avail
able for export. Railroads will re-
auire special facilities to transport the
cotton.
French, German and Russian expe-
ditions have arrived at Tashkent,
| Asiatic Russia, to observe the eclipse
January IA.
Gen. Joseph K. Hudson, editor and
publisher of the Topeka (Kan.) Her.
| aid, is Ill at Topeka and his physicians
say his recovery is doubtful. -
Fire originating from a defective
gas lighting system destroyed three
business blocks in Perry, IA. The loss
aggregates 100000.
The employees In the blast furnaces
in the Mahoning and Shenango val
leys have been notified that they will
receive an increase of ten per cent.
with the beginning of the lew year.
The Increase will affect about 1000
men.
Henry Newman, IS years of age,
founder of the cotton firm of H. & C.
Newman and a member of the cotton
exchange, died at his home in New
York.
A heavy snowstorm In Great Britain
has delayed trains and several schoon-
ers off the coast were wrecked by the
gale.
The Zionists congress, in session at
CrajeVa, Roumania, was invaded by
members of the anti-Jewish society. A
riot ensued, during which many Jews
were injured.
Several persons were seriously in
jured in McKeesport pa boarding
house in a riot over a Christmas tur-
key. The bird was not cooked to suit
the boarders and the cranberry sauce
was missing.
Failing into sponge mixer full of
dough, which he was feeding, H. D.
Van Kirk, Columbus, O., was whirled
round and round until every bone in
his body was crushed before the ma
chine was stopped and he was extri-
Gated, corpse.
A duel with pitchforks between two
grooms employed in fashionable
riding academy in New York resulted
in probably fatal injuries to Thomas
Connolly, whose eye and brain were
penetrated by the prong of the fork
welded by James Cassidy.
Mrs. Susan Kelly, aged so years,
was burned to death and her husband |
barely escaped with his life in a fire |
which destroyed their apartments In |
West Sixtieth street, New York.
Otto Yogieslsky, a contracting |
plumber. shot and instantly killed his |
wife and then committed suicide In
New York.
Just as he presented Christmas
gift to his wife, Thomas Cardin. of
Philadelphia, dropped dead of heart !
disease.
Rev. T. X. Crowley, o: st. Patrick's |
church. Denison, Tex, while putting
on his vestments to celebrate high |
mass, dropped dead.
Three men were killed and four |
wounded In battle between guards |
employed by the West Kentucky Coal |
company at Sturgis, Union county, |
KY, and the striking miners at that |
place.
Edward HI. Judson, DR.. Emanuel l.. |
Hess, Thomas Cochran and DR.. l.. w. |
Babcock, all prominent pioneer resi- |
dents of st. Paul, Mimi, died.
David C. Webb, president of a big |
mercantile company in Kansas City, |
Mo-, died aged 72 years.
Rose Bros department store at |
Manistique, Mich, was destroyed by |
fire, the loss being $4,000.
Clyde King, aged 25. shot and killed
Ellis Jobes, his brother-in-law, at Osseo,
town few miles from Minneapolis.
H. eastman, Charles Slaight and |
Dan Slaight drove into an air-hole in
the Missouri river opposite Fort Ran
dali, S. d., and were drowned.
Commander Alfred B. Canaga. in
charge of the steam engineering de-
partment of the Charlestown navy
ward died suddenly of annnlexy at