Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07

H. UOlLG at ECCdlllC, w ash. Ills 10 Sdlu
to be the third death from the plague
there in two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Kfrwan OF
! Springfield, Mass, were found by en-
| ployes of hotel in that city lying in
their room critically wounded. The
husband declared that he and his wife
had tried to commit suicide by shoot
| ing.
| Representatives of the principal
steel producing companies, it is said,
held secret meeting in Pittsburg and
formed billet pool to keep up prices.
Heirs of George Washington are
seeking to recover the value of lands
on which the city of Cincinnati now
rests.
Experiments made with "lucides-
cent" light at the New York Skin and
Cancer hospital are declared to have
demonstrated that intense light Is a
powerful cure for pain.
/ City Councilman G.. G. Linde, of
st. Louis, was indicted for malfeas-
| ance In office and confessed, impli-
eating other members of the city's
| legislative bodies.
Capt Granville Fortescue. U. S.
A.. retired. accepted from Gov. Ma
COON of Cuba commission that car.
ries with it the duties of special in
structor to the Cuban forces
Frank Croker, cashier of the First
| National Savings bank. of Charlton,
Ia, committed suicide after notifying
the bank examiner that the bank was
overloaned.
The yacht Kingdom, with about 60
members of the Holy Ghost and Us
colony at Shiloh, Me-, on board and
| a crew OF 20. sailed for the Holy Land.
Notices posted about the Calumet
! & Hecla works at Houghton. Mich,
| announced a reduction of wages on
December ! of 121s per cent. approxi-
| mately equal to the increase granted
! early in the year.
Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian
who disappeared after being indicted
| for mistreating girls. was believed by
some of his friends to have been
kidnapped or murdered by gang of
| blackmailers.
DR.. Richard Mohr, general director
of the Hahnemann hospital In Phila-
delphia and professor Of materia
| medica and therapeutics, dropped
| dead on the street.
E. G. McNair, convicted of wife
murder at Beaumont, Tex, committed
suicide by hanging himself to the
| bars of his cell in the county Jail at
| Houston.
AS result of the application of the
/ Pendleton law by which cities of Ten
| nessee can reincorporate without the
saloon, over 100 saloons closed their
doors in Knoxville.
The supreme court of Massachu-
sets declared the use of voting ma
! chimes unconstitutional.
Eta l.. Mclean, stenographer
| in the Office of United States District
/ Attorney Sims at Chicago. was ar
| rested on a charge of stealing papers
and records in the John r. Walsh
! case
The business part of Rockton, H.,
| was destroyed by fire with loss ex-
ceeding $4,000.
/ uG iulDcIldl lOUdCCO
chased for s1.500,000 the entire 1907
tobacco crop pledged to the American
| Society of Equity in Henderson.
Union, Webster, Hopkins and Critten-
len counties in Kentucky.
The West Texas Bank G. Trust
company of San Antonio closed it's
1oors under a temporary suspension
If business.
Royal Fowler, of Dayton, who
killed his sweetheart, Mary Hagerty,
more than a year ago, was electro
,uted in the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus.
Fire on State street, Chicago, did
100000 damage to the N. B. Holden
Shoe company.
In a battle between United States
troops and Indians in southern Utah
three persons were killed and another
wounded, all believed to have been
Indians.
Miss Josephine Hill, 80 years old,
teacher in the House of Mercy, a
charitable institution conducted by
the Sisters of St. Mary of the Protest
committed suicide by shooting.
Hugh B. Ely, superintendent of the
insurance department of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad company 25 years, died
at his home in Beverly, N. J.
Elmer H. Dearth, former Minneap.
oils insurance commissioner, who was
indicted by the grand jury on charge
| n onnnnfinu hriha ny h.
tel, former president of Minneapolis
life insurance company, was acquitted
of the charge in the district court at
Minneapolis.
Mischievous small boys in West
Duluth, Mimi, attached a piece OF
wire to an electric light wire and
strung 1t in front of an Austrian
boarding house. Yova Mehis, the first
man to approach, stepped on it and
was instantly killed.
John D. Rockefeller is reported to
have cornered all available laborers
in the Tarrytown district to work on
his new home on Pocantico hill.
DR.. William Polls of the German
weather bureau, who attended the
aeronautical congress in New York,
says America is far ahead of Germany
in weather forecasting.
| Robert M. Dubose, secretary of the
University of the South, died at
Sewanee, Tenn.
Planning to duplicate his feat Of 40
years ago, of walking to Chicago, a
distance OF 1890 miles, in 26 days,
Edward Payson Weston started from
the Portland (Me.) post Office. He is
50 years of age
Struck down and robbed in the
streets of New York, Herman Bradley