Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-28

the wrecked steamer Berlin, the If
savers being helped personally by the
prince consort of the Netherlands
Two women and a child could not BIZ
taken off.
Prof. Matteuci of Vesuvius observa
tory says the world will run into the
tail of comet toward the end Of
March and all life probably will be
destroyed.
The governor of Rhode Island in
addressing the legislature. picked
many flaws in George Washington and
was severely criticised by the speak.
er of the house.
The little steamer Marion burned
| off Charleston, S. c., and eight ne.
groes lost their lives.
| The Indiana two-cent fare bill was
sent to the governor for his sigma.
ture.
| William Foster, Jr., a persona
| friend of President Lincoln, and one
| of the builders of the two New York
city elevated railroads, died of old
| age at his home in New York.
Seven fireme1, including the chief.
were seriously injured by falling walls
at Sumter, s. c.
The building and plant of the Que
bee Daily Telegram was destroyed by
fire. All of the English printing for
the provincial legislature was burned.
The loss is 100000.
The Hamburg-American Steam
Packet company has decided to name
one Of the new liners now being built
for that concern the George Washing
ton. She will be of $4,000 tons regis
ter.
George Dallas Mosgrove, formerly a
confederate soldier and of recent years
writer Of war stories, was found
dead on the road near his farm in
Trimble county, Kentucky.
The Warsaw (Russia) post Office
was robbed by a band of terrorists,
who killed the postmaster, two clerks
and two soldiers.
British army estimates to be intro
duced in the house of commons Feb
ruary %, will provide for the expendi-
ture during 19O7-0S of s13S,S00 900. a
reduction of about $10,000,000, COM
pared with the estimates of last year.
James A. Kirk, head of the big soap
house of James s. Kirk company, died
at Hartland, Wis.
An unknown ship with her crew of
IS men was lost on the west shore of
Jutland.
Samuel N. Rinaker, a sophomore
in the University of Nebraska, was
awarded Rhodes scholarship.
Mrs. Cora Stebbins Courier, aged
"a years, of Sheridan, Mich, is under
arrest, charged with poisoning her
husband.
President Roosevelt, accompanied
by Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, went to Boston and Groton,
Mass. to visit his sons, Theodore and
Kermit
A man believed to be w. F. Walker.
the absconding banker of New Britain,
Conn, was arrested in Opelika, Ala.
The lower house of the Indiana leg
islature indefinitely postponed the
high license bill.
Hon. James Bryce, the new British
ambassador, and Mrs. Bryce arrived
in Washington.
]. c. Buchanan, who had owned and
edited newspapers in many different
cities, died in Pittsburg, Kan, aged rs
years.
Robert Finch, IL years old, dropped
dead at a district school near Ra-
VIENNA. O., while being punished by his
teacher
A verdict of guilty was returned by
the jury in the case of Corwin D.
Bachtel, cashier of the now defunct
Canton (O) State National bank
Cornelius P. Shea and his ten asso-
ciates in the Transfers union were
acquitted of the charge of conspiracy,
thus bringing to a close the longest
and most remarkable labor legal bat
tie ever waged in Chicago.
The Oaks hotel and the residence of
B. r. Norvell at Beaumont, Tex, were
destroyed by fire. The total loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
Senator Baily testified that he re-
fused yearly salary of $4,000 offered
him by the Standard Oil company.
A syndicate of English capitalists
has retained civil engineering firm
to make a preliminary survey of sub
way routes in st. Louis
Charles P. Zimmerman, who for the
past Is years had been manager of the
Empire theater in Indianapolis, is
dead.
The home of w. r. Cook at Brown
wood, Tex, was destroyed by dyna-
mite, and Werner Cook, a 16-year-old
girl, was fatally injured.
Mrs. Lottie Wallau of New York
was held on the charge Of numbering
her mother, Mrs. Binge.
Frederick T. Gates, business repre-
sentative of John D. Rockefeller, said
the latter's fortune was not more than
$500, 100000 and his annual income not
over $2O,OOO,OOO.
Four trainmen were killed when a
Michigan Central express collided with
an ice train near Ypsilanti, Mich.
w. II. Guerin was shot and killed
in Chicago by Mrs. NJ. C. Mcdonald
and the police said he had been black.
mailing her.
Emperor William opened the new
reichstag with great pomp.
Beall & Steele's wholesale drug
house at Steubenville, o., was totally
destroyed by fire, entailing loss of
100000
The New York police heard that
William F. Walker, the missing treas.
lrer Of the New Britain, Conn, saw
ngs bank, lost more than S35O,000 Of
he banks funds to wire-tappers.
| e. H. Hartman the railway mao