Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-24
Mrs. Elizabeth c. Thorn, . heroine
Of the battle Of Gettysburg, died in

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New York, the firm of Otto Heinze
& Co. was suspended in the stock OK.
change; f. Augustus Heinze, the
Butte copper magnate, resigned the
presidency of the Mercantile National
bank of New York; the Amalgamated
Copper company cut its quarterly divi-
dend from two per cent. to one per
cent; the directors of the Boston &
Montana Copper company declared a
quarterly dividend of six dollars In
place of a former dividend of $12; the
failure of Haller-Soehle & Co., promi-
nent bankers of Hamburg, Germany,
with liabilities that may reach $780,
600, was announced, and the State
Savings bank of Butte, Mont, of which
the Heinzes are the principal stock
holders, suspended.
t. w. House, of Houston, owner of
one of the oldest banking concerns in
Texas, made general assignment.
While endeavoring to arrest James
p. Strong, an insane man, Deputy
Sheriff Charles M. Webb. of Atoka,
Tenn, was killed and Deputy Louis
Ogilvie was dangerously wounded
j. T. Neal, editor of the Columbus IN.
d. Reporter, was shot and killed by
Mrs. r. G. Rasmussen, who mistook
him for burglar.
John Charles Mcneil, poet and
raconteur, died at his home in Scot
land county, N. c., aged 33 years.
panic was caused in Naples by
the sudden cessation of smoke from
all the craters of vesuvius, accom-
panied by loud detonations which
usually mean resumption of act =
ity on the part of the volcano
The taking of evidence ended in the
trial of Mr.. and Mrs. Magill at De-
catur for the murder of the former
Mrs. Magill. after Fred Magill had
testified in his own defense.
John Boydell, well-known paint
manufacturer of Detroit, died, aged 65
years.
Rudyard Kipling, after a tour of
the Canadian northwest, said the
Asiatic problem on the coast would
be solved by the bringing of white la.
borers from England.
The Inauguration Of a regular trans
atlantic wireless service was accom-
plished by William Marconi and his
assistants. More than 5000 words
were transmitted the first day be-
tween the station at Port Morien and
the Irish station.
Charles M. Shsrtridge, of San Jose,
CAL, ex-state senator, editor of the
Daily Times, was arrested on COM
plant of Congressman E. A. Hayes,
on charge of criminal libel.
Modern Woodmen of America
closed deal for the purchase of 900
acres of land adjoining Colorado
Springs, wherein to erect sanitar-
ium for the treatment of members of
the society afflicted with tuberculosis.
Two OF the balloon teams at st.
Louis for the international races made
trial ascensions and remained In the
air all night
Three persons were killed and 10
injured in collision between a
Southern railway passenger train and
freight train at Rudd, N. C.
Charles E. Schroeder, o. Columbus,
o., a widely-known circus man, fell
dead in cafe in Ell Paso, Tex.
Robert C. Ciowry was reelected
president of the Western Union Tele-
graph company at the meeting in New
York.
Rev. John Potts, treasurer Of Vic
toria college and secretary of the de-
partment Of education of the Method.
list Episcopal church of Canada, died
at Toronto, Ont .'
Thomas Agnew & Sons, of London,
bought the famous Ashburton collec-
ton of paintings. The price paid Is
said to have been 100000
Upton Sinclair was elected from the
Vanderbilt mansion at Newport, where
he was serving in a mental capacity
with view 20 gaining knowledge to
be used in new book which he con-
templates writing.
The national commandery of the
military order of the Loyal Legion, in
annual session at Philadelphia, Pa,
elected Gen. Granville M. Dodge, of
New York, as commander-in-chief and
as senior vice commander, Rear AID
miral John C. Wilson, of California
The town of Fontanet, Ind, was
practically destroyed by the explosion
of the plant of the Dupont Powder
company. The dead number from Is
to so. Over 600 persons were injured
and every building In the town was
wholly or partially leveled with the
ground. Seven mills blew up, one
after another. and when the great
magazine exploded the shock was felt
for many miles.
Thirty-eight lives snuffed out, 600
injured. of which number so were
seriously hurt, and property loss Of
approximately $750,000 was the latest
estimate Of the destruction wrought
by the explosion at the Dupont Pow
der mills at Fontanet, Ind.
| A report in Washington says Presi-
dent Roosevelt ordered the suspension
Of Pilot Nichols, of the steamer
Hartweg, because Pittsburgers on that
boat during the Mississippi river trip
kept yelling Teddy" at the president
Sergio Osmena, nationalist, who for.
merly was governor of the island of
Cebu, was chosen president of the
Philippine assembly
Henry Nieland of Dane county, Wis
consin, committed suicide by hanging
himself in the toilet room on a Chi
cago G. Northwestern train.
George White, aged 35 years, shot
and MORALLY wounded his brother
Louis, aged 80, in Philadelphia, and
then attempted to end his own life
by sending bullet into his head.
Standing on temporary platform,
where an office desk served as a pull
pit, and with his back to the gray