Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-05

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sentenced r.. Meade Shumway, CON
victed Of the murder of Mrs. Jacob
Martin, to be hanged March 10.
President Roosevelt and family
spent Thanksgiving day at the old
home Of President Madison near Mont.
pelier, Va. Secretary Taft celebrated
the day on his train in Russia Amer
Vienna and other foreign countries had
their customary banquets and recep-
tons.
II. Meade Shumway was convicted
at Beatrice, Neb.. of the murder OF
Mrs. Sarah Martin, wife of his en-
ployer.
At Miflintown, Pa, Julius Derr, a
railroad employee, was shot and fatally
wounded by an Italian, who was pur-
sued and killed by party of hunters.
While Hugo Scherer, wealthy
banker of Mexico City, was giving a
dinner to number Of friends $4,000
worth of jewelry and several hundred
dollars in cash were taken from the
house.
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the Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada,
died suddenly In Hamilton, Ont, from
apoplexy.
Fire destroyed the business portion
Of the village of Columbus, N. ID. The
loss is $4,000.
Judge Templeton of the district
court decided that the North Dakota
statute authorizing the seizure of
liquor imported into the state to be
used as berevage is unconstitutional.
Turning on the gas and phono-
graph at the same time, Mrs. George
Title. aged S5, committed suicide in
New York to the strains of In the
Wild Woods Where the Blue Bells
Grow"
In the Thanksgiving sermon at
! Trinity Protestant Episcopal church,
! New Orleans, the rector, Rev. DIR.
Beverly Warner, inaugurated a cru
SADIE against racing in Louisiana
Irwin Robson, of Blue Grass, Ia, a
senior in the Iowa State college at
Ames, was killed in jumping from a
train.
Alpheus Stothower, half-back on the
Wellington (Kan.) football team, ran
into buggy on the side line in a game
in his home town and suffered con-
cussion of the brain. The injury may
prove fatal.
The jury to try Caleb Powers was
completed at Georgetown, KY. There
are eight Democrats and four Repub-
| licans on the jury.
An organized gang of kidnapers
operating in Mexico City has stolen 40
children ranging in age from two to
| IL years.
Mrs. Louise M. Taft, mother of the
secretary of war, is again seriously i'll
at her home in Millburg. Mass.
Marquis Giuseppe Cito, member
of the most ancient aristocracy of
Naples, Italy, and cousin and aide of
the king of Italy, was seized and car
ried off to a grotto where he was tor
tured, and letter to the marchioness
demanding $500 extorted from him.
Thomas P. McCutchen, a graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania and
well known manufacturer Of Philadel
phia, dropped dead while witnessing
the Pennsylvania Cornell football
game.
w. H. S. Wright, one of the most
prominent Masons in the United
States, died at the Angus hotel in St.
Paul, MINI.
Two San Francisco boys found a
trunk full of money that was buried
at the time of the earthquake and a
crowd that gathered carried off about
s2S 5000, leaving $4,000 which the po.
lice confiscated.
Rioting and bloodshed are threat.
ened among the people of Shansi
province. China, because of the Picking
syndicate British corporation hold.
ing the largest concessions ever given
by China, which has failed and seeks
to sell all its holdings back to the
government.
The new subway under the East
river at New York, connecting Man
haitian and Brooklyn boroughs, was
formally opened.
Isidore Cohen was arrested at
Gary, Ind. accused of selling to for
eigner for $40 the right to fish in Lake
Michigan.
Delegates representing rs American
Gaelic Athletic clubs of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island formed an organization, and de-
cided to coalesce with the Amateur
Athletic association.
Chairman Goethals of the Panama
canal commission has warned labor
ers that all positions on the isthmus
are filled.
The wedding of Miss Edith Root,
daughter of the secretary OF state,
and Lieut.. Ulysses s. Grant Ill, corps
of engineers, United States army, was
solemnized at the home Of Secretary
Root in Washington. About 500
guests, including President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, were present.
Every industrial wheel in Joliet
! came to sudden standstLl for several
hours and over 10000 people were in
I idleness as the result of the shutting
off of the flow of water in the Chicago
drainage canal to release boat stuck
in the channel in Chicago.
George w. Starr, deputy surveyor of
the port of Peoria. died Of pneumonia.
aged 33 years
Gen. ID. B. Pritchard, whose regi-
ment helped in the capture of Jeffer.
son Davis. died at Allegan, Mich.
!
Louisville admitted their defeat and
called off the strike Internationally.
Jack West" of Chicago has ended
a career in New York by being arrest
| ed on a forgery charge brought by the