Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-05


ing several cars of oil and merchas4
disc.
Mrs. Anna A. Huclie was shockingly
mangled by lion that escaped from
its cage in a Pittsburg summer RESORT
Raymond w. Clark, captain of troop
HI, Thirty ninth regiment, and mem
Der Of the Grand Army of the Repub-
| lie, committed suicide at Oakland, CAL,
! by turning on the gas in his room. His
| action was attributed to financial em-
| barrassment.
/ Knabenshue's airship, while 1000
| feet above the fair grounds at Green
vile, o., burst and dropped like
| rocket. The aeronaut escaped unhurt.
Kingsbury Batchelder, professor of
Greek in Hillsdale college, Michigan,
| died at Ocean Park, Me.
Eugene Moriarty, editor and propri-
etor of the Worcester Post and
prominent Democrat was drowned
while bathing in Lake Quinsigamond,
Mass.
The explosion of what apr ears to
| have been a large percussion cap in a
| package addressed to Secretary of the
| Treasury George B. Cortelyou created
excitement in the Nicetown, Pa, sub
| station of the Philadelphia post office.
Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago
| packer and multimillionaire, died at
his home, 2453 Indiana avenue, Chi
cago. of heart disease, aggravated by
/ kidney trouble.
The jurisdiction of the federal court
| in the issuance of the recent railway
| rate injunctions in North Carolina was
| upheld in an opinion issued by Judge
| Pritchard. He asserted the suit is
not one against the state within the
| meaning of the constitution.
l.. H. Carter, son of Brig. Gen. w. H.
Carter, u. S. A., was killed by an
electrical shock at the University of
Illinois, where he was a special stu.
dent
Albert Stemmelen, of Detroit, welt
| crazy over religion and drowned his
two-year-old daughter.
Paris police authorities cabled Mr..
Reese of Columbus, o., who recently
| was robbed of $4,000, besides gems,
| to proceed to the French capital and
| testify against J. w. Bailey and Will.
| ing swindlers.
Officials of the American Tobacco
| company in New York stated that the
| shutting down of the company's fac
| tory in Cincinnati is permanent. The
| unsatisfactory condition of the labor
market was given as the cause.
Effective war; it is announced, is be-
| ing waged against the Black Hand
throughout Pennsylvania by the state
constabulary and the indications are
that the troops will soon rid the com.
monwealth of this murderous organi.
| cation.
| George Gould, 65 years old, who
| was one of the wealthiest men OF
| New Rochelle, N. Y, died in a hos
pital there of starvation and exposure,
| according to the physicians.
Prof. Oren Root, brother of the Sec
rotary of state, died at his home in
Clinton, N. Y, of cirrhosis of the
| liver
| The first hanging at Indiana, Pa,
for more than 20 years was not sue.
cess. The rope broke with Carn' 1e
Reno, aged As years and weighing
| IT'S pounds. A second attempt sue.
| ceeded.
| crowded passenger train on the
I Mohawk and Malone division of the
| New York Central was saved from dis,
| aster about two miles south of Fulton.
n. Y, by two young women, who dis
covered giant tree lying across the
track on a curve and tagged the ex-
press, using red shawl.
] Several women and children were
injured during a panic at a Cleveland
pleasure resort as result of lioL
managing Capt. James F. Briggs, 9
tanner and performer.
The Dupont de Nemour@s powder
works at Sobrante, near Berkeley,
| Cal. were blown up, three persons be.
ing killed and many injured
Mrs. Laura Sterrette McAdoo Triggs
obtained divorce in Chicago from
Prof. Oscar Lowell Triggs, one time
member of the University of Chicago
faculty and founder of a short lived
colony of free thinkers"
w. A. Farren, alias M. d. w. Adams
| former cashier of the Farmers bank
of Clearfold, Ia, was arrested in Kan
sas City on the charge of embezzling
the school funds of Taylor, Ia, on de
posit in the bank.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin unveiled
the monument erected at Fontenoy,
| Belgium, to commemorate the bravery
of the Irish brigade in the battle OF
Fontenoy in 1745. in the presence OF
800 visitors.
The common council of Highmore,
S. D., passed an ordinance which has
since been approved by Acting Mayor
j. E. McDo-ald, which forbids spoony
couples from flirting in public places
and makes the penalty for each viola.
tion fine or Imprisonment.
Four persons were killed and 80 in
| jured in a collision between two pas.
sengel trains near Sapulpa, l. t., on
the st. Louis G. San Francisco rail.
road.
Mrs. Arabella Dolley, aged 6S, OF
Whittier, Cal, died at Salida, Col, OF
injuries received in the wreck of the
| Utah-California express on the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad at Fernleaf
Rev. Edward Hurt Jewett, an aged
and well-known Episcopalian minis
ter, took his life at Manhattan Beach,
Cal, by cutting his throat with a
| razor.
Col. Ivanhoff, governor of Viborg
prison and vicious foe to the terror
lists, was assassinated by the explosion
of bomb while walking along one OF
the streets of st. Petersburg. The as.
sassin was arrested.