Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.


Several towns and hundreds OF
4 farms were devastated by the Mol
davian peasants, and scores of the
rioters were killed in conflicts with
the police. About 5000 Jews fed from
Roumana to Austria.
Hudson Maxim announced that he
had perfected a safety decorating fuse
by which steel shell can be sent
clear through the armor Of battle
ship or cruiser and made to explode
at exactly the distance behind the ar
NOR designed by the gunner.
Caryl Young, one Of the pioneers
of Chicago, died. He was 70 years
old Born in New York state, he went
to Chicago in 1857.
George Nicholson shot and killed
John Kurd at a country schoolhouse
near Carmi, ILL.,, because Kurd criti'
cised the efforts of Nicholson's little
daughter In the closing exercises OF
the school.
Following a raid on gambling
house in Fort Worth, Tex, County At
torney jeff d. Mclean was shot and
killed and Hamil P. Scott, member
Of the raiding party, fatally wounded
by William Thompson, proprietor OF
the resort raided. Thompson was sur
rounded in lumber yard and cap
tured after desperate fight in which
Thompson received bullet wounds that
will probably cause his death.
A cablegram from the American
consul at Portsmouth, England, said
the authorities there had boy who
answered the description of Horace
Marvin.
Fire in Pine Bluff, Ark, destroyed
the plant of the Bluff City Lumber
company, and a number Of small
dwellings.
The steamship Northwestern, for
merly the Orizaba of the Ward line
on the Atlantic, was wrecked on the
south end of La Touche island on the
southwestern coast Of Alaska.
Fire destroyed lumber plant and
several fine residences in Ironton, o
The Russian evacuation of Man
churia was completed.
Lady Dorothy Stanley, widow of Sit
Henry M. Stanley, the African explor
err, was married in London to Henry
Curtis, F. r. G. S.
The Warren house and the Roya
shoe factory, at Randolph, Mass, were
burned. The guests in the Warner
house escaped in safety. The loss II
$50, 900.
James Shippee and William Cole
highway commissioners, indicted a
Freeport, ILL.,, for being interested ii
bridge contract that they had a par
in letting, pleaded guilty and were
fined 5000 and costs.
Horace George Rayner, who killed
William Whitley, the general pro
WIDER, of London, was convicted ant
sentenced to death.
A feud which began in Nome, Alas
; ka, five years ago, was ended in Gold
, field, New, when Jack Hines shot an,
' killed a man known as Count Podho1
/ ski of Warsaw, Russia.
/ Arthur Bean killed his wife wit
t an ak at North Baltimore, o., and the
l committed suicide by shooting hin
: self
Every member OF the grand jur
at Rolling Fork, Miss, indicted hin
3 self for violating the Sunday liquo
law and each appeared before Judg
, Booth and was fined $40.
d H. Clay Ewing, who was attorney
8 general Of Missouri from 1874, an
n for many years banker, died at hi
S kcme in Jefferson City, Mo-, at tn
a age of 70.
u The Chicago limited on the Penn
= Eylvania railway was derailed b
;. train wreckers at Stewart, Pa.
n Mrs. Margaret Harold Davidge, 70
o many years we'll known in theatrica
e circles. died of heart disease folIowin
k the arrest of her son for murder.
+. Mrs. James Tolbert was brutal
. assaulted and her two-months-ol
baby was murdered by negro a
!, Fairmont, Ga.
s. Count Lamsdorff, former Russia
Il minister of foreign affairs, died a
;. San Reno.
;, Former Deputy Manuel Talaver
= has been fatally wounded in duel a
Asuncion, Paraguay, with Lieut.. Cri.
, pun Torres. Pistols were used. TIL
q former deputy fell at the first shot.
e Six hundred men employed by tn
e. Interstate Steel company at Han
st mond. Ind. struck for higher wages.
10 Fire at Augusta, Ca, ruined the O
II Zee Of the Augusta Chronicle. tn
. main offices of the Western Unto
~ Telegraph company and the Unto
city ticket Office.
r Brig. Gen. John Moore, u. s. A., r,
r. tired, former surgeon general of tn
" army, died In Washington, aged
"a years. He was a native of Indiana.
Va DR.. Julius H. Weinsberg, of s
q. Louis, was MORALLY shot by his so
n. when the latter discovered that tn
\ loctor's wife was his stepmother.
W Frank Dutton and Alcene RIOS
an eloped from Virginia to Heller, K.
he sam Rose, brother of the girl, TO
ne lowed them to Heller, where in
al pistol duel he killed Dutton and a
IN lost Immediately after was himse
5 hot by Elias Dutton. brother {
rank.