Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-05
NEWS OF A WEEK
TOLD IN BR|E,:
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATH.
Erred FROM ALL POINTS OF
THE GLOBE.
GIVEN IN TENTED FORM
Notable Happenings Prepared for the
PerusaI of the Busy Man--Sum-
mary of the Latest Home and For
eign Notes.

mary of the Latest Home and For
eign Notes.
section of the new bridge across
the st. Lawrence river five miles be-
low Quebec collapsed carrying scores
of bridge workers and mechanics into
the water. 1t was estimated that the
loss of life was "a. The bridge was
about mile and half in length and
half of it, from the south shore to mid
stream, crumpled up and dropped into
the water. 1t was to be the longest sim
gle span cantilever bridge in the world
and was being built by the Phoenix
Iron company of Phoenixville, Pa.
The surgeon general of the marine
hospital service and the authorities
of San Francisco co-operated to stamp
out the plague, several cases of which
appeared in the California city.
Harry Harmon and Eddy Quinn,
convicts, escaped from the peniten-
tiary at Joliet, ILL.,, and eluded posse
of 100 men.
Nearly 5000 persons at the Barn
stable County Fair saw Professor"
Maloney, balloonist, drop 1000 feet
to earth, strike on top of cedar fence
post and escape probably with his
life His parachute failed to work.
In the presence of a number of
boarders in the New Jersey House,
Ocean Grove, n. j., of which he was
no 81
and perhaps mortally wounded his
wife, Irene; seriously wounded his
nine-year-old daughter, Mollie, and
then killed himself.
Paul Atkinson, 10 years old, of
Youngwood, Pa, and Harry Miller, Is
years old, of Buffalo. n. Y, made a
daring escape from the Morganza Re-
form school.
The Photographers Association of
New England awarded the gold medal
in the grand portrait class to f. c..
Dotey of Bedding, Mich.
Fire destroyed the big Louisville
Courier-Journal building at Louisville,
KY.
passenger train on the Southern
railway collided with an engine in
Asheville, N. c., and 80 persons were
injured, none fatally.
The French schooner Violette went
down in the English channel and Is
men on board of her were drowned.
National President Small said he
would not be surprised if there would
be general strike of the railroad
telegraphers.
Suits for damages aggregating half
a million dollars will be instituted
against the steel trust and st. Louis
county, Minnesota, by striking miners
who have been shot or imprisoned by
sheriffs.
Prince Naisut, son of the King of
Siam, arrived in New York on his way
to Harvard, where he 'iS to become a
student
Judge Jones of the United States
district court at Montgomery, Ala, is
sued an order directing the Louisville
& Nashville and the North and South
Alabama railroads to obey the maxi
mum-rate bill passed by the last Ala
bama legislature.
obelisk in Niagara square, Buffalo,
Sept 5, Gov. Hughes will speak and
1000 Canadian troops will take part.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad will not submit to arbi-
tration the question of demurrage rate
on detained foreign cars, as proposed
by the American Railway association,
and is likely soon to withdraw from,
that body.
Four men were killed in dynamite
explosion at the camp of w. I. Par.
SONS, contractor on the Grand Trunk
Pacific construction near Vermillion
Bay station, in Ontario.
Gov. Hughes has refused to grant
papers for the extraG on of Julius
Eller of Syracuse, n. Y, wanted in
Colorado on the charge of being impli
Gated in robbery at the Rio Grande
railway at Alamosa.
The American officers, Brig. Gen. w
S. Edgerly, Maj c.. Dewitt Wilcox
Cant. Robert E. l.. Niche and Capt
George Fl. Shelton, designated by the
United States government to attend
| the autumn maneuvers of the German
army as guests of Emperor William
| arrived in Berlin.
Judge A. l.. Williams, of Topeka
| Kan, died in his summer home on
| Pixies Peak. He was formerly gen.
| eral counsel for the Union Pacific.
Two persons were killed and several
others injured when motor car or
! the Chicago, Milwaukee Electric rail
way crashed into an ice wagon in
| Glencoe, Chicago suburb.
Arthur Clemens, of Brooklyn. N. Y.
was struck by baseball while play,
ing at Glencove, l.. l.. and killed.
Little nine-year-old Ella Schrader
daughter of John Schrader, railroad
construction worker of Gary, Ind, was
brutally murdered and the whole town
sought in vain for her slayer.
A pearl valued at $1,000 was found
N Clinch river Tennessee. by William
Tyler, q professional pearl hunter
Arrangements have been completed
! for the organization of a $50 1000 ,00(
American syndicate, which plans t.
develop several million acres of OF
lands in Mexico. 1t is purposed moi
only to supply the Mexican market
but to ship the product in competi
ton with the Standard Oil company
Charles Blondin, the once famous
tight-wire walker, who once crossed
Niagara falls on a rope, reported t.
have died ten years ago, is said to BIZ
living hermit life in West Cheshire
| Conn. Under the name of Michae
Todd he Is working as a jobbing car
! peEter.
Four hundred union steamfitters
| bricklayers, carpenters and othel