Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-21
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| A jury at Grand Haven, Mich, found
William Shimmel guilty of the muir
der of Martin Golden, storekeeper at
| Dennison, but Circuit Judge Padgham
Immediately set aside the verdict.
Frank Frantz. governor OF Oklahoma
| territory, would not participate In the
ceremonies incident to the Inaugural
| ton of Gov.-elect Charles n. Haskell
| and the Democratic state ticket, be-
cause of attacks made on him by Has
| kell during the campaign.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, the Milwau-
kee woman burglar. was sentenced to
the Joliet penitentiary for an in
determinate period of from one to
twenty years by Judge Brentano OF
Chicago on her plea of guilty to the
charge of burglary.
Louis II. Krehl, young civil en-
gineer on the Rock Island railroad,
shot himself in the head at Topeka.
Kan.
The $4,000 worth of pay checks for
the miners of the Carbon Coal & Coke
company, which were lost from the
stage that runs between Longsdale
and Cokedale, Col, were found by
boys and returned to the company.
j. Balm, a stock broker OF Ham
burg and brother of Albert BALM,
director general of the Hamburg-Amer-
lean Steamship line, committed sui
eide
Alexander Fries, head Of the firm
of Alexander Fries & Bro, New York
and Cincinnati, and one of the most
eminent chemists of the country, died
In Cincinnati.
Harry Waters and his son Walter
were struck by the fast mail train on
! the Vaudalia and instantly killed at
the village of Almeda, Ind.
The safe in the post office at Seneca,
S. c., was blown open and $500 in
stamps and 5000 in currency taken.
The Endorsement of William II. Taft
for the presidency, and a demand for
home rule w=re the salient features
of the platform reported to the Alas
kan Republican convention.
William Wilcox, former superin-
tendent of the municipal lighting plant
of Columbus, o., was found guilty by
jury on the charge of defrauding the
city out of $1,170.
A fatal wreck occurred on the Mis-
souri, River G Northwestern railroad
between Mystic, S. d., and Rapid City.
An extra engine and three cars, one
filled with passengers, plunged into
Rapid creek, where bridge had
burned. Fireman Martin was pinned
under the engine and died.
The fiscal year for the state of
Ohio closed with a cash balance in
the treasury of $5,0S1 ,S50.95, an in
| crease of 81 ,335,S17 compared with the
previous year, which was record
breaker for revenues.
While running at the rate OF 60
miles an hour, westbound train No. 13
on the Wabash road jumped the track
near Dillon, Laporte county Ind. Four
passengers and three trainmen were
seriously injured and scores of pas
sengers slightly hurt.
Gov. Vardaman Of Mississippi was
prevailed upon to take a ride in Bald.
wins airship at Jackson, Miss. Ten
| feet above the ground was the limit
and the trip was very short.
John c. Jeans, a day laborer OF
Ludington, Mich, has been bequeathed
100000 by his aunt, Anna T. Jeans
of Philadelphia.
William f. Shiebler, the telegraph
operator who received the first mes
sage over the Atlantic, cable, sent tc
President Buchanan by Queen Vic
toria, died In Brooklyn
The Marconi wireless station a.
Siasconset. Mass, was destroyed by
fire.
Commercial clubs in the principa
cities along the Missouri river hav,
taken up the project started in Oman;
!, to make the Missouri navigable from
ST. Louis to Helena. Mont.
One man was blown to pieces anC
property loss of $4,000 resulted wher
two tons of powder in the grindin.
and storage room of the plant of tn,
Pittsburg Fulminite company, nea
Zelienople, Pa. exploded.
Eight persons, nearly all trainmen
, were killed in a Canadian Pacifi
, wreck at Chalk river, near the Cana
: dian Sault
Two men were killed and three o
four injured In an explosion of tn
!, Hercules nitroglycerin factory a
, Bradner, o.
Leo Manhart. wealthy cigar manu-
, facturer of Kansas City, shot an
; killed himself at the Centropolis hote
; on account of domestic difficulties.
Michael McCabe was rescued aliv
, from mine at Gilberton, Pa, afte
being imprisoned for 81 hours by
cave-in.
Carrie Nation was made life men
|, Der of the Woman's Christian Ten
/ perance union at the Nashville cor
vention.
: Former Gov. James Z. Campbell, c
] Ohio. said that he Is a receptive car
di6ate for United States senator {
: succeed Senator j. B. Foraker.
!. A boiler at the ginhouse on tn
Trulock plantation, near Pine Bluff
Ark, exploded killing the owner j.
Trulock, and FIVE negroes.
, The confession of Steve Adam
, made In the Office of the warden {
, the Idaho state penitentia-y Februar
q 3. 1906. was introduced in evidenc
! at the trial of Adams for the murde
Z Of Fred Tyler. 1t told of the murde
J. Of Tyler and Boule and involve
. M)yer, Haywood and Pettibone.
5 Immediately following the closin
: Of the Peoples bank of California, Pa
nv State Examiner Rynns Oliver