Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

Two men robbed a pawnshop in In
dianapolis of goods valued at $4,000
after fatally wounding the clerk,
Simon Gold
Seven mine workers, all Italians,
were killed in an abandoned slope of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal COM
pany at Honeybrook, Pa, by deadly
white damp. Three others are miss
ing.
A Japanese spy was said to have
been arrested while making drawings
of Fort Rosecrans, near San Diego,
Cal.
Because the Northwestern railroad
refused to make an excursion rate of
70 cents for the volunteer firemen's
picnic, the firemen of Deadwood, S.
d., voted to refuse to protect railroad
property.
President Roosevelt appointed Frank
A. Leach, of Oakland Cal, director
of the mint to succeed George E.
Roberts, who resigned to accept the
presidency of Chicago bank.
Robbers murdered Chinese res
taurant keeper in Omaha and took
$500 from his strong box
Morton f. Plant, of New York. has
ordered a twin screw yacht from
a Leith firm which will be the third
largest private-owned yacht afioat
Theodore S. Clark, of Chicago, was
badly injured near Bryan, O., when
his automobile. one of those in the
Glidden tour, was ditched.
Ouida, the novelist, was found to be
living in dire poverty and the British
government granted her a pension of
$3.50 year.
The Mexican consul at Douglass,
Ariz., and three officers were held for
the kidnapping of Manuel Sarabia.
John Sweeney, widely known as an
| amateur billiard player, committed
suicide in Detroit.
Five prominent planters of Louis
lana were arrested on a charge of
conspiring to obtain public lands by
| fraud.
ROCK Island passenger train No. "a,
north bound, was derailed few miles
south of Peabody, Kan, by running
into switch. Engineer Lay of Her
ington, Kan, was dangerously scald-
ed.
| Judge Martin J. Severance, one of
the best known jurists of Minnesota,
| died at his home in Mankato as the
result of an operation for goiter. He
was 81 years old
Louis A. E. Alters, head professor
of German languages and literature
in Colorado college, died in Colorado
! Springs at the age of AZ.
Vice President Fairbanks, while at
Yellowstone lake, Yellowstone park,
risked his own life to save that of a
waitress who was in danger of drown.
ing.
The wife of the earl of Rosslyn,
formerly Anna Robinson of Mime.
apolis, has sued him for divorce.
Prof. James McGranahan. the well.
known hymn writer. formerly con-
nected with Moody and Sankey, the
evangelists, died at his home in
Knsman, o.
King Edward has bought two OF
Alfred G. Vanderbilt's prize-w winning
state coach horses.
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz. of San
Francisco, convicted of extortion. was
sentenced to five years in the peniten
tiary. When the sentence was pro
nounced there was a remarkable out
burst of applause from the hundreds
OF persons who crowded Judge
DUNES courtroom.
A. Scribner killed his wife ant
himself in hotel at Buffalo, Mo.
! Secretary Cortelyou has recon
mended to the president the appoint
ment of Frank A. Leach, the present
superintendent of the mint at Sar
Francisco, as director of the min
to succeed G. r. Roberts.
1t was announced that King Carlos
OF Portugal would visit only Brazil or
his American trip.
Jesse r. Grant, youngest son of the
late President Grant, in an interview
in St Louis said he would accept tn,
Democratic nomination for president 1
1t were offered to him.