Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-15

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adjourned, voted money for q monu-
ment to Jefferson Davis.
A safe in the post Office at Stillman
Valley, ILL.,, was blown open anc $500
was taken.
| Mounted on white palfrey and
decorously clothed in masses of hair,
pink feshings, and clouds of gauze,
a modern Lady Godiva gave a repre-
| sentation of the historic ride through
the streets of Coventry, England
Arthur l.. Fitch, superintendent OF
construction for the Sheffield Land
company of Lorain, o., was found
dead in his stable with bullet wound
| In his head.
| Miss May Bushnell, of Winchester,
Va, was killed when her automobile
struck log placed in the road by
| miscreants.
United States District Attorney Sims
and his assistant were said to be
gathering evidence In Indiana for fur
Their prosecution OF the Standard Oil
| company and the railroads.
George Wallace Delamater, once
L
mia, and who served as state sena-
tor from Crawford county from 1887
to 1890, committed suicide by shooting
| in his Office in Pittsburg.
In series of IA runs over a meas
ured mile course outside of the harbor
of Rockland. Me-, the first-class battle
| ship Connecticut, the first battleship
of the class built by the government,
| made a showing which was highly sat
isfactory to Rear Admiral Robley d.
Evans and the trial board. The aver
age speed of the best five runs was
1878 knots.
Four anarchists were seriously
wounded in Lisbon by an accidental
explosion in bomb factory operated
by an anarchistic group.
Former Policeman Ben Curruth was
arrested in Helena, Ark, charged with
the assassination of J. M. Scott, city
editor of the Helena World.
The comptroller of the cur eucv an.
nounced that the Peoples National
bank. of Gallatin, Tenn, which was
declared insolvent and placed in The
hands of a receiver on July IS. has
been permitted to reopen its doors for
business.
The Chicago directory for 1907 esti-
mates the population Of the city at
1887 900.
In joint session the Alabama legiss
lature elected former Gov Joseph F.
Ifh tn he Of he
national congress for a term ending
March 4, 1915, to succeed the late
Senator Pettus
Twenty creameries in the northwest
have gone out of kslsiness as the re-
suit of special rates granted their
competitors by railroads, it was testi-
fed before the Nebraska railway COM
mission.
A proposed franchise for the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Ua.) Waterworks company
for term of 25 years was defeated
at special election by vote of 2,103
to 7S9.
Three-fourths Of the Golden Cycle
Mining company's million dollar re-
duction plant, in the foot hills south
of Colorado City, Col, was destroyed
by fire. Loss estimated at S750,000.
Insurance, 100000
Casablanca, on the Moroccan coast.
has been bombarded by French cruis-
ers, the Moors are reported to have
been shot down in large numbers and
the town is practically in the posses
sion of landing parties from French
and Spanish cruisers. The first shots
were fired by the Moors The French
men responded with bayonet charge
and the bombardment of the native
quarter with melinite shells. The
Frenchmen had six men wounded, but
no one killed.
Cyclones struck Clear Lake. Lake
Mills and Hanlontown, Ia, causing
one death and great damage. Wi
mona, Mimi; Springfield, ILL.,, and 9th
er places suffered severely from furi-
GUS wind and transforms.
John T. Hanrahan, of New York,
was in Appleton, Wis, looking over
the paper mills, with the object of
forming a combine of all the mills in
the state that will not be declared a
trust.
Eleven persons, including Prince
Alexander Begotoff of Russia, were
killed in a railway wreck in Germany.
William p. Taggart, formerly of
Reading, Pa, was arrested in Phila-
delphia, charged with obtaining $1,000
though Misrepresentation in the pro-
motion of coal manufacturing COM
pany
More than 300 veterans Of the Fiji
teenth Pennsylvania cavalry, Gen. w.
M. j. Palmers regiment in the civil
war, will arrive in Colorado Springs
on the evening of August 20 as the
guests of Gen. Palmer, who will pay
all their expenses.
Rev. S. Z. Smith, noted colored
preacher of the south, died suddenly
in Lexington, KY, from worry caused
by discussions in the Baptist congre-
cation there, of which he was pastor
Four persons were killed and % In
jured in a railroad wreck on the Buff
falo & Allegheny division of the Penn
sylvania railroad at Kelly, about 35
miles from Pittsburg. The train was
sideswiped by runaway coal car.
Owing to strong protest by Ameri-
can sailors, a commission has been
appointed to design new uniform.
doing away with the present style of
cap and blouse, and. perhaps, trousers.
Israel Munson Spelman, the last sur
viving member of the Harvard class
of 1886 and the oldest alumnus of the
college, died at his summer home at
Marblehead, Mass, aged 80 years.
A Mr.. and Mrs. Buckingham, who
came from New York, committed sui
| eide by taking poison at Castellmare,