Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

The steamship Ponce, long overdue
at New York, was towed to the Der
mudas with broken shaft, by a Ger
man steamer. All on board were well
John Smith, one of the men under
Indictment for the murder of DR.. B. d
Cox In Kentucky has made a confes
sion in which he said Hargis and Cal
lahan induced him and two others to
kill Cox.
President Harahan, Of the Illinois
Central replied to Gov. Deneen's spe,
cial message, saying the charges
against the road were unjust and the
governor ordered suit begun against
the railway at once.
Walter S. Boyle, Jr., son of the mil.
lionaire president of the Crescent Coal
company, Chicago, was killed by a pts.
tol shot in a room at his home. Men,
bers Of the family declare the death
was accidental.
A fire which started in the tobacco
warehouse of S. r. Moss & Co., at
Lancaster Pa, from the falling of an
electric arc light spread to adjoining
property and caused loss estimated
at $1,000,00O.
Congressman Charles Curtis was
nominated for United States senator
to succeed Senator Benson by the
caucus of Republican legislators. The
action of the caucus is equivalent to
election.
Two men were killed and more than
a score Of persons injured. including
several women, by an explosion of
acetylene gas at card party in Wood.
mans hall in Wilmington, Ill.
Ebert w. Gibson. principal of the
schools at Riverdale, Mich, was
drowned while trying to save 14-year.
old Harry Valance, who had broken
through the ice while skating.
The North German Fire Insurance
company, according to a decision rem
dered by the Hamburg court In a test
case, must pay the losses incurred as
a result Of the San Francisco earth.
quake of last year.
The upper house of the Tennessee
legislature adopted a resolution in.
dorsing President Roosevelt's stand
on the discharge Of the negro soldiers
at Brownsville. Tex. The house had
adopted the same resolution.
For the first time since August
there Is no case of yellow fever in
Cuba. The last person to suffer from
the disease is dead at Sagua La
Grande.
President Roosevelt received a let.
ter from the French ambassador at
Washington, stating that the decora.
ton of the Legion of Honor had been
conferred upon Prof. Brander Mat.
thews. of Columbia university.
Fourteen Texas senators signed a
resolution demanding an investigation
OF Senator Bailey and Attorney Gen.
eral Davidson.
The mills at Minneapolis, were
forced to close for lack Of cars.
The United States circuit court OF
appeals at Cincinnati upheld the con.
stitutionality Of the Kentucky law EN-.
powering the governor to appoin, a
racing board to control horse racing
in the state.
Robbers blew open the vault Of a
bank at Bonfield and escaped with
$500.
An immediate investigation OF the
alleged exposure of cruelty and in
humanity by attendants at the Cleve-
land state hospital for the insane was
ordered by Gov. Harris. of Ohio.
Mexican troops killed 30 riotous
strikers at Nogales and wounded more
than 80, after the mobs had DESTROYED
property valued at $l,500,000.
A lamp being used by Mrs Ella J.
Longley. Of st. Louis, exploded, GOV.
ering her with oil, and she was burned
to death.
Prof. E. T. Cox, prominent mem.
Der of the American Association for
the Advancement Of Science. died at
his home In Jacksonville, Fla, aged
SO years.
Near Cairo, H.. thousands of acres
of land were flooded and the loss of
live stock and corn was heavy.
Edward De Marry, editor of INDY
of London. was sentenced to two
months Imprisonment for publishing
obscene advertisements.
The store of the Henkin Mercantile
company was burned at Plainview
Neb. the loss being estimated at
$4,000.