Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-23

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conditions.
Twenty-one persons are placed In
the roll of heroes by the Carnegie hero
fund commission at Pittsburg, which
awards medals to those who risked
their lives for others, or to relatives
of those who died in performing heroic
deeds.
Bad river, south of Ashland, Wis,
has overlooked its banks and is the
Odanah is flooded and one-third OF the
inhabitants have been forced from
their homes.
The village of Finch, Ont, has been
almost wiped out by fire. On Monday
night there was $4,000 blaze, which
started up again Tuesday night, caus-
ing additional damage of $4,000.
Fire at Mccain, N. D., destroyed the
st. Anthony and Dakota elevator, the
Imperial elevator, the Great Northern
depot, house and barn and a box car.
Loss, $4,000.
The sheriff destroyed $4,000 worth
of liquor in the street at Independ-
ence, Kan. The liquor was seized some
time ago from saloons in the county.
The destruction was witnessed by an
immense crowd Of people.
Oliver Dalrymple says the wheat
acreage of North Dakota is greatly re-
duced, owing to the backward season.
The total crop of the country will be
100,000,000 bushels short, he says.
Later returns from the Austrian
elections show enormous gains by the
socialists and anti-Semites.
The extensive forest fires which
have been raging in President and
Pine Grove townships, Venango coun-
ty, Pa, covering an area of ten square
miles, are believed to be under con-
troll The timber loss is estimated at
SIS 1000.
President Roosevelt received Rear
Admiral Huet De Bacellar, command
ing the Brazilian feet now at Hamp-
ton roads, and the personal officers of
his feet and his staff, who are the
guests of the United States govern.
ment.
William Kenney, an employee of the
w dlhSi at w dlhcINlllc, OHt.,
just across the Detroit river from De-
troit. was drowned in a vat of whisky
mash
OF five Italians who came to Cranes
vile, near Amsterdam, N. Y, from
Schenectady to seek work ON the con-
struction of the barge canal, three
were drowned by the capsizing of
boat In which they were rowing across
the Mohawk river.
On plea of guilty to charge of
murder in the second degree John
Stapp, Is years of age, was sentenced
by Judge Williams in ST. Louis to 80
years in the penitentiary.
Russian reactionists met and de-
manded stringent laws for the guard
ing Of public safety.
Witnesses at the senate investiga-
ton Of the Brownsville ARRAY at
Washington testified to seeing the
negro troops firing their guns during
the riot.
The Missouri supreme court af-
firmed the death sentences imposed
on Convicts George Ryan, Harry
Vaughan and Edward Raymond, who
broke out of the penitentiary Novem-
Der "a. 1905, and killed guard John
Clay in resisting recapture. The three
will be hanged on June 81.
The German reichstag passed the
third reading of the commercial modus
vivendi between the United States
and Germany. The bill will now go to
the emperor for his signature.
Judge Wood at st. Louis decided II.
Clay Pierce must be delivered to
Texas sheriff, but he appealed and
was held in $4,000 bonds.
A soldier of the cars guard reveals
a plot to kill the emperor.
Mrs. Minnie Mallow was taken to
the Springfield CO., city hospital suf-
fering from a bullet wound In the
breast which she declares was self
inflicted. Her husband, d. F. Malloy,
was locked up on suspicion.
The Western Association Of Bottle
Manufacturers Is in session at Pitts
burg, Pa, with a committee of the
Glass Bottle Blowers Association of
America for the purpose of readjust-
ing the wage scale.
The Archer block at Rochester, N.
" was burned The Steeful, Straus
Conner company, wholesale cloth
iers, lost S125,000; the Wheeler-Green
Electric company, $4,000; and the
owner of the building $4,000.
An interesting feature of the next
Republican national convention will
be reunion of the delegates to the
national convention in Chicago In
| 1850, who, for SO ballots, supported
Grant for the presidency for third
| term. The call for the reunion has
| been issued by Col. A. M. Hughes, OF
| Columbia, Tenn, the only surviving
| member of the Tennessee delegation
to the 1880 convention.
1t is rumored that Corey, president
| of the United States Steel corporation,
had resigned and that A. c. Dinkey,
| president of the Carnegie Steel com.
pany, would succeed him.
Two hundred men, women and chill.
dren, led by ministers with their
Bibles in hand, marched to the court.
house at Mays Landing, N. j., where
| the grand jury was about to be con
vened, and sang and prayed against
Sunday liquor selling.
| The Presbyterian ministers of Pitts.
1 burg have resolved" that CASTOR La
Touches painting, THE Bath" which
was awarded first prize at the annual
international art exhibition of the Car
negie institute. won't do.
William o. Douglass, the confessed
thief of $4,000 in bonds from the
Trust Company of America. in fur
ther confession said he had intended
on the advice of lawyer, to steal