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


: Jail at Charles City, Ia, and hange,
: by mob that included four minister
} and several women.
: Judge Carnes, who was to try feu,
case in Jackson, KY, asked the gov
ernor for a guard as the town wa
} full of armed men. The court of ap
peals ordered the trial stopred.
Lieut.. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff, advo
cate general of the Russian army, wa.
killed by an assassin at st. Peters
burg.
Twenty-seven men were envelopeG
in molten metal and killed and seven
others fatally hurt by the explosion
OF a steel furnace in Pittsburg, Pa.
David Overmyer, probably the mos,
prominent Democratic politician in
Kansas, died at his home in Topeka
aged 60 years.
| Two masked bandits held up an In
terurban electric car near Brooklyn
H., and after firing several shots
robbed the conductor of $40 and made
their escape.
Exposures of the methods of the
transcontinental railroads of America
in distributing the nations traffic were
made in Chicago when ]. c. Stubs,
traffic director of the great Hartman
railway properties, become a witness
before the interstate commerce com.
mission.
Pinning to his clothes a note saying
that life is rarebit dream" Albert
A. Chittenden, an artist. committed
suicide by inhaling gas in his apart
ments in New York.
Mrs. Maria Novack, aged 70 years,
wife of Thomas Novack. living near
Holding, Mimi, was found dead in the
woods about two miles from her home.
| Young Corbett was whipped in a six
round bout at Philadelphia by Tommy
Murphy.
A charter was granted at Atlanta,
Ca, TO the Savannah, Augusta &c
Northern Railroad company to con.
| struct line from Savannah to Ross.
Vile, Ga.
Archbishop George Montgomery is
dangerously Ill at the Adler sanitari-
| UNI in San Francisco.
The Japanese budget for the next
fiscal year, which the government
expects to present soon, provides an
expenditure of 100000 yen (about
s3O5 900 ,OOO).
Plans for new 2O-story hotel to
occupy the entire block in Broadway
from Thirty-second to Thirty-third
street, New York, are being prepared.
John II. Graham, founder of the Ora
ham & Morton Transportation COM
pany, which runs one of the largest
lines Of boats plying between Chicago
and the east shore of Lake Michigan,
died at st. Joseph, Mich.
Miss Beatrice Kobbe, niece of Maj.
Gen. w. A. Kobbe, U. s. A., and Ray
mond D. Little, the well-known tennis
player. were married in All Angels
Protestant Episcopal church, New
York.
Gov. Folk. Of Missouri, granted a
respite until January II to William
Spaugh, under sentence to be executed
for the murder of Sheriff Polk.
High water has caused thousands
of dollars worth of damage around
Duquoin, III. Railroad tracks are in
undated for miles and homes COM
plete.y submerged.
Eighteen Cinnamon who had been
smuggled across the river were caught
by immigration officers at Ell Paso,
Tex, as they were loading their be-
longings into a Santa Fe box car
Citizens Of North Yakima raided a
coal train and carried off 20 carloads
of fuel.
Reckon, one of the greatest race
mares and dams in America, died at
the Dixiana stud, Lexington, KY.
Operator w. M. Dut-ow and seven
trainmen were held by the coroner's
jury for the wreck on the Baltimore
& Ohio at Terra Gotta.
Republican legislators of South Da
kota Endorsed Robert ]. Gamble to sue
coed himself as United States senator.
The Santa Fee railway was indicted
twice by federal grand jury at Los
Angeles, Cal, for giving rebates on
lime shipments.
Muzaffar-Ed-Din. shah of Persia, |
died at Teheran after long illness.
Fire Quilted great portion of the |
large plant of the Michigan Stove |
Works in Detroit. causing loss esti. |
mated at $750,000, while the entire
plant was insured for but $3S0.00O.
One spectator was killed and several
others were injured.
The Republican members Of the
Minnesota legislature In caucus nom.
mated United States Senator Knute
Nelson to succeed himself. This Is
equivalent to election.
The election of Congressman 10
seph M. Dixon to the United States
senate to succeed Senator Clark, was
assured at Helena Mont, caucus OF
the Republican members of the legis
lature giving him 40 votes to % for
former Senator Lee Mantle.
After running wild for miles at 75
miles an hour, the Northwestern fast
mail was saved from destruction by
Engineer Shull, who, scalded nearly
to death. made his way to the ex
press car and pulled the air brakes
rope.
At meeting of the London Aero
club 1t was decided to send chal
lenge for the James Gordon Bennett
leronautic race to take place at st
Louis in October. Three competitors
will be sent.
Harry K. Allen, charged with EN-
bezzling $1,000 as recorder of the Kan
sas City chapter of Shriners, was
bound over to the criminal court
Shriners in the United States.
Attorney General Jackson. on be.
half of the people of the state Of New