Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28

Northern Pacific tunnel near LON.
bar, Mont, as the result of the care.
lessness of workman.
Two persons were fatally injured
when Michigan Central train
smashed street car in Detroit
President Roosevelt's son, Theo-
dore. was appointed second assistant
| manager of the Harvard crew.
An incendiary fire at East Grand
| Forks, Mimi, destroyed the city hall,
fire station and electric light plant.
Former Senator J. R. Burton, of
Kansas, was released from the coun-
| ty Jail at Ironton, Mo-, and said he in
tended to publish newspaper, but
would not seek revenge for his pun
| ishment.
Arthur c. Biles, son of Bobert Biles,
of Kansas City, was convicted at st.
Louis Of first degree murder for the
death of Robert Harvey, of Usage
City, Mo.
Secretary Taft announced that
Lieut.. Col. Goethals would succeed
Mr.. Stevens as chairman of the
isthmian canal commission and en-
gineer in charge of the canal work on
April /.
The special committee on polity of
the Congregational, United Brethren
and Methodist Protestant churches
adjourned at the. Union Park Congre-
gational church, Chicago, after formu-
lating an act of union which, 1t is be-
uyiIl ~, 10
solidation of the three denominations
under the name "The United
Churches"
Peter Rock was overcome by the
heat at Belleville. Ill.,, and will die.
Bluejackets and marines were land
ed from the United States gunboat
Marietta at Trujillo and Ceiba and
probably at Puerto Cortez, Honduras.
in order to protect American interests
in those ports.
The revived project of tunneling
the English channel received it's death
blow. at least for long time to come,
by the announcement of the govern
ment's well considered decision
against the enterprise in parliament
Robbers threw Express Messenger
Womack from his car on an Interna-
tional e Northern train near Elkhart,
Tex, and robbed his safe.
Fire completely destroyed building
No. at the Pensacola navy yard, en-
failing a loss estimated at $170, 900.
The machinery and equipment for the
gunboats Gloucester and Isla de
Luzon were destroyed.
The summer home of Henry Siegel
| at Mamaroneck was robbed of seven
valuable paintings, rare bric-a-brac
and silverware, the total value of the
stolen property being over $4,000.
| Judge Niles, of the federal court, is.
| sued temporary injunction restrain,
Ing the Mississippi railroad commits,
sion from enforcing the order estab.
fishing a twocent passenger rate.
Roumanian peasants and soldiers
had bloody conflicts in several towns.
Brig. Gen. Theodore J. Whit, U. S.
A., commanding the department of
Missouri, with headquarters at Oma,
ha, died suddenly at hotel in Phila,
delphia.
Prairie fires in Nebraska and South
Dakota caused several deaths and de,
stroyed numerous farmhouses and
barns.
The strike at the plants Of the Re.
public Iron and Steel company, and
| the Interstate Steel company at East
Chicago, Ind, was settled by the
agreement of the men to accept q ten
per cent. increase.
The man named Buttloss, arrested
in Paris with $4,000 in American Sc
curities in his possession, under sus,
picion that he was an accomplice OF
the thieves who stole mail bag con
taing 100000 on the French line
steamer La Savoie. has made a con
fession duplicating gang of fnterna
tional robbers.
The American bowling congress de
cided to meet next year in Cincinnati
and elected Garry" Hermann OF
that city president.
| Eighteen thousand dollars worth Of
| jewelry was stolen from the home OF
Charles Morgan, son Of the founder
of the Morgan Steamship lines in
Orange. N. J.
Ida May Bordenkircher, Of Coshoc
ton, o., who killed her husband dur
ing a quarrel, was found guilty OF
manslaughter.
Fred Stewart was sentenced to 9s
years in the penitentiary for the muir
der of James Higgins at Berths, Ky
Ernest Adams of st. Paul, MINI.
aged IA years.. was buried by
the caping in of a well and nearly
"a hours later was rescued unhurt.
Three armed cracksmen who at
tempted to blow open the safe in the
post Office at Morris, ILL.,, were cap
tured after pistol battle.
c. c. Mcclure, st. Cloud (Minn.)
capitalist, was drowned in the surf in
front of his home at San Diego, Cal
In fight over a game Of marbles
Fred Wise, aged II, killed Eddie
Kaiser, aged 10, at Crown Point, Ind
Wise struck Kaiser with his fist
breaking his neck.
The first parliament of the Trans
vaal colony convened in Pretoria. A
law to exclude Chinese, Japanese and
other orientals probably viii be
enacted.
Charles G. Tweed, son of William
("Boss'O Tweed, of New York, died
at his home in New Haven Of pneu
monia, aged about "A years.
The mercury registered 102 degrees
in the shade at Guthrie, Okla, break
ing all heat records for the territory
The national Saengerfest at Indian
apolis, Ind, has been postponed until
1908.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
l. A. t..I I'd. q.