Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-02
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MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
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BOUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest interest from All Parts IF
the Globe--Latest Home and For
eign Items.

eign Items.
President Roosevelt, the diplomatic
naval and military representatives of
81 of the nations of the world, and the
governors of score of states partici.
pated in the opening exercises of the
jamestown Tercentennial exposition.
The president reviewed the foreign
and American war ships in Hampton
Roads, made a vigorous address in
the exposition grounds. reviewed a
parade of soldiers and sailors and
pushed the gold button that opened
the fair.
William B. McKeand. president of
McKeand & Co., Chicago note brokers.
has left that city and it was said a
Kansas City company accused him of
sppropriating the proceeds of two
notes for $4,000 each sent him for sale.
Prof. M. Mugan, of st. Louis, and E.
NJ. Dey, having decided an oratorical
contest at Shurtleff college, Upper AL
ten, ILL.,, against the freshmen class,
were seized by freshmen, tied to trees
and left there all night.
Prof. Albert Ritter Won Mosetig-
Moorhof, the famous surgeon and in
PRODUCER of iodoform, while walking
on the banks of the Danube fell in
the water and was drowned.
Reports coming to the Great Moth
ern railway headquarters at ST. Paul
indicate that the farmers of the north
west are suffering from lack of help
during seeding time.
Citizens of Winona, Mimi, presented
to James A. Tawney, chairman of the
appropriations committee of the ma
tional house Of representatives, solid
silver loving cup, lined with gold.
A Portuguese Jew was murdered at
Casablanca, Morocco, by negro in
the pay of Moor. The murderer re-
ceived one franc as the price of his
crime.
Alfred Packer. who in 1883 was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for 40 years
for killing five men with whom he was
lost, and eating one of them, died in
Deer Creek canyon, Colorado.
Sentiment among the humorists of
the country favorable to building a
monument to the late Edgar Wilson
Nye (Bill Nye) has taken definite
form.
George Hively, of Kettle, w. Va,
shot and killed Robert Summers of
the same place. They were respected
farmers and have families. Hively
made his escape.
Lindsay B. Hicks, the miner who for
II days was buried in the Edison
mine at Bakersfield Cal, attempted
suicide at Reno, New, by leaping in
front of switch engine. A bystander
saved his life.
David Wilcox, former president of
the Delaware & Hudson railroad COM
pany, committed suicide on the steam
err Barbarossa, because of i'll health.
John d. Rockefeller gave to the
University of Chicago land valued at
100000.
! S. T. X. Prime. veteran crop re-
porter, died in Chicago as the result
of stroke of paralysis.
DR.. ]. N. Groves, for 40 years prac.
ticing physician in Effingham, ILL.,,
died. He was surgeon of the Fourth
Michigan cavalry during the civil war
and was member of the squad which
captured Jefferson Davis.
Gabriel Potts, a young farmer, shot
and probably fatally wounded his briae
of three months, and then shot him
self, at Selipman, Mo.
Fully $4,000 people attended a bar
beque given by the American Society
of Equity at Lexington, KY, organized
to fight the tobacco trust. Kentucky,
Ohio and Indiana contributed the
crowds.
Charles Ansberry, of Bement, ILL.,,
and j. Thebald, of Hannibal, Mo-, were
crushed to death at Strasburg, ILL.,
While they were moving the Wabash
railway station the jacks gave way
The men were underneath.
Giovanni Morosini, the New York
banker, was dangerously injured In his
home in Riverside-on-t the Hudson.
Having reached the age of Ga years
Brig. Gen. John w. Bubb, recently in
command Of the department of the
Dakotas at st. Paul, Mimi, was placed
on the retired list of the army.
Patrick Gallagher and John Novack
miners in No. 5 drift of the Delaware
C Hudson company at ELEPHANT, Pa.
were crushed to death by falling roofs
The pulp mill of the Lake Superior
corporation located In the Canadian
500, across the river from Sault Ste
Marie. Mich, burned. The loss is
100000.
The drought conditions in Cuba are
growing worse and the Santiago wa
ter supply is cut off.
. Frank II. Butler. deckhand on the
steamer John P. Wilson, was arrest
: ed. charged with the murder of little
Horace Marvin of Dover. Del
The chief of the political prison a
Odessa was killed by four terrorists
enc Of whom committed suicide ant
, another was captured.
The joint assembly of Rhode IslanC
adjourned without breaking the dead
, lock in the contest for United States
senator, after 81 ballots had beer
{ taken.
Pittsburg was alarmed by anothe
virulent outbreak of cerebro-spina
meningitis.
Mrs. Lawson Sheldon, mother o
ieorge l.. Sheldon, of Nebraska, die,
1t her home at Nehawka.
: The carbarns of the Cincinnati
, Georgetown & Portsmouth railroad. Il
Cincinnati. were totally destroyed b.
fire. the loss being $4,000, fully CO,
,red by insurance.
A letter received In London from al
ficial of standing at Picking state