Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12

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Edward Glasgo, physician, is dead
and his wife Is wounded as a result OF
mysterious shooting at Brazil, Ind
The wife says her husband shot her
and killed himself, but she IL in Gus
tody.
Count Kamarowski was shot sew
eral times at Venice ty young man
who gained entrance to his room. The
assailant escaped. The count is ex
pected to recover.
Frank A. Perret an American who
Is assistant in the observatory or
Vesuvius, says the clouds of dust re
Gently seen from the volcano were not
due to an eruption. but to the
crumbling of the crater
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane began investigating the traffic
conditions in the northwest and
found farmers could do much to pre-
vent the threatened fuel shortage by
stocking up with coal now.
White mill hands of Bellingham
Wash, attacked the Hindus employed
there, injuring several and driving
hundreds out of the city.
The failure of Watson & Co., mem
bers of the New York Stock and Pro
duce exchanges, and of the Chicago
Board of Trade, was announced in
those exchanges. No cause was as
signed for the failure nor was. any es
innate of the liabilities and assets
made public.
The Mckinley monument in Buff
falo-a white marble obelisk-was un
yelled in the presence of men and
women of national prominence and an
immense concourse Of citizens, Gov
Hughes, Mayor Adam and others max
ing speeches.
Creditors of the Mcneil Pressed
Brick company, of Jerseyville, Ill.,
with plant valued at about $4,000
filed petition in the United States
circuit court alleging that the cor
poration is insolvent and asking that
it be adjudged bankrupt.
BY direction of President Roosevelt
the public health and marine hospital
service assumed charge of the meas.
ures to stamp out the plague in San
Francisco.
Ten persons are known to have lost
their lives in the burning of the Webb
hotel at Shelton, 20 miles from Ia.
coma, Wash.
Acting Secretary Newberry ordered
the tug Lebanon to tow the convert
ed yacht Huntress from League Island,
Pa, to Pensacola, Fla. There the
Huntress will be formally turned over
to the naval militia of Missouri, a
crew from which will take the YES
sci to st. Louis.
Bodies of a young man and a girl
clasped in each others arms were
found in the Mississippi river at Mus
catine, la. There was nothing on the
bodies to establish their identity.
Fifty persons are said to have been
buried alive by a vast avalanche of
snow that obliterated the CHILEAN Gus
.om house at Juncal.
Following the wreck that resulted
in the loss of II lives, the Nation
City Railway company and the Cen
trail Illinois Traction company went
into the hands of receiver.
Contracts aggregating 100000
have recently been awarded American
firms for rolling stock to used by
foreign railroads. The American Lo-
connective works, the Baldwin Locomo-
tive works and the st. Louis Car COM
pany will supply nearly 100 locomo-
tives and 800 cars, including number
of motor cars, to Japan, China, South
America, Mexico and the West In
.ies.
Ferdinand Penney Earle was at
tackled by a crowd at his home in
Monroe, N. Y, his buggy overturned
and a whip welded on his person
after he had sent his wife away to
Europe on steamer, so that he could
marry another woman
John Roach, leader of the conserva-
tive element in the miners union,
was elected president of local 220 at
Goldfield, New, by about 800 majority
over C. H. McKinnon.
The directors of the Aero club of
America learn that the International
Aeronautic federation, the arbiter of
international ballooning, has barred
the Spanish Aero club from partici-
patton in the forthcoming cup race at
st. Louis in October for failing to for
ward the required fees.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the presi-
dent, abandoned his ride with the
Thirteenth cavalry from Fort Leaven-
worth to Fort Sheridan because of the
annoying attentions of women.
Senator La Toilette has decided to
announce his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination for the presi-
dency and will address statement to
the voters.
The factory of the Wemple Grave
iy Tobacco company at Danville, Va,
was destroyed by fire. Loss about $751;
600.
William H. Abercrombie. formerly
United States consul at Nagasaki,
Japan, committed suicide by asphyxi-
alton in Washington.
The navy department virtually has
decided to name the 20,000-ton battle
ship, No. 30, sister ship of the Della
ware, the New York.
John M. Urban" aged 46, wealthy
resident of the town of Union, Ver-
non county, Wis, committed suicide
by shooting.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas was slightly
injured in wreck on the Santa Fe
at Wakarusa, Kan.
Guests of the Palmer house in Chi
cago, more than 600 in number, be-
came panic stricken and left their
rooms in spectacular flight at night,
when fire started in the basement of
one of the shnns in the building