Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20

i1ii, dseu LUZ years.
Roscoe Scofield Burton, of Peoria,
ILL.,, member of the junior law class
in the University of Michigan, was ac-
cidentally drowned while bathing in
Bass Lake, Mich.
Over 100000 saw logs, valued at 81
100000, the largest gorge of timber
ever known in a West Virginia river,
broke loose up the Guyandotte river
and practically swept out everything
in the river that came in its path
A federal grand jury at Springfield,
ILL.,, returned an indictment against
Rev. James r. X. Kaye, formerly pas
tor OF the First Presbyterian church
Of Lincoln. and now editor of the
Home Herald, published at Oak Park,
"a suburb OF Chicago, charging him
with manufacturing counterfeit money.
Thos. G. Coghill, cashier of the First
National bank of Seymour, Wis, has
| confessed that he has lost $4,000 of
the banks funds in the wheat pit dur
ing the last six months and the bank
is in charge of the national bank ex-
aminer
Arthur Appleyard, who got in trou-
BILE Thursday in Philadelphia over
United Gas Improvement stock, arriv-
ed In Buffalo and said he hoped to
| break even.
When his name was called in court
to testify against his father and sister,
charged with the murder of the lat
ters infant child, Emery Mosher, of
Huntington, Ind, committed suicide.
DR.. Franz Joseph, leading Berlin
physician, and Frau Burgothelf, prom
inent in German society, were found
dead in bed. They had shot them
selves in suicide compact
Rufus Williams at San Antonio,
Tex, confessed to robbing Mrs. Sal
lie Gibbons of SCI, 900 after attacking
her.
Mrs. Jose A. Hill, prominent in Den
yer (Col) society, obtained a verdict
of $4,000 against Mrs. Anna Bent,
whom she charges with alternating her
husbands affections.
Jacob Moran, after having killed
man at Kingston, N. Y, was saved
from lynching by the arrival of the
police.
Three masked men raided SAM
| tarium in Winnetka, Chicago sub
urb, terrorized the patients and es-
capped with booty valued at $1,000.
Mayor Eugene Schmitz, of San
Francisco was found guilty of extor-
| ton by a jury and remanded to the
custody of the sheriff until June q
when he will be sentenced.
Charles Shafer, living near Ironton,
| Ohio, shot and killed his wife and
| eight-year-old son and wounded his
mother-in-law. The tragedy was the
result of domestic quarrels.
New Orleans police raided large
number of Italian homes in a vain eff
| fort to find Walter Lamana, the boy
| who was kidnapped by the "Black
| Hand"
BY authority of the secretary of the
| interior there will become subject for
settlement on September 80, and to
entry on October 80, 1907, about 1885,
| 900 acres of land in Alaska.
Cloudbursts did great damage to
CiopS III hSuIuChy duu SOulhSlu luul-
ana.
| The death of James Stewart, an
iron worker, who fell ten stories In a
building being constructed in st.
Louis resulted in the strike of about
1000 iron structural workers to en-
force demands that temporary floor
ing be placed on alternate floors of
buildings in course Of construction.
Don c. Henderson, once private Sec
rotary of Horace Greeley, and for
many years publisher of the defunct
Allegan Journal, has been taken to
the insane asylum at Kalamazoo.
Upon petition of Frank Hagerman,
acting for the Is principal Missouri
railroads, Judge Smith Mcpherson in
the United States district court at
Kansas City, granted temporary or
der restraining Missouri officials from
enforcing the maximum freight rate
law and the two-cent passenger rate
law.
Mrs. Telfair Hodgson, the philan-
thropist, aged GO, dropped dead at
Sewanee, Tenn, while entertaining a
large party of ladies at dinner. She
was the widow of DR.. Telfair Hodg.
son, who was third vice president of
the University of the South from 1875
to 1882, was for years dean of the the
illogical department.
The body of Senator John T. Nor.
funeral and interment.
A man shot himself on board a
Coney Island steamer and then Jump
ed overheard.
The strike of longshoremen at New
York was declared off, the men resum-
ing work at their former wageC
Five persons were killed and mum,
Der of buildings destroyed by an
earthquake at Valvivia, Chile.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in Pitts.
burg and an epidemic is feared.
Henry Wolff, of Easton, Wis. in a
quarrel with his wife killed her with
"a blow of his fist.
The Wisconsin senate by vote of
21 to 6 killed the two-cent fare rail
way bill
w. M. Liggett has resigned as dean
of the Minnesota Agricultural college.
He assigned Ill health as the cause.
United States Senator John Tyler
Morgan of Alabama for 30 years a
member of the upper house of con-
gress. chairman of the senate commit.
tee on the interoceanic canals, and
prominent as a brigadier general in
the confederate army, died at his
home in Washington of angina pee.
toris.
Faustino Ablen. head chief of the
Pulajanes on the Island of Leyte. was
wounded and captured by Lieut., Jones