Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26


The strike OF nitrate laborers m
Chile is growing and has spread over
the entire province of Tarapaca. Over
80 plants are shut down.
Olive Bartlett, daughter Of J. J.
Bartlett, a retired farmer, was shot
and killed at her home in Olathe, Kan,
by J. Frederick Kastendiek, former
sweetheart, who then killed himself
Howard West. alias Frank Earl, was
electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio
penitentiary at Columbus for the muir
der of William Legg, a butcher of Sid.
ney. o.
An attempt to rob car on the Buff.
falo express in Philadelphia was frus.
trated and William A. Hewett, said to
have been caught beneath the car
which contained 100000 in gold bullion,
paced under arrest.
Capt. ID. L. Keller, alias d. L. Smith,
United States officer of Reno, New,
was crested at Karcloops, B. c.,
charged with having stolen a bank
check from Fort Sheridan, Ill, and
filling IL in for $4,000.
The new Calvary Protestant Episco-
pal church of Pittsburg was dedicated
with impressive ceremonies. 1t cost
$3.50, 900.
A jury at Kalamazoo. Mich, award
ed Jacob Dalm, boy of 16, damages
of 1881, for the loss of both hands in
the Bryant paper mills.
EnrniOnarC of FOL II,
James Dolan at Lebanon, Pa, when
he attempted to arrest coal thieves
and the constable shot into the crowd,
killing two Hungarians.
The coal mines of the United States
are killing three times as many men
per 1000 employees as those of most
European countries. In the last II
years 22,S40 men have. given up their
lives in the mines of this country.
These and other shocking facts are
set forth in report of an investiga-
ton by experts ordered by Secretary
Garfield.
The supreme court of Illinois hand
ed down an opinion declaring the anti
cigarette law passed by the legislature
this year does not apply to cigarettes
which contain pure tobacco, but only
to those cigarettes which contain sub
stances deleterious to health.
The Diamond 10 line of Mississippi
river steamers has been sold to a syn.
dictate of men who will improve the
present fleet of passenger and freight
boats and increase it's carrying ca
pacity very materially.
Henry F. Currier, national bank ex.
aminer, took charge of the jewelers.
National bank at North Attleboro,
Mass, whose vice president and
cashier, Frederick e. Sergeant, was
found dead in bathtub.
Frank Wise Miller, dental student
at the University of Pennsylvania,
whose home was in Kansas City, Mo-,
committed suicide in his room at the
dormitories of the institution by hang.
ing.
A band of Yaqui Indians captured
13 men in the state of Sonora, Mex,
and massacred IL of them.
William F. Walker, absconding
treasurer Of the New Britain (Conn.)
Savings bank, was arrested in the
mountains Of lower California.
Eminent men in New York and other
cities have begun a movement for the
release of Nicholas Tschaikovsky and
Catherine Breshkovsky, the Russian
revolutionists now imprisoned at st.
Petersburg for political reasons.
Col. Gurko, on the witness stand in
the Stoessel court martial, accused the
defender of Port Arthur of showing
the white feather twice under fire.
]. Israel Tarte, former minister OF
public works of Canada, died at Mon.
treal.
William H. Hinrichsen, editor, for.
mer congressman and Familiarity
known among Democratic politicians
throughout Illinois as Buck" Hinrich.
sen, died at his farm home near Alex
andria, ILL.,, of paralysis.
Hanged to tree and then struck on
the head as part of course of hazing
inflicted by crowd of young men.
John Tinnan, 80 years old, theater
doorkeeper, formerly of Wheeling, w.
Va, is thought to be dying at hos.
pital at East Liverpool, o.
o. A. Hilton, of Denver, Col, special
counsel for the American Federation
of Labor, arrived in Goldfeld, New.
empowered by President Meyer, of the
Western Federation, to make terms OF
peace with the mine owners.
Gov. Harris, of Ohio, pardoned VIII.
liam Houck, serving life sentence on
conviction of the murder of Mrs
Sarah Hess, at Bladensburg.
DR.. v. A. Moore, bacteriologist OF
Cornell university, says investigation
shows that of 100000 mich cows in
New York state, 100000 are infected
with tuberculosis.
Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, the
well known novelist, is i'll in Ran
dolph, Mass, while her husband, DIR.
Charles M. Freeman, is in a Boston
hospital, too sick to go to the bedside
of his wife.
Gus Ringing, head of the circus
combination which controls the shows
OF Ringing Bros, Barnum e Bailey
and Fcrepaugh-Sells, died Wednesday
in a New Orleans sanitarium, of q
complication of diseases.
One of the civil war bombs found In
the old custom house at New York ex
ploded and nearly killed M. ]. Howell,
an employe of the bureau of com.
bustibles, while on its way to be
dumped into the sea.
Frederick E. Sergeant, cashier and
vice president of the jewelers. Nation
al bank of North Attleboro. Mass, and
prominently identified with Provi-
dence, r. l., and North Attleboro bust
ness firms, was found dead in the