Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-12
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Four hundred miners are known to
have been killed by an explosion of
black damp, or methane, in mines Nos.
6 and of the Consolidation Coal COM
pany of Baltimore at Monongah, w.
Va. Five men escaped, more dead
than alive, through air shafts.
Five companies of the Twenty-sec-
ond infantry, stationed at Fort Nc.
Dowell in San Francisco and four COM
panies of the same regiment at Mon
terey, were dispatched to Goldfield,
New, by Brig. Gen. Fred Funston, CON-
handing the department of California,
in compliance with orders received
from the war department.
Carvings restaurant in st. Paul was
partly destroyed by fire and woman
employee was burned to death.
Flames destroyed the big implement
warehouse of David Bradley & Co. at
Council Bluffs, Ia, the loss being $685.
600.
The sentence of the three Ameri-
cans, Richardson, Mason and Hare,
who were to be shot at Chihuahua for
the murder of two other Americans
whose ms, ance they attempted to
collect, was committed to 20 years
Imprisonment.
James Bartlett Hammond, head Of
the Hammond Typewriter company,
was declared sane and given his free
dom.
Tie jury which will try the case of
George A. Pettibone for completely in
the murder of former Gov. Frank
Steunenberg was completed and sworn
in at Boise Idaho.
Mrs. Mary Stet of Altoona, Pa, was
murdered by burglar.
Maj. William L. Geary, U. s. A., died
in the army general hospital at the
Preside, San Francisco He was the
first American child born in San Fran
cisco, his father having been the last
alcalde and the first mayor of that
city.
President Roosevelt entertained at
dinner a number Of bear hunters from
the Louisiana cane brakes.
The secretary of the treasury has &C
cepted bids for the Panama canal
bonds to the amount of $4,000 900.
The average price of all the bids &C
copied is l03
The Southwest Bridge company of
Joplin, Mo, with paid-up capital
stock of $265,0O0, one of the largest
manufacturing enterprises in the dis
trict, went into the hands of a re-
ceiver.
The Fort Pitt National bank, one of
the older financial institutions of Pitts.
burg, Pa, was closed by order of tho
comptroller of the currency.
The State bank, of Admire, Kan,
and the Bank of Stotesbury, at Stotes-
bury, Mo-, closed as a result of the
failure of the National Bank of Com
merce of Kansas City.
d. II. Perry, of Salt Lake City,
prominent capitalist and Democratic
national committeeman from Utah,
died at Los Angeles, Cal.
The Jim Crow" bill passed the
Oklahoma senate and will become eff
fectiye in GO days after being signed
by the governor.
Twenty bandits attacked a monas-
tary near Pskov, Russia. but were re-
pulsed. Six monks were killed.
Anthony F. Hatch, ranchman, plead
ed guilty in the United States court at
Omaha to the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the government of public
lands and was fined $500. R. w. Ma.
haffey indicted with Hatch, pleaded
guilty and was fined $500 and given a
Jail sentence of As days.
Burglars. who reached the place in
an automobile. blew the safe in the
post Office at Garden City, L. l., and Sc
cured $1,000 in cash and stamps.
A fire which is supposed to have
originated from defective electric wir-
ing destroyed part of the army bar
racks at Leavenworth, Kan.
The jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty in the TREY l.. Ford trial in San
Francisco.
The police of Geneva discovered a
Russian terrorist plot to assassinate
the emperor, blow up the imperial pal.
ace and the duma and pillage the I'm
| perial Bank Of Russia
An attempt to kill President Cabrera
of Guatemala with bomb was made
but he escaped serious injury.
George Mooney and A. j. Elliott OF
Atlanta and john Horn and w. F.
Hunt of Savannah were drowned In
Altamaha river at Mount Pleasant,
Ca. by the capsizing of their boat.
During binding snowstorm the
Canadian Pacific Railway company's
steamship Mount Temple, bound from
Antwerp to ST. John, N. b., with 600
passengers. struck La Have iron.
bound leges. 10 miles south of Lunen.
burg. Passengers and crew were
taken OFF safely.