Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-02

Engineer John Phillips, OF Delmar,
Del, was killed in head-on collision
between south-bound local passenger
train and north-bound freight on the
New York, Philadelphia G Norfolk
railroad at Eden, Md. No passengers
were injured
Fire in den of lions at the Lin
coin park animal house in Chicago
excited the entire menagerie and
threatened delivery Of reptiles,
tigers and leopards.
Commissioner of Patents Frederick
/. Allen has resigned to resume the
practice of law.
Four miners were killed ald nine
injured by an explosion in the Black
Diamond mine % miles from Seattle.
E. G. Russell, executive agent of
the Grand Trunk Pacific in British Co
lumbia, committed suicide at Prince
Rupert.
Eddie Tate, the safe-blower who es-
capped from hospital in Peoria, was
located in Chicago and was said to be
seeking to make terms with the police.
Levi Cook Lincoln, who for IL
years has been secretarytreasurer
and general manager of the Woon-
socket Electric Machine & Power
company, confessed that he had
stolen $4,000 of the company's funds
and poured it into Wall street.
Because a deputy marshal was
killed by negroes in Big Springs, Tex,
all the colored people were ordered to
leave the town.
Fl. Shuckley confessed in San
Francisco that he and other union
men had plotted to abduct and murder
P. H. Mccarthy, president of the
Building Trades council.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed the
Wisconsin Central freight depot, the
loss being 100000.
w. o. Douglass, it was learned, stole
bonds worth more than 100000 from
the Trust Company of America, his
intention being to compel the company
to overlook his smaller thefts If he
should return the securities.
Gilbert l.. Laws, former secretary
of state and representative from the
old Second Nebraska district, died at
Lincoln after an illness of several
weeks. He was SO years old.
President Roosevelt and family and
many congressman, diplomats and
governors of states went to Norfolk
for the formal opening of the James
town exposition.
A negro made a murderous and
seemingly aimless attack on a young
woman of Alton, H.. and was pursued
by posse of citizens.
Economy" socialistic colony in
Washington, was wiped out of exist
ence by a court order for the sale Of
its property to pay it's debts.
The Jail at Chipley. Fla, was des-
troyed by fire and Henry Berry. a
prisoner, was burned to death.
Three thieves stole $1,000 worth of
diamonds from a store in Oakland,
Cal.
Edward Harper, of Leadville, Col,
cashier of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, died of tuberculosis at Pitts
burg, Pa.
John M. Seaton, well known
mining man of Cananea, Sonora Next
co, has mysteriously disappeared, and
1t is believed that he has been MUIR
dered, as when last seen he had a
large sum of money on his person.
Canada has purchased the famous
Pablo herd of buffalo.
Several attempts of train wreckers
to set fire to a bridge on the Southern
railroad near Temple. Ind, were un-
covered by the town marshal of Eng
lish, Ind, who was shot twice by two
men believed to be the guilty parties.
John A. Avery, manager of the
Lyceum theater of Cincinnati, died of
heart disease. Mr.. Avery was born at
Avon, H., SO years oga. He was well
known in theatrical circles throughout
the country.
Theodore P. Shonts has decided to
give a number of service scholarships
to Drake university, which was found
ed by his father-in-law, former gov
ernor of Iowa.
Gen. Henry r. Guss, who command
ed the Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania
regiment in the civil war and who was
commissioned major general in 1867.
died at Westminster, Pa. He was u
years of age.
Over 100 cottages at Pleasant Lake,
in Massachusetts,, were destroyed by
a fire which swept through the resort.
The cottages are owned by the Spir-
itualists Camp Meeting association.
The government of the Philippines
has replaced American stamps with
a distinct series on which the denom-
nations are expressed in pesos and
centavos.
Frank III. Butler, charged with the
murder of the Marvin child, was dis
charged from custody for the want of
sufficient evidence.
Robert Bradley, well-known horse
man, died at his home, the Greenway
stock farm, In Virginia.
By whipping out his penknife and
cutting patients windpipe DR.. Julius
London saved the life of man who
was choking to death In the Lincoln
hospital in New York.
Dennis Kearney, who in 1870 head.
ed the sand lot" agitation against the
! Chinese in California, died at Bradley
Cal.
The fishing letter Searchlight OF
Harbor Beach, Mich, was believed to
have sunk in Lake Huron with heI
crew of six men.
Mrs. Charles F. Crisp. widow o.
| Speaker Crisp of the national house
of representatives, died at her home
in Americas, Ca, aged SO.
James Bartlett Hammond, inventor
of the typewriter bearing his name
and president of the Hammond Type