Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-09

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occurred.
The volcano Of Alarcon. province o
Neuquen, Argentina, x in full activity
The Missouri senate has passed thu
bill extending the fellow servant Law
| to apply to mine operators.
A supposed desperate who wal
killed at Willows, Cal, by officers
was identified as Count Otto Vol
Waldstein, of Austria. He died think
ing he was fighting robbers.
Charles ]. Steedman, of New York
son of the late Rear Admiral Steed
man, committed suicide by shooting
in Paris hotel
Mrs. Maggie Muchberger, widow
of Virden, ILL.,, shot and killed Michae
Finnegan because he tried to kiss her
With appropriate civic and military
ceremonies, and In the presence Of
distinguished audience, the heroic
equestrian statue of bronze of Maj
Gen. George B. Mcclellan, erected
under the auspices of the Army of the
Potomac, was unveiled at Washing
ton. President Roosevelt made the
principal speech.
Gen. Kuroki and his staff, represen
tatives of Japan to the jamestown ex
position, were given picturesque
welcome to Seattle by both American
and Japanese residents.
Arcangelo Rossi, the tenor, who
was with the Conried opera company
In San Francisco during the earth
quake and who, as the result of the
fright he experienced, lost his voice
went crazy in Milan, Italy, and cut
out his tongue with a pair of scissors
FRESHMAN employed on all but one
of the English papers In st. Louis
struck for higher wages.
The strained relations between Mex
leo and Guatemala, arising from the
failure of the latter to surrender under
extradition proceedings, for trial in
Mexico, Gen. Lima, charged with
completely in the assassination OF
President Barrillas, are causing the
Washington officials much worry. II
Is believed war can be averted, but
that a revolution against President
Cabrera will be planned and financed
in Mexico.
Secretary of War Taft agreed to
address the National Millers' associa.
ton in st. Louis May 30.
Under direction of the department
Of the interior, a corps of special
agents has begun examining fences
and titles to public land in Wyoming.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw, speaking at Worcester. Mass,
predicted that an awful war for the
control of the Pacific would be fought,
and said the United States was not
prepared for 1t.
Sixteen survivors of the crew of
the wrecked bark Oriente were res
cued by a fishing smack north of
Cape Hatteras after being afloat in a
small leaking boat for IA hours
Four deaths, three in one family,
were recorded on the ships log when
the White Star liner Baltic arrived at
New York from Liverpool.
Maj. Gerald Rathbone. consul at
Paris during the first Cleveland ad-
ministration, died at San Francisco.
C. L. Schroeder, Chicago travel
ing man, was robbed of $500 and
beaten into insensibility by thugs in
San Diego, Cal.
The Hotel Carolina at Durham, N.
c., was destroyed by fire, all the
guests escaping.
Many persons were killed by the ex-
plosion of magazine In Canton,
China.
Rev. Jere II. Cooke, rector of an
Episcopal church at Hampstead, L. L..
who eloped with young heiress, was
deposed from the ministry on his own
request.
Five masked train robbers were
captured on Santa Fe passenger
train at Streator ILL.,, after a pistol bat
tie in which one of them was shot
Baroness Anisia Louise de Massey,
who killed a New York merchant
named Simon, was found guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree.
The steamer Kumeric is on it's way
to Honolulu with 1850 Spaniards who
intend to settle in the Hawaiian
islands.
Gov. Chamberlin, of Oregon, presi-
dent Of the National Irrigation con-
gress, has extended an invitation to
President Roosevelt to be present at
the annual meeting of the association
next September in Sacramento, Cal.
Oxford university (England) con.
ferred the honorary degree of doctor
of science on Prof. Alexander Graham
Bell, regent of the Smithsonian In
stitution, Washington. d. C.
The Whiting (Ind) council has put
the old curfew law into effect to keen
boys and girls under 16 years off the
streets after nine D. m.
The navy department at Washing.
ton has been advised of the death OF
Naval Pay Director James E. Cam
at Portsmouth. N H.
Arthur McEwen, chief editorial
writer of the New York American and
well known throughout the west in
JouA AolioIiS SiiSico, ulcu buuuSuly u
Hamilton, Bermuda, of heart failure
Six secret service operatives are
working in western Washington un
earthing a series of land frauds that
are declared to be more astounding
in their far-reaching character than
the discoveries made in Orc son or Cal
.fornia.
A terrific hurricane swept over q
part of Campeche, causing loss Of
millions of dollars and the death o.
several persons.
Levi C. Lincoln, who Is alleged t.
have confessed that he had embez
zled $4,000 since 1890 from the Woon
socket Electric Machine & Power com
pany. of which he was treasurer. wa
arrested
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