Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


The leading New York banks were
exerting themselves actively to meet
the demands of their country CORE
spondents and depositors for currency.
They declared that the suggestions
made from several western sources
that they were not meeting legitimate
demands for currency from the west
were entirely unfounded and that
they were, on the contrary, taking
every practicable measure to aid the
west and south.
Albert Krippendoffer, missing son
of a Cincinnati millionaire, has been
found at the ST. Francis hotel in San
Francisco.
The series of crimes in Berlin re-
sembling the Jack the Ripper" MUIR
ders in London in 1SSS!1SS9, only that
the victims were little girls instead OF
women, has been cleared up through
the confession of an epileptic printers
apprentice named Paul Minow.
A terrific earthquake occurred at
Unalaska and Mccullough peak, which
was created by an earthquake nearly
a year ago, and extended over 3,400
feet above the sea, has dwindled to al
most nothing as a result of submarine
disturbances. .....
Fire on the docks of Superior, Wis,
destroyed a number of big elevators,
mills and other buildings, the total
loss being estimated at 100000.
Crazed by the death of her mother,
Miss Helen Schwab, % years old,
drank half pint of poison, and then
\ cast herself from the roof of the sew.
en-story apartment house in New
York. She was almost instantly
killed.
The warehouse of the Northern
Cooperage company at st. Paul, Mimi.
was destroyed by fire. Two men are
missing
Chief Wilkie, of the secret service
reports the discovery of new coun
terfeit ten-dollar national bank note
The counterfeit is on the Wells Fargo
| Nevada National bank, of San Fran
cisco.
Charles Frary and his wife, an aged
couple of Saybrook, o., were killed by
Lake Shore passenger train neal
Ashtabula, o.
The building occupied by the whole
sale grocery firm of Ruffner Bros. IL
Charleston, w. Va, was destroyed b!
fire, entailing loss of 100000. Capt
J. ]. Foley, of the fire department, ant
John Dewey, shipping clerk, were
burned to death.
Rear Admiral Henry w. Lyon re
tired from the navy on account o
having reached the age limit of serv
ice.
David ]. Hill, American minister t
the Netherlands, will succeed MI
Tower as ambassador to Berlin.
Edward H. Hall, a cashier, died a
New York of myxoedema, rare dis
ease caused by handling pape
money.
The commercial telegraphers' union
in Chicago, New York and other cite
called off the strike.
An insane woman, nursing fancic'
grievance. deliberately fired the Kan
county almshousa at Batavia, H.. an
40 demented patients narrowly es
capped horrible death.
By the explosion of a dinky engin
boiler at the La Belle Iron works a
Steubenville. o.. five men were killed
Gray Gables, formerly the summe
home of Grover Cleveland at Buz
yards Bay. has been sold. according t,
reports at Fall River, Mass. to Georg
Flynn, a brewer
| The boilers of the German schoo
ship Butcher exploded and 1t was re
ported that eight men were killed an,
many injured.
/ Raymond Hitchcock, the indicte,
comedian, who had been missing, ar
peared in court in New York, pleade,
not guilty and was released on bail
Daniel F. Mcmahon, former LEAD
er Of Tammany Hall, died In Atlanti
City.
The apple crop Of the United State
In 1907. as estimated by the America.
Agricultursst. is 100000 barrels
which Is much less than the yield O
last year.
b. s. Steadwell, of La Crosse. Wis
was elected president of the Nationa
Purity Federation at Battle Greek
Mich
The new liner Chicago, belonging d
the Compagnie, Generate Transatlan
tique. was successfully launched at st
! Eazarie. France.