Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

kee, the donors being Mr.. and Mrs
Robert A. Johnston, in conjunction
with their son, Rev. Robert Story
Johnston, s. j., of Florissant. Mo-
The touring car Of Joseph Letter, n
which were riding Mr.. Letter. Mrs.
Levi H. Letter and Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin Remington, of New York,
ran down and instantly killed Samuel
West, a 14-year-old negro boy, in
Washington.
Manager Iso Abe, of Waseda univer-
sity, Japan, has accepted the challenge
of Stanford university for an interna-
tional baseball contest to be played In
Toxic some time in May.
Sailors from the United States
cruiser Cleveland caused panic In
public park in Cienfuegos, Cuba,
where concert was going on, by en-
gaging in a fight and firing many
shots. The police arrested several Of
the sailors.
Mrs. Gertrude Rose, wife of Henry
M. Rcse, assistant secretary of the
United States senate, died at the home
OF her sister, Mrs. B. F. McReynolds,
in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., formerly
Miss Martha Hichborn, who secured
a divorce In South Dakota several
days ago, announced that she would
soon be married to Paul s. Pearsall,
OF New York, lieutenant In the regi.
ment OF rouSl riders during the war
with Spain.
Neil Florence, an actor As years old,
was found dead in his room at New
York boarding house. The apartment
was filled with Illuminating gas which
was escaping from two open jets.
Il. l.. Larrimore of Atlanta, Ca, ac-
cidentally shot and killed his niece,
Miss Tymena r. Freeman.
In a head-on-collision at Brookville.
Ind, between two Big Four freight
trains, Fireman Frank Morris of Mum
Gle, Ind, and Bert Day, a farmer of
Cedar Grove, Ind, who was riding on
one OF the engines, were killed, and III.
Beesley, another farmer, was fatally
injured
Earl Northup, aged %, was probably
fatally stabbed during a saloon brawl
by Private Howard of Troop X, Thir.
teenth cavalry, at Fort Sill, Okla.
The Roman Catholic church at OF.
sego, Mich, was burned following a
Christmas celebration.
The Mississippi race war has broken
out afresh at Scooba and troops have
been sent there. Already the deaths
there and at Wahalak number proba.
bly, dozen.
Leading citizens of New York ad-
dressed letter to Secretary of State
Root on the conditions in the Congo
Free State, asking that the moral sup
port of the United States be given to
correct the abuses there.
A sergeant of the Ninth cavalry,
colored, killed corporal In a fight
about q woman at Fort Sheridan, Ill. :.
Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and three
other officers were sentenced to death
for surrendering to the Japanese In
the battle of the Sea of Japan, but the
court martial will ask the car to com.
mute the sentences to ten years i'm.
Governor Magoon signed the decree
appointing commission to revise the
laws of Cuba.
A petition has been presented to the
Belgian parliament asking that every
motor vehicle in the country be
burned in one great bonfire before
1908, and the resultant scrap metal
sold for the benefit of those who have
been manned or crushed by automo-
biles.
The coal house of the Northwestern
railroad at Pierre, S. D., with all rail.
road coal on hand, was totally des-
troyed by fire.
Negroes of Wahalak, Miss, threat
ened the 25 white residents of the
town and state troops were sent from
Meridian to protect them.
The Standard Oil company won a
victory in common pleas court at
t1ndlay, O., when Judge w. S. Dun.
can decided that the probate court
had no Jurisdiction in the suit brought
against it in the probate court, and
threw out the recent verdict of guilty
against the company.
Frank Hair, for IS years in charge
Of the musical department of the
Baker university at Baldwin, Kan,
and composer Of choir music used all
over the country, died suddenly at Ex-
celsior Springs, Mo.
A sail boat with 25 persons on board
was overturned near Montego bay, ia
maica, and 16 of the passengers were
drowned.
Secretary Taft has appointed a
board of officers to meet January Is
at the Springfield armory, Springfield
Mass, for the purpose of ascertaining
design of automatic pistol Or re.
volver best adapted to fulfill the re-
4uirements of the military service.
The state department was officially
advised in dispatch from Guayaquil
Of the election by the national assem-
bly, of Eloy Alfaro to be constitutional
president of Ecuador.
j. f. Woodward G. Co., Omaha coal
dealers, operating mine at Dietz,
Wyo., brought suit for $50, 900 against
the Burlington Railway company for
coal alleged to have been confiscated.
Colonel j. E. Pepper, the distiller
Of Kentucky, died in New York.
Col Obrowcheff, commander of the
Russian infantry, has been
iilled on his estate near Lukow, Po-
and, by an unknown man.
Two women and two children were
burned to death at Morris Neck, Va,
md two women and an infant were
in a fire at Steubenville, o.
Harlan Cleveland, one OF the lead |
ng lawyers of the Cincinnati bar, died |
rom Brlght's disease