Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-11

the American Ice company In New
York abandoned their wagons.
William w. Johnson, wealthy lum-
herman of Petoskey, Mich, was killed
while racing with dummy train with
his automobile. While trying to turn
his machine at dangerous crossing
he was thrown under the wheels of
| the train.
| A tornado in western Wisconsin
partly wrecked several towns and in
jured number of persons.
An automobile driven by William j.
Fortune, millionaire brewer, ran down
and killed c. A. Cornish in Lincoln
| park, Chicago.
Raisuli, the bandit chief of Moroc-
co, captured Caid Gen. Sir Harry
| MacLean, commander of the sultans
bodyguard, and said he would hold
him until the SULTAN paid 100000
and appointed Raisuli governor of
| Tansier and commander of police.
| One man was killed and 80 injured
when trolley car on an interurban
road near Washington collided with
two cars loaded with steel rails. !.
King Edward has decorated Enrico
Caruso, the Italian tenor, with the
| Victorian order.
A riot occurred at the Jamestown
exposition, following an attempt of
500 members of the South Carolina
| and Kentucky regiments to take
| charge of the War PATH" which at
tempt the Powhattan guards resisted.
Several were injured.
Japanese proprietors of a restaur-
ant and bath house have sued San
Francisco for $2,575 for damages
caused by mob.
Charles Murray who shot and
killed his wife, Nellie Murray, Octo
Der 2, 1906, because she refused to
return home with him, was sentenced
at Peoria, H., to 25 years in the peni
! Tertiary.
The jury in the trial of former AS
! sociate Statistician E. S. Holmes, Jr.,
of the department of agriculture, on
| the charge of conspiring to defraud
the government by giving out the de-
partments crop information, failed to
agree and was discharged
Stockholders of the Minneapolis &
| st. Louis and the Iowa Central roads
| filed suit in the federal court at Des
| Moines, Ia, to enjoin the railroad
companies from putting into effect the
two-cent fare.
The gunboat Don Juan de Austria,
one of Admiral Dewey's trophies of
! the Spanish war, has been assigned to
| the use of the Michigan naval militia
and will be located on Lake Superior
Former Judge John t. Healy of
Elgin, H., was found dead in bath
establishment in Chicago.
The Buena Vista lake levee near
| Bakersfield Cal, broke flooding 3d.
900 acres and doing $1,000,OOO dam.
! age.
President Amador of Panama ar
| rived in New York on his way to Eu.
| rope.
Martha Washington, wife of George
| Washington, colored farm hand liv.
ing near Terre Haute, Ind gave birth
to three boys and two girls. All are
| expected to live.
]. d. Rideout, president of the Mer.
camille Trust company of San Fran.
cisco and prominently identified with
a number of banks throughout central
California, died in San Francisco.
After 81 years of service in the ILL
nois National guard, Gen. James B.
Culver, of Springfield, commanding
the Second brigade, was placed on the
retired list at his request on account
of private business.
kilograms were received at the
state department in Washington from
| Manuel Sarabia, who was arrested at
| Douglas AriZ., on charge preferred
by Mexican officials and was held for
extradition proceedings, protesting
against his arrest as political.
Gov. Deneen, of Illinois, appointed
Gen. G. M. Moulton as major general
commanding the Illinois National
guard, under the reorganization law.
Col. j. E. Stuart, of the Second in.
fantry, succeeds Moulton as brigadier
general of the First brigade.
A man giving the name of G.. U.
Hall and claiming to be from st. Jo
seph, Mo-, but recently practicing
physician at Lennox, Ia, was arrested
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, while in the
very act, it is charged, of making
counterfeit money.
Philip X. Green, instructor of Eng
fish and mathematics, and Prof. David
A. Durward, assistant in the agricul-
tural department at the Mount Her
mon school for boys, were drowned
while canoeing in. the Connecticut
river.
Two carloads of giant powder stand
ing on a side track of the Oregon
Short Line at Beck's Hot Springs, five
miles from Salt Lake City, caught fire
from burning grass and exploded,
Earring heavy buildings and breaking
windows for miles around.
The First National bank of Hicks
vile, o., has been closed by direction
of the comptroller of the currency, up
on the report of an examination show
ing the bank to be insolvent.
The police of Marseilles, France, ar
rested Boghos Farkain, the young
Armenian charged with the murder in
New York last May of Father Kasper
Vartarian, an Armenian priest
New York suburbanites have boy.
cotted the New York Central & Hud.
son river railroad because 1t increased
its rates to commuters.
Gov. Hoch and other Kansas Off.
Gals have appealed to the interstate
commerce commission and the West.
ern Passenger association men to aid
the state in securing one cent mile
rates for harvest hands from eastern
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