Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-01


leat Henry Baumeyer, of Evansville,
nd, mechanic 40 years old, made an
ittempt to kill his wife and two chill
iren and then shot and killed himself.
A naval parade by United States
war vessels on the great lakes will be
feature of the ceremonies attending
The unwilling of the Victory monument
At Put-in-Bay, o., August S, in memory
Of Perry's victory.
William j. Bryan rescued Mrs. f.
3. Stillman In an auto accident at
Storm Lake, la.
Cleveland voters rejected Mayor ].
Tom Johnson's plan to Issue $750,000
bonds for the rebuilding Of Central
eiaduct.
A bolt of lightning started fire in
he Augusta cotton factory at Augusta,
Ia, but another bet turned on the
automatic sprinkling apparatus and
luenched it.
John ID. O'Shea of Boston, grand
trustee of the Elks, left in his will
egacy to Miss Hattie NJ Evans, who
was his sweetheart rs years ago.
Two workmen In the powder mills
five miles north of Birmingham, Ala,
were blown to atoms in an explosion.
Jose Antonio Ostes, Mexican stu
1ent at Cornell university, has invent
ed bicycle that runs on water.
Mrs. Lillian Cora Rand, widow of
Burlington Qa) business man, will
contest the will of her father, the late
Hiram Higgins, who left $1,000.0 900.
She also will sue her mother and bro
Their, William r. Higgins, for defama-
ton of character.
Newton A. Berry wealthy farmer
who lived near Covington, Ca, was
gored to death by a mad bull from a
neighboring farm.
Frank Cousins of Salem, Mass, a
clerk in the finance department of
he Boston post office, was arrested
oy post Office inspectors charged with
smbezzlement of $4,725.
Helena, Ida and Ida Conley, sis
.ers, and Wyandotte Indians, began
In armed guard over. the graves of
heir ancestors in Huron cemetery in
Kansas City, Kan, recently ordered
sold by the government. and threat
IN to shoot the first person who may
attempt to remove the bodies.
Jewish women attacked kosher
butcher shops in Philadelphia's ghetto
because the price of meat was raised,
ind in the resulting riots many per-
sons were dubbed and arrested.
Third Officer Hawse of the wrecked
steamer Columbia. whose sworn re-
bort of the disaster, filed with the fed
eral inspectors. charged Capt. Hansen
IF the San Pedro with refusing to aid
n the rescue of the stricken pas
sengers. is now charged by survivors
who occupied the same boat with him
with conduct more cruel than that
specified by him in his formal report.
Margaret Magill at Clinton, ILL.,, said
her mother committed suicide, and
exonerated her father and stepmother
from all blame.
Jacob Steiner, one of the. prominent
pioneers of the head of the lakes re.
gion, is dead at his home in Superior,
Wis, aged g..
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota visited
the strike centers in the Mesaba coun-
try and decided that state troops were
not yet needed
Henry A. Hutchings, of Illinois, was
appointed a special agent of the In
dian bureau to aid in the suppression
Of the liquor traffic among the Indians.
Despondent because he was hope
lessly afflicted with locomotor ataxia,
Henry c. Jones, of Nashville, Tenn,
formerly auditor of the Nashville,
Chattanooga & ST. Louis railroad,
committed suicide in st. Louis by
shooting.
Angered because her husband re-
fused to praise her for saving money
on purchases for their store and for
recent heavy sales, Mrs. Anna Lowe,
Of Little Rock, Ark. poured gallon
Of coal oil on her head and burned
herself to death
At Otter Lake, Mich, three persons
lost their lives when lightning struck
he hardware store of w. S. Heming-
way, exploding quantity of dynamite.
An attempt to blow up the residence
of Mont Tennes, of Chicago, the pro-
fessional operator of gambling houses,
was made with bomb which did lit.
tie damage.
Ten thousand residents of the st.
Elizabeth district, Jamaica, are suffer
ing from the lack of sufficient food and
the government officials are under
censure
Chester B, Runyan, the paying teller
of the Windsor Trust company, who
defaulted. in the amount of 100000,
pleaded guilty at New York to the
indictment charging him with grand
larceny and was remanded for SEN
tence.
The Missouri board of railroad and
warehouse commissioners announced
that its recent order, limiting the
speed of trains ON the Missouri Pacific
line to 80 miles an hour, would be
cancelled.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
railroad has officially opened its
Mitchell-Black Hills line, distance of
100 miles.
Los Angeles, Cal, will attempt to
collect taxes from the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies on
the ground of their occupancy of the
streets. On this ground the former
has been assessed 100000 and the
latter $4,000.
FOL Will uavc of 7 oricyii,a a notod
song writer and newspaper man, died
as result of paralytic stroke sus-
tanned in the Iroquois theater fire in
Chicago.
Attorney General Jackson of Kan.
sas filed criminal proceedings against
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