Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-09
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explosion of a gunpowder magazine.
Twenty-one bodies have been recov-
cred from thesruins. 1t is feared that
at least 100 more are dead. Hundreds
of persons were injured. Fifteen
buildings were RACED to the ground
and over a hundred were seriously
wrecked A section 200 feet long
from the massive city wall was thrown
down.
Guatemala has apologized to the
Mexican government for insinuating
that the Mexican legation at Gnate-
mala City was harbo ISM who
are suspected of att as to assas.
sinate President CABRERA, of Guate-
mala.
One of the great walls of the Chu-
viscar dam, near Chihuahua, Mex,
gave way and about 20 workmen were
killed and Is injured.
Nicaraguan soldiers in Puerto Cor
tez Honduras, nearly beat to death a
NJ Jro from Louisiana, and the police
refused to arrest them. Commander
Fullam, of the Marietta, had the chief
Of police and others concerned arrest
ed and put in irons and announced
that the guilty men must be punished
The International kindergarten
union, in session at New York, decid-
ed to make a crusade against the
comic supplements of Sunday Jews
papers.
Monroe Salisbury, well known
horse owner and breeder of San Fran
cisco, died in New York, where he had
gone for treatment for cancer.
"Scully de Robber," notorious
thief, was captured by the Chicago
police, after lively revolver battle,
and locked up. During the night he
was seized with a paroxysm of cough
Ing and spat out $500 diamond he
had concealed in his mouth.
Sir Alexander Swettenham retired
from the post of governor of Jamaica
and went to his residence in the hills,
where he will stay until he leaves the
island.
A supposed desperate who was
killed at Willows, Cal, after running
fight with posse of officers, has been
identified as Count Otto Won Valid
stein, of Austria.
The Arkansas house passed the SEN
ate bill prohibiting the sale, manufac-
ture or giving away of cigarettes or
cigarette papers.
p Smiley, until recently editor of
the Warren CO., Tribune and for years
prominent figure in northeastern
Ohio politics, died suddenly of acute
indigestion.
Serious anti-European riots have oc.
Cured at Rawalpindi, in the Punjab.
A Hindu mob burned two bungalows.
pillaged the mission church, looted the
post office, burned a garage and all
the motor cars in it, destroyed the
plant of a power house and smashed
the windows in the houses of many
Europeans.
Ruth Nash, 16, of Flint, Mich, an
her two little nephews were killed ry
a Grand Trunk passenger train.
Peter Maytubby, for two terms gov
ernor of the Chickasaw tribe of In
dams, is dead at his home in Caddo,
I. T., aged GO years.
Practically all of the operators of
the Pacific States Telegraph G. Tele-
phone company struck for increased
wages.
John l.. Routt, thrice governor of
Colorado, was declared too insane to
manage his estate and his daughter
was appointed conservative.
Gov. Deneen appealed to the people
Of Illinois for help for the starving
peasants of Russia.
The Overland limited on the Santa
Fe was derailed at Tampas, Cal, but
none of the passengers was hurt.
The Dominican congress ratified the
new treaty with the United States.
King Carlos of Portugal has accept
ed an invitation to visit Brazil.
Mrs. L. j. Appleby, of Chicago, 49,
year-old bride, was killed by an ex-
plosion of gas in her residence.
The British tank steamer Silverlip
was destroyed by explosions of ben
zine in her cargo, five of her crew
being killed.
Mrs. Annie Wheeler, one of the
most notable philanthropists in Can
ada, died in Montreal, aged 76.
George II. Phelps filed suit at
Findlay, O., against the Standard Oil
company. its subsidiary companies
and directors of the companies asking
that they be enjoined from doing bust.
ness in the state of Ohio, and claiming
they are operating against the provi-
sions of the Valentine antitrust law.
Capt. Charles d. Chandler, U. S.
signal corps. and j. C. Mccoy
assembled from st. Louis in a balloon
TO make tests and attempt to win the
long distance record.
Rev. j. ID. Simmons, of Parkersburg,
w Va, editor of the Baptist Banner,
died of apoplexy.
George II. Cottrell, one OF the pi-
oneer captains on the great lakes. died
at Marine City. Mich. aged 80 years,
after an illness of one week.
The government transport Buford
sailed from San Francisco with 1000.
900 pounds of -four for the starving
Chinese.
John Hamlin. of Grand Island
Neb.. has been found guilty of the
murder OF Rachel Engle, aged Is. and
his punishment fixed at hanging.
William +. Corey was reelected
president of the United States Steel
corporation at the annual meeting OF
the board OF directors.