Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-12

Nicolo de Fallco, q well-to-do mer.
chant of Philadelphia, fatally wounded
a 14-year-oid girl while in a Jealous
rage, shot her mother and committed
| suicide.
vesta Field and Jessie Bryan,
Chorus girls in the Merry Widow"
company at Chicago, were arrested for
shoplifting and confessed their guilt
Peter F. Roller. said to be secret
service agent, obtained confession
from John Worthington, fellow pris-
| oner in San Francisco, that he was
one Of the robbers that held up Great
| Northern train in Montana and took
between $4,000 and 100000 in coin.
The other two robbers have been cap
/ tured
Road graders near Helena, Mont,
unearthed the bones of a large mas
| todon.
| Secretary of War Taft and his party
left st. Petersburg for Berlin.
Minister Hayashi told committee
from emigration agencies in Toxic
that the government intended to limit
closely all emigration to the United
| States and Canada.
The report of the treasury depart.
| ment to congress by Secretary Cor
telyou, showed that total receipts of
the government from all sources were
| $S46,725,339. against expenditures of
$7C2,4SS,753, leaving surplus of $685.
| 236,5S6.
Crazed by cocaine, Wash Mussay, a
negro, ran amuck in Augusta, Ark,
shooting seven white people, two Of
whom were women. The negro was
finally corralled in the courthouse yard
and shot to death.
Before the superior court Of Mon
AGO, We're st. Legged Goold and his
wife, Marie, were convicted Of the
murder Of Emma Levin at Monte Car
10 last summer. The court found that
Mrs. Goold was the chief instigator of
the crime and sentenced her to death
by the guillotine, and that Goold was
less responsible because under the in.
f1uence of liquor at the time the MUIR
der was committed, and sentenced him
to Imprisonment for life.
Henry Osborne Havemeyer, presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
company, died at his country home.
Merrivale Stock Farm, at Commack,
l.. l., of heart failure, following an at
tack of acute indigestion.
BY means Of writ of habeas cor
pus, Antonio Thompson and his wife,
of Los Angeles, CAL, secured posses
sion Of their 16-year-old daughter
Marie from band of gypsies en-
st. Louis.
Gen. Luis Saenz Pena, ex-president
of the Argentine Republic, died at
Buenos Ayres. Gen. Pena was born
in 1880. He was elected president Oc-
tober IL, 1892.
Secretary Taft was received In audi |
ence by Emperor Nicholas at Tsars-
koe-Selo. The emperor requested Mr..
Taft to convey his greetings to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
r. V. Moorehouse, of Maryville, /
Mo-, telephoned for doctor and then |
committed suicide by shooting. His
father, former Gov Moorehouse killed |
himself in 1891.
Theodore P. Shonts, president Of the |
Toledo, st. Louis G Western Railroad
company, was elected president of the
Chicago & Alton.
State Senator ]. G. Robinson, of |
Minnesota, was fined 500 on the
charge of malfeasance in office when /
he was mayor of st. Cloud, Mimi, be- /
cause he did not enforce the Sunday
closing law.
The boom of Senator Philander C.
Knox, of Pennsylvania for the presi-
dency, was formally launched at a
banquet in Washington, when the
Pennsylvania Republican congress
sional delegation placed itself square
ly on record in favor of the Pennsyl-
vania senator as president Roose-
velt's successor.
Federal Judge Waddill decided to
place the jamestown Exposition CON-
pany in the hands of receiver.
King Oscar of Sweden is dangerous
ly i'll again and Crown Prince Gustave
has been made regent.
The international sanitary con-
gress in Mexico City decided that ma
laria should be known as mosquito
fever"
Prof. jeffrey o. Hrbeck, professor
Of Germanic and Slavonic languages |
at the University Of Nebraska, died |
of peritonitis.
The Hotel Mems Association of New
York state decided at an annual ses-
sion to begin campaign against pro-
hibition. Members declared the |
"drys" were making too much head |
way.
Judge E. w. Harvey, of Butte,
Mont, who was badly involved in the
Northumberland litigation, died |
of cerebral hemorrhage.
The war department has laid In the |
winter supply of coal for the various
army posts throughout the country at !,
prices about rs per cent. higher than
last year.
Edward w. Fowler has been ap-
pointed collector of the port of New |
York, vice Nevada N. Stranahan, re-
signed.
Five persons were killed and many |
injured in rear-end collision be- |
tween local passenger trains on the |
Baltimore & Ohio at Hanover, Md.
An attempt was made to kill Gov |
ernor General Guerschelmann, of Mos |
COW, woman throwing a bomb at |
him.
Mrs. John B. Griffith of Detroit shot
and dangerously wounded her physi- |
clan, DR.. ]. A. Attri ige, and herself. |
Mrs. Griffith and her husband were
separated because of DR.. Attridge's at
tentions to the woman.
Circuit Judge Arthur L. Frazer died |
at Portland, Ore, as the result of an |