Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-04-18

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the coal department of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company, died sudden
ly of ptomaine poisoning at Trinidad
Col.
President Roosevelt issued an order
which assures to all civilian EN-
| ployes of the war department Satur
day half-holidays in the months OF
July, August and September.
l.. ]. Stevenson, general manager
of the Commercial Credit company OF
Grand Rapids, Mich, was crushed tc
Death in an elevator.
Major Edmond Mallet, for 40 years
employed in the government service,
during the last IL Of which he occu-
pied the position of chief Of the land
division of the general land Office,
died at Washington, aged 65 years.
Fifteen persons were killed in a
wreck on the Canadian Pacific nea,
Chapleau, Ont. The train was de,
rallied, five cars rolled down an EN-
bankment and caught fire and many
of the victims were burned to death.
The first days exercises at the re.
dedication of the enlarged Carnegie
Institute of Pittsburg closed with the
announcement of prize winners in the
international art exhibition. They
were CASTOR La Touche, France;
Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, and
Olga de Bauznauska, France. Notable
foreigners and Americans delivered
addresses during the day
Congressman G. X. Favrot of Louisi
ana, who killed DR.. r. H. Aldrich, was
set free, the grand jury refusing to
indict him.
The Catholic Hierarchy Of America
appointed a committee to secure a
more accurate census of the Catholics
in this country.
According to letter received from
Puerto Cortez, the president of Saliva
dor was sending 10000 men against
Nicaragua to renew the combat
A mail package apparently contain
Ing dynamite exploded while 1t was
| being stamped in the St. Louis pos
office, manning the stamping clerk
After poisoning her two-year-olt
baby, Mrs. Clarissa Gold, of Memphis
Tenn, aged % years, attempted sui
eide by swallowing a portion of the
same drug.
Mrs. A. d. Blomeyer of Cape Girar.
| deau, Mo, was found dead and hei
husband unconscious.
Erig. Gen. Walter D. Duggan was
| retired on account of age and Col.
Charles B. Hall promoted to be briga
| der general
E. B. Montgomery, his ten-year-old
son and Rolly Hall, all mine workers.
were fatally injured by an explosion
of powder at Beattyville, KY.
The death is announced of Prince
Golytsin, former viceroy of the eau.
casus. He was associated with Gen
Alikhanoff in the ruthless measures
employed last year IN putting down
agitation in the Kutais district.
Students at the University of Mich
igan organized club to boom Secre.
tary Taft for the presidency.
Emile Benoist. well-known banker
OF Paris, was shot and killed In the
office OF financial newspaper of
which he was the editor by a discon.
| tented customer.
| Two hundred persons were drown.
| ed in floods in Turkey.
James Fl. Brayton, a Chicago school
principal, committed suicide by shoot
ing, because of i'll health.
Ten men were saved from the
wrecked and sinking British barker.
tine Trinidad near the Bahamas.
| Joseph Ullman, a well-known book
maker, went insane at San Francisco
The corporation of Glasgow, SEQ
land, has accepted an invitation OF
the American consul here to send a
deputation to Chicago for the purpose
of inspecting the sanitary conditions
of the packing houses and stockyards
Suit has ,been filed at Jackson
Breathitt county, KY, by the heirs o.
DR.. D. E. Cox, demanding $4,000
damages from Judge Eames Hargis
Ed Callahan, Asbury Spicer. John
Smith and John Abner, for alleged
responsibility for the assassination OF
DR.. Cox.
The president of Salvador renewed
the Central American war, sending
10000 men against the Nicaraguans
Lord Cromer. the plenipotentiary
of Great Britain in Egypt, resigned
and Sir Eldon Gorst succeeded him
A man who said he was sentenced
TO death in Georgia for murder anG
escaped, surrendered himself in Dow
ney, Cal, saying he was tired of be
ing fugitive.
Triplets were born to Mrs. Anton
Machal of South Omaha, who already
had IA children.
Fred w. Troy, who killed his wife
and MORALLY wounded Ralph Guin II
Joplin, Mo-, pleaded guilty and wa.
Nsentenced to SO years in the peniten
tiary
Senator Foraker in a speech at Can
ton, O., declared his independence o
dictation, defended his public course
and denied any part in or knowledge
of the alleged rich mems conspirac!
to thwart President Roosevelt.
President L. w. Hill announced
that the Great Northern would builC
plant for the manufacture Of cars il
Superior. Wis.
Broken-hearted. as he said, owe
losses following the recent slump II
Wall street, Samuel 3. Van Siclen,
New York curb broker. shot ant
llled himself.
Both branches of the Texas legisla
ture passed law absolutely prohibit
ng the operation of bucket-shops, cot
on exchanges or any dealings in fu
lures in Texas.
The Minnesota house of represer
atives with rising vote, which tn
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