Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-23

Mcneil & Higgins company in Chicago
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
] 100000.
The Masonic Temple in Baltimore
was Quilted by fire, the loss being
about $250,OOO.
The last of the Indiana National
guard left Muncie, the strike trouble
| being ended
| Woman suffragists In London were
arrested and sent to Jail for three
| weeks.
Mrs. Herbert Fl. Sears, member of
a wealthy Boston family and a guest
at the Hotel st. Regis, New York,
committed suicide by jumping from a
thirteenth story window
Daniel G. Slower, millionaire manu-
| facturer of stoves, windmills and
farm machinery, died at Freeport,
| Ill.
Archduke Ferdinand, ~, grand
duke of Tuscany, died at Salzburg,
Austria
Mrs. Jennie G. Sorg, widow of the
late Paul J. Sorg, tobacco millionaire
OF Middleton, o., was elected presi-
dent Of the Merchants National bank
Of Middleton.
Thomas Bates. who ran away from
his home at Springfield Mass, in
1852, has been found by his brother
in the state soldiers home in Ten
| nessee.
Heirs of Gen. Israel Putnam of
revolutionary fame are planning a
meeting at which fight to recover
| $20,000,000 said to be due from his
estate in Europe will be made.
Ambassador Briscom in Rome pre-
| scented King Victor Emmanuel with a
number of the new American gold
coins, $40 and $40 pieces, for the
| kings collection, which numbers co.
| 000
In terrific ten hours engagement
tween a French column under the
command of Gen. d'Amade, and col
umn commanded by Mulai Rachid, one
of the chiefs of Mulai Hafid's forces,
| the French gained splendid victory
In the face of heavy odds, succeeding
in dispensing the enemy and occupy
| ing Settat.
Edward Whitaker, inspector of
police in New Orleans, fired two shots
at j. M. LeveQue, editor of the Morn
ing World, because that paper had
criticised him severely.
After one of the bitterest fights in
it's existence the New York county Re-
publican committee adjourned. without
having indorsed Gov Hughes or any
other candidate for the presidential
nomination.
The Western Bank & Trust company
of Dallas, the largest savings deposit
bank in Texas, was placed in the
sets having been exhausted by long
run.
The British ship fairfield, from
Liverpool to Seattle, is believed to
have gone down with all on board off
the west coast of Vancouver island.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
at Denver, Col, by Orman & Crook,
railroad contractors The total liza
bilities are given as $741,136 and the
total assets as $1,2S2,771.
Mrs. Lydia X. Bradley, one of the
richest women in Illinois, died at
Peoria, H., aged o. She was partic-
ularly known for her philanthropy.
having endowed the Bradley Poly
technic institute.
John G.. Quinn, a millionaire mine
owner, IS years old, was severely
beaten and robbed at his home in
first cut the telephone wires.
H. r. Drew. prominent real es-
tate man and one of the pioneer resi-
dents of Minneapolis, Mimi, died.
E. III. Hartman was directed in
decision given by Judge Hough in the
United States circuit court to answer
all questions propounded to him by
the interstate commerce commission
except those relating to the purchase
of the Union Pacific and Southern
Pacific railroad stock in connection
with the dividend of August. 1906.
The Lake Carriers association, in
convention at Detroit, Mich, placed
itself on record as opposing the d.
version into the Chicago sanitary
canal of water enough to make it a
commercial waterway.
Fire in East st. Louis destroyed an
elevator. grain storehouse and some
freight cars, the loss being $150.000.
Mrs. Eliza Matsen of Duluth, Mimi.
confessed that she murdered her hus-
band.
Ezekiel Gregory, an aged farmer
was slain by his son in a quarrel near
Davidson. N. C.
Over 165 persons were killed and
many injured at Boyertown, Fa..
when the opera house burned. The
explosion of a moving picture tank
started wild panic; oil lamps were up
set and blew up and the floor collapsed.
The victims were mostly women and
children and belonged to the leading
families of the town.
John z. Betz, one Of the best known
brewers in the country, and one of
Philadelphia's wealthiest citizens, died
after long illness.
Prince Edward F. L. Zu Innhausen
Und Kuyphausen. president of the
Prussian house of lords, died in Ber-
lin. He was born in 1927
The trial of Rocco Quinto was
brought to sudden end at Long
Island City, l.. l.. by order of the
Judge because juror fell in fit after
the verdict had been agreed on but
which had not been returned into
court
Senators Foraker and Dick OBJ
tanned in the senate the rejection OF
four Ohio postmastership nominations.
alleging they were given as political