Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-09

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| the next annual convention of the as
sociation.
Fire in Stamping Ground, KY, de-
stroyed hotel and three residences.
-Four persons were badly hurt and
/ two dwellings wrecked by BLACK
hand bomb at McKeesport, Pa.
An American citizen named Bar
rington has been arrested at San Jose,
Guatemala, as spy and may be put to
death, according to mail advices re-
ceived in San Francisco.
Nine men were killed in a collision
between fast trains near Knobnoster,
Mo.
All the battleships of the Atlantic
squadron assembled in San Francisco
harbor ready to start on their trip
across the Pacific.
Francis G. Bailey, the president Of
the Export Shipping company of New
Jersey, who, together with his brother,
Albert W. Bailey, Charles II. H. My
ers and Capt. Albert Oxley was placed
aboard the Norwegian steamer Ut
stein at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in
custody of Lieut.. p. w. Berry of the
New York police department, made
his escape in small boat.
The Minnesota Republican conven-
ton nominated Jacob b. Jacobson of
Madison for governor and adopted a
platform indorsing the work of the
Chicago convention and pledging the
party in Minnesota to continue the
work of railway regulation.
Count Zeppelin outdistanced all
world records for steerage balloons
He remained in the air for IL hours
and traversed the greater part of
northern Switzerland, attaining an
average speed throughout of "a miles
an hour.
Mrs. Frances Thompson, wife of a
Fargo, n. D., school teacher, was
found strangled to death, gagged and
bound hand and foot with clothes
line, in her apartments in a rooming
house in Chicago.
August Beltzner, aged 65, one of the
most prominent business men of
Joliet, H., was killed while resisting
two holdup men in his grocery store
Wilbur F. Parker, well-known real
estate man of st. Louis, committed
suicide
The Idaho board of pardons COM
muted the sentence of Harry Orchard
who was under sentence to hang for
the murder of former Gov. Frank
Stuenenberg, to Imprisonment for life.
One man was killed, three were seri-
ously injured and half-dozen were
slightly hurt in a railway collision at
Des Moines, la.
Thomas Hill, well-known land
home at the entrance of Yosemite
valley.
Lorenzo Dow Harvey, Phi. D., SUI
| perintendent of public schools and SD
perintendent of the Stout Training
school of Menomonie, Wis, was
elected president of the National Ed
ucation association at Cleveland.
Twenty-Five starving French sea-
men cast away on Antipodes island
were rescued by the British warship
Pegasus.
Oliver P. Ensley of Indianapolis,
former county treasurer, was indicted
On a charge of embezzling $22,500.
Walter j. Bartnett of San Francisco
was sentenced to ten years in the pen
itertiary for having hypothecated
bonds and securities to the amount of
$205,000 belonging to the estate of
! Ellen NJ. Cotton, of which he was spe-
cial administrator
Mae C. Wood, the Omaha woman
! who sued United States Senator
Thomas G. Plat for divorce. was in
dicted by a grand jury in New York
on charges of perjury and forgery
The $50 employees of the Remington
typewriter works at lion, N. Y. re-
ceived $4,000 as the semi-annuai
bonus distributed by the company to
its employees.
Annie Wilson, nine years old, told
In New York police court of sue
cessfully committing more than so
burglaries.
Attacked by band of so insurgents,
government troops at Palomas, Mex
leo, small town in Chihuahua, killed
one rebel and wounded several 9TH
ers. The revolutionists fed to the
mountains, pursued by the soldiers.
Mrs. Louisiana Hobbs Douglass, one
IF the numerous wives of the alleged
bogus Lord" Oswald Reginald Doug.
lass, was granted an absolute divorces
from Lord" Douglass at Norfolk,
Va
Two men were killed, and three
badly injured in the collapse of liv-
cry stable in Minneapolis.
At Friedrichshafen Count Zeppelin's
airship stood brilliantly the longest
and most searching test it has yet un-
dergone. 1t remained in the air for
six hours and three-quarters, attaining
an average speed of 34R miles an hour
throughout.
In order to escape trial on charge
of being implicated in the robbery and
killing of Frank Frorer, millionaire
banker of Lincoln, ILL.,, William Web
Der of Springfield entered plea of
guilty to another charge of robbery
and was sentenced to the penitentiary.
George B. Mcclellan was declared
to have been duly elected mayor of
New York over w. r. Hearst, in 1905,
by Justice Lambert, and by the JUS
tees orders the jury returned YER
dict to that effect.
Judges Sanborn, Hook and Adams,
in the United States circuit court at
st. Paul, made an interlocutory de-
cree whereby they temporarily sus-
pend and enjoin the enforcement of
the order of the interstate commerce
commission which reduced the charge
of certain railroad companies for the
transfer of live stock from the termini