Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-24

Frederick A. Storm, a real estate
iealer, testified In the trial of Thorn
ton J. Hams, as a principal with his
brother, Capt. Peter G. Hams, In the
killing of William e. Annis, that the
defendant had inquired as to the
whereabouts Of Annis shortly before
| the latter sailed up to the dock where
| he was shot. Charles Birchfeld, a
friend of Annis, declared that Thorn.
ton Hams drove him back with a
drawn revolver when he sought to
stop the shooting.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that he would not renew his
order. issued in December, 1907, per-
hitting delivery to charitable organi-
cations of letters addressed to Santa
| Claus"
Oregon Railroad & Navigation train
No. 1, known as the Chicago Portland
special, was held up and the express
| car dynamited by four masked rob-
bers nine miles east of Portland, Ore.
Express Messenger o. II. HUFF said
the robbers secured little of value.
Elmer Hill, alleged murderer Of
Mamie Womack in Adair county, Ken
| lucky, was taken from Jail at Monticel-
10 by mob and hanged.
Rev. Joseph l.. Sullens OF Spring
field, Mo-, was shot and killed acct
dentally while hunting.
The entire Portuguese cabinet has
resigned.
A IL ~ EsxYrn lyo
stroyed a mine clearinghouse and
killed one man.
Chu Chin Ching was found dead in
Chicago, strangled with his own queue
supposedly by highbinders.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., it was re-
ported in Thompsonville, Conn, was
slated for election to the next Con-
necticut general assembly.
Mobs in Caracas arose against Pres
ident Castro's rule, burned his stat
ues and pictures and pillaged the prop
erty of his friends.
The tentative selection OF Salt Lake
City as the next meeting place of the
Grand Army of the Republic was con-
firmed by the executive committee
which has been investigating the ac-
commodations afforded by the city.
The doors of the First National
bank of Somersworth, N. H., were
closed, following the discovery of a
shortage, placed at $4,000, and Fred
III. Varney, the cashier of the bank,
was arrested on charge of being a
defaulter.
Nine companies, with their subsid-
iaries, are named as constituting an
| illegal combination in the final de-
| cree, filed in the United States cir
cult court at New York, putting into
effect the judgment recently oh.
| tanned by the government In its suit
to dissolve the so-called tobacco
| trust.
The Dutch battleship Jacob van
Heemskerk captured the Venezuelan
guardship % de Mayo and towed it tc
Curacao. In Berlin President Castro
called on the German chancellor and
was examined by a physician.
Mrs. Charles Gardner, aged 80, was
asphyxiated at her home In Cheswick,
a suburb Of Pittsburg, Pa, and her
husband and two-year-old child were
seriously burned in an explosion
which followed the finding OF her
body.
Tom Longboat, the Indian runner,
won the Marathon race in Madison
Square garden, New York, Dorandc
Pietri collapsing when near the goal.
Leo P. StoHt, young naval appren-
tice VINO is being held in the naval
prison at the Mare Island navy yard.
on suspicion of completely in murder
and robbery in Pittsburg in November
| of last year. made a complete comics
SIGN to the naval authorities.
A commission appointed by the
| postmaster general has reported that
sit is not feasible or desirable at the
present time for the government tc
purchase. to install, or TO operate
pneumatic tubes" :.
In an opinion by Justice Holmes,
the supreme court of the United States
held that E. H. Hartman and Otto
| Kahn, the latter a New York banker,
should not be required to answer the
interstate commerce commissions
questions concerning dealings in
stocks between the Union Pacific and
| other roads.
On hearing of the seizure by the
| Dutch of the guardship Alix, Acting
President Gomez declared Venezuela
In state of defense President Castro
| arrived in Berlin and was given an
| ovation.
Crazed with jealousy over the at
tention paid to his wife by Carl Clappr
William Barnhart of Roodhoase. Ill
killed the pair He then gave himself
up and was hurried to Carrollton be.
fore a mob that had gathered could
| secure him.
Abbes Bouysson and Bardon, who
are conducting excavations at Cha
pelle-aux-Saints, in the Correze depart
ment, have discovered what are
believed to be the oldest human re
mains. dating back 10, 600 years to the
middle of the Pleistocene age.
The United States battleship fleet
arrived at Colombo. Ceylon, and was
greeted by vast throngs of Europeans
and natives. The health Of the men
on the ships was excellent, with the
exception of one case of smallpox oD
the Georgia
That the latest battleships built by
this country are vastly superior to
England's Dreadnought. Is emphatical
ly stated by Rear Admiral Robley ID
Evans in an article in the latest num-
Der OF Hampton's Broadway Magazine
u,hn IA ctr0 oil InfondC the