Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-16

Ind, was shot and killed in Cassopolis
Mich, by Mrs. George A. Messker, who
said the killing was accidental.
Massachusetts Republicans elected
an uninstructed delegation to the ma
tional convention, but plank in the
platform admitted Taft was the choice
OF majority in the state convention
One man killed, railroad traffic i'm
peded, caye-ins on the electric and st
Louis & San Francisco lines near Jop
ling and mines in the Badger Peacock
district inundated were some of the
features Of the flood that swept south
west Missouri.
Charles A. Murphey, a prominent
lawyer and real estate dealer of New
York, committed suicide in a room in
the Astor house by shooting through
the head His suicide is attributed to
financial troubles.
i At Huntington, w. Va, Mrs. William
Adkins and her two young children
were drowned when their residence
slipped into Guyandotte river.
An anonymous letter threatened
that Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma and
Chief Of Police Ledbetter of Muskogee
would be killed and the city of Guth.
RE burned by negroes.
Ten miners lost their lives in the
Norton Hill colliery in Somersetshire,
] England, as result of an explosion
Of gas.
The Monarch Book Printing plant at
| Wheeler, Ind, was totally destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000, covered
by insurance.
Judge Phelan in Detroit scored a
| jury for acquitting Percy Bowin of a
murder to which he had confessed.
The open shop" policy will be ad.
hered to by vessel owners, in the op-
Grafton of boats upon the great lakes
this season. A stand of this character
in dealing with organized labor was
unanimously agreed to at the annual
meeting of the Lake Carriers associa-
ton in Cleveland, o.
Six hundred paper hangers and
painters in Minneapolis struck for the
CLOSED shop"
David S. Rose was elected mayor of
Milwaukee for the fifth time. In
Kansas City the Democratic ticket
headed by T. T. Crittenden, Jr., for
mayor was successful.
Lorenzo d. Kneeland, a well-known
broker and club man Of Chicago, com.
mitted suicide by shooting because of
i'll health.
At meeting of the board of trus-
tees of Princeton university announce
ment was made of the gift of $3.50, 900
from Mrs. Russell Sage for a dormi-
tory building to be used by members
Of the freshman class.
Grover Blake of Anderson, Ind, who
killed his mother with hammer for
the purpose of robbery March 81 last,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life.
Mrs. Catherine c. Tucker, matron
of feline hospital in South Boston,
lost her life in trying to save pet cat
from being burned to death.
Gov Hughes. of New York, whose
anti-gambling bills were defeated, told
the legislature he would not give up
the fight and intimated he would call
special session to adopt the legisla-
ton.
In order to present military service
In its most attractive light and in that
way encourage enlistment in the army,
Gen. Bell, chief of staff, has directed
that all officers and enlisted men en-
ployed in the recruiting service wear
their incest military apparel.
Representative c.. E. Ward was
found not guilty, at Detroit, of man
slaughter in connection with the death
of Miss Edith Presley.
The Olive Street bank of st. Louis,
having capital of $4,000 and de-
posts of $350,O00, was closed by the
state bank examiner.
Col. W. L. De Lacey of Poughkeep.
sic, N. Y. a prominent lawyer, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas.
Because his mother, Susan Carlin,
had sent him to various reformatory
institutions in which he was a prison
er for many years, Bernard Carlin
shot and instantly killed her at her
home in Brooklyn.
Because Of the error of a western
court in diyorcing him from the
wrong woman, Calvin s. Wright, a
baker of Jeanette, Pa, will have to
stand trial on charges of bigamy and
perjury.
Public and private funeral services
were held in Washington over the
body Of the late Durham White
Stevens, adviser to the Korean gov
eminent, who was killed by Korean
in San Francisco.
President Roosevelt made public his
letter of April to the attorney gen.
eral directing proceedings by injunc-
ton to compel certain railroads of the
/ south to furnish equal accommoda.
tions to white and negro passengers.
Archbishop Ryan announced that
100000 gift had been made by a
woman, believed to be Mrs. Frederic
Garfield Penfield, for the proposed
Catholic High School for Girls in
Philadelphia.
There Is reason to believe that
measures are being taken in Port-au-
Prince, Haiti, to force the Intervention
of the United States If possible. APP
parent tranquility prevails, but there
Is good authority for the statement
that hostility against the present Hal
tien government is growing more in
tense.