Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-12

tempted to kill the chief The assas-
sin was himself killed by the chief. A
wholesale murder plot is suspected.
| Secretary Straus at Washington is.
sued sweeping order directing CO
operation Of the police and detective
forces In an effort to rid the country
OF alien anarchists.
Detectives swooped down on the
home of Harry Goldstein in Chicago
and confiscated trunk filled with an
\ archistic literature.
After an illness Of ten days DR.. O.
| d. ]. Hughes died at his home in
New Rochelle, N. Y.
Joseph Hufker of Alton, ILL.,, played
| cards almost continuously for two
weeks in order to keep alive until his
son. Louis, could reach his bedside.
A fire panic was narrowly averted
| at the st. Louis poorhouse by the
GOODNESS and determination of lone
| city fireman regularly stationed there.
Dell Ellis, night Waterman at
Brighton, Col, was shot and killed by
robbers whom he surprised attempt
| ing to enter the Farmers State bank.
William Esser, the Brooklyn IN
Y.) mechanic arrested charged with
having stolen models of torpedoes
from the E. w. Bliss company, was
held in $1,000 bail.
Mrs. Hattibell Cook McReynolds
| Of Chicago was granted a decree of
divorce from George S. McReynolds,
| former member Of the Chicago board
of trade, but now in Joliet peniten
| tiary.
| King Edward travelled incognito as
| duke to Paris.
William Adler, the missing expires
ident of the State National bank of
| New Orleans, was indicted by the
| United States grand jury, charged
with misapplying national bank funds.
The central part of Girardville, Pa,
mining town, was swept by a fire
which burned seven houses and a
store.
]. f. Levy. New York salesman,
shot himself in the head, dying short
ly afterward.
Two negroes, Curry Robertson and
John Henry, were lynched near Haw-
kinsville and their bodies burned.
They were charged with a double
! murder.
According to the terms of the new
| Congo annexation treaty, King Leo
| pold of Belgium agrees to abandon
the crown domain to Belgium. Bel
GUM shall assume all the Congo OBJ
| legations, amounting to $21,000,000.
The Nebraska Democratic state con-
idential aspirations of Bryan at
Omaha, Neb.
B. F. Bush, at Baltimore, Md, was
appointed receiver Of the Western
Maryland railroad. Bush is president
of the road.
Lave Martin, so years of age, shot
and killed his wife and then commit
ted suicide at Kirkland, o.
The funeral of the late Senator Red
field Proctor was held in the Proctor
! Union church at Proctor, VT.
Mrs. Bridget King of Sheffield, Ill,
old, fatally burned following the ex-
plosion of lamp in their home.
Charles b. Lands was renominated
for representative by the Republicans
,, of the Ninth Indiana congressional
district in session at Frankfort, Ind.
Fire which swept through the five
story structure of the Armstrong Cork
company in Chicago, caused loss of
100000, after spreading panic.
The principal school building in
Sturgeon Bay, Wis, was burned. Loss.
100000.
Gov. Frear at Honolulu appointed
| committee to prepare an entertain
ment for Rear Admiral Evans battle
ship feet when it arrives there.
Japan threatened force to recover
the Japanese steamer Tatsu, which
was detained by China at Huangpu.
The Union Bank of Commerce in
Rio Janeiro closed its doors. Other
banking institutions were affected.
Miss e. L. Cavanaugh, an actress,
has written to President Roosevelt
asking him to assist her in recovering
property valued at $4,000. which she
says was stolen.
Hetty Green was found living in Il
ten-dollar- a-month fat block from
the ferry in Hoboken, N. J.
The interior of the Court theater at
Meiningen, Germany, was completely
burned out. No performance was on
at the time and no lives were lost.
According to an official note En-
peror William will meet King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy at Venice during
the course of his Mediterranean
cruise.
Attorney Conner OF Kentucky sued
the American Tobacco company for
1000 and the International Harvester
company, alleging both are trusts.
Railway officials in Chicago and
throughout the country say they are
seeking to obey to the letter the nine
hour law
Gen. Herman Lieb, a Chicago vet
eran of the civil war; died of injuries
suffered when he slipped and fell on
an icy sidewalk.
An Interpolation was introduced in
the Russian duma demanding explana-
tions of the charges that Russian
naval secrets had been given away.
Four naval officers, all experts. tes-
titled before the senate naval commit
tee In defense of the American navy
against all criticism
Ohio Republicans held their state
convention at Columbus, O., dealing a
staggering blow to the interests of
Senators Foraker and Dick by wiping
| off the committee every man, known