Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-17

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armed fanatic, wrought up to high
pitch OF maniacal fury, terrorized
| Edgewater, N. j. He appeared sud
denly on the main street, waving big
revolver, held up the proprietors OF
several stores, exchanged many shots
with hastily formed posse and at
last was wounded when the police and
a mob of citizens ran him down.
The lumber interests represented by
1 the Weyerhaeusers, O'Brien & Cook of
st. Paul and Duluth and Edward Hines
of Chicago are in Duluth working on
the formation of lumber trust which
will control practically all the pine in
| North America.
A woman leaped with her little son
| from the window of burning garage
| in Chicago and both were SO badly
hurt they died in few minutes.
A force of 200 men, which landed
from the Haytian gunboat, took with
out resistance the town of Gonaives,
| Hayti, and established authority there
in the name of Gen. Simon.
Frank Cassini of st. Louis fatally
| shot his wife and himself.
The Springport (Mich.) State Saw.
ings bank, with deposits of about $780,
900, was closed by Banking Commits.
sioneI Zimmerman while an examina'
ton Is made Of its affairs.
Eleven buildings in the village OF
Patton, Ia, were destroyed by fire.
The Peninsular & Oriental Steamship
Company will begin next year to i'm
port hogs from China into Great
Britain.
John r. Hegeman, president of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, was freed by the New York ap
pellate court in q decision that, il it
stands, will serve to quash all indict
ments now outstanding against insur
ance officials.
Louis Pratt, the religious fanatic,
and Officer Mullane, wounded in the
street battle in Kansas City, died.
James Sharp, the leader of the band
of fanatics, was arrested
Iaboring under the delusion that he
had been marked as victim OF the
"Black Hand" Thomas Fitzpatrick,
aged sc, shot and killed himself near
Gaines, Mich.
After a brief argument with a
crowd of negroes in a saloon In Mem
phis, William Latura, a white saloon
keeper, shot and killed three of the
negroes and wounded others, one
MORALLY.
Dr. A. S. Pitts, prominent physi-
| clan of Hazlehurst, Miss, was shot
and killed by DR.. Thomas Birdsong, a
dentist.
Three men held up an east-bound
/ Great Northern train near Hillyard
Wash, and robbed the mail car. They
missed $4,000 in the express car.
]. P. Garroty, accused of attacking
two little girls near Willow River,
Mimi, was saved from mob by be
ing spirited out of town.
Dr. G. E. Barnes, a veterinary sur
geol was burned to death in fire
that destroyed his house at Wood
Vile, o.
The various copper properties OF
Phelps, Dodge & Co., the output oil
which has been as high as 100,OOO,0OO
pounds a year, are to be merged into
new corporation, capitalized at
s5O,000,OO0.
Representative George L. Lilley,
governor-elect of Connecticut, has
been served with a subpoena to an
swer the complaint that in the recent
campaign he, himself or through a
| fnalcial agent, violated the corrupt.
practices act.
Two bunco men worked the tim"
honored satchel substitution game at
Minneapolis and got $7105 from R. F.
Cargell, an aged cattle dealer from
Clyde, n. ID.
The board of regents of the Univer'
sity of Minnesota decided that mem
bers of the faculty must retire on
reaching the age of 65 years.
More than a score of persons were
injured, five of them seriously, and
| 100 more were thrown into panic
when a bomb was hurled into the air
shaft of tenement house at 800 East
Sixty-third street, New York.
w. H. Crowninshield, aged 40 years,
of Boston, Mass, said to be a nephew
IF Rear Admiral Crowninshield, was
run down and killed by a railway
train in Cleveland, o.
The police of Kansas City and a
band of religious fanatics headed by
John Sharp, who styles himself
Adam God" engaged in fierce re
yolver street battle. Over 100 shots
were exchanged, one patrolman and o
little girl being killed, Sharp and two
officers fatally, wounded and two
other officers slightly hurt.
F. d. Hirschberg of st. Louis, mi!
lionaire merchant and prominen
Catholic, was shot and killed in nj
house. 1t was not known whether !
was a case of suicide, murder or &C
cident.
Probably fatal injuries were sus
tanned in an automobile accident nea
Washington by Senior Don Juan Ban
rios, minister of foreign affairs
Guatemala, who is here on speci;
mission. His companions, DR.. Lu.
Herrarte, Guatemalan minister to tn
United States, and Gen. John Drum
mond, a wealthy planter in Soutl
America, We're painfully hurt.
Miss Helen Chaffee, daughter o
( Lieut.. Gen. and Mrs. Adna r. Chaffe
was welded at Los Angeles to Lieu
John Hastings Howard, U. S. A.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier. premier of Can
ada, was shaken up by the ditching @
his train on the Great Northern at 81
Vincent. MINI.
Charles w. Blow of st. Louis, mar