Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28

Bella Guinness on her farm near La
porte, Ind.
Evidence was obtained by Laporte
officials that Mrs Guinness had an &C.
complete who aided in Turing victims
to her farm.
A. X. Helgelein, last of the victims
OF Mrs. Guinness, was buried at La.
porte. The fragments of jawbone
found in the ruins of the farmhouse
were identified by dentist as from
Mrs. Guinness skull.
Two trainmen were killed and Is
passengers injured in a collision on
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road
near Muskogee, Okla.
The old plant of the Omaha Packing
company in South Omaha was de-
! stroyed by fire together with 100000
pounds Of meat, involving a loss es-
timated at $50O,0OO
The right of President Roosevelt
summarily to dismiss negro soldier
of the Twenty-fifth infantry for al
legged participation in the riot at
Brownsville, Tex, was sustained by
Judge Hough in the United States dis
| trlct court at New York.
A bonded warehouse at Oskaloosa
containing 1900 barrels of whisky was
| burned.
After it had been mislaid for %
years, workmen found in the sub
basement of the war department
building at Washington wooden box
containing the personal relics of Lieut..
belong, who commanded the Inflated
| Jeanette Arctic expedition and who
| persisted in 1881.
Gen. Snarski, commander of the
Russian punitive expedition into
! Persian territory, has been ordered to
resume his advance into Persia and
to punish the bandits with fire and
| sword. He will destroy villages, but
| spare the women and children.
The Democrats of Minnesota in
! dorsed Gov. Johnson as a presidential
candidate and at the same time, by
vote of 772 to 166, refused to declare
in favor of Bryan as second choice.
Wyoming Democrats Endorsed Bryan.
Bandits bound and gagged the sta
ton agent and guard in the depot
at French, N. NJ, and escaped with
$4,000.
The armored cruiser Maryland was
the trophy winner in the recent target
practice at Magdalena bay.
The Wright brothers aeroplane was
wrecked at Kill Devil hill, North Caro-
lima, after flight of eight miles.
Two men were shot and almost in
Ctont1U lyi1loI n
at Coney Island, victims of the jeal-
ousy of young Italian.
o. J. Sturgis of -Uniontown, Pa, a
well-known editor, committed suicide.
An incendiary fire in tenement at
Passaic, N. j., caused the death of
three children.
James j. Hill and others addressed
the conference of governors in the
White House on the dangers of forest
and soil depletion.
A court in Paris granted the Hart
Mckee divorce, blaming both parties
and giving Mrs. Mckee custody of the
child except for one month yearly.
1t was announced in London that
Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the Amer
lean ambassador, and John Hubert
Ward would be married in st. James
palace June %.
Eight hundred brewery workers of
Kansas City went on strike.
The Reserve Trust company and the
American Savings bank of Cleveland,
o., closed their doors.
A tornado wrecked the hamlet of
Gillian, La, and damaged neighboring
towns, several persons being killed
and many injured. Much damage and
some deaths were caused by tornadoes
in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas.
Farley B. Palmore and Miss Lois M.
Palmore of Virginia were welded in
the rotunda of the capitol at Wash
ington.
Numerous addresses were made and
great enthusiasm exhibited at the ma
tional conference on conservation of
natural resources in the White House.
1t was proposed to form a permanent
organization.
Three former aldermen of Rockford,
ILL.,, pleaded guilty of accepting brides
and were fined $4,000 EACH
The Wright brothers made two more
successful flights with their aeroplane
at Manteo, N. C.
Mail advices say the recent tidal
bore in the Yangtse-Kiang resulted in
nearly 10000 deaths at Hankow.
Miss Maud Fleming of Waterloo,
Ia, shot and killed her father while
defending her mother.
An attempt made by prisoners to
break out of the government Jail at
Yekaterinoslav, Russia, after making
breach in the wall OF the guard
room with a bomb, resulted in the
deaths of 20 of the fugitives.
Four miners were killed and three
injured by a fall of rock in colliery
at Midvale, Pa.
The national conference on the Con-
servation of Natural Resources opened
at Washington with the governors of
nearly all the states of the union and
prominent men representing every
line of thought and industry of the
nation in attendance
Tornadoes in Mercer and Henry
counties, Illinois, in the vicinity Of
Madison, Wis, and in Oklahoma and
Texas killed several persons and de-
stroyed a great amount of property.
st. Louis and vicinity were swept by
violent gale.
Roy Waller, aged IS, was arrested
at Lincoln, ILL.,, charged with threaten.
ing Hiram l.. Keays, wealthy resi-
dent Of Elkhart with death unless he
placed $500 in designated place.
The celebrated market and general
bazaar in Madrid called locally Las