Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-04

laughter of the assistant secretary of
the navy, being the sponsor.
Justice Lambert in New York de-
cided that the ballot boxes used in
the McClellan-Hearst mayoralty cleo
ton should be opened.
George and Claude Blessing, sons of
George Blessing, who lived a mile
south of New Hampton, Mo-, were
killed by lightning.
Rev. s. H. Glasgow, for many years
pastor of the Woodson cid Presby-
cuing his little son.
Ten dead, IL injured, several fatally,
hundreds of head of cattle killed, a
vast acreage of crops destroyed, ruin
and desolation, are the results Of a
series of tornadoes that visited Alfal-
ia county, Oklahoma Severe storms
also visited towns in Nebraska.
Four men were killed in a mine ex-
plosion at Salinesville, o.
w. r. Hearst gained 81 votes in the
recount of the first two ballot boxes
opened in New York.
After drifting helplesssIy in the lit.
lie launch Zeus of Avalon, Santa Gaia
lima island, for two days, e. e. Easton.
his wife, two children and a colored
nurse were rescued on the high seas
by the United States converted cruiser
Buffalo. Capt. A. Crist of the launch
Is lost and G. E. Hooline, a seaman
On the cruiser, was drowned.
The battleship fleet anchored for
lay in Tacoma harbor and then four
Of the vessels sailed for San Francisco.
At Hampton Roads the monitor
Florida was made the target of the
heaviest projectile, fired at it's turret
plate with the highest of explosives,
from the largest naval gun and at close
"ange. The turret stood the severe
test excellently, as did the new mill.
!ary mast.
Senior Don Augusta B. Leguia has
been elected to succeed DR.. Pardo as
president of Peru.
Former Chief of Police John M. Col
Inns and Frank ID. Comerford, police
attorney under the Dunno administra-
ZION in Chicago were found not guilty
by jury of conspiracy to defraud the
city of Chicago by diverting the serv-
ices of the police to political work.
The coroner's jury found that Mrs.
Carrie Shaw of Hortonville, Wis,
whose body was found in a mill pond,
committed suicide.
Six leading officials of as many
boiler-making plants and structural
iron works in Boston were arrested
by police inspectors, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the city.
The Boston fishing schooner Fame
was run down and sunk by Dominion
liner Boston and II of her crew were
drowned.
Two men bound and gagged Mrs
Benton, ILL.,, and set fire to the house
The husband arrived just in time tc
save her life.
Election of eight bishops was com
pleted by the Methodist conference
at Baltimore.
Enraged farmers near Belleville, ILL.,,
nearly lynched negro who had
robbed a saloon.
Sadie Butler shot and killed w. H.
Simpson, locomotive engineer with
whom she was infatuated, at Roanoke,
Va, and then committed suicide.
After separation of 80 years, ]. l..
Carr of California and Miss Belle Og.
den of Clarksburg, w. Va, who had
been childhood sweethearts, were mar.
ried in Cincinnati, o.
1t has been decided not to withdraw
any of the United States troops from
Cuba at the present time
Pope Plus has decorated A. B. Nc.
Donnell, banker of Chippewa Falls,
Wis, with the order of st. Gregory
the Great
Street car men of Cleveland, O.,
voted to continue the strike.
Fourteen persons dead, others miss
ing, property valued at millions Of dol
lars swept away, thousands homeless
and being cared for by charitable as
sociations, train and wire service de
moraliZed, were the results of the
flood in northern and central Texas
In Oklahoma much the same condi
tons existed.
Fines amounting to 100000 as
sessed against post office clerks for
breaches of discipline, have been de
clared illegal and will be RENTED.
Two steamers went ashore and two
others collided in a dense fog in the
vicinity Of New York.
The uoparoI ooofo,o-oo - 49, NotL
odist Episcopal church put itself on
record as indorsing unqualifiedly the
work of the Anti-Saloon league and
also favoring local option.
Three bold bandits tried to rot
three bank messengers of $4,000 on
crowded street and in broad day
light in New York, but were foiled by
the messengers, who were helped by
a plucky restaurant waitress.
Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt was
granted a decree of divorce from AL
fred Gwynne Vanderbilt and awarded
the custody of their only child.
Justice Morschauser of the New
York supreme court decided that
Harry X. Thaw was still insane and
must remain in the asylum, and that
his commitment was not illegal.
The United States circuit court of
appeals in Minnesota affirmed the
United States circuit court conviction
md the fines imposed on the Omaha
railroad and its general freight agent.
II. II. Pearce in the grain rebate cases
levied last year in Minneapolis.
Rev. Father Joseph F. Lubeley, aged
33 years, pastor of st. Joseph's Cath.
olic church of Salisbury, Mo-. was
stabbed twice with a pocket knife and
perhaps fatally injured in church by