Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-06

It is estimated that the steel plant
to be built at Hankow, China, by Chi
nese capitalists will cost $4,000, 900.
Gov. Hughes was strongly Endorsed
for the Republican nomination for the
presidency and the administration of
President Roosevelt was commended
In resolution unanimously adopted
by the Republican committee of New
fYork county.
Marshal Halstead, former United
States consul at Birmingham, Eng
land. and son of Murat Halstead, died
In Cincinnati following an operation
for appendicitis.
Gen. BENJAMIN Rush Cowen. for
over % years clerk Of the United
States circuit and district courts for
the southern district of Ohio, assistant
secretary of the interior under Presi-
dent Grant and formerly editor Of the
Ohio State Journal, died In Cincinnati.
The Illinois house passed the direct
plurality primary bill already adopted
by the senate.
The coroner's jury In the case of
the theater holocaust at Boyertown,
Pa, asked for the prosecution of Mrs.
Monroe, owner of the stereopticon ma.
chine, and Harry Nee. Bechtel, the
deputy factory inspector, on the
charge of criminal negligence.
Practically complete election re-
turns gave ]. Y. Sanders a lead of be.
tween $4,000 and $4,000 votes over T.
s. Wilkerson in the Democratic guber-
Material primary in Louisiana.
Charles H. Kipp of the wholesale
grocery firm of Kerr, Kpp & Co., of
Hastings, Neb., committed suicide, as
the result of overwork and worry, by
shooting himself in the head with q
shotgun.
That this nation has reached the
point where 1t must decide whether
1t is to lose the use of the rivers in
the east and south through the non
preservation of forests which safe
guard the watersheds was the decla-
ration of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson. president of the American
Forestry association, which convened
in Washington.
Night riders burned two large to-
bacco barns near Adairsville, Ky.
Two negroes who robbed and killed
their father near Commerce, Miss,
were lynched by a mob of colored
men.
Judge F. M. Powers at Denison, Ia.
sentenced Joseph and Solomon HAIRS
san to term of % years each In the
penitentiary for the murder of their
cousin, Fred Nawfal, last January.
Bert Swan, wealthy farmer near
Missouri Valley, Ia, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with a razor
Two masked men robbed the office
Of the Adams Express company at
Mansfield. O., of $4,000, but missed a
bag containing $4,000 in gold.
The jury in the Schooley-Craw
will contest at Scranton, Pa, declared
the paper presented by George b.
Schooley as the last will of James L..
Crawford, the millionaire coal opera
IOT, 10 De forgery.
Nolan j. Whiteside, at religious
revival in Minneapolis, confessed to
long series of crimes.
Mistaking his father-in-law, William
Conner, for burglar, A. C. Burr shot
and instantly killed him at Dallas,
Tex.
Several persons were fatally shot in
political riots on the streets of Lisbon.
Rev. John w. Venebal, for many
years pastor of Grace Episcopal
church at Hopkinsville, KY, and for
the past 40 years sovereign grand
chaplain of the Odd Fellows In the
United States, died.
Fire in Newton, Kan, destroyed
half a dozen stores, the loss being
$159, 900.
During the last quarter of 1907 the
net earnings of the United States
Steel corporation were $32,553,995.
1t seems likely that prosecutions
may follow the coroner's inquest into
the Rhoades opera house disaster at
Boyertown, Pa, which cost 169 lives.
In the testimony tnere were strong
hints of graft as well as admissions of
gross negligence.
Fire in the heart of Chicago's down
town district did about $1,700,000, the
heaviest losers being Alfred Peats &
Co., wall paper; Edison Keith & Co..
wholesale millinery, and John A.
Colby & Son, furniture.
John l.. Dickson, president of the
was struck by passenger train and
instantly killed.
Brig. Gen. Medorem Crawford, who
was recently promoted from colonel
of the Coast Artillery corps, was
placed on the retired list on account
of age.
Flames destroyed part of Nelson
Morris & Co.'s packing plant In Kan
sas City, half million dollars dam
age being done.
The Order Of the Legion of Honor
has been conferred upon Eugene
Meyer, a New York banker.
Four cars of fast New Orleans &
Northeastern passenger train toppled
of low trstls near Hattiesburg,
Miss, and rolled down an embank-
ment without killing or fatally injur.
ing person.
A colored family of seven persons
burned to death at Bedford City, Va.
Capt. William Rohde of the German
steamship Neidenfels, just in from the
Orient, asserts that the natives of In.
dia are busy preparing to shake off