Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-08

/ Jevels yalaed at $4,000 are said to
| save been stolen from diamond deal
ets II New York.
MASKED men held up an interur ban
cir at Wellsyille, o., and took $21
IRON, the conductor.
The posi- Office at Franklin Grove,
III, was robbed by safe-blowers.
Great damage was done by hur-
ricane that swept over the Bahamas.
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the American Bankers association
at Denve. came to an end with
the election of George M. Rey.
holds of Chicago, president, and
Lewis e. Pierson of New York,
first vice-president The convention
placed itself squarely on record as
against both the proposition to guar.
antee bank deposits and that to es
tablish postal savings banks.
The Atlantic battleship feet arrived
at Manila and prepared to take part
in water fete.
Two lives were lost and 20 or more
persons were injured in Spencer, NJ
G., by the explosion of a powder stor-
age house on the yards of the South
ern Railway Company.
Over score of men, women and
children were injured during the great
historical and industrial pageant in
celebration of Pittsburg's sesqui-cen-
tennial anniversary
Six boys were killed at Sugar Ridge,
O., when freight train on the Toledo
& Ohio Central railroad crashed into
heavily laden excursion train re.
turning from fair at Bowling Green.
Eight firemen were carried down
with the falling floors of burning
building in Youngstown, O., and
three, including Chief Kelley, were
believed to be dead in the ruins.
An African lion escaped from the
winter quarters of circus near New
Brunswick, N. j., and, after killing
two cows and calf, was shot to
death.
Mrs. Hattie Den,-r of Kalamazoo,
Mich, was instantly killed and Louis
J. Feys of Detroit was probably fatal
ly injured when the automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
a street car.
Sheriff Lane of Westchester county,
New York, on advice of Attorney Cen
eral Jackson, refused to take Harry
Thaw to Pittsburg in compliance with
a writ of habeas corpus issued by
Federal District Judge Archibald.
At Freeport, H., Salvatore Campagna
was found guilty of the murder of
Felix Cassato, and was sentenced to
IA years Imprisonment.
M. M. Vaughn, editor of the Cali
fornian, committed suicide in his edi.
torial rooms at Eureka, Cal.
Mrs. Roselle Bergman was shot and
killed in her home at Corona, l.. l.,
by her brother, William Rates, Is
years old, who is attached to the
schoolship Newport. He says the
shooting was accidental.
Six members of the crew of a log
ging train were killed and eight in
jured in collision at Scappoose, Ore,
on the Northern Pacific road.
The castaways from the British
steamer Aeon, who spent nearly two
months on Christmas island, arrived
At Suva, Fiji, on the steamer Manuka,
all well and increased by one in num-
Der. A daughter was born to the wife
of Chaplain B. r. Patrick, u. S. NJ. "a
hours before the Manuka was sighted.
DR.. Robert Koch stirred up re-
newal of the old discussion on the
sources of pulmonary tuberculosis in
the congress on tuberculosis at Wash
ington, when he repeated his opinion,
stated in 1901 in London, that human
beings may be infected by bovine tu-
bercle bacilli, but serious diseases
from this cause occur very rarely"
Robbers dynamited the safe of
bank in Cogswell, N. D., but fed with
out getting any plumber.
Lazare WELLER, a prominent French
financier and aeroplane promoter,
announced that he had ordered the
construction of so aeroplanes on the
Wright model.
The legislative inquiry into the
bribery charges made against Gov.
Hanly and Senator Wickwire of Indi-
ana by Representative Knisely ended
in complete vindication for the gov
ernor, finding that Knisely would
not have accepted bride if rendered,
and the making of a scapegoat of
Wickwire by the house.
The American battleships Alabama
and Maine arrived at Gibraltar.
Manufacturers of railroad material,
representing hundreds of millions Of
dollars in capital, met at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel, New York, to form an
organization to combat the attacks on
railroads from legislative and other
sources.
The United States steamer Tarlack
was caught in gale and driven
ashore on Borongan island, one of the
Samoan group. 1t is thought the YES
sci will be total loss.
Charles Edward Davis was bound
over to the district court at Omaha to
answer the charge of murder in the
first degree for the killing of DR..
Frederick Rustin.
Ninety-three heroes who within the
last year have saved the lives of
drowning persons in the waters around
New York were presented with medals
or certificates of honor by the United
States Volunteer Life-Saving corps.
Lord Rosslyn went broke" in the
test of his roulette system against
Sir Hiram Maxim, losing $4,000 in
dummy" money.
The business section of Michel, B.
c., was almost wholly destroyed by
fire.
While playing with the scrub team
against the Yale varsity football