Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-06
GENERAL NEWS.

Twenty-four miners were entombed
by cave-in in a coal mine at Crows
Nest Pass, B. C. Twenty-one Of them
were rescued, having been kept alive
by leaking compressed air pipes.
Grand Army men in Ohio started q
movement to raise money by popular
subscription to build a big United
States battleship.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the
Hamburg-America line pier and q
great quantity of merchandise, the
loss being about 100000.
Mrs. Ralph Harris of Kansas City
Mo-, and her five-year-old son were
drowned at Walloon lake, Michigan.
David Lamasuey, a dealer in fine
horses, who travelled extensively but
had no permanent home, committed
suicide by the hari-kiri method al
Burlington, la. He was temporarily
deranged by the heat.
w. B. Whitwell, who kept a country
store in Ripley county, Missouri, was
shot and killed while resisting arrest
as deserter
Bolivar, said to be the biggest ele
plant ever in captivity, died in his
prison house at the geological gardens
in Philadelphia.
The Hotel Roberval on Lake St
John, Canada, was destroyed by fire
all the guests escaping.
A demurrer by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad company
as defendant in the action brough
against it by the United States GOV
eminent, was filed in the United States
district court at Boston.
The mining town of Stafford, w
Va, was wrecked by the explosion OF
100 kegs of powder.
Carl Burton, % years old, a recent
graduate of the University of Chi
cago, and heir to property worth
100000 in Aurora, was fatally in
jured in an automobile crash in Chi
cago.
Three masked men held up anc
robbed an elevated ticket agent IL
Chicago.
Leonard Hendricks of Cranston, R
l., killed himself and his two little
daughters by means of gas.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
freight house at Chillicothe, Mo-, was
wrecked by robbers, who blew oper
the safe and escaped with $500.
After an all-day conference Of the
leading government prosecuting Off
GERS and Frank B. Kellogg of Minneso
ia, it was announced by Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte at Lenox, Mass, tina
every effort would be made to secur,
a revision of the recent decision ant
opinion of the United States Circuit
court of appeals in the case of tn,
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
William Oliver, young aeronaut o
Mason, Mich, was killed while maxim,
a parachute drop at Hague park, nea
| Jackson, Mich.
James S. Sherman, Republican vice
presidential candidate announced tina
he would be succeeded as chairman o
the congressional campaign commit
tee by Representative William B. Nc
Kinley of Illinois.
Peter Sendak of Cleveland, o., sho
and killed his wife and himself.
In the presence of the Sheik vi Is
lam, the head of the hierarchy in Tur
key, the sultan of Turkey took tn
oath of allegiance to the constitution
on the Koran.
Tad" Smith, negro boy accused o
assaulting a white girl, was burned t,
death by mob at Greenville, Tex.
Andrew Haag, prominent residen
of Cullom, ILL.,, was shot and killed b.
his 21-year-old son, Albert Haag, fol
lowing family quarrel.
A band of men attacked the ofIic
of the cashier at the railroad station
in Tiraspol, Russia, and got away witt
$4,000.
A gasoline launch was sunk at Pitts
burg, Pa, by waves from a coal boa
and three steel workers were drowned
The packet steamer Neva, owned b.
the Green Packet company of Cincir
natl, burned to the waters edge a
Buffalo, w. Va. The crew swan
ashore.
The Dutch cruiser Gelderland wa
ordered from Curacao to Venezuela t
protect Dutch interests there. TIL
Venezuelan consul at Willemstad, VIII
was mobbed, left the island
An Italian girl persisted in quick
sands in the back yard of her hom
In New York.