Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-25


trast with e150,000,000 capital.
-hree national guardsmen of New
York were killed by flare back In
one of the guns of Fort Wadsworth
Turing the mimic war.
Twenty-three wrapping paper COM
oanies pleaded guilty, in New York, to
Indictments charging them with vio-
ating the Sherman antitrust act.
Sweeping reductions in lumber
rates west of the Missouri river, and
approximately five per cent. reduction
IN the advanced rates in the east, as
well as other changes in the tarlH,
were ordered under decisions an.
nounced by the interstate commerce
commission.
Five unidentified Italians employed
by contractors on the Lackawanna
railroad cutoff at Lehigh on the
Pocono mountains, were killed by a
premature blast.
Twenty passengers were injured,
one fatally, in an interurban trolley
road collision near Bakertown, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was found guilty
at WATERFOWL, N. Y, of the murder of
Mrs. Sarah Brennan, and was SEN
.enced to be electrocuted.
DR.. Frank Stirn of Cudahy, a suburb
of Milwaukee, was shot and probably
mortally wounded by man named
Antony Kriz whom he had treated
unsuccessfully.
The famous Summit house on the
top of Mount Washington was de-
stroyed by fire.
Gen. Khoroshkin, commander OF a
detachment of Cossacks stationed at
Vorkniskan town near Uralsk, was
assassinated
Three members of the New York
National Guard were seriously injured
by the explosion of powder charge
at Fort Wadsworth.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the
Shelby Steel Tube company at Shelby,
O., owned by the United States Steel
corporation. Loss was 100000.
Several persons were injured, one
perhaps fatally, two houses and half
dozen barns were destroyed by q
tornado which struck the eastern out
skirts of Sioux City.
Domingo Schiappa Pietra filed a
suit against the heirs of the late Leo,
pOld Petra of Los Angeles, asking for
one-half of an estate valued at $780,
600, alleging that she is the common
law wife of FREDERICK Petra, an Ital
ian Immigrant, who laid a foundation
for the immense fortune.
AS officers, carrying warrant charg,
ing him with misrepresentation of the
funds of the Aberdeen (O) Banking
company, were breaking down the
doors of his barricaded home to place
him under arrest, D. H. Fawcett, pres
ident of the bank, placed a revolver
to his head and fired a bullet into his
brain.
Martin Finn of Salisbury, N. Y,
was killed in his sleep by his wife,
who then took poison.
Mrs. A. l.. Stairs of Sandy Creek,
W. Va, while temporarily insane
killed her two little children and her.
self.
Lazarus Levy, the 65-year-old head
Of the banking firm of L. Levy & Co.,
was sued at New York by Susie A.
Merrill. 80 years his junior, for $780,
600 damages for breach of promise.
The federal grand jury at New
York found a third indictment against
Alfred H. Curtis, president, and
Charles w. Morse, vice-president Ma
!ional Bank of North America, charg-
ing them with making false entries in
reports to the comptroller Of the cur
'ency and the misapplication of funds
for speculative purposes, amounting
to sSout $1,250,000.
The president of the Russian revo-
lutionary republic was sentenced to Is
years at hard labor
Three Black Hand members were
killed and fourth wounded by a
wealthy Italian merchant of New Or
cans from whom they had attempted
70 Ssort money.
The Cunarder Lusitania was stopped
FOR 20 minutes in the narrows at New
York because the great guns of Forts
Wadsworth and Hamilton were being
fired in the war game"
The Democratic state convention OF
Mississippi instructed the delegates to
vote first and last for the selection OF
William ]. Bryan as the presidential
nominee.
DR.. w. F. King, for 40 years presi
| dent of Cornell college at Mount Yer
non, Ia, resigned on account of i'll
health. Prof. James Harlan was
| chosen president.
Four hundred feet of the Missouri
Kansas & Texas railway embankment
which served as levee protecting st
Charles county (Mo) farms from the
Missouri river, gave way and 4,OO(
acres of farm lands were inundated.
Miss Miriam Frances Bloomer
| daughter of James F. Boomer of Gin
cinnati, drank poison by mistake il
| New York and died.
Thomas Hagen, a marine, was killed
| by blow over the heart in boxing
bout on the battleship Mississippi a
Philadelphia
Two hundred lives were endangered
by an incendiary attempt to burn
| tenement house in New York
| Joseph Fangele, wealthy merchan
and brewer of Gallitzin, Pa, commit
| ted suicide.