Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-03
GENERAL NEWS.

The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Melbourne and was given a
rousing welcome by the officials and
people.
With the number of dead estimated
at a hundred and the financial loss
placed at from two to five million dol
lars, the floods throughout the Caro-
linas and Georgia have been the most
severe experienced by these states in
their history. In the cities business
has been demoralized and stores and
residences ruined, and in the country
the crops have suffered most seri-
ously.
Five men were killed, another fatal
ly hurt. and five seriously injured in
collision at the Warrior Run COL
liery of the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany, near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
At Minerva, KY, John Bruce, aged
20 years, shot and killed his father,
Lewis Bruce, As years old. The elder
Bruce had attacked his wife, when
the son interfered and shot him.
Five young oarsmen of San Fran
cisco who went for row on
the bay disappeared, presumably be
ing drowned.
The police of Atlantic City were
looking for w. S. G. Williams, hus-
band of the woman who was with
| Charles G. Roberts of Baltimore when
he was shot on the board walk.
! Because she rejected his attentions,
A. G. Summers of Belleville, Ill.,, killed
Mrs. Eva Neinninger and committed
suicide.
The British steamer Dunearn sank
in typhoon off Japan and only two
of her crew of SO survived.
Two men were killed and six Others
dangerously wounded on board the
Danish cruiser Hekla by the prema
ture explosion of a shell.
Capt. p c. Hams, Jr., and his broth
err, T. Jenkins Hams, were held with
out bail for the action of a grand jury
at New York on a charge of the muir
der of William E. Annis.
Rev. /. B. Milligan, well-known
minister and golf player of Canton, O.
shot and killed himself.
One hundred Indians at Salmon
Arm, just south of Kamloops, B. c.
are threatening to go on the warpath
fearing that they are to have theil
fishing rights taken away.
The Imperial Japanese bank of Sar
Francisco was closed by the state
banking commission, the officers beins
accused of making loans to them
selves.
The Associated Advertising clubs il
session at Kansas City elected Jane:
Gibbs of Chicago president and de
cided to meet next year in Louisville
Ky.
The American battleship fleet sailed
from Sydney for Melbourne.
Frank Halliday of Rosedale, Pa.
fatally slashed his 19-year-old wife
with a razor because of jealousy.
Vance Williams, negro accused o.
murder, was lynched near Louisville
KY.
The national rife team match TO,
the national trophy, authorized b.
congress, and $500 was won at CAM
,, Perry, O., by the United States infan
try team.
The post office at Rushville, Mo-
was robbed of $500 by burglars whc
had failed TO loot the bank there.
Hostilities between the Netherland
; and Venezuela were brought a stel
nearer by the receipt at The Hague
of an unofficial copy of second not
from Castro's foreign minister, JOS
de Jesus Paul. setting forth Venezue
las grievances and stating that tina
country awaited satisfaction.
Gov. Magoon announced the Cubal
elections would be held November
and the new president installed Janu
airy % next
Burglars cracked the safe of tn
, post Office in Waukegan, ILL.,, and go
away with money and stamps to tn
value of $4,000.
Eight men were killed and a scor
{ injured by the collapse of wall c
a new brick building at Chelsea, Mas:
Forest fires near East Tawas, Mich
.. destroyed many acres of pulp wood.
The Seventh regiment, |. N. G., wa
sent home from Springfield, H., lea'
ing the city without troops.