Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-19
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the Fall River line steamer Provi.
dence prevented catastrophe when
fire broke out while the vessel was
In Long Island sound.
Eighteen persons have been killed
by an avalanche in the Dukhtarminsk,
Siberia, district
Five hundred people were poisoned
at social given by the women of the
English Lutheran church, Upper San
husky, O., by eating chicken and waf-
des.
Shareholders petitioned directors of
the Union Pacific to make Hartman
give up s4O.O00,000 alleged to have
been lost through his stock specula-
lions.
In the Lilley probe Congressman
Hobson testified that he was APP
preached by lobbyist of the subma-
rine boat interests who claimed infu-
ence with Speaker Cannon.
Rev. Conrad Jaeger, aged 81 years,
pastor of the Fist Evangelical Luther
an church of Racine, Wis, and one OF
the foremost Lutherans in Wisconsin,
is dead
Thoron Illick, aged %, son OF j. T..
Illick, prominent Burlington, Ia, attor-
ney, was drowned by the overturning
of sail boat
In Indianapolis, Ind, the national
convention of the United Mine Work
ers Of America went into session to
| agree upon course of action for
wage scale.
| John G.. Jenkins, the Brooklyn, N.
Y, banker who with three sons was
indicted as result Of the banking in
vestigation, died of paralysis.
The candidacy of William H. Taft
for president of the United States was
Endorsed by the Republican state con-
vention of Nebraska at Omaha, Neb.
The steamer Mauretania established
new transatlantic record by beating
her own best previous eastward.
A Denver, Col, jury sentenced Gui-
seppe Ala to death for the murder Of
Father Leo Heinrichs.
An important conference was held
at the White House in Washington re-
specting amendments to the Sherman
antitrust law.
While hunting ducks on Reservation
lake, few miles southwest of Sioux
City, Ia, Luther E. Peterson was in
stantly killed by the explosion of his
own gun.
| Nine. Anna Gould, who sailed for
New York from Paris, booked her pas
sage under the name of Miller.
John BURY, well-known electrical
engineer and inventor of the BURY
printing telegraph system, died at his
home on Staten Island.
The American battleship fleet under
command of Rear Admiral Robley d.
Evans steamed into Magdalena bay
and dropped anchor.
The cruiser Yankton, that went to
Indefatigable island in search of Fred
Jeffs, an American seaman, said to be
marooned there, returned to Acapulco:
1t failed to find Jeffs.
Mayor Markbreit of Cincinnati, who
said women were not capable of run.
ming autos and that the only ma
chimes women ought to run are sew
ing machines" is now sorry he said it.
The women bombarded him with pro-
tests until he took it back.
1t is reported in London that the
regalia stolen from Dublin castle has
been found in a pawnshop and re.
covered.
The yachts of George Gould, Will
liam Leeds and three of the Wander.
bilts were offered for sale in New
York.
Nat C. Goodwin writes that after his
three weeks engagement in Chicago
he will quit the stage and go into the
mining business in Nevada.
An investigation by the department
of commerce and labor into the whole
system of grain dealing on boards of
trade is expected as the result of a
| resolution to that effect introduced in
| congress.
An unidentified man was found at
| wire fence. He was still alive, al.
though naked, and with his head part.
ly severed from his body. Mystery
surrounds the affair.
Oscar E. Gaustad of Colburn, Wis,
found his lost son, apparently dead,
under a tree. After carrying the lad
seyera4 miles home and working over
him warmth came to the body and the
lad revived. He had fallen from the
tree and become unconscious.
President Roosevelt has directed
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau Of
corporations to investigate the meth
DDS of stock trading with view to
furnishing the basis of possible future
legislation regulating such practices.
Details of alleged frauds In the
Louisiana Democratic primary cleo
ton were placed before the Demo-
cratic state central committee.
John B. Lindsey, at Macarthur, o.,
was acquitted of the charge of having
attempted to bride Prosecuting At
torney Miller.
Methods of meeting competition and
gaining the oil trade of a locality were
testified to in the Standard Oil custer
suit at Cleveland, o.
Coroner Burke rendered his de-
cision in the Collinwood CO., school
fire. Conditions existing are blamed,
but no fault is charged to any one.
The Kansas conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Topeka,
Kan, exonerated DR.. J. T. Mcfarland
Of heretical charges.
One Of the buildings of the San
Francisco and county almshouse was
burned and three patients lost their
lives.
Ambassador Takahira addressed the