Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-09

an overall factory in Lynchburg, Va.
were destroyed by a fire supposed tC
be of incendiary origin. Loss, 1925,
900.
Peoples party convention in st
Louis nominated Thomas e. Watson
of Georgia for president and Samue
Williams of Indiana yice-president
The Nebraska and Minnesota dele
gates bolted, being for Bryan.
Announcement was made that An
drew Carnegie would add $5,000,000 to
the fund of the Carnegie Foundation
or whatever sum might be necessary
to include as pension beneficiaries
| eligible professors of state UNIVERSE
ties.
After two hours of wrestling with.
| out result, George Hackenschmidt
gave up to Frank Gotch in the match
| for the worlds championship at Chi.
| cago.
The dead body of Mrs. Elizabeth
Highfill, SO years old, fortune-telling
medium, was found in an artificial
lake in Lafayette park, st. Louis.
Robbers dynamited three safes in
Chicago building and obtained only
500.
In the first quarter of 1908 the
births in New York city numbered
1855, breaking the record.
One man was killed and two re-
ceived serious injuries as the result
of an explosion aboard the British
nf ot To1 -
Peru.
New York university students went
ION strike" as a result of the temper
airy suspension by the faculty of AL
bert Young, president of the junior
class, following investigation of the
ducking in the college horse trough"
of Harry Bloch, freshman.
Found guilty of the charge of arson,
Henry F. Mcdonald, in the circuit
courtroom at Terre Haute, Ind, shot
and killed Detective William E. Dwyer
wounded other officers and was him
self seriously wounded. The shooting
followed the announcement of the yer,
dict of the jury before which Melon
aid had been tried on a charge Of
dynamiting stores and a church in
Sanford last year.
The Indiana Republican state con-
vention adopted a platform, Endorsed
Vice-President Fairbanks and in
structed the 80 state delegates to the
national convention at Chicago to vote
and work for his nomination for the
presidency, and nominated a state
ticket headed by ]. E. Watson of
Rushville for governor.
During maneuvers the British tor
pedo boat destroyer Tiger was sunk
by a cruiser and about "a men per-
ished.
A report that Colombian troops had
seized the town of Jurado, in the re-
public of Panama, aroused fears that
war would break out between the two
republics.
Floods in Virginia, West Virginia
and Kentucky cost several lives and
did great damage to property. In
Minnesota and North Dakota a severe
blizzard hampered the railways.
Ellen French Vanderbilt has begun
suit against her husband, Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, for divorce or
legal separation. Papers in the case
were filed in the supreme court in
New York just after Mr. Vanderbilt
had sailed for Europe and counsel for
the plaintiff refused to reveal the pre-
else nature of the action.
T. l.. Lewis began his duties as pres
ident of the United Mine Workers of
America by inviting the operators of
Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and western
Pennsylvania to confer with repre-
sentatives of the miners in Indian
apolis.
Alexander Dickson, a carpenter on
the United States collier Aberanda,
was acquitted at San Juan, Porto
Rico, of the murder of Chief officer
Walter Weichert.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
picks dropped from the hands of as
many bituminous coal miners of the
United States, not to be used again
until wage settlement has been
reached and a scale adopted between
Workers of America and the coal
operators of the various fields.
Gus Johnson, wealthy farmer who
lived five miles south of Kenmare, N.
d., was murdered and r. S. Noah and
Patsy" Coyle are in Jail charged with
the crime.
Judge Smith Mcpherson in the fed,
eral court at Kansas City decided that
he has full Jurisdiction over the
maximum freight rate and the two.
cent passenger fare cases in Missouri
Percy NJ. Houston, recently elected
secretary and treasurer of the Yazoo,
Mississippi levee board, was shot and
killed by ]. T. Lowe, a prominent
attorney Of Tunic, Miss.
Flora Winston, one of the girls who
testified in the case against Raymond
Hitchcock, the comedian, was in
dicted by a grand jury in New York
on charge of perjury.
The receivership for the Westing
mouse Machine company last October
at the beginning of the financial de
preston, was vacated by Judge James
5. Young Of the United States circuit
court at Pittsburg, on petition of the
company anG the receivers.
Mary Green, aged %, of New York
the daughter of former sea captain
attired herself in all the finery she
had planned to wear at her wedding
at Easter time, and then committed
suicide by gas asphyxiation.
Express rates in Indiana were re
duced on an average of between ter
and IL per cent. in an opinion and or
der issued by the Indiana railroad
commission.