Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-30

| to reach the stadium Dut cOllapSed
| fell several times and, being helped
across the line, was disqualified.
Carpenter, an American, was dis
| qualified after winning the 400-meter
run at the Olympic games in London
and the event was called mo race" be-
cause of alleged foul.
r. E. Walker of South Africa won
| the 100-meter dash at the Olympic
games, defeating ]. A. Rector of the
University of Virginia. A worlds rec
ord, by G. ]. Bacon of the Irish-Ameri-
can A. c., in the 400-meter hurdling,
which he won in So seconds; an
Olympic record of "a feet 61a inches
by F. c. Irons of the Chicago A. A., in
the running broad jump; and the VIC
tory of G. S. Dole of Yale, in the
featherweight wrestling, were the win
nings of the Americans.
American athletes won two more
gold medals in the Olympic games at
London. M. w. Sheppard won the
S00-meter run and Harry F. Porter
the high jump, both setting new
Olympic records.
American athletes captured three
more gold medals in the Olympia
games at London, winning the 100
meter swim, the broad jump and the
bantam wrestling finals.
Three troopers were killed and
many injured in a terrific electrical
storm that wrecked the camp of the
Pennsylvania National Guard at
Gettysburg.
Quebec began the celebration of it's
tercentenary with fine historical pa
geants. The prince of Wales presided
and he and Vice-President Fairbanks
exchanged addresses.
At Port Edwards, Wis, Daniel L.
Lynch shot and killed Richard Nom
menson, shot and seriously wounded
Miss Anna Sorenson and then tried to
kill himself.
One man was killed and another IA
tally injured in a terrific explosion
which demolished one of the powder
mills at Kings Mills, o.
Lying in bed, a helpless cripple,
locked in a plaster cast, William T.
Branitzky, an architectural engineer
of Chicago, shot and killed Lucas Slet,
ten, who he declared had wrecked his
home.
Joseph ]. Henry, an ordinary sea
man on board the new hattleship Mis-,
sissippi, was killed by being caught
in the machinery of Ole of the guns.
Indictments charging violations OF
the federal laws against the issuance
of passes were returned against the
Illinois Central and the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railway companies by
the federal grand jury at Chicago
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Stetson, widow
of the late millionaire hat manufac
turer, John B. Stetson, was married tC
Count Santa Eulalia of Portugal at heI
home near Philadelphia.
Fire Quilted the Abingdon store and
Office building in Portland, Ore, the
loss being 100000.
Safe-blowers robbed the post office
at Bardolph, Ill.,, Of $500.
August Eberhard, arrested at Pater
son, n. j., confessed that he lured his
aunt from Vienna, murdered her ant
robbed her body of $4,000 which he
needed to marry New York girl.
Two children were burned to deatf
in fire that destroyed the dwelling
of James Jarasky near Cleveland, o.
In an opinion bristling with caustit
comment and criticism the United
States court of appeals in Chicago
unanimously reversed the decision o.
Judge Lands imposing a fine of 500,
100000 upon the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana for accepting conces
sions from the Chicago & Alton rail
road, and remanded the case for re
hearing.
President Roosevelt delivered ;
spirited and characteristic address a
Newport, r. l., before an importan
conference of American naval officers
The purpose of the meeting was to dis
cuss the battleships which the Unite
States is to build in the future, an
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke warmly in favo
of hard-hitting navy. as good as an
in the world, and capable of findin
the enemy and "hammering him int
quits"
Santo Purquo of Chicago killed hi
wife and wounded a man whom h
found in her company.
President Castro has expelled ]. F
| de Reus, the minister resident of tn
r Netherlands, from Venezuela.
A pretty young woman was foun
shot and killed in a tool shed in WI
f liamsburg, n. Y.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Ma
} kato, Mimi, about 1900 cases beir
reported.
In view of more than a hundred pc
: sons in the ballroom of the Fo
Y Lowrey hotel at Bath Beach, L.
John Hanna shot 16-year-old August
! Walz, with whom he was in love, an
S Ralph MANI with whom she was dan
ing, and killed himself.
4 Honduras off Gals denied that W;
n was imminent between their countl
and Nicaragua.
S Leslie Carter, formerly prominent
:. business and society circles of CT
s. cago was adjudged mentally incapab
S of managing his own affairs by a jul
in the probate court.
v Two masked men held up a stas
J. coach near Likely, New, and robbed
:. of a large sum of money.
a The Minneapolis, Red Lake & Maj
o toba Railroad company served mott
r on the Minnesota railroad and wal
house commission that beginning A
# gust l it would charge a passeng
t fare of three cents a mile, thus