Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30

many Clues, ldlleu lOT dUouI 9lJVVV,
600.
An attempt was made to burn the
is-Chalmers plant at West Allis
Wis.
Burglars dynamited the safe Of
Scion Kugler's store in Pinckney
vile, H., taking about $1,000.
Joseph Miller, wealthy oil opera
tor of Butler, Pa, was shot by q
burglar.
Winston Spencer Churchill, just
made president of the board of trade
in the Asquith cabinet, was defeated
for reelection to parliament from
Manchester.
Charles d. Pierce of New York, q
prominent engineer, committed sui
eide by inhaling gas.
Tornadoes in Texas, South Dakota
and Nebraska resulted in several
deaths and great destruction of prop
erty.
The Illinois Democracy adopted the
unit rule and instructed it's delegates
to the national convention at Denver
to vote for William j. Bryan and to
use all honorable means" to secure
his nomination.
President Cabrera of Guatemala is
authority for the statement that Is of
the ringleaders in a conspiracy
against him have been shot to death
and that probably more executions
will follow.
The supreme court of Illinois
handed down an opinion holding that
the local option law which was passed
by the legislature last year is consti-
tutional in every respect.
Mouris Bengston of Belvidere, ILL.,,
dangerously wounded Miss Sigrid APP
pleholm, to whom he was engaged,
and then committed suicide.
Four men were killed by an explo-
sion in a coal mine at Ellsworth, Pa.
A hundred others narrowly escaped
death.
Fire destroyed nine business blocks
in the town of Richmond, VT
The murder of a policeman in Lub,
lin, Russian Poland, was followed by
the arrest of 800 workmen in local
factories where the police found stores
of arms, ammunition and mellenite
bombs.
A remarkable woman's rights pet'
ton has been received by the Rus
sian duma from the Mohammedan
women of Orenburg province, demand,
ing that the Mohammedan deputies
take steps to free them from the "des,
potism" of their husbands and give
them their share of the privileges
granted by the emperor to the peo-
pie.
The North sea and Baltic treaties
were signed by Germany, Holland
Sweden, France and England.
Residents of Skidoo, a California
mining camp, lynched Joseph Simp.
son for murder.
Fire at Cape May Point, N. j., de.
stroyed dozen buildings, the loss be.
ing over 100000.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., with Capt.
Fftzhugh Lee, the presidents military
aide, and Capt. Chandler of the signal
corps, in charge of the experiments
with army balloons, made an ascen-
sion from Washington, landing safely
near Wilmington, Del.
Six hundred editors and publishers
gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York to attend the joint banquet
of the Associated Press and the Ameri,
can Newspaper Publishers associa.
ton.
Two men were killed, several in,
jured and the electric light plant in
Waukegln, H., destroyed when huge
| fly wheel broke from its shaft.
The village of Mosinee, Wis, was
fires and in great danger of destruc
| ton.
| Representative Tawney of Mime
sofa and CLANCY of Indiana were in
jured in a street car collision in
Washington.
Nine men were killed and Is hurt
when a work train was wrecked near
Laquin, Pa.
The home for rich women reduced
to needy circumstances, built and fur
nished by the widow of Charles Os
borne, the Wall street banker, was
dedicated at Rye-on-the-Sound, N. Y.
Harvard defeated Annapolis Nava
academy in the eight-oared shell race
Father J. H. Kiel of Holy Name par
ish, near Hamel, Mimi, was drowned
while out rowing.
Two new White Star line steamers
which will be the largest vessels We
projected, will be laid down at Bel
fast next June.
Instructions for William II. Taf
were refused by the state and Secont
district conventions of New Hamp
shire.
William Wolcott and Charles VOL
colt, brothers, of Milan, Mich, wer,
instantly killed near Dearborn, Mich
when the automobile in which the,
were riding was struck by Michigan
Central train.
N. d. Harlan and w. E. Walk, forme
clerks in the land office, testified il
the land fraud case in Washington
that they were paid large sums o
money for expediting land deals ant
for divulging information abou
boundaries of proposed forest reserves
The bravery and GOODNESS of Johl
TRULY, an employee of the Adams Ez
press company at Oil City, Pa. pre-
vented burglar from getting a pacl
age containing $4,000 Several shot
were exchanged between TRULY an
the robber.
Burglars dynamited safe in tn
grain store of Youland & McManus a
Lynn, Mass, and escaped with $3.50
Too proud to accept aid from hi
countrymen, Prince Constantine Palet
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