Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-16

Topeka, Kan. under orders of the
court. sS
J. F. Selby. mayor Of Hillsboro. N
D., dropped dead in Moorhead. N. D.
Bishop George Worthington Of Ne
braska. who was recently appointed to
take charge OF the Episcopal churches
on the continent In succession to
Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York
died suddenly at Mentone, France.
Dean James B. Eddie OF Salt Lake
City, who was convicted by an &C.
clesiastical court o. immortality a year
ago, was formally deposed from the
ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
church, many of the congregation
weeping and kissing the sentence.
Prominent coal operators from the
principal coal producing states OF the
east gathered in Washington to dis.
cuss the recent mining disasters and
the best methods possible for the pres
ervation of the lives of the miners In
the future.
Albert Jackson and Minnie Burton
discovered just before the day set for
their marriage at Englewood, 8. D.,
that they were brother and sister, and
they have gone to northern Missouri
to make search for their mother.
Fred c. Bonfils of the Denver Post
was fined $50 for assaulting former
Senator Thomas NJ. Patterson.
Charles W. Whitney, New York
stock exchange man, committed sui
eide.
A radical bank bill was presented
Representative Templeman. 1t pro-
vides that losses by depositors owing
to failures shall be shared pro rata
among banks.
Isaac Kushemoff. 17-yearold New
York boy, who was bank messenger
and disappeared, was arrested on his
return from Europe. charged with TAX
ing $500 collected for the Bank Of
North America.
Rev. ID. l. McDermott, rector Of a
fused to permit lodge of Hibernians
to attend a funeral in the church. and
made serious charges connecting the
order with the Molly Maguires.
Indicted by the federal grand jury
for the over-certification of Is checks,
in the aggregate over
100000 and drawn by the firm Of
Otto Heinze & Co. on the Mercantile
National bank, F. Augustus Heinze,
the copper magnate and former presi.
dent Of the Mercantile National bank
surrendered himself to United States
Commissioner Shields in New York
and later was released on S50,000 bail
The long overdue Mount Royal of
the Canadian Pacific railways Allan
tic service steamed slowly into
Heavy weather and
trouble with her boilers compelled her
to put back
The students Of Washington uni
versity at ST. Louis held a meeting
and formulated demands upon the
faculty to reinstate Student ]. Allen
Stevens, recently expelled. on threat
Of general student strike
Despondent because of Ill health
and financial difficulties, M. A. Horn,
councilman. bank director
and stakeholder in manufacturing
concerns, drowned himself at Def
ance, o.
Seven hundred and forty thousand
dollars is missing from the Bank Of
Yucatan. Fernando U. Rodriguez,
and Mateo Ponce, ex-
of the bank, and ten other per
sons have been arrested
Claus A. Spreckle, son OF the big
sugar refiner, charges that the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company has no
surplus and that it has included in it's
assets dozen or two dismantled
plants.
Four men, who attempted to hold
up passengers on the Katy" flyer in
the union station in Kansas City Mo-,
were foiled. The conductor struck
one of the gang over the head with
n lantern and all fed.
A stretch of beach 800 feet long at
Oregon Inlet, n. c., was washed away
during storm, carrying with it the
land end of the government cable ~
Hatteras Station.
The employers liability law was
held unconstitutional by the supreme
court OF the United States
Former Supervisor Lonergan of
San Francisco. who confessed to &C
cepting brides, dropped dead
Charles M. Macdonald, formerly a
prominent lumberman. died at La
Crosse, Wis.
Foster E. Percy of Mendoza, H.,
committed suicide in Chicago.
H. Grey Duberly. relative of Earl
Grey, governor general of Canada,
committed suicide in New York.
A vessel believed to be the missing
steamer Mount Royal was reported
$50 miles west Of Fastnet Light.
AS a result of the overturning of a
skiff containing nine men near Kicka-
poo, Kan, seven men were drowned:
the other two were rescued by Ernest
Schweitzer at the risk of his Ii =.
Judge A. S. Berry, well.known
Kentucky Democratic politician and a
former member of congress, died at
his home at Newport. Ky. of pneu-
monia
Unless the spinners modify their
demands. the cotton mills throughout
the country, owned by 500 members
of the Federation Of Master Spinners,
will be closed January 25 and 10000
employees locked out.
A schooner was wrecked on the
Diamond shoals. near Cape Hatterss,
and only two of the crew of seveu
We're saved
A. Ross Hill. dean OF the college of
arts and sciences and director of
the school Of education at Cornell
university, was chosen president OF
the University of Missouri to succeed