Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-09

jury to Louis Figone, 16 years of age,
and almost cost the lives OF SO others,
broke out in thesco yard Of Antonio
Figone, in San Francisco, and caused
damage to the extent of $4,000.
A Pennsylvania passenger train col
lided with an engine at Montandon,
Pa. and dozen passengers were
hurt.
A suit to GUST Peter Everhardy
from office as mayor of Leavenworth,
Kan, on the charge that he failed to
enforce the prohibition law. was
filed by the attorney general.
J. w. Belknap, a wealthy lumber
man, was dangerously injured, H. A..
Kemp was hurt, and Charles HI. Tidy
and housemaid, had a narrow es-
cape from being burned in their beds
at Greenville, Mich.
Z At Collinsville, Ill, the explosion Of
lamp in the home of George Steger
set fire to the house and three chill
dren persisted in the flames.
Two men were killed and 13 others
were injured by an explosion in con-
verter No. of the Edgar Thompson
plant of the United States Steel cor
poration at North Braddock, Pa.
While crossing the mountains with
government mail for Rocky Bar, a
mining camp in Elmore county,
Idaho. George McKenna was frozen
to death.
Mrs. Mary Ramsey Wood died at
Hillsboro, Ore, aged 119 years.
Miss Augusta Fahrm, aged %. cash
Ter of the A. e. Johnson Steamship
agency of Minneapolis, was arrested
and locked up in the city Jail on a
charge of embezzling about $4,000 of
the company's funds.
Owen Moran, champion feather
weight of England, made a draw fight
of 25 rounds with Abe Attell, cham
pion of America, at San Francisco.
Marshal Murdoch, editor and pro.
prietor of the Wichita Eagle, father
of Congressman Victor Murdoch and
one of the best-known newspaper men
in the United States, died, aged 70
years.
At Dillon. Mont, Fred Baker shot
and killed E. A. Lawrence, who was
to have married Bakers 16-year-old
daughter at three o'clock.
Three white firemen were badly
wounded in fight in the Japanese
quarters of Vancouver, B. C.
Affairs of the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad company reached a crisis,
and after a long conference of the
voting trustees it was decided to
make application to the courts for a
receiver.
George A. Fisher, building inspec-
tor of Newark, N. j., was shot and
killed by burglar.
The Colonial Arms, the largest
summer hotel on the north shore OF
Massachusetts,, was burned with
nearly all its furnishings. The loss is
estimated at 100000
Agnes Peterson, aged about %,
and Otto Huglin, aged e.. were
drowned, breaking through the ice
while skating at Ford Slip. Mich.
The case of the members of the
first Russian duma who were con.
victed for signing the Viborg mani.
festo and sentenced to three months
Imprisonment will be carried before
the senate, the highest tribunal in
Russia
Rev. Edward Twitchell Ware was
installed as president of the Atlanta
(Ga.) university, which his father
founded
Charles Francklyn Reglid, former
actor more recently wealthy whip
and automobilist, who came into
prominence about ten years ago, when
at the age of 80 he married Mrs. Adele
Ronalds, then 20, and widow of Thorn.
as A. Ronalds, New York society
leader, died at his country mansion
at New Rochelle.
In the Tombs at New York, await.
ing trial for murder, is Henry Ship.
man, aged So, who shot and killed
Mrs. Josephine Mason in that city
about 20 years ago. Shipman was
adjudged insane and sent to Mat.
teawan, and was discharged recently.
Robert Weston. colored. who shot
up" a passenger train near Baton
Rouge, La, killing A. X. Wridert, was
sentenced to death after a trial last.
ing 80 minutes.
DR.. Mary Merritt. prepossessing
young woman, has begun work in
Brooklyn as an ambulance surgeon.
The trial of the 1859 members of the
first Russian duma, who signed the
Viborg manifesto, was concluded in st.
Petersburg. One hundred and sixty
seven of them were convicted and
sentenced to three months imprison-
ment, while two were acquitted on
| the ground that they had signed under
| Misrepresentation. The sentence car.
ries with 1t the loss of all political
rights.
The systematic campaign for lower
rents by thousands of tenants on the
| lower East side in New York began
to show material results when many
| ready to make reductions.
Lieut. F. p. Lahm, u S. A.. returned
| from Europe, where he won the inter.
national balloon contest in France, de-
clared that dirigible airships would
henceforth be an important part OF
the equipment of modern armies.
Nine miners were killed and several
injured by an explosion in mine al
Carthage, N. M.
Judge Charles l. Thomson died In
Denver of asthma. He was member
of the Colorado court of appeals fol-
IL years.
| Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska wanted
to give the lieutenant governor $10(
of his salary for serving as governor
several days. but found the law for
babe It.