Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-13


killed his nine-year-old daughter and
himself.
Mrs. Cleo Walton Of San Francisco
committed suicide In New York.
Senior Franco, the former premier
of Portugal, arrived in Madrid from
Lisbon. He was accompanied by his
wife and son. In the evening he
boarded the south express" pre-
sumably for Paris.
The senate passed the bill placing
Maj. Gen. o. o. Howard on the retired
list OF the army as lieutenant gen.
eral.
The United Fruit company's steam
er Auselm was wrecked on a reef on
the coast of Spanish Honduras.
Charles w. Morse, organizer of the
ice combine and Of the Consolidated
Steamship company, and a few months
ago regarded as one of the greatest
financiers in America, has disap-
| peared. His creditors attached all his
property in New York, including his
residence at 72S Fifth avenue. in a
suit for s243,321 begun by Charles A.
Hanna, national bank examiner, as re-
ceiver of the National Bank OF North
America, which Morse controlled.
Billiards and snow and sleet storms
were general throughout the northern
states, paralyzing transportation and
causing great suffering.
Mrs. Felix Jobes, an 1S-year-old
bride. was shot and instantly killed at
Ell Dorado. Ark, by her father. An
drew Bradshaw, as she attempted to
shield her husband.
President Roosevelt temporarily
suspended as public printer Charles A.
Stillings and appointed William s.
Rossiter temporarily to fill the duties
OF that Office. The action, as explained
officially, is to facilitate the investiga-
| ton now being made of the govern
ment printing Office by congress.
Residents of GAINESVILLE and Still
River, in the Housatonic river valley
between Brookfield and New Milford,
Conn, were startled by two distinct
earthquake shocks and several large
cracks appeared in the earth.
George T. Goddard, 70, well known
as one of the pioneer millers and
-four dealers of st. Louis, died sud-
denly from heart disease.
Mrs. p. II, Hough, wife of the SUI
perintendent Of the Beardstown divi,
sion of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, was shot in the head
and seriously wounded by lad who
shot at the train on which she was
passenger.
Mrs. Ronorah Kinney died in Beloit.
Wis, at the age of one hundred years
and three months.
Dr.. II. Laidley, one OF ST. Louis
most prominent physicians, and who
was medical director of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, died suddenly Of
cerebral hemorrhage.
Columbia, Mo-, voted in favor OF
prohibition by a majority of AZ votes.
The election ended long and bitter
contest.
Louis Auklam of Menasha, Wis.
shot and dangerously wounded his
wife and son.
Judge Peter s. Grosscup In the
United States circuit court of appeals
granted writ of supersedeas in the
case of Rev. James E. Kaye of Oak
Park, H., who was convicted of coun
terfeiting.
Fire in the business district of Pc
oria, H., destroyed nearly block OF
buildings, the loss being 100000.
Four persons were burned to death
in farmhouse near Preston, MINI.
A Christian Science church in Mil
waukee that was nearing completion
was burned, the loss being $4,000.
Caught between collapsing floors,
seven firemen were injured in New
York while fighting a fire which de
stroyed a five-story structure occupied
by dry goods firms at 43 Worth street,
in the heart of the wholesale dry goods
district One man was missing.
Two large buildings OF the John A.
Roeblings Sons company, wire rope
manufacturers in Trenton. NJ j., were
destroyed by fire, involving loss Of
about 100000.
Secretary Metcalf asked the house
| committee on naval affairs for an ap.
preparation of ,S73,770,0D0 for the con-
struction and conversion of war yes
| sells.
According to an average established
| by Investigations undertaken by the
| Pittsburg survey typhoid fever cost
| Greater Pittsburg the enormous sum
of 1871, 436 Tor the year ended in June,
| 1907.
| Daniel e. Elton, in charge of Los
Animas forest reserve, reports fully IS
per cent of the homestead entries
there fraudulent.
| The Los Angeles limited on the San
| Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail-
| road was wrecked at Fettly Station.
Cal. Five passengers were injured.
/ The graduate school of the Univer-
sity of Illinois, Urbana, ILL.,. was for.
mally opened. At the last session of
the legislature $4,000 a year was
voted to maintain the school.
Alderman r. d. Haven, Republican
was elected mayor of Duluth over Emil
A. Tessman. Democrat and president
of the city council, in the bitterest
campaign ever conducted in Duluth.
When fire In the Ontario Powder
works at Tweed, Ont, reached the ex.
plosive building the resulting explosion
destroyed IL buildings and shattered
windows for miles around. There werc
no casualties
/ Congressman Robert ]. Cousins OF
Iowa announced that he would not b.
candidate for reelection.
f. S. d. Shortridge, former governor
o. North DAKOTA, died at the age of rs
Nathan Sbaffner, formerly owner OIL
the Biswell hotel in Pittsburg, Pa, anG
well known in eastern business circles