Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-13


the comptroller of the currency upon
advice received from National Bank
Examiner Frank o. Hicks that the
bank was insolvent, followed by the
suicide or the president of the Dank,
]. G.. Lund.
Paris was plunged in darkness for
two hours because of an attempt of
electricians to carry out general
strike similar to that of March, 1907
John Tribbey, farmer near Rush.
vile, Ind, was beaten, tortured and
tarred and feathered by white caps.
While placing moose about his
neck for the purpose of committing
suicide, James Loreymer, a farmer
near GAINESVILLE. o.. dropped dead Of
apoplexy.
Fifteen people were slightly injured
and windows in all houses and fac
tories within the immediate neighbor-
hood were destroyed and the Harrison
avenue viaduct in Cincinnati suffered
a $4,000 damage as result of an
attempt to destroy the viaduct with
nitroglycerine.
Mrs. Eva Jones fell 900 feet from a
balloon at Abbottsford, Wis, when her
parachute rope snapped but lit in a
tree and was not killed.
Myths Erickson, a Danish explorer,
and two companions persisted in a
storm on an ice foe on the northeast
ern coast of Greenland.
Robert Turnbull, a well-known real
estate man of New York, killed him
self while deranged by the heat.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett, charged
with forgery, who escaped from the
sheriff in the swamps near Bay City,
Mich, was recaptured.
"Ty" Cobb, noted ballplayer of the
Detroit American league team, was
married to Miss Charlotte Lombard,
daughter of wealthy citizen of Au-
gusta, Ga.
The battleship Virginia took on
board 1867 tons Of coal in four hours,
at an average of 416.75 tons an hour.
at Puget Sound, Wash, setting a new
! coaling record.
Three German military balloonists
| WIZ uSdI " dISdW NSlS
ed by the Russian authorities.
Count Zeppelins monster dirigible
! balloon blew up and was ruined at
Echterdingen, where it was being re-
paired after nearly completing won
derful flight from Friedrichshafen to
Mayence and return.
About 10000 mechanics of the Cana,
dian Pacific railway went on strike,
every shop in the system being closed.
The hacked legs and mutilated tor
so Of boy were found in Chicago
and the police believe the case one OF
atrocious murder.
William F. Downing, a member of
the old Stiles-Alvord band of outlaws
who operated in southern Arizona, was
killed in his saloon at Wilcox, by Ari'
IONA Ranger William Speed.
A farmer of North Mianus, Conn,
tried to fly with paper wings and was
nearly drowned.
Said Pasha, the grand vizier, and
the newly-formed Turkish ministry re-
signed and the sultan invited Jemalle
! din Effendi, the Sheik-ul-Islam, and
Kiamil Pasha to form new cabinet
1t was reported that the sultan was
stabbed in the breast by minor pal
ace official, but that his vest of mail
turned the point of the weapon.
| Charles w. Westerfeld, an assistant
bookkeeper of the Produce Exchange
| bank of New York, committed suicide
I by shooting in the book room of the
bank just as two worthless checks
bearing his signature, were presented
at the paying teller's window.
Representatives of most of the lead
ing Italian societies of New York
many of them Italian bankers and i'm
porters, met to organize a society fol
the suppression of violence, particu
larly by members of the Black Hand
Ten thousand members of the uni
form rank, Knights of Pythias, parad
ed in Boston.
United States District Attorne!
Baker Of Washington, his bride ant
several friends plunged over a 300
foot precipice in an automobile nea
Liberty, n. Y, but escaped with thei
| lives.
Later advices from the fire-swep
region around Fernie, B. c., placed the
probable number of deaths at 200 Of
more and the property losses at ovel
| S10,0G0,000. The refugees were re
ported in great need of food and relic
trains started from many cities.
The Bank of Austin, New, one of thu
oldest in that city, has closed it
doors.
The plant of the National Render
ing company near Hammond, Ind
was burned, the loss being $250,00O
One man was burned to death.
The 24-hour general strike in Paris
was a fiat failure.
Archie and Bert McMaster and thei
wives, of Chicago, were drowned a
Galena, ILL.,, while bathing.
The steel fireboat Illinois wa
crushed and sunk by the falling wal
of burned elevator in Chicago.
Lightning during a severe storm a
Grand Rapids, Mich, caused a scor'
of destructive fires.
James Ryan, Que of the most notet
pickpockets of II country, was killed
by a tram car at Pratt City. Ala.
Because their DEGREES of divorc,
have not been filed 134 men and won
en- of Des Moines, Ia, who entered
matrimony again may be bigamists.
OBITUARY.
William Boyd Allison, senio
United States senator from Iowa, dice
of heart failure at his home il
n,,hrona after an illness of months