Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

by a conflagration. 1t is believed ne
lives were lost.
Much damage was done by sever
windstorms in Michigan, Iowa anc
Illinois.
Gov. John A. Johnson is willing tc
accept the Democratic nomination fol
president, but is not seeking the
honor. This is the gist of his reply
to letter sent him March 20 by Swan
j. Turnbald, publisher of the Swedish
American Post of Minneapolis, asking
just how he stands in the matter.
Secretary Taft announced that he
had ordered federal troops to the
Treadwell mines in Alaska, where
500 strikers are threatening to destroy
property with ten cases of dynamite
they have stolen.
In desperate ARRAY on a Pennsyl.
vania avenue car in Washington, a
negro and white man were shot by
Congressman Thomas ]. Hefin of
Alabama who tried to stop the negro's
drinking on the car.
Daniel Leroy Dresser, former presi-
dent of the Trust company Of the Re-
public, who recently was arrested on
charge of larceny, was discharged
| because the statute of limitations in
! tervened.
Two robbers blew up the post office
at South San Francisco and escaped
with $4,000.
w. H. KEENAN, of Mexico, Mo-, for
mer adjutant general of Missouri, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
Illinois Republicans indorsed Speak
er Cannon for president and asked re-
vision of the tariff; Democrats of In
diana Endorsed Bryan and nominated
a ticket headed by Thomas r. Mar
shall for governor; Iowa Democrats.
declared for Bryan.
The Leland hotel at Springfield, H.,
one of the most widely known hotels
in the country, and which has been
the center of political gatherings for
the last 80 years, was severely dam
aged by fire. Delegates TO the Repub-
lican convention risked their lives to
save their baggage.
Robbers made a vain attempt to
crack the safe of the Farmers bank
at Springtown, Ark, and one of them
was killed by a premature explosion
of dynamite, his head being blown
Off
Mexico City was shaken by two Sc
we're earthquake shocks, four persons
being injured
The general assembly of Virginia
adopted resolution removing Judge
j. w. G. Blackstone of the Eleventh
circuit from office for immortality and
gross neglect of official duty.
Postmaster General Never issued
an order annulling the second-class
mailing privilege granted in 1905 to
La QUESTION: Sociale," an Italian pub
lication issued by an alleged anarchist
group at Paterson, N. J.
In a quarrel over $3.50, the price of
load of wood, Peter Karanen of Cal
umet, Mich, shot and almost instantly
killed John Ahlgren, a farmer.
With the completion of a 75-pair
cable between Omaha and Council
Bluffs, the Omaha Independent Tele-
phone company was given connection
with half million telephones in Iowa,
South Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois and
Missouri.
Max Jagerhuber, Jr., who escaped
from the Preside, San Francisco, is
reported to be the son of Max jaeger
huber Of New York, who has a fortune
Of S2O.000,000. The young man is
charged with desertion.
Milwaukee's Democratic primary
election resulted in the nomination OF
David S. Rose for mayor.
In the West London police court
Magistrate Garrett sentenced DR.. Stan.
ton Colt, noted writer and lecturer
to one months Imprisonment for as
sault upon the conductor of an omni
bus.
Half of the business section OF
Vaudeville, Mich, was destroyed by
fire. the loss being $4,000.
The German government has de-
clined to receive DR.. David Jayne Hill
IN the capacity Of American ambassa
dor to succeed Charlemagne Tower
because the kaiser personally objects
to him.
Republicans Of Tennessee had a
vicious fight in their state convention
| at Nashville.
Gov. Hughes refused to save Chester
Gillette from being executed for the
murder Of Grace Brown.
The subcommittee of congress that
investigated charges against Judge
Wiley of the American court al
Shanghai reported. censuring the
| Judge, but not recommending impeach
| ment.
Citizens of Lexington and central
Kentucky signed a petition asking the
president for federal aid in suppress
sing the night riders. Officers Of the
Society of Equity denied a report that
the society had reached an agreement
| with the American Tobacco company.
The American car in the New
York-to-Paris race reached San Fran
cisco, far ahead of it's competitors.
Pasquale Patti, rich Italian banker
Of New York, who killed a member of
the Blank Hand, was forced to sus.
pend and fee from the city in fear of
death.
Leo Wojeinski of Milwaukee killed
Miss Nettie Plaschek, his sweetheart,