Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-13
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS or
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD

cempIets Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts OF
the GIobe-Latest Home and For.
eIgn items.
Warden Haddox Of the West Vir'
ginia pepitentiary was killed by fall.
ing from a fifth story window Of q
sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich.
Charles w. Morse, being interviewed
on the arrival of the Campania at
Queenstown, denied that he was fee
ing from creditors and said he would
start back to New York in about ten
! days.
Albert West and Edward Williams,
negroes, were hanged in the parish
| jail at Lake Charles, La. West was
hanged first The rope broke when
the trap was sprung, but he was quick.
! ly strung up again and soon strangled
| to death
| Miss Harriet Baird Huey, former
president of the Philadelphia Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tiGn, committed suicide at her home In
| Philadelphia by inhaling Illuminating
gas.
Wagner's elevator at Storm Lake,
Ia, was destroyed by fire. The total
loss is about $4,000.
s. A. Moody of st. Louis was found
dead In his room at the Hotel Rich
mond, San Diego, Cal. He was 60
years old and was a pioneer resident
of Webster Grove. a suburb Of st.
Louis.
Bay county, Missouri, voted in favor
of local option by majority Of 1875
out of q total of 1850. Sixty-seven Of
the ia counties in Missouri are now
dry"
Frank H. Hitchcock announced that
he would resign as first assistant post
master general to assume charge Of
Secretary Taft's canvass for the presi-
Dental nomination.
Boy tramps who were drawn to st.
Louis by the national convention of
the unemployed and who were not per-
mitted in the councils, which were linn
tied to "hoboes," held a meeting at
which addresses were made by men OF
reputation among the wanderers.
Ten men were killed by an explo-
sion in a coal mine at Port Hood, N. s.
Franklin l.. Greenleaf, one of the
most prominent figures In grain and
-four circles and one of the pioneers of
Minneapolis, is dead.
John Williams, So years old, was
oil IN or w In
Chicago by his son, Wilhelm Williams.
% years old, who then fired bullet
into his own brain. Both were out of
work and the son was intoxicated.
Two persons were burned to death
in fire that destroyed a rooming
house In South Sioux City, Neb.
The American battleship feet set
sail from Punta Arenas after an Off,
cial reception by the governor Of the
territory of Magellan.
The isthmian canal commission
awarded contract to the General
Electric company for furnishing a
power plant to handle the material to
be used in the construction of the
Hatun locks, at price between s194,.
n and $197 900.
y. NJ Bell. a pioneer attorney OF
Minnesota who drafted the first city
charter of st. Paul, is dead.
Ten persons were injured in wreck
on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Franklinville, N. Y.
C. w. Milbrath, former city treas
urer and state assemblyman, and for
years one OF the most respected citi.
zens of Milwaukee, was sentenced to
Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
three years for the embezzlement Of
$500 from a client.
An Erie passenger train struck and
instantly killed Daniel Thomas and
Mrs. Phoebe Taylor at a crossing at
Hills Tower, near Tallmadge, o.
Night riders near Adams, Tenn,
burned several barns full of tobacco,
shot H. c. Lawrence and his son and
whipped a negro.
More than s25O,0OO in the treasury
of New York city, owing to former
employees, has not been called for.
Or. Albert Harrison Mixer, professor
| emeritus of modern languages at the
University of Rochester, died In Roch.
| ester aged Sc years. He was a mem,
Der of the original faculty of the uni.
versity In 1850.
Through close personal friends Of
| Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, mother OF
Countess Szechenyi, it was learned
| that Mrs. Vanderbilt will in the near
future become countess Hadik.
The plaza In front of the new
| Union station In Washington was Sc
lected as the site for the proposed me-
mortal to Christopher Columbus for
which congress has appropriated
100000
Two volunteer firemen in Xenia, O..
were killed by falling wall.
The Smithsonian institution has Of
fered prize of $1,000 for the best
treatise on The Relation OF Atmos
pheric Air to tuberculosis"
The duke of the Abruzzi of Italy II
reported to be engaged to Miss Kath
crime Elkins, daughter of Senator Ell
kins of West Virginia.
Mrs. Mary Schwartz and her infant
son died Of starvation and exposure II
Chicago.
Vice President Gallivan OF the Inter
national Union of Boilermakers an
nounced that the strike of boilermak
ers against the several railroads II
Minnesota was declared or
The White Star liner Cymric res
cued 81 members of the crew Of tn,
steamer st. Cuthbert, which was burn
ng In midsea. The ether members o
The crew, Is in all. had been brownies
on the previous day when they al
tempted to leave the blazing vessel Il