Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-16
BRIEF NEWS Notes
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings OF
Greatest Interest from All Parts Of
the Globe-Latest Home and For
elgn Items.

Greatest Interest from All Parts OF
the Globe-Latest Home and For
elgn Items.
Four firemen were killed and many
injured In a fire that destroyed the
Parker building on Fourth avenue,
New York The loss. chiefly to pub
fishing houses, was about 100000.
Edwin Collier, ST., took his eight
year-old blind son Edwin to his wifes
grave in Ravenna CO., cemetery. shot
him dead and then put a bullet
through his own body, near the heart
Residents of the Ghetto in New
York turned out in such numbers to
attend the funeral of their poet and
playwright, Abraham Goldfaden, that
traffic on the Bowery was blocked.
The grand jury in Kansas City re-
turned $50 indictments for working
on Sunday, mostly against actors and
other theatrical folk.
Mrs. Henry o. Boehme of Orange,
N. j., committed suicide by kneeling
in front Of an express train in the
Lackawanna railroad.
Fred Otto of Miles, Ia, travelling dis
patcher of the Chicago Great Western
railroad, was killed at Egan, ILL.,, while
assisting in clearing wreck.
William H. Taft addressed large
audience in the Peoples Institute, New
York, on capital and labor, and sub
mitted to a rapid fire quiz from his
hearers. ...
The safe of the Bank of Adair at
Adair, ILL.,, was blown open with nitro
glycerin and s7,700, all the currency
in bank, was taken. ....... ...
Five persons were killed in COLI
sion on the Alabama & Mississippi
railroad at Vinegar Bend, Ala. .
The appellate division Of the SUI
preme court of New York set aside
a verdict for s460.OO0 obtained against
George J. Gould and others by John
S. Jones, an Ohio coal oper.sJr.
The American Society of Equity in
session at Henderson, KY, denounced
the night riders as common criminals.
James A. Kemp, embezzling en-
partment, was arrested in New Or
leans.
Fire destroyed business block In
Sidney, Neb., the loss being 100000
William H. Patterson, son of former
Senator John Patterson of North Caro-
lima and brother-in-law of Admiral Ev-
ans, commanding the Pacific fleet,
died at Battle Creek, Mich, from
pneumonia.
1t was officially announced in Tokyo
that Baron Takahira had been chosen
ambassador to the United States to
succeed Viscount Aoki.
The socialists organized suffrage
demonstration before the building of
the Prussian landtag in berlin in which
a radical resolution demanding univer-
sal suffrage in Prussian elections came
up for discussion. They were dis.
persed by the police, and Chancellor
Won Buelow said the government was
against manhood suffrage.
Paul Bowers. aged IA years, shot
and killed a negro burglar in his home
at Alverton, Pa.
George F. Evans, vice president and
general manager of the Maine Central
railroad, died at Vanceboro, sIe
Terrorists of Warsaw threw a bomb
at a post car station, killing two men
and injuring ten, and escaping with
large sum of money.
Five Detroit firemen were injured,
none Of them seriously, at fire which
caused about 100000 damage in the
Forester G Cheney knitting mills.
Fire in the business section of Al
bion, H., destroyed the Edwards Coun.
ty Bank building, the new National
Bank building, the telephone exchange
and four stores.
1t is reported in New Britain, Conn,
that William F. Walker, the abscond.
ing bank treasurer recently arrested
in Mexico, is being aided in his de-
Tense by New York parties who re.
ceived part of the stolen securities.
New Jersey railway commissioners
report that from July % to December
/, 1907, los persons were killed and
1913 injured by railroads in the state.
Ex-Empress Eugene and her suite
sailed from Marseilles, France, for Co
lombo.
DR.. Horace Newell Marvin of Dover
Del, father of the boy who wandered
away from a farmhouse near Dover
last spring and died from exposure
was married to Mrs. Flora Melinda
Swift, his mother-in-law.
The American battleship feet, un
der command of Rear Admiral Evans
was sighted passing Pernambuco
Brazil. on its way to Rio Janeiro.
A new Roman Catholic diocese was
carved out of the archdiocese of Chi
cago. and win be known as the
bishopric Of Rockford. rs
Congressman William Sulzer O
New York married Miss Roedelhein
of Philadelphia. who was his nurs,
during serious Illness.
Mail adyices from South China tel
of terrible fire at Canton where 30,
lives were lost in the burning of
restaurant.
The Nebraska Republican state com
mittee fixed the state convention 70
March IL at Omaha and declared TO
Taft.
Capt Daniel Ellis. aged 49, the cele
brated union scout of East Tennessee
died at his home near Elizabethtow'
Tenn.
Maj. Henry Ward Wells, veteral
attorney OF Peoria, H.. and one of TIL
trainers of the Illinois constitution il
1870. died, aged "a years.
Richard A. Ballinger resigned a
commissioner of the general land O
fice and Fred Dennitt was appointe
10 succeed him.