Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

the New York-to-Paris race started
from Times square, Forty-second
street and Broadway, New York,
cheered by a throng of several thou
sand people. Three of them arrived at
Hudson. N. Y. the first evening.
Lincoln's birthday was celebrated
with banquets and orations by dis
| tinguished men in many cities
While exercising in the Phillips
Exeter academy gymnasium, Foster
Holmes of Minneapolis. Mimi, sus-
tanned injuries which were declared
to be very dangerous.
Six men were killed by an explosion
in a starch factory at Providence, X.
L., and the building was wrecked and
burned.
Chauncey B. Geiger, president of the
Illinois state board OF arbitration dur
Inc the administration of Gov. Richard
Yates. died at his home in Ashley, Ill.
Letters read in the Smell will case
at Clinton. ILL.,, told how a woman, al
legged to be the wife OF Rev. E. A.
Hamilton, bartered her soul and sold
into bondage her young daughter for
some OF the old millionaire's money.
Frank Vlna, treasurer for various
Bohemian fraternal organizations, who
fed several weeks ago, when he was
said to be many thousands of dollars
short in his accounts, returned to
Cleveland. o.. and surrendered to the
police.
Gov. Davidson appointed Frederick
Thwaites and James f. Trottman of
Milwaukee as regents of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin
Haunted by a dream in which he
was accused of crime, Christopher
Fagen, a coachman, committed sui.
eide in Minneapolis.
Ruth Miller, the four-year-old daugh-
ter Of Charles Miller of Kansas City,
Kan, died from the effects of eating
candy from a box of poisoned bon
sister.
William Andrews, formerly of Sioux
City Ia, committed suicide in the
county hospital at Chicago by stab
bling himself with a pair of scissors.
Charles A. Coey. president Of the
Aeronautique club of Chicago pur.
chased a 100,O00.cubic foot balloon
from Morris A. Hermann OF ST. Louis
to be used IN the Chicago balloon
races July 2. 8 and 4.
State Senator William Mckay died
at Caro-. Mich. after years illness
fol M 20
of tumor.
Acting Secretary Oliver announced
that the war department was at last
in position to completely arm the or
ganized militia of the country, 100000
strong. with the new high-power
army rife.
The Japanese method Of wrestling,
jiu-jitsu, Is to be introduced into all
the military and naval gymnasia of
Germany at the express command of
the emperor.
Rev. Father P. A. Baart, pastor Of
st. Mary's church of Marshall, Mich.
and one of the recognized authorities
in this country on the canonical law
of the Roman Catholic church, died
from pneumonia.
Franklin J. Dickman, 80 years of
age, former chief justice of the Ohio
supreme court, died in Cleveland, o.
Henry Schuelle, wealthy contrac.
tor of Alton, ILL.,, confessed that he had
been a burglar for years.
Resolutions indorsing the course of
the national administration and favor.
ing the nomination of Secretary of
War Taft for the presidency were
unanimously adopted by the Republi.
can state central committee Of Colo.
RADIO.
Carl Ludwig Won Veltheim, who has
had most remarkable career OF
crime, was sentenced in London to 20
years penal servitude for attempted
blackmail.
Miss Nora Stanton-Blatch, grand
daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and a graduate of the civil engineer
ing course at Cornell, is to be married
to DR.. Lee de Forest, the inventor.
The bodies of King Carlos and
Crown Prince Luiz were finally en-.
tombed at Lisbon. Thousands of per-
sons rushed into the cathedral and
the cavalry were forced to charge on
the crowd to dispense it.
United States capitalists, headed by
A. j. Earling, president of the Chica-
go, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway
company, are closing deal for $780,.
600 acres Of virgin timber land in
British Columbia.
The net result of the Republican pri-
maries held throughout Ohio was:
For William H. Taft, four delegates
at-large. and % district delegates to
the national convention in Chicago,
and list of delegates to the state con-
vention, to be held March 8. which
will be unanimously In his favor.
DR.. A. M. Speer of Macon, Ga. was
bound over on the charge of violating
the prohibition law in issuing prescrip
tons for alcohol
The executive committee OF the
Democratic Editorial association OF
Illinois issued a call for a meeting Of
the organization to be held in Spring
field Friday, Feb. 81. On that day a
state federation of Bryan clubs will be
| formed.
The board of trustees of the Pontiac
| Qll.. reformatory ordered the immedi
ate dismissal of Capt. Alexander ]. Re
noe and Lieut. George Rogers, guards
at the institution who were involved
in the charges of brutality in the case
of William Hamlin, the Quincy boy
who died as a result of treatment at
the reformatory.
A boarding house occupied by
| American miners at Santa Rosa, Sono.