Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-09

at Muncie, Ind, In a riot that followed
an attempt of the Indiana Union Trac-
ton company to run cars manned by
strike-breakers. The strike followed
the refusal of the company to sign
again the wage agreement that has
been In effect for five years.
Rioting was resumed on the streets
Of Muncie, Ind. between the striking
employees Of the street railway com
pany and the strikebreakers. Two
thousand men began stoning the cars.
Shots were fred and nine persons
were injured.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana ordered a bat
terry and IL companies of infantry to
Muncie to suppress the street car
strike riots. -s
John Browl was killed, G. F. Fisher
fatally hurt and Roy Signor seriously
injured In an automobile accident at
Hastings, Neb.
Edward Hanlon. ex-champion oars
man of the world, died in Toronto,
Ont, from pneumonia.
John Bartham, mayor of Fort Gay,
w. Va, was shot and MORALLY wound
ed by. Samuel Kinser, a prominent
Democratic politician.
Seven shipwrecked sailors, believed
to be the only survivors of the crew
of Is of the Norwegian bark Ger
manic, were brought to New York by
the oil-tank steamer Hothan Newton.
They were picked up in midocean In a
terrible condition from exposure.
DR.. Nicholas Sem, Chicago's fight
Ing doctor" and one of the foremost
surgeons of the central west, died at
he age of 63 years.
Lamar Jackson, a fuilblooded Choc-
taw Indian, has been appointed to
A cadetship in the United States mill
AIRY academy at West Point by Con-
gresham Charles d. Carter of Okla
1oma.
The State Bank of ROCKFORD, Col,
closed it's doors following run. The
liabilities exceed 100000. and the
assets are placed at over $525,00O.
Friends of Secretary Taft outvoted
the Foraker faction in the Ohio state
committee and primaries were ordered
for February IL at which Ohio Repub-
leans will express by direct vote
their choice for presidential nominee,
Two women were killed by an ex.
plosion in a fireworks factory in
Rochester N Y.
Gov. Folk of Missouri announced the
appointment of Virgil Rule to succeed
Circuit Judge Jesse Mcdonald, who
resigned Judge Rule was once St.
Louis newsboy.
Louis NJ Givernaud, member of
the firm of Givernaud Bros, said to be
the first to establish silk manufactur-
ing in the United States, died at Los
Angeles, Cal, of heart trouble, aged
Is years
United States Circuit Judge Pritch-
ard at Richmond, Va, named two re-
ceivers for the Seabord Air Line rail
way.
Suffering from melancholia, Charles
Becker of Belleville, H., former state
treasurer, shot and killed himself.
Nightriders raided the town of Rus
sellville, KY, dynamited the tobacco
warehouses and burned other build
ings. i.
Allison j. Mailer, secretary general
Of the Supreme Council of the An
cient Order of Scottish Rite Masons
southern jurisdiction, died of the grip
in Washington.
John D. Rockefeller gave s2,191 900
more to the University of Chicago.
Count Boni de Castellane and his
cousin, Prince Helie de Sagan, had a
sensational fight in Paris.
Ulrich Augustus Hoegger, Swiss
artist, was probably fatally burned in
fire which burned his studio in
Philadelphia and destroyed paintings
said to be worth 100000.
Although officially declared dead
several years ago and for many years
believed by his wife and friends to
have died, George M. Gable appeared
in court at Lancaster, Pa, to claim
$4,000 from the estate of his uncle
His wife had remarked.
During the calendar year 1907 the
bureau of navigation reports 1866 yes
sells of 502,50S gross tons built and
specifically numbered in the United
States, compared with 1,045 vessels
of 393,291 tons in 1906,
Phillip f. Kramer of Portland, Ore.
locomotive engineer employed on
the Isthmian canal, was murdered by
robbers
| The vaudeville war was finally con
Guided when George Middleton, presi
dent Of the Western Vaudeville asso
citation, and his associates signed ar
agreement to take over Celia & Op
penheim's theaters In Kansas City
Milwaukee and Louisville and the
new theater being built at st. Louis.
ST. Anne's Orphans home at Terrt
Haute, Ind, was burned, but the 10(
children were saved.
James G. Stowe, former consul gen
eral to South Africa and wellknowr
manufacturer, died in Kansas City.
Roy Howard, 10 years old, was sen
fenced to eight years in the peniten
tiary for the murder of Marth;
P!cray at Des Moines, la.
Secretary Metcalf announced tina
Capt. ]. f. Pillsbury had been selected
as chief of the navigation bureau o
the navy department.
i Curtis Guild, Jr., was inauguratet
for a third term as governor of Massa
chusetts.
i Comptroller Metz. in review o
the growth of New York in the tel
years since consolidation. said tina
the assessed valuations of real estat
owned by the people had advances
from $2,532,4 16,S19 in 1898 to $6,240
4S0,602 in 1907.
Capt. Won Goeben, a distinguished
officer I'm the artillery branch of tn,