Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-23

Mayor r. A. Smith of st. Paul,
MINI, and his family were poisoned
by tainted chicken.
One person was fatally injured and
others hurt by panic caused by the
explosion of moving picture machine
in st. GATHERINGS, Ont
Another New York tenement house
was wrecked by a bomb supposedly
placed by Black Hand members
The new German armored cruiser
Scharnhorst ran aground and was bad
ly damaged.
Secretary Taft told the senate COM
mittee In interoceanic canals that the
Panama canal might be completed in
about six years.
Isaac w. Baird, who 20 years ago
was proprietor of celebrated min
strel troupe, is dead in Portland,
Ore, aged 81 years.
The special grand jury which was
sworn in to investigate the conduct of
certain banks in New York county re-
turned two indictments against Will
liam r. Montgomery, president of the
Hamilton bank.
A serious earthquake occurred at
Gonaives. Hayti. A few houses were
destroyed and others were damaged.
No loss of life has been reported.
At their annual meeting in Detroit
the Lumber Carriers Association of
the Great Lakes decided that it would
be impossible to operate their boats
during the coming season at the same
expense and under the same condi-
tons as prevailed during 1907. 1t is
predicted that there will be a great la
Dor struggle.
The Maple-Leaf mills at Kenora,
Ont, were destroyed by fire. The ele-
vator, in which was stored over 300,-
900 bushels of wheat, was also de-
stroyed. The loss was $1,00O,000; in
sured.
Oil-producing firms at st. Petersburg
received news from the Caucasus of
the opening of mammoth oil gusher
in the Bibi-Eybat field at Baku, flow
ing at the rate of 10000 barrels
day.
Farmers in Stanley county, South
Dakota, were blowing during the first
week in January
The coroner's jury practically ex-
onerated the coal mining company for
the great disaster at Monongah. w.
Va
Edward Henry Strobel, general ad-
wiser of the government Of Siam, died
after long illness.
The body of Lieut. John w. Craw-
ford, private secretary to Admiral
Dewey, was found in the Potomac
The prince regent of Bavaria, who
recently pardoned two murderers SEN
fenced to death, declared his intention
not to sign any more death warrants.
The officers of the American battle
ship feet were breakfasted by Presi
dent Penna at Petropolis and later
attended a garden party at the Ameri-
can embassy.
1t was positively asserted that Sec
rotary Cortelyou would not resign
though he was virtually offered the
presidency of the Knickerbocker Trust
company.
John s. Peters, one of the jurymen
who found r. Meade Shumway guilty
of murder at Beatrice. Neb,. affixing
the death penalty, committed suicide.
Five persons were drowned while
skating in the Jimtown reservoir, near
Connellsville, Pa.
Hepburn hall, the girls dormitory at
Miami university, Oxford, o., was de-
stroyed by fire.
E. ID. Scott, cashier and Roy w.
Van Hoesen. bookkeeper of the Peo-
pies National bank of Franklinville ~
Y, were arrested, charged with viola
ton of the revised statutes relating to
the making of false statements of
banks condition to the controller
Denmark's greatest modern poet,
Holger Drachmann, died suddenly at
Copenhagen, in the sixty-first year of
his age.
Prof Charles Baetens, for many
years solo cellist in the Thomas or
chestra, committed suicide in Omaha,
Neb.
The City National bank of Muskogee,
Okla, purchased by Dr. j. l.. Johnson
of st. Louis, was merged with the
First National. The Bank of Com
merce will go into liquidation. it's
business having been sold to the Okla
homa State bank.
Mayor William B. Thompson of De-
troit, Mich, in his annual message,
calls attention to the fact that the city
will have to deal with the street rail
way franchise question in another
year and urges that mo new leases of
three-cent fare"
The high court of Monaco has re-
fused the appeal of the Goold couple.
who were convicted December last
of the murder of the Swedish woman.
Emma Levin
Frank Nunno, a wealthy young
banker, was found murdered near
Ardsley, N. Y.
Suffering from insomnia woman
named Mrs. Kitchener, widow Of a
brother of Viscount Kitchener OF
Khartoum, committed suicide in the
port of Colon by drowning.
James Randall, famous as war
poet, died in Augusta Ga. He was
born in Baltimore in 184S. Among |
other products of his pen was MARY |!
land, My Maryland"
Prof. 3. M. Reynolds. for the past 80
years one OF the best-known educators |
OF Wisconsin and Minnesota. died in |
a hospital at Morgan City, Ala.
J. ]. Fitzmaurice, blind man, is ac-
cused at Butte, Mont, of beating a !
cripple and leaving him to freeze to
death on the prairie
Elias Matson Of Chisholm, Mimi,
was murdered as he lay asleep beside |