Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07

VI Sdy uSd, Inu., WAS ClOSSu Dy the
state bank examiner.
! Republican conventions III Maryland
and North Carolina instructed for
Taft and that in Maine declared him
ITS choice without instructing the dele.
gates.
Serious damage was done in Leon
county, the tobacco section of Florida,
by wind storm.
Three French officers and 81 native
soldiers were ambushed in Dagana,
West Africa, and all but one officer
massacred.
The largest Y. M. C. A. building out
side Of New York city was dedicated
in Dayton, o.
Two state conventions were held by
Mississippi Republicans, one faction
indorsing the administration and the
other Foraker. West Virginia Repubi
,icans instructed for Taft, and those
! of Pennsylvania for Knox, while Re
publicans of Vermont and Democrats
Of Connecticut elected uninstructed
/ delegations.
A plot of Koreans in San Francisco
| to murder Bishop Harris on his arrival
| from Korea was frustrated by the au-
] thorities.
The battleship fleet left Santa Bar
bara on it's way to Monterey.
Steps were taken in st. Louis to
form $300,0OO,OO0 combine of yellow
pine companies.
Part of the Standard Oil COM
| oany's plant at Cleveland, o., was
burned, the loss being over 100000.
! Following the suicide of Charles
Coster. prominent broker and So
| ciety man, the firm of Coster, Knapp
& Co., of which Mr.. Coster was
member, announced it's suspension on
| the floor of the New York stock ex-
! change.
Bandits robbed the Scandal State
! bank of Crookston, Mimi, of $4,000
and terrorized the town.
Returns from the districts in the
south ravaged by tornadoes show that
at least $50 lives were lost and 46
towns were badly wrecked.
| 1t was stated in London that two
bags of mail from there, whose con-
tents were valued at 100000, were
stolen in New York.
The British cruiser Gladiator col.
| lided with the American liner ST. Paul
| off the Isle of Wight and was beached
Five of the cruisers crew are known
to have persisted and % are missing.
Catholics of the New York archdio-
cese began a weeks celebration of
the church's centennial in New York.
Robert Harrison and his six-year-
old son, Thomas, were killed by light
ming at their home near Huntington,
w. Va.
e. F. Carly. one of the aldermen of
Rockford, ILL.,, accused of boodling,
was arrested and two other council
men resigned.
At Lordsburg, N. NJ, Oliver CARR
son shot and killed his wife, shot
George Allen through the abdomen,
wounding him fatally, and then COM
mitted suicide.
Mulai Hafid, the Sultan of the
South" in Morocco, suffered a defeat
and fled.
The Japanese training cruiser Mat
sushima was sunk off the Pescadores
islands by the explosion of proiec.
tile. About $50 men, including the
captain of the Matsushima, are lost.
Mrs. Belle Guinness, 40 years old,
and her three children, were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed
! their home near Laporte Ind, and Ray
| Lamphere, formerly in her employ,
was arrested.
Nine men were killed and 80 per-
sons injured in collision of interur-
ban trolley cars near Ypsilanti, Mich
Democrats of New Jersey refused
to instruct their delegates for Bryan.
Republicans of Colorado and Arkan-
sas instructed for Taft.
Three men were killed by an ex-
plosion of the Egyptian Powder mills
five miles from Marion, H.
Safe-blowers robbed the Peoples
State bank at Monterey. Mimi, of
s., OOO
A great gathering of the Catholic
hierarchy assembled in the cathedral
of New York and gave thanks for a
century of Catholicism in that city.
The second Atlantic torpedo flotilla
arrived at San Diego, CAL
The British torpedo, boat destroyer
| Gala was cut in two and sunk in the
North sea by the scout Attentive. One
man was drowned
Robert Bachman killed the little
daughter of his brotherin-law, Henry
/ Smith IF uyhi1n In ra.
| iigious frenzy.
| Mrs. Helena Taraba of Chicago
killed herself by leaping from a win
dow of a hospital, where she was a
patient.
Several men were injured by
boiler explosion on the British battle
ship Britannia
The secretary of the treasury an.
nounced further call upon the ma
tional banks for approximately $45,.
| 100000, $20.000,000 to be paid on or
before May 9, and the remaining $25,.
100000 on or before May %, 1908.
The .tri-centennial Of the coming of
the Ouch to America was celebrated
at Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Leonora Pierce and Miss Grey
ia Fulmer were arrested in Denver on
a charge Of swindling blind woman
out Of $4,000 by spirituallstic seances.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Stone and
Boyd Ward were drowned at Muske.
! gon, Mich.
Half the little French hamlet of
Notre Dame De Salette, 16 miles from
| Buckingham, Ont, on the Lievre river,
was huried under n sliding mountain