Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-16

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New York for lack of evidence in the
case in which they were arrested
charged with obtaining stock sub
scriptions to the Hapgoods Sales com
pany through Misrepresentation.
An uprising of Navajos was reported
to have occurred in New Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Hutchings of
Brooklyn were killed when train
struck their automobile at Center
Moriches, L. /.
The Petoskey Fiber Paper company,
indicted at New York for violating the
Sherman antitrust law, pleaded
guilty and was fined $4,000.
Two children were killed and a
woman fatally burned in fire neal
Nevada, Mo.
The national Prohibition convention
will be held July Is and 16 in Colum,
bus, o.
Seven trainmen were killed and
four injured in collision on the
Canadian Pacific near Medicine Hat.
Three little girls tried to wreck the
Pennsylvania flyer near HaZleton, Pa.
by piling stones on the track.
Mrs. Grace Goodsell of New York
declared her six-year-old son was the
Messiah and branded him on the fore.
head and throat.
Diplomatic relations between Amer.
lea and Venezuela have been com.
pletely severed, Senior Veloz-Goiticoa
the Venezuelan charge d'affaires, hav
ing presented to Acting Secretary
Bacon notice from his government
that he was to quit his post here, clos.
ing up the Venezuelan legation in
Washington, and repair forthwith to
Venezuela.
During the fighting in Paraguay the
American minister, E. c. O'Brien, was
troops by mistake, and narrowly es.
capped death.
Charles Taylor, a Missouri Pacific
operator at Lamonte, Mo-, was arrest
ed on charge of manslaughter on ac-
count of the wreck near Knobnoster.
A Russian torpedo boat was wrecked
In the Gulf of Finland by running on
the rocks off Reval The crew were
saved.
The members of the Brooklyn ArADr
Choral society met with an enthusiasts
tic reception in Philharmonic hall
Berlin, where they gave their first con
cert, rendering American and German
| folk songs.
| The jurymen in the Humbert libel
case against the Paris Matin are suing
that journal for $4,000 damages on &C.
count of the article printed the day
after the trial, in which their verdict
was criticised.
In gun and knife fight at a pro
| tracted meeting near Backusburg, KY,
| Wayne Lawrence shot and killed
Annie Bannister and was himself per.
haps fatally stabbed
Forest fires in Maine burned over
large areas and threatened several
towns with destruction.
A new bridge under construction
over the Rhine at Cologne fell in and
20 or more workmen lost their lives.
| Two persons were killed and a
dozen injured by a gas explosion and
fire in a Boston tenement house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Smith, who
North Rose, N. Y, were burned to
death in fire which destroyed their
residence.
Having thrown a 5000 bank certifi
cate of deposit into a stove, Joe Wal
!nsky, thinking he could not get the
money on it, committed suicide by
drowning in IS inches of water at Mo
line, III.
The Republican national committee
in session at Hot Springs, Va, elected
Frank H. Hitchcock Of Massachusetts
it's chairman and made him manager
of the presidential campaign. George
R. Sheldon of New York was chosen
treasurer and Arthur l. Vorys was
given charge of the Ohio Republican
headquarters at Cincinnati.
Fire on the harbor front Of Eas
Boston destroyed piers and ware
houses and an elevator, the propert!
loss being about $1,500,000. A watch
man was reported missing.
A loss estimated at nearly $20O,00'
was suffered at College Point, l.. l., b!
a fire which destroyed Zehden's hote
and casino, Dondera's casino and ;
number of small buildings.
Armed revolutionists from Salvador
after capturing the town of Gracias, II
Honduras, attacked Choluteca. TIL
residents strongly resisted, holdini
back the revolutionists for three days
Richard Alexander, treasurer and
member of the board Of governors o
the real estate board Of brokers o
New York, shot himself twice at De1
ter, Me-, and probably will die.
Reports that Frank j. Gould and hi
wife have become reconciled were Gil
culated following the striking from tn
court calendar of an action entitle
Gould versus Gould"
William NJ Ingraham, Jr., of Wa,
erly, N. Y, has begun contest of tn
will of his father, lawyer Of Brool
Ign, who died June 7, leaving an e!
tate of more, than 100000.
Albert McVay, a wealthy cattl
dealer, was shot while sitting wit
his wife at window Of their HON
near Pine Bluff, Ark.
The two-masted schooner Acacii
owned and captained by William Sin
mons of Kingston, went ashore o
Bull Rock point, near Sackett's Ha
Dor, and the crew of eight was rescue
by S. Gibble.
President Roosevelt and party, vi
der the guidance of Commander Pear,
inspected the Arctic steamer Roos
welt at Oyster Bay, after which tn
vessel sailed for Sydney, Cape Breton