Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-10

senator promising to take the stump
| for the Republican ticket.
| Charles 0. Jones, a noted aeronaut,
| fell 500 feet with his blazing dirigible
! balloon at the Central Maine fair at
| Waterville, and was killed. The acct
| dent was witnessed by $4,000 persons.
The parade of the Grand Army of
| the Republic at the encampment in
| Toledo was reviewed by Mr.. Taft,
Senator Foraker and others. About
$4,000 veterans were in line.
Forest fire threatened the destruc-
| ton of the famous Calaveras group of
giant sequoias.
James S. Stackpole, member of the
| firm of Stackpole Brothers, publishers
of the Lewistown (Pa.) Gazette, while
mentally unbalanced committed sui
eide near Miffiintown by shooting.
Fifteen thousand Americans and
Australians took part in a grand re,
view and parade at Pennington, SUI
burb of Melbourne. The Victorian
| Journalists gave a reception in honor
| Of Rear Admiral Sperry. 1t was his
birthday and the city of Melbourne
commemorated the occasion by pre-
senting him with silver bowl bear.
| ing suitable inscription.
A Paris newspaper prints an inter
view with Sidi ell Mokhri, Moroccan
| minister of foreign affairs, in which
he declares that Abd-el-Aziz has def
nitely resolved to give up the strug-
gle.
DR.. Frederick T. Rustin of Omaha,
| Neb., one of the most famous sur
geons in the west, was shot and killed
by an unknown person.
Unknown persons dynamited the
bank of the Illinois and Michigan
| canal at Channahon, IL miles south
| west of Joliet, and the entire district
| was flooded
Frederick Cornelius of Muskogee,
Okla, and his sweetheart, Miss Bah
bic Metcalf Of Tulsa, were drowned
while boating.
Foreclosure proceedings against the
Pittsburg- Wabash Terminal Railway
| company were begun in Pittsburg by
the Mercantile Trust company of New
York.
Wisconsin primaries resulted in the
nomination for United States senator
of Isaac Stephenson, Republican, and
Neal Brown, Democrat; for governor,
James o. Davidson, Republican, and
]. A. Awkward, Democrat.
Republicans carried the Vermont
election by plurality of about 2S,-
| 600, decrease of eight per cent. from
| the vote of 1904. The Democratic
vote also showed a decrease.
The crew on board the racing bal
loon Vile de Dieppe tried to descend
| at Niagara Falls. The rip cord failed
| to work properly, resulting in poor
got bad shaking up and narrowly
| escaped death in the whirlpool rapids.
Secretary George Mclaughlin of the
state commission of prisons in report
| on recent inspection protested
| strongly against the keeping of Harry
| X. Thaw in the Duchess county Jail
at Poughkeepsie.
| Delegates and visitors to the Grand
| Army encampment gave their atten-
| ton to the dedication of the Fort
| Meigs monument at Perrysburg and
to an elaborate civic parade in To-
| ledo.
Judge A. H. Huston declared uncon-
stitutional the Oklahoma school law
| providing separate school boards and
separate schools for negroes in the
new state.
Fire in Atlanta, Ca, destroyed the
| plants of the Atlanta Trunk factory
and the Empire Printing & Box COM
| pany. The loss is estimated at $780,
| 600.
Standing at the stern of a motor
boat which he had stolen and with
bullets whizzing over his head, Ed,
ward Burnett, fill-blooded Pottawat,
tonne Indian, led two detectives an
exciting chase through the downtown
section of the Chicago river clear to
the drainage canal before he was cap.
| tured.
Mrs. Arch Pickett shot and killed
her husband, a well-known resident OF
| Jonesboro, Ark, because, she alleged
he was mean to her and abused
| her."
Mrs. Earl Hallam of Springfield
ILL.,, declared that George Richardson
was not the negro who attacked her
| 1t was his removal from the city
which caused the bloody race riots.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic opened
in Toledo with Venetian night" on
the river and big reception. About
100000 visitors were in the city
which was beautifully decorated.
The members of the American team
which captured chief honors at the
| Olympic games in London were re-
ceived by President Roosevelt at Sag
amore Hill.
| At Manzanillo, Manuel Elias, editor
! of the Conservative Ell Vigilante, was
shot and killed by Manuel Estrada
editor of the Liberal paper Ell Re
porter and also Liberal candidate for
congressman.
The saloons and hotel bars of At
lantic City, N. j., were closed tight on
Sunday because of Gov. Forts threat
to send troops.
Attorney John G. Gleason of New
York sued Harry X. Thaw for 100000
counsel fees, accusing Thaw of fraud
and Misrepresentation.
Charged by his wife with non-sup
port, Rev. William C. Cummings, for
merly an Episcopal rector at Ionia
Mich, was arrested at Saul Ste Marie
in the company of a woman said to be
his sister-in-law.