Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings OF
Greatest Interest from All Parts Of
the Giobe--Lstest Home and For
eign Items.

Tornadoes devastated the towns OF
Tyler, Tex, and Mossville, $3.50 and
Service, Miss, blowing down many
houses and causing number OF
deaths.
The American fleet Of 16 battle
ships, under the command Of Rear Ad-
miral Evans, passed Valparaiso, Chile.
where it was reviewed by President
Mont and thousands of Chileans, and
continued on its voyage northward for
Callao, Peru, the next stopping place.
The Wisconsin delegation to the ma
tional Democratic convention at Den
yer, Col, was instructed to vote as a
unit for William ]. Bryan as the
Democratic nominee for president,
first, last and all the time.
Damage amounting to probably $751;
900 was done, oil paintings of judges
who have presided in Brooklyn in the
last half century were water-soaked
and valuable records narrowly escaped
destruction when fire swept through
the upper part of the Kings county
courthouse in Brooklyn.
An explosion of boiler in the base.
ment of the public school at Adrian,
Mo-, tore away the floor of the pri-
mary department and precipitated a
teacher and 60 pupils into the base.
ment, burning and scalding many of
them In frightful manner
Prof. w. F. c. Hasson of the Aca-
demic force at the naval academy at
Annapolis is dead.
Seventy-two men, representatives
of all the classes of labor employed
on the New Orleans river front, and
who compose a union known as the
Dock and Cotton council, were in
dicted by the United States grand jury
on the charge of conspiring to restrain
trade in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law.
Deputy Chief Charles w. Kruger of
New York lost his life while leading
his men in desperate fight against
flames in Canal street. He fell
through a trap into a water-filled
basement and drowned.
The American ship Emily Reed was
wrecked on the Oregon coast, ten of
her crew perishing.
Adolph Stemwetz, paying teller of
the National Bank of Commerce of
Minneapolis, was arrested for an al
legged shortage of $3,450.
There was an unconfirmed rumor In
Vienna that the shah of Persia had
been assassinated.
The will of Mrs. Rylands, widow Of
John Rylands, of the famous Manches-
ter (Eng) cotton firm, bequeaths
$2,365,000 to various charities, includ-
ing $1,000,000 to the John Rylands IL
brary at Manchester.
An explosion in a coal mine at
Glencoe, Natal, cost 81 lives.
Macon county, Georgia, went dry
by majority of 900. Seventy of the
ia counties of Missouri have now
voted for local option.
Following the indicated preference
at primary vote, the Republican
county convention at Lincoln, Neb.,
adopted a resolution declaring for
Theodore Roosevelt for president and
instructing its delegates to the state
convention to work to that end
DR.. Leo Danziger, prominent Ger
man physician, was shot and instantly
killed in Cincinnati by Robert Colt,
the uncle of Anna Bell Stangley, II
year-old girl, at whose bedside the
physician was giving medical atten-
ton.
Yves Summerlin ana his son Charley
were hanged at Carrollton, Ca, for
the murder of Jethro Jones, a wealthy
farmer.
Women suffragists of London went
to Jail for six weeks rather than give
sureties for their good behavior.
Because of interference with plans
for marrying his sister, Henry Bean,
a prosperous young farmer of Prich-
ard. W. Va, was shot through the
head and instantly killed by Virgil
Hatten.
A. G. Ttsdelle of Chicago, who is
charged with accepting deposits after
his private bank had become insolvent
surrendered himself to the police.
New York detectives hunted in vain
for Henry s. Snow, former treasurer
Of the New York and New Jersey Tele.
phone company, who was indicted by
the grand jury on charge of grand
larceny.
| Leavenworth, Kan, by a majority
approximately 500. adopted commits
sion form of government patterned
after that of Galveston.
Fred Wigle, an actor, shot and in
stantly killed his wife, Maud, and then
committed suicide at boarding house
In Cleveland, o.
For signing the viborg manifesto,
Feodor Feodorovitch Kokoshkine, a
scion Of the ancient Rurik dynasty,
now professor in Moscow university
and prominent leader of the consti-
tutional democrats. was expelled from
the Moscow nobility by vote of 26O
against 92.
The Farmers and Mechanics bank
at Rich Hill, Mo-. was dynamited and
! robbed.
William II. Zinzer, for AZ years in
the employ of the banking house of
Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, and for
many years teller. committed suicide
by swallowing carbolic acid.
Thomas Thomas. pioneer of Green.
wich village" now part of New
York, died on the doorstep of the
house where he was born nearly Is
years ago.
The Filipino assembly unseated
Senior Gomez and declared his election
void
Charles A. Schmalhausen. post
master at Bridgeport ILL.,, committed