Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-07

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The steamship Texas, on her maid
| On voyage from Christiana, Norway
to Havana, put in at Savannah, Ga.
with her cargo of paper and carbides
afire. The passengers were landed
safely, but 1t was feared the vessel
would be destroyed.
Great anxiety is being felt by the
| inhabitants of Greenbank, small
town in West Virginia, over the stead.
| ,ly increasing appearance OF burning
crater of seemingly volcanic nature,
On the side of a neighboring noun
| tain.
The Park opera house at Erie, Pa,
| caught fire during a performance and
a terrible panic was barely averted
No one was seriously injured.
The two masked highwaymen who
held up 25 men near Tulsa, Okla.
were captured.
The Tom Jones restaurant In Chi
cago was totally wrecked by an ex.
plosion of gas.
An aerial warship roo feet in length
with accommodations for 100 passen
| gers, food and fuel enough for voy.
age across the ocean, and full com
| plement of guns, is to be built immedi
ately(at the Nixon yards, according to
Lewis Nixon, the designer and con
structor Of many warships.
Prof. ]. P. Gordy of New York uni
| versity and his wife committed sui.
eide few hours after the death OF
their daughter.
Passenger travel across the Atlantic
of nearly 100000 persons as com
pared with the preceding year
Forty-eight bodies were taken from
the colliery at Lick Branch, w. Va.
and it was certain that the explosion
killed about 60 men.
With the beginning of the new year
the statewide prohibition law in Ala
bama went into effect.
Fire destroyed the Whitwell hos.
pital at Tucson, Ariz., all the patients
being saved.
Because he swore around the house
Lee Marshbanks, living five miles east
of Catoosa, Okla, shot and instantly
killed his brother. John.
A disaffected Corsican fired several
shots at M. Clemenceau, the French
premier, but failed to hit him.
Ray Reese of Kansas City, Kan.
shot Mrs Clyde Setter, his former
sweetheart, and killed himself.
Five robbers dynamited the bank at
Wellston, Okla, and after exchanging
many shots with the citizens escaped
with $4,000. No one was hurt.
Arthur Trotter, 33 years old, sup
posedly insane, killed his aged mother
Mrs Ann Trotter, by beheading her
with an ak and knife in New York.
Fire in the wool warehouse district
of Philadelphia caused loss OF
| 100000
AL Kaufman of San Francisco
stopped Jimmy Barry of Chicago ir
the thirty-ffth round of their SEIZED
uled Aground fight in Los Angeles.
A. w. Troutman, an employee of a
Kansas City, Mo-, produce company
committed suicide after confessins
| that he had embezzled S720 Of the
| firms money.
John Emerson Stone, aged %, high
| ly connected in Boston and New York.
| graduate of Holy Cross college, Wor-
| cester, Mass, was shot and killed in
Washington by May Woolard, who
then shot herself twice and may die.
The will of the late Amos H. Van
Horn, a furniture merchant of New
ark, N. j.. disposing of an estate
worth 100000, gives $15O,000 to
| Newark for three monuments in city
parks in honor of soldiers and sailors,
and to many churches and charitable
institutions sums ranging from $4,000
down.
Capt Harvey G. Daily of the schoon-
er Freddie w. Alton, and Philip M.
Springer. a Boston florist, were found
guilty in the United States district
court at Boston of conspiracy to SNUG.
gle Chinese into the country.
! Accused of professionalism in de-
handing exorbitant expense moneys,
Melvin w. Sheppard, Charles Bacon,
| Harry F. Porter and George V. Bonhag
| Of the Irish-American Athletic club;
F. G. Bellars, New York Athletic club.
and J. j. Lee, formerly of the Boston
Athletic association, but now unat-
tached, were suspended by the Anna
teur Athletic union.
Brooding oysr fancied disgrace to
his family because his father had been
whipped by night riders, Roy Rogers,
the 20-year-old son Of Presley Rogers
Q prominent planter, committed sui
de Il Hopkinsville, KY.