Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-04

sengers of the Republic and Florida
the derelict destroyer Seneca came ir
with Capt. Sealby of the Republic, his
volunteer crew and Jack Binns, the
wireless operator, who stuck to the
rammed liner until she went down
| The Florida, badly smashed, also
reached port.
The New York senate adopted res
olution expressing admiration for the
heroic services rendered by the Mar
conf operator on board the steamship
Republic during the collision with the
Florida, and by the officers and crews
Of the colliding steamships, the
steamer Baltic, the revenue CATER
| Gresham and the derelict destroyer
| Seneca.
Owners of the steamers Republic
and Florida both began suits for dam
ages in the court of admiralty at New
York, the White Star line asking
s2,000,000.
The French government decided to
give special medal to Jack B,nns,
wireless operator on the lost steamer
Republic.
According to meager reports re-
ceived in London, an earthquake shook
the entire Mediterranean coast OF
Spain, and it was believed many lives
were lost. Barcelona was said to have
been overwhelmed by tidal wave and
towns were reported buried by land
slides
| III A ~ rho Of
rain, accompanied by a wind which in
| places reached a velocity of rs miles
| an hour, held the United States in les
grasp from the eastern slope of the
Rockies to Detroit and from the Cana
dian boundary to southern Texas. The
storm brought with it loss of life, in
| juries to many persons, suffering to
| live stock, delay to railroad trains, tie
up Of street car service, partial paraly-
sis Of telegraph service, destruction Of
telephone lines and general damage
and inconvenience.
Fleetwood Lester, travelling sales.
man for the Southern Supply Com
pany, and his wife are in Jail at Mo-
bile, Ala, charged with holding up
Hardaway Young, president of the
company, at the point of revolver at
the formers home and robbing him of
$5,6O025.
Fire in st. Paul destroyed half a
dozen buildings and threatened the
business district. The loss was $780,
O00
Conrade Danielson, Porto Rican
manager for the United States Elk
press Company, shot and killed him
self in New York after quarrel with
his wife.
John Bedford, accused of the muir
der of Oscar Hoganson, young farm
er at Marengo, H., the latter part of
last October, pleaded guilty in the
county court at Woodstock, Ill. He
was given an indeterminate sentence
by Judge Donnelly.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announced that orders for 1920 new
steel freight cars for use on the lines
west of Pittsburg had been placed.
| Old and worn-out cars are to be re-
placed by the new ones.
The suit of the Salvation Army in
the United States against the Ameri-
can Salvation Army to enjoin the lat.
| ter organization from the use of its
name and from publishing the paper
called 1.-THE American Salvation Army
War Cry" was dismissed by Justice
O'Gorman in the supreme court of
i New York.
Hawaii has set up quarantine
against queen bees that, are unhealthy.
The mails will bar such consignments.
The navy department opened bids
| for locating a wireless tower at Wash
| ington for communicating with ships
at sea, to the distance of 1900 miles.
/ Frank d. Campbell a travelling
salesman for Franklin MacVeagh &
| Co. of Chicago, whose wife died I'M
| der mysterious circumstances Decem.
| Der "a, was arrested in Kewanee, ILL.,,
and formally accused of having muir.
| dered her.
| The bodies of the two American vic.
| Tins of the earthquake at Messina
Italy, United States Consul Arthur S.
| Cheney and Mrs. Cheney, arrived in
New York.
| James Mooney of Missouri, mem.
Der of the national executive board OF
the United Mine Workers of America,
in a speech opposing resolution pro.
testing to congress against repeal
of the tariff on coal, criticised the pc.
| litical trend of the convention of the
organization
| Ten persons were badly hurt when
a passenger train on the Southern
railway was derailed near Point Wood,
Ind.
1t was reported that King Menelik
| Of Abyssinia was dangerously i'll.
Fire in London, KY, destroyed the
| Stillwell hotel, Methodist church
and several dwellings.
Three men were killed at South
Bend, Ind, by being buried in cave-in
of gravel in a sewer excavation.
| Emperor William has established a
government monopoly of the trade in
all diamonds found in German South,
west Africa.
Statistics from the foreign office at
Tokyo show that for every Japanese
that is coming to America, three are
| going home.
| August Belmont, the New York
financier, was operated on for append,
citis.
George Goldman, lawyer of Phila.
delphia, was indicted by the grand
jury on charge of criminally libeling
John B. Parsons, president of the
IohiladaInhia Papid Transit Coppany.