Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-02

! caused the death of George McRob
erts, fatal injury to Mrs. Walter
Davis, Irene Lockley and George Nil
Ter and the manning of score OF
others, the loss being 100000 and
100000 cans of corn.
A man said to be Santo Grace, is
now In jail at Johnstown, Pa, charged
with being one of the quartet who In
July, 1904, held up Patrick F. Camp
bell, a mine paymaster, and secured
$500 after killing Charles Hays, the
driver, and seriously wounding Camp
bell
Twenty-Five kegs of beer defied
the anti-canteen law by floating into
Fort Slocum, near New York, on an
ocean wave. The beer was seized
quickly by the thirsty soldiers. Fifty
kegs had been carried overheard from
small steamer.
A death pact, entered into because
Frank E. Williamson. aged 10, could
not obtain work, will result in the
death of the young man and his
sweetheart, Florence Lillian Wood, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. Williamson shot the
girl and then himself.
Harry S. Bates, member of a San
Francisco shipping firm, will test the
law forbidding the chartering of a
foreign vessel to carry a cargo be-
tween two American ports.
The Isthmian canal commission
will receive bids September 16 for
the French junk which has accumu-
lated along the line of the canal. The
amount is estimated at from $4,000
to 10000 tons.
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president of the United States, and
Rear Admiral G. B. Harder were re-
ceived by the prince regent of China
in private audience within the For
hidden City.
The fourth warning of an impending
hurricane given ships on the Gulf OF
Mexico within a month reveals the
fact that in September and October
of each year a number of devastating
storms strike that section OF the
tropics.
The national insurance commission
ers in convention at Colorado Springs,
Col, decided not TO interfere with fra
ternal insurance methods, but to al
low the fraternals to work out their
own salvation.
Pearls and diamond earrings valued
at $1,000 were found by customs in
spectors at New York concealed on
the person of Miss Catherine Mckee
of Harrisburg, Pa. She was arrested
on her arrival from Europe.
The government is to pay 5000 a
month for a farm of 100 acres near
College Park, Md, to be used for an
aerial experimental station.
The police of st. Louis denied the
kidnapers of the two Viviano children
had written a second letter to the
parents demanding that negotiations
be resumed. The Vivianos declare
they have obtained no news of the
children.
The quartermaster's department OF
the army at Washington decided that
too great publicity had been given the
plan to exhume the body of Lieut.
James N. Sutton and has withdrawn
| Its permission. The dead officers
4 mother desired to have consecrate6
the ground where he was buried.
| Ann Odelia Diss de Bar, notorious
spiritualist swindler, who operated II
Chicago a few years ago under tn,
name of Vera P. Ava, was discovered
In New York under an assumed name
as one of the teachers in the "schoo
OF the Mahatmas." She has disap
peared.
Consular agents have been instructe,
to make collection of the commercial
laws OF all Central and South Amer
can republics. The laws will b
printed in English and distributed il
the United States to encourage trad
with the Latin-American countries.
The harbor of San Francisco ca
be mined and the port rendered SAT
from invasion in As hours, accordin
to Capt. Ferguson of the coast arti
lery who had charge of the practic
laying of mines in the bay.
The centenary of Hannibal Han
Inns birth was celebrated in Pari
\ Hill, Me-, by many present and forme
, residents of that state, the fes
, ture of the days ceremonies being tn
unwilling of bronze tablet on tn
, house where the statesman was borr
! The United Bohemian Turner's b.
gan a four-days' tournament in Oh
cago.
A report from Buenos Ayres sal
200 lives had been lost when steam
: ships loaded with excursionists, mos
, ly women and children, colided at tn
, entrance Of the harbor at Montevidet
Homer Cassube of Logansport, Ind
committed suicide in New York afte
writing letter accusing his wife.
a nurse Of Cleveland. O., of causing hi
to take his life.
a M. Paulhan, a French aviator, in
thrilling fight in a rainstorm {
q Rheims, France, lowered the record {
! Wilbur Wright for time in the air [
D 2 hours, So minutes and "a second
I which is 33 minutes better than tn
! Americans mark.
= The fifth convention of the Assoc
D ated Advertising Clubs of Americ
opened In Louisville. KY.
The San Francisco Schuetzen We
:. Elm began the celebration of its gol
:. en- jubilee with marksmen preseI
e from all parts of the country.
n Surgeon General Wyman has bee
v informed by cable from the America
s consul at Rotterdam that there
cholera on board the Dutch shi
e Andyk, which is due at Baltimol