Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-01
James Boyle and the woman he calls

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for their safety at Sharon.
The woman who planned the Whitls
KIDNAPPING and is known as Mrs
James Boyle, was Anna Overton
daughter of former fireman of Chi
cago.
Mrs. Jessie Overton Culbertson Of
Vincennes, Ind. committed suicide
and was not slain, according to latest
Developments in the strange case.
President and Mrs. Taft entertained
at dinner at the White House warning
factors in the house of representa-.
tives.
The Is railroads of Missouri have
decided to put into effect April /, a
three-cent passenger fare.
The original affinity" wife, Mrs.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, has sued for
an annulment of her marriage, de-
claring her husband is a lunatic.
The new military post to be con-
structed at Waiano, Uka, Island Of
1 Oahu, Hawaii, has been designated
Schofield barracks, in honor of the
late Lieut.. Gen. John NJ. Schofield.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard. Jr., wife of
the tobacco magnate, committed sui.
eide in Washington. Illness is be-
lieved to have caused her act.
Unopened notes. buried with Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard, Jr., the Washington
society leader, carried to the grave
the secret of her suicide.
The First National bank of Gibson
Okla, has closed it's doors. 1t is CAPT
talized at $4,000. All the deposits
have been transferred to the Citizens
State bank. Depositors will be paid in
full.
Frederick D. Prentice and Miss
Hope Yeager were returned to Toledo,
O., from Oklahoma to answer to
charges growing out of the investiga
ton of the German Fire Insurance
Company, of which Prentice was sec.
rotary and treasurer, and Miss Yea.
ger a department manager.
Representative Cox of Ohio called
on President Taft to discuss plans for
the delivery of the gold medals
awarded by the Aero Club of America
to the Wright Brothers of Dayton, O.
Mrs. Lloyd C. Griscom, wife of the
American ambassador to Italy, who
has been i'll, underwent slight opera
ton which, although successful, will
prevent her leaving Rome until May.
More than 10000 persons demanded
seats in the Milwaukee hippodrome
where the liquor debate between
Mayor Rose and Samuel Dickie was
held. The building holds 1000.
Gen. Cipriano Castro, former presi.
dent of Venezuela, has sailed from
Havre for home and, it is believed, in.
tends to attempt to rule the country
again.
The French chamber Of deputies
unanimously adopted M. Delcasse's
motion to appoint a parliamentary
commission to inquire into the state
of the navy before fresh credits were
voted.
King Edward has appointed tn
earl of Granard knight of the Order
of st. Patrick in place of the earl of
Howth. deceased. The earl of Granard
married Miss Beatrice Mills of New
Adjt. U. r. Webb, head of the Sal
walton Army of Youngstown, o., com
mitted suicide by swallowing NOR
phine. He knelt in earnest prayer
with his wife after taking the drug.
Frederick Richardson, wanted on
charges of fraud amounting to $780,.
900, committed suicide in Harrisburg,
Pa, just as the police were about to
arrest him.
The miners convention at Scranton,
Pa, decided that there will be no
strike on April 1, when the present
agreement with the operators expires.
Police Commissioner Bingham said
bride of 100000 year was offered
to him II he would protect certain
criminal interests in New York city.
Plans for the formation of a merger
Of four eastern railroads under one
system have been made by George
Gould and others according to Balti-
, more report.
Mrs. Amos Miller drowned herself
and two children at Sumsbury, Conn,
while mentally deranged.
Representative Taylor struck Rep.
resentative Shoemaker with his fist
and called him "deceitful liar" dur,
ing the progress of an argument over
the woman suffrage bill in the Ne.
braska house.
William G. Nagel, the oldest en-
gineer in point of service on the Big
Four lines, was killed by being struck
by a water crane as he put his head
out of his cab window, II miles east
of Greensburg. Ind.
The lower branch of the Connecti
cut general assembly adopted reso
! luton instructing the Connecticut
| delegation in congress to favor chang
ing the date Of the presidential in
week in April.
| Attorney General Wickersham has
asked Wade H. Ellis of Ohio to con
tinue in his present position of assist
ant attorney general, and it was off
cially announced that Mr.. Ellis had
agreed to do so.
Two children of Hosea Webster, {
merchant of Deals Island, Md, dice
as result, it is thought, of ptomaine
poisoning, caused by eating canned
ham. Other members of the famil!
are in critical condition.
The Cleveland CO., police arrested
the kidnapers of Willie Whitla, mar
add woman, the woman confessins
that she planned the crime.
At the annual meeting of the Penn
sy!vania railroad resolution empow
ering the board of directors, in its dis
erection, to increase the bonded indebt