Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Incomplete reports from the district
devastated by the earthquake in Mex
leo indicated that more than 100 per-
sons lost their lives and several towns
were nearly destroyed.
Noah R. Marker, the absconding as
sistant cashier of the First National
bank, returned to his home in Upton,
Ind, was arrested, taken to Muncie
and released on a $4,000 bond. He
said he had been fishing in Missouri
and returned to spend his birthday
with his family.
Following the report that the re-
bells had surrendered in barcelona and
the Moors had retreated from Melilla,
official announcements given out al
Madrid said the situation in Spain
was improving. 1t is said 400 were
slain and 1000 wounded in the BARGE
lona battle.
Orville Wright won the $4,000
prize offered by congress, surpassed
the governments requirements and
set a new speed record for aero
planes, in the final test at Fort Myer.
Harry Thaw's belief that he is a
person of extreme ability may be the
bar that will keep him in the mad
house, judging from the pertinent
questions asked by Justice Mills who
is hearing the sanity probe case.
Phillip Swift, son Of Edward F.
Swift, the Chicago packer, was seri
ously injured when his automobile
running a mile a minute, struck q
telephone pole at Lake Geneva, Wis
A person seeking revenge turned
off the %ventlating apparatus in a coal
mine 1t Pittsburg, Kan, and 40 min
ers were overcome by gas.
When his launch caught fire in mid
stream, Attorney Fred Dicke of Two
Rivers, Wis, leaped into the water
took a rope in his teeth and pulled
the boat to shallow water where three
girls who had been badly burned
sprung into the stream and saved
themselves.
Two couples were married by Rev
George Whitehead of New York late
at night, while the pastor was garbet
in his pajamas and was ba~refooted.
Roy Griswold, who was arrested a.
Georgetown, Col, on suspicion that he
was the slayer of Peter Waeltz a
Belleville. ILL.,, proved an alibi and wa.
released.
Claude Brooks, a negro, was hanged
at Kansas City, Mo, for the murder
of Sidney Herndon, a well-to-do real
estate owner, formerly of Tyler, Tex.
Jan. 10, 1908.
1t is announced that the govern
ment is planning to expend 5000, 00J
on Notifications at San Pedro, Cal.
The murdered body of an unidenti
fled man bound hand and foot wa
found by children in the woods nea
Randall, o.
Night riders have warned the build
ers to cease work on a new school
house near Bethpage, Tenn, close +
the Kentucky state line, and they hav
demanded the resignation of a trustee
Republicans of Nebraska, in con
venticn, Endorsed President Taft's tel
if policies and declared they woul
approve his action if he sees fit +
veto the bill.
Ballonists of st. Louis struck a mic
summer snow storm two miles abov
Savanna, ILL.,. and were forced to LAND
Emperor William has received a
invitation engraved on a gold plate t
attend the fiftieth anniversary of tn
German Marksmen's association j
San Francisco.
Countless millions of little whit
moths caused great annoyance to tn
people of New York city.
Mrs. Susan Merrill testified thu
Harry Thaw had taken 200 girls I
her house and dashed their bare fes
with a dog whip.
After killing his wife with an a.
Robert Tanning Of New Bedfor
Mass, drove to a police station in b
automobile and committed suicide.
Politics is blamed for the strike
275 foundry men in the plant of tn
simmons Manufacturing Company
Kenosha, Wis.
DIR. Britton ID. Evans. who In Il
first Thaw trial sprung the term bra
storm" testified at White Plains tn.
Thaw is NOT insane.