Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-21


may involve some $4,000 workers, was
.naugurated in the hat manufacturing
| ,enters Of the country as the result of
decision Of the Associated Hat Manu-
,acturers to discontinue the use of the
lnion label In the factories represent
| ed in the association.
Several children who had been
buried in the ruins Of Messina for 10
days were rescued.
Mrs. Nathan Sherrard and four chill
dren were burned to death at lum-
Der camp 20 miles from Ashland,
Wis.
Cyrus Campbell, IA years old, a
pioneer resident of Cherryvale, Kan,
was burned to death and his wife
fatally injured in fire that destroyed
their home.
President Cortlandt Field Bishop
of the Aero Club Of America has pre-.
sented $1,000 to the club, to be d.
vided into four equal prizes and
awarded to the pilots of the first four
aeroplanes making a continuous fight
of at least one kilometer during the
current year.
Thrilling escapes, many injuries,
and one death accompanied the de-
struction by fire of the famous Cope
land hotel in Topeka, Kan. Isaac E..
Lambert of Emporia, familiar through
out Kansas as attorney and politician,
was burned to death. Fifteen persons,
a number of them we'll known in the
state, were injured. 1t is likely all
| will recover.
That Rev. John H. Carmichael of
Rattle Run, Mich, murderer of
Gideon Browning and later slayer of
himself, was insane, was proved at
the post-mortem examination of his
body.
Miss Jane Beatrice Mills, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, and
granddaughter of the well-known finan-
cier, ID. o. Mills, was married to the
eighth earl of Granard in New York.
Two hundred and forty men were
entombed in coal mine at Veszprim,
Hungary, by an explosion. Forty live
bodies were recovered.
Brig. Gen. Robert M. O'Reilly, who
has been surgeon general of the army
for the past seven years, was placed
on the retired list after 45 years serv-
ice with the advanced rank of major
general.
Miss Frances Livingston of Boyd
Wis, who advertised in papers in all
parts of the country for husband and
received 1000 proposals of msrriage,
has chosen Louis Struvanz of Dor
chesetr, Wis. -,
7 Harry Keener, York county (Pa.)
farmer, confessed that the story told
by girl of this city that he had killed
a man on his farm last July is true.
A life sentence was given John
Braziel at Marietta, o., for numbering
Constable ID. B. Cook and Dan Sims.
Ship-owners of northern England
representing more than $50,000,000
worth of tonnage took the first steps
toward formation of an international
union of ship-owners.
The National League for Industrial
Education, designed to foster national,
state and local cooperation in the pro-
| motion of industrial training in
schools, has been organized in New
York with James ]. Hill of st. Paul as
honorary president.
The corporation of Harvard college
sent to the overseers of the college
the name of Abbott Lawrence Lowell,
professor of the science of govern
ment, as their choice as president of
the college to succeed President
Charles w. Eliot.
In a fire that completely burned the
residence of Samuel Higgins, general
manager of the New York, New
haven G. Hartford railroad at New
Haven, Conn.,, yesterday his mother,
Mrs. Higgins, lost her life.
Binding, gagging and assaulting
Solomon Loughner, so years old, near
Pittsburg, Pa, and his two sisters, both
of whom are about 80 years old, six
masked robbers secured about $500
in cash, ate their supper, and then
! disappeared
More than 100 lives were snuffed out
by an explosion in the mines of the
Lick Branch colliery, near BEuefield,
w. Va. Just two weeks before, so
miners were killed in the same mines
by a similar explosion.
Beryl Benjamin Laska, young at
torney of Denver, was declared not
guilty in Federal Judge Lewis court
Of using the hypnotic eye" for exer-
cising powers of clairvoyancy to infiu-
ence Jurors to hand down verdicts ia
vorable to his clients
The Turkish government accepted
the Austro- Hungarian offer Of e2,500,.
900 Turkish ($10,SO0.000) indemnity
| for the annexation Of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. thus removing every pos
sibility of war.
John ". Duffy, confidential clerk to
Martin J. Condor, president Of the
American Snuff Company, was arrest
ed in New York charged with forging
his employers name to IL checks ag-
gregating $500.
About $1.00O.O0O which has laid I'M
claimed In Massachusetts, savings
banks for more than 80 years will be
| paid to the treasurer of the common
wealth. through a decision of the SUI
preme judicial court.
Mrs. Tomas Estrada Palma, widow
of the former president of Cuba, has
| decided to return to Central Valley,
Orange county, N. Y, with her chill
dren, there to spend the rest of her
| life.
Joseph Cross, alias Rogers, 38 years
old, who has been in prison most of
the time since he was IA years old,
committed suicide by hanging In his