Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-07

as having died and fully forty are
missing as the result of cloudburst
in Magofin, Floyd and Knott coun.
ties, Kentucky. Twelve bodies of the
known dead have been secured.
The Illinois supreme court has
decided that religious exercises
consisting of the reading Of the
Bible, singing and prayer, cannot be
held in the public schools of this state
during the time pupils are required to
be in attendance.
! Yale opened the regatta on the
Thames river at New London, Conn,
against Harvard by winning the fresh
man four-oared one-mile race in 5
minutes 37k seconds. The time was
| the best on record for a freshman
| four-oared crew.
One of President Taft's automobiles.
| driven by his son, Robert T. Taft, ran
over and seriously injured a street
| laborer at Beverly, Mass. At the hos
pital it was said there were indica-
tons that the workman's skull was
| fractured.
Peter Ripley, aged thirty-two, time
keeper for the Simplex Railway Appli-
ance company, and a prominent young
Republican politician, was killed In an
automobile accident at Hammond, Ind,
and six people were badly injured.
Four men were killed and IL injured,
two of them fatally, when Edward
Bushay's saloon and suburban hotel
five miles north of Minneapolis, Mimi.
was blown up by the explosion Of the
acetylene gas tank in the basement
of the building.
Twenty persons were injured, six
of them mortally, by the explosion of
BONN hurled from the gallery in the
Teatro Colon at Buenos Aires. Among
| the injured are members of some of
the most prominent families in the
Argentine capital.
Trustees of George Washington
university at Washington accepted
the resignation of DR.. Richard d.
harlan, the financial agent and for
merly president of Lake Forest col
lege.
Robert o. Abel was burned to death
and Frederick Abel, his brother, and
Harry lesson were burned and
bruised when an automobile in which
they were riding ran into ditch and
was capsized and burned in st. Louis
county, Missouri.
George Badger, a life convict, lies
at the Jackson (Mich.) prison hospital,
at the point Of death from knife
wound, inflicted by Jim Shivers, a
one-legged life convict, whose only
mode of locomotion is wheel chair.
Count Zeppeline's passenger airship
Deutschland, the highest developed OF
all the famous aeronaut's models, lies
on top of the Teutoburgian forest In
Germany, pierced with pine tree stems,
a mass of debated silk and twisted
aluminium. Thirty-three persons
aboard, after a wild contest with a
storm, escaped uninjured by descend
ing a rope ladder from the wreck on
the pine tops.
Mrs Emil Rohn, masseuse, was at
tackled as she lay asleep at Mount
Clemens, Mich, by an assailant who
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throat and fracturing her skull with
shoemaker's hammer.
The one hundred and sixth hour o.
the deliberations of the Lee O'Nei
Browne jury at Chicago passed with
out an agreement on a verdict. Tht
only interruption to their delibera
tons, aside from a comparatively few
hours for sleep, occurred when the!
were called before Judge McSurely
who gave them additional instruction
about arriving at verdict.
The American interested in thu
long and bitter fight waged by riva
interests and German newspaper
against the Deutsche Vacuum Oil com
pany, one of the branches OF thu
Standard Oil company, have jus
scored big victory, the public prose
cutor, after a thorough investigation
having decided that no necessity eS
lists for action by his Office against tn
concern. An important part OF the II
vestigation was in connection wit
the work of E. L. Quarles. America
manager of the German company
sales department, and the prosecute
declares no evidence Of anything wal
ranting prosecution was found agains
Mr.. Quarles. The costs of the entir
inquiry will be borne by the state an
the result constitutes a notable tr
umph for American interests in Gel
many.
Three masked bandits held up tn
section of an Oregon Short Line trail
: In the northern part of Ogden, Utaf
All of the passengers were robbie
of their valuables and the expires
messenger was compelled to delive
the contents of the safe. The e.
! act amount the robbers obtained ha
not been ascertained. Two passenger
and two trainmen were injured.
: The Cumberland Telephone an
Telegraph company was fined $175.0O
for violation of the Mississippi ant
. trust law at Water Valley, Miss, b.
: cause of a contract to shut out con
petition.
: The International Association for tn
3 Prevention of Smoke began its al
: nual convention in Minneapolis, MINI
I President o. T. Higgins of Syracus
! N. Y, In the chair.
Reouf Bey, acting consul general
= Turkey in New York, announced ths
the ministry of public works In Col
=. stantinople has invited bids for tn
] construction of an extensive systel
of trolley lines in Constantinople.
BY an order of the New York s.
preme court, the old homestead I
J. Clara Morris the former actress,