Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-10-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The toll of dead in the terrible in
terurban disaster near Kingsland,
Ind, is 40, Frederick c. Jones of War
rem, Ind, being the last to succumb
to his injuries. There are nine seri-
ously injured in the hospitals at Fort
Wayne, and all with the exception of
Miss Margaret Tribolet and F. A..
Parkhurst, both of Button, Ind, who
are in a critical condition, are expect
ed to recover.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic elect
ed John E. Gilman of Boston com.
mander-in-chief for the ensuing year
John McElroy, the only other aspir.
ant for the Office, withdrawing his
name prior to the election.
Warning was served on the rail-
roads at the rate hearing In Chicago
by Interstate Commerce Commission.
er Franklin X. Lane, that they must
meet the increased cost of operation
by some other means than the ad.
vancement Of freight rates.
Benjamin Franklin, a colored porter
on the Burlington, after fatally shoot
ing Deputy Sheriff Pound in Billings,
Mont, was shot and killed by two
policemen. Franklin. armed. was
hunting for a man he said had robbed
him, and resisted arrest.
Charles r. Heike, former secretary
and treasurer of the American Sugar
Refining company, who has been call.
ed "the man higher up" in the sugar
trust, was sentenced by Judge Martin
in the United States Circuit court at
New York to serve eight months in
the penitentiary on Blackwell's island
and to pay fine Of $4,000, on convic
ton of conspiring to defraud the gov
eminent by the ulderweighing Of
sugar.
i, In Santiago, Chile, an international
exposition of agriculture and indus.
tries was opened in celebration of the
centennial Of that countrys independ.
ence.
Clarence D. Hitler, chief clerk oil
the Chicago freight office of the Rock
Island railroad, was shot three times
through the chest and instantly killed
by a negro burglar, who had forced
entrance to the Hitler home. The
murder was the elimination of two
weeks of terror in which residents o.
the neighborhood have existed be
cause of the failure of the police t.
apprehend a burglar who has entered
more than a score Of houses.
! Archer Brown, white man, went
to the electric chair in the Richmond
(Va) penitentiary for the murder o.
a father and the latter's child.
James r. Keene, the fnancier anC
turfman, who has been seriously IL
of pneumonia In Lexington, KY, ha.
returned to his New York office.
Mrs. Joseph c. Sibley, wife of tn
former Republican congressman nov
under indictment for the alleged col
rupt use of money In an effort to gall
denomination, Is seriously Ill and sur
posed to be dying at her home Il
Franklin, Pa. Her husband also 4
IN serious condition.
cneesc weighing f,UZ9 pounds
the largest ever made. has been CON
pleted at Appleton, Wis, for the dair
show In Chicago next month. 1t ha
been sold for $1,409.S0.
Vivian M. Lewis was nominated a
Republican candidate for governor {
New Jersey.
Judge e. C. O'Rean Of Louisvill,
KY. In an address likened the nigh
rider crimes to outbreaks of labor O.
ganizations and approved the form,
ton OF pools" by tobacco growers.
Prince Tsai Hsun. uncle OF the en-
peror OF China. who arrived In Sa
Francisco, is III with bronchitis.