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

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were ordered running all the way
from 20 to so per cent.
Fifteen people are known to be
dead, fifteen additional are reported
as having died and fully forty are
missing as the result of cloudburst
in Magoffin, 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 371s 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 1t was said there were indica-
tions that the workman's skull was
fractured.
Peter Ripley, aged thirty-two, time
keeper for the Simplex Railway Appli-
ance company, and prominent young
Republican politician, was killed In an
automobile accident at Hammond, Ind,
and six people were badly injured.
Four men were killed and II 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 MORALLY, 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 wild contest with a
storm, escaped uninjured by descend
ing rope ladder from the wreck on
the pine tops.
Mrs. Emil Rohn, a masseuse, was at
tackled as she lay asleep at Mount
Clemens, Mich, by an assailant who
escaped, after cutting the woman's
throat and fracturing her skull with
shoemaker's hammer.
The one hundred and sixth hour of
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Browne jury at Chicago passed with
out an agreement on a verdict The
only interruption to their delibera-
lions, aside from a comparatively few
| hours for sleep, occurred when they
were called before Judge McSurely,
who gave them additional instructions
about arriving at verdict.
The American Interested in the
long and bitter fight waged by rival
interests and German newspapers
against the Deutsche Vacuum Oil COM
pany, one of the branches of the
Standard Oil company, have just
scored big victory, the public prose
cutor, after a thorough investigation,
having decided that no necessity ex-
lists for action by his Office against the
concern. An important part of the in
vestigation was in connection with
the work of E. L. Quarles. American
manager of the German company's
sales department, and the prosecutor
declares no evidence Of anything war
ranting prosecution was found against
Mr.. Quarles. The costs Of the entire
inquiry will be borne by the state and
the result constitutes notable tri-
umph for American interests in Ger.
many.
Three masked bandits held up the
section of an Oregon Short Line train
in the northern part of Ogden, Utah
All of the passengers were robbed
of their valuables and the express
messenger was compelled to deliver
the contents of the safe. The ex
act amount the robbers obtained has
not been ascertained. Two passengers
and two trainmen were injured.
The Cumberland Telephone and
Telegraph company was fined 5000
for violation of the Mississippi anti
trust law at Water Valley, Miss, be.
cause of a contract to shut out com
petition
The International Association for the
Prevention of Smoke began its an
nual convention in Minneapolis, MINI.
President o. T. Higgins of Syracuse
N. Y, In the chair.
Reouf Bey, acting consul general Of
Turkey in Nsw York. announced that
the ministry of public works in Con
stantinople has invited bids for the
construction of an extensive system
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