Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-03-23

Carolina White, the American prima
donna, through her personal heroism,
prevented a panic In the Metropolitan
opera house at Philadelphia and ex-
tinguished a fire upon the stage which
she had inadvertently started.
Through 1t all, with the audience Of
1000 becoming more nervous every
second and preparing to make a mad
rush for the exits, she continued her
singing.
Two million is the approximate
Irish-born population OF the United
States. There were exactly 1918, 449
Irish born in the United States In
1900. immigration from Ireland for
the last ten years has averaged 81 ,000
Wells-Fargo Express companies, num-
bering $500 persons, Joined the strik-
ing forces of the Adams Express
company In New York city. making
5000 who are now out. Employees of
the National and American companies
stuck to their posts despite threats
and entreaties of a union official.
Fire in the plant of the Minnesota
Billiard Table company at Milwaukee
spread SO rapidly that 60 employees
were forced to leap from the second
and third-story windows. One person
Is missing. an unidentified mans body
was taken from the ruins, eleven per-
sons are in the Emergency hospital.
The financial loss is 100000.
Three sons of John Gallaus, a miner.
were burned to death in fire that de-
stroyed the Gallaus home at Honey-
brook, Pa.
A shooting affair following brawl
in an Italian boarding house at Pen
nington, N. j., ended In the death Of
the proprietor and his wife and the Sc
rious II not fatal wounding OF three
of the boarders.
The first school of tanning in this
country is to be established at Pratt
institute, Brooklyn. N. Y, under
the auspices of the National Tanners
association of the United States.
Nine men, prominent among whom
was Albert C. Frost, promoter and
builder of the Chicago & Milwaukee
Electric railroad and promoter and
president of the Alaska Central rail-
road, were indicted in Chicago by FED
eral grand jury charged with conspir-
ing to defraud the United States gov
eminent out of 10000 acres of coal
mining property in Alaska valued at
s10,000.000.
AS a result Of the gale which swept
Lake Erie the tug Silver Spray of Erie,
operated by the Booth Fisheries COM
pany, went down off Cleveland harbor
The crew. consisting Of six men and a
boy, took to the tugs lifeboat and
rowed for the shore. but were dashed
on the breakwater and drowned.
The jury at Albany. N. Y, in tho case
of Mrs. Edith Melber, charged with the
murder of her four-year-old son last
January, brought in b verdict of muir
der In the second degree and sentenced
her to not less than twenty years of
work at Auburn prison.
Nevada divorce conditions have been
thrown wide open by bill requiring
physical residence OF only sig
months, with the privilege Of leaving
the state when necessary, which
passed both houses OF the legislature
last night.
BY the terms OF Judgment entered
by the superior court at Tacoma.
Wash, Mrs, Anna v. Villas, widow of
Senator William F. Villas OF Madison,
Wis. is awarded a one-fifth interest
I'm the proceeds Of property In Wash
ington valued at $4,000.
An American believed to have been
Professor De Cou, formerly OF Ann
IArbor, Mich, who was a member of
AN archaeological expedition to the
site OF the ancient city Of Cyrene, in
Africa. was shot and killed by an
Arab workman.
Two policemen were probably fatally
Injured, property valued at $4,000
was ruined and the entire city OF Nil.
waukee shaken when the. new steel
hoist just completed at the yards Of
the Milwaukee Western Fuel company
was dynamited.