Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-02-24


prisoners.
Domestic
John Bergman. leading stockman OF
st. Joseph, Mo-, and prominent lor
some years, was shot and killed by
William B. Richardson, an employee
The two men quarreled over busi-
ness deal.
w. H. Hull, president Of the st. 10
seph- Chicago Steamship company; q.
n. Arnold, manager; H. Petersen, cap
tain; ]. M. Erickson, engineer, ana n.
Reid and C. C. Eckliff, federal inspec-
tors, charged by the government with
responsibility for the Eastland disas-
ter at Chicago, do not have to go there
to stand trial. This decision was hand
ed down by Federal Judge Clarence
w. Sessions at Grand Rapids. Mich.
The greatest disorder prevailed In
the house of representatives at Okla
homa City, Okla. when the lie was
passed between two representatives
during a debate. Legislators hurled
several inkwells across the hall ana
Arthur II. Geissler, chairman OF the
Republican state central committee
was knocked insensible.
The Seaboard Air Line Florida Spe-
cial No. 10 northbound, was wrecked
between Richmond, Va, and Chester.
Forty persons we're injured.
Authorities are investigating the
causes of the mysterious $5,ooo.ooo
. Ere In the Atlantic basin, Brooklyn.
Three large ocean steamships, CHAR
tered to carry munitions OF war to the
allies, we're partially destroyed.
A temporary Injunction restraining
the Nebraska state railway commis-
sion from interfering with proposed
increase in interstate passenger rates
by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific railroad was granted at Omaha.
Neb.. by a court in chancery consist
ing of three federal judges.
Twenty-one dead and missing sums
I'D the extent OF the fire that visited
the depths of the Pennsylvania mine,
one of the properties Of the Anacona
Copper Mining company at Butte.
Mont.
Mrs. Rose Wood, a young married
woman, was shot and instantly killed
on a crowded interurban car at Hunt
ington, w. Va, by Mrs. Leonard De-
foe, who declared Mrs. Wood had
alienated her husbands affections.
An agreed Jury of only IL men re-
turned a verdict Of second degree muir
der against Mrs. Ida Meyer. sixty. at
winterset, Ia, who was charged with
completely In the murder Of her
daughter-in.law, Mrs. Ethel Meyer.
The secret marriage two weeks ago,
after three-day courtship of Miss
Louise Lansing of Jacksonville, Fla,
niece of Secretary of State Lansing,
and Louis G. Logsdon of Greensboro,
KY, was revealed at st. Louis.
Hans Schmidt, the unfrocked priest
who murdered his sweetheart, Anna
Aumueller, was put to death in the
electric chair in Sing Sing prison at
Ossining. N. Y.
John e. Hartenbower Of Chicago,
president of the Tonica Exchange
bank, and George d. Hiltabrand. the
cashier, were found guilty at Ottawa.
ILL.,, OF receiving deposits after know
ing the bank was insolvent. Each was
sentenced to three years in prison.
Miss Catherine A. Bliss. daughter
of Cornelius N. Bliss Of New York.
left an estate estimated in a state tax
appraisers report at $1.674,054. She
possessed a collection of jewels worth
almost $4,000. Miss Bliss died IN
March. 1915.
The superdreadnaught Pennsylvania.
the largest battleship yet built for the
United States navy, left the plant Of
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Docks company for Rockland, Me-,
to run the official government speed
and endurance trials.
William Lorimer. former United
States senator from Illinois and presi-
dent of the Inflated LaSalle Street
Trust and Savings bank. went alone to
the criminal court building at Chicago
to begin his fight against the charges
OF conspiracy to wreck the bank.
Benjamin Kuhl, commission mer-
chant and treasurer of the East
Dubuque Qll.) school board. returned
to his home after having been miss
ing a week. It is said that he has
admitted a shortage estimated at
$4,000 In the school funds.