Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-17

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viii county was awarded the grange
banner for the greatest increase in
membership during the past year.
The Montana Legislature, convened
In extraordinary session, adjourned,
having passed the fair trial. bill.
which allows changes of venue in civil
cases and provides for the review by
the Supreme court of matters of fact
as well as of law.
Max Kronfeld, the New York insrr-
ance adjuster who made sensation
al confession of dishonest methods en-
ployed by public insurance adjusters,
was sentenced to three years in states
prison for the presentation of false
claim to an insurance company.
A verdict of $7,943 was returned
against Alfred r. Goslin and Robert
A. Ammon of Miller syndicate notori-
ETY.. The trial of another suit insti-
tuted by Finley Darrell & Co. of Chi
cago to recover s11,399 was begun.
Robert A. Ammon, Miller's counsel.
was disbarred.
The Canadian department of justice
wires to Vancouver that unless Ernest
Cashel, the escaped murderer, Is re-
captured before Dec. Is. the date set
quently hanged, as he will be dead in
law. The chief justice is asked to re-
prieve Cashel for four weeks SO that
another date may be set.
Reports to Cardinal Gibbons at Bal
timore indicate that the total of col
lections- at Roman Catholic churches
throughout the country for the benefit
of the Catholic university at Washing
ton will reach 100000.
In fire which partially destroyed
the home of George TruIlinger at Ne
braska City, Neb., Mrs. Trullinger and
her infant were fatally burned. The
woman attempted to start a fire with
kerosene, which exploded.
The British cruiser Flora, which
crashed into the rocks at Village point
recently, was f1oated, the vessel hav-
ing meanwhile been lightened until
she was mere she'll. She will be
placed in dry dock for repairs.
OSCiCIdty nay 10 ouhCLlHS ltOh q
slight bronchial trouble which makes
him very hoarse.
Des Portes Do La Fosse has been
chosen to succeed M. Margerie as first
secretary and counselor of the French
embassy at Washington. M. De La
Fosse, who is now secretary Of the
French legation at Belgrade, has held
number of important posts. He is
regarded as an accomplished diplo-
mat, is married and will take his FAM
lily to Washington. M. Margerie was
recently transferred to Madrid.
The Standard Oil officials ordered
bloodhounds taken by special train to
Montpelier, Ind, where some one
opened the valves of five immense
tanks and permitted the oil to escape.
Nettie S. Abbott of New Hampshire,
a distant relative, has filed notice of
contest of the will of Gordon Mckay
Of Newport, R. l., who bequeathed sew
eral thousand dollars to Harvard Uni.
versity.
Peter Elliott, the crank Minneapolis
reformer, who won notoriety through
his struggle with the white house
guards at Washington, has been To-
Gated in Lincoln county, Minnesota.
II is probable he soon will be in the
insane asylum.
in sinking an artesian well on a
ranch six miles west of Cheyenne,
Wyo., the drill at depth OF 265 feet
penetrated lake or stream and a
column of water six inches in diameter
spouted-out to height of forty feet.
Soundings failed to find bottom. The
flow is so great that it is estimated to
be more than ample to supply the en-
tire needs of the city of Cheyenne.
The lower house of the Danish par
lament has agreed to increase the
payment of members from s1.62 to
1910 day, with travelling expenses
to and from the capital.
Mrs. Jos. Hindman was shot In the
head and almost instantly killed by
her husband at their home at Coraop-
oils, Pa. Hindman then killed him
self.
Two sleepers and diner of the
north-bound Washington and New Or.
leans limited on the Atlanta and West
Point jumped the track near La
Grange, Ga. The passengers escaped
with a shaking up.
While brooding over the serious
losses inflicted upon the White Com
mission Company by the alleged EN-.
bezzlement of F. B. Wellons, who Is
now under arrest, j. p. Dawson, one
of the largest stockholders, took NOR
phine with suicidal intent and died at
Birmingham, Ala.
War Minister Ell Menechi arrived at
Tangier, Morocco, from Fee. There is
no foundation for the reports that the
minister had resigned owing to the
intrigues of court officials, who were
alleged to have accused him Of in.
stigating the unpopular pro-EuTopean
policy of the sultan.
The United States battleship Maine
left Colon for the United States to un
dergo repairs.
Operator J.R. Largonot, stationed In
Pitsburg and Lake Erie Railroad tel
egraph tower in Pittsburg suburb,
was beaten insensible by three negroes
who robbed him of $50.
The British ship Aristides, Captain
Poppy, from Junin for San Francisco,
has been posted at Lloyds as missing.
Egbert Homel. former Chicago gro
Ger and father of Mrs. E. F. Curran of
Chicago. dropped dead at Syracuse,
N. Y.
John vermeullen, aged 20 years.
was accidentally shot to death by a
fellow rabbit hunter at Beloit. Wis.
Two men arrested at Pittsburg, CIV