Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-12-17
| NEWS OF THE WORLD |
Industrial. Political, Domestic i
and Foreign Happenings of Minor
Importance Told In Paragraphs.

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horse& tails.
The receiver OF the Princeton, Wis.
State bank has been discharged and
resumption STdered.
Lewis Andr9s has arrived at San
Rernardino, C3l., with his daughter,
kidnapped from \Chicago.
Katherine Parks. Jessie Mcclellan.
Gertrude Mcclellan. Ida Deckard and
Floyd Decker wSre arrested at Sulli-
van, Ind, for participating in duck
ing Miss Sinclair, their teacher, in a
pond. They gave bond and will be
tried in January.N Miss Sinclair is
confined to her bed with pneumonia.
Miss Rose Leo~of Gross Village.
Mich, was found dead from exposure
near the home of her parents. Miss
Leo stepped out of her home after
supper. Her body was found in the
morning in snowdrHt. 1t is thought
she was drugged or knocked insensi-
BILE by one of the woodsmen, who are
numerous in that vicinity.
Federal Judge Jackson at Charles
ton, w. Va, has decided that John
LANG and Stewart Hunt were acting
as federal officers when they shot John
Hairless, leader of the striking
miners. last winter, and therefore are
not amenable to the state courts.
Powell Clayton, United States am
bassador to Mexico, reported to Act
ing Secretary of State Loorpis the con-
dltions in Mexico as he leftl them. The
ambassador says that the relations be-
tween the United States ! Mexico
never were more harmonious than at
present and he attributes this in large
part to the personality of President
Diaz. The latter continues I'd enjoy
phenomenal health for man of his
years.
The latest reports at Shanghai es-
innate that the cotton crop will be 20
FER cent of the average.
Half of the orange and lemon crop
In the vicinity of Messina was Dr.
stroyed by heavy hailstorm.
! The upper house Of the Bayariap diet
rejected the recent unanimous resolu-
ton of the lower house demanding the
dismissal from the army of officers
and noncommissioned officers found
guilty of the maltreatment OF soldiers.
TIE sum of $l2,500 900 in paper
money was burned by the state bank
at st. Petersburg. This amount was
issued in notes during August to meet
anticipated trade demands, but since
the end of the grain season the money
has no longer been needed.
A change of venue to Norton coun-
~ has been granted at st. Francis,
Kas., in the case Of Chauncey Dewey
and his companions, accused OF the
murder of the Berry family.
The United States Reduction and
Refining Company has purchased the
Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad
and the Rocky Mountain smelter at
Florence, Colo, for $8,000,000.
Victor Mercier, one Of the directors
Of the ministry OF justice and reporter
Of the Dreyfus commission, has COM
pleted his examination of the docu-
ments submitted to the commission by
the ministers of war and justice. Drey-
fis' friends are confident he will adj
wise a revision of the case.
Cora, dowager countess of Stafford
formerly Mrs. Samuel G. Colgate OF
New York;, and M. T. Kennard were
married at St. Georges church. Han
over square, London.
Commander Augustus Henry Able, q
retired chief engineer OF the United
States navy, was stricken with pa
ralysis at his home in Philadelphia and
Is in a critical condition. Commander
Able entered the navy in 1861 and was
twice promoted for bravery. In 1874
he was made chief engineer. with
the rank of lieutenant commander. He
was retired a few days ago.
The American National Red Cross
Society has decided to grant the re-
quest of the opposition for an inyesti-
CATION as to the condition of the work
Of the society.
Circuit Judge Douglass at st. Louis
decided that a witness has no right
70 refuse to answer questions ON the
ground that 1t might incriminate him,
and held that 1t was q matter for the
court to decide.
President Roosevelts big family
idea is given severe setback in the
report OF State Superintendent Bar
rett Of Iowa, which shows decrease
OF 10000 children in Iowa since the
1902 enrolment.
The entire student body OF Han
over College at Hanover. Ind. has de-
termiued TO quit the institution unless
ten suspended sophmores are rein.
stated by President Fisher.
Prof. Charles William Dabney. pres
ident of the University of Tennessee.
has been invited to become head of
the University of Cincinnati, to sue
coed President Howard Ayres.
The first electric sleeping car for an
interurban road has just been com
pleted at Wilmington, Del, AMI will be
shipped to Indianapolis.
Masked burglars blew the cafe In
the Office Of the Garlock-Frazee Laun
dry Company at Cleveland. o.. and es
capped with $4,000 in cash.
President Gilman of Carnegie insti
tute. Baltimore, Md, announces he
will resign next year.
John r. Mclean at the coming Jack
son day banquet. Cincinnati. o., Is tc
assume the leadership Of the state and
county democracy.
Fire at Auburn, Ohio. caused loss
OF $4,000.
Steel trust retrenchment plans are
said TO include dispensing with the
services OF number Of Andrew Car
negie's young partners who are re
ceiving salaries Of $4,000 or more .
year.
It is asserted at Pekin that Ch,rs
"a not opposing the project for draft
ing coolie laborers to the Transvaal