Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

| Advertiser. The name Commercial
| Advertiser had been used for LOT
| years. The publishers announce that
1t is reluctantly subordinated because
in these days of trade journalism it
| is misleading to persons unfamiliar
! with the scope of the paper.
The prohibition Of coal exports by
the Japanese government threatens
| to create a fuel famine In Manila.
The car has granted Minister Of
the Interior Won Plewhe and the gov.
| ernor of the province of Tver special
| plenary powers over the local off,
Gals of Tver in consequence Of the
latter's subversive tendencies.
George Hermann, the ex-inspector
| of constabulary who robbed the Phil
ippines government and fed from
Misamis, Mdndanao, and was subse-
quently captured at Bayanana, has
been convicted and sentenced to thir-
teen years Imprisonment.
The budget committee of the reich.
stag, discussing the military appro-
priations, passed almost unanimously
a resolution asking the chancellor to
institute rigorous penal proceedings
against superior officials whose subor.
dinates maltreat privates. .-e...
Three men were so badly scalded
by the breaking of an iron elbow con.
Meeting the boiler and engine in the
basement of the Hotel Metropole, De-
troit, Mich, that they died in short
- nm firn
man; George Vincent, engineer;
Frank Casper, fireman at Hotel Bruins.
wick.
Over $25c,000 in cash, real estate
and bank stock are represented in
the will of Maj. Hoyt Sherman, filed
for probate at Des Moines, Iowa.
The property Is equally divided
among his five children and one
grandson. The Sherman homestead, a
valuable property, is listed with the
other items and will go to one of the
heirs.
]. P. Morgan, Jr., who for the last
six years has resided abroad, arrived
in New York with his wife and fam
lily aboard the Majestic. The two
Misses Morgan with a number OF
friends were waiting at the pier tc
meet their brother.
w. w. Russell, secretary of the
American legation at Caracas, Vene.
Zuela, has been appointed charge dat
fairies at Panama. Mr.. Russell's nomi
nation to his new post is heartily in.
dorsed by all the American residents
of Caracas. He will leave for Panama
at once.
1t is probable that Rear Admiral 3.
J. Lamberton, commander-in-chief of
the south Atlantic squadron, who has
been pronounced by the medical sur
vey unfit for service on account of his
eyesight and is on his way home, will
be succeeded by Rear Admiral Charles
J. Barclay, commander of the Puget
Sound navy yard.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt enter
tanned at dinner at the White House
Thursday night in honor of the Su-
preme court Covers were laid for
large company of guests. All the JUS
tees of the Supreme court were pres
ent except Justice White, who was
detained at home by injuries resulting
from a fall while ON his way home
from court, and Justice Brown, who
is suffering from eye trouble. The
president escorted Mrs Fuller to the
table and the chief justice Mrs. Roose-
welt.
Rev. and Mrs. J. II. Cally and two
of their children were the persons, at
first unidentified, killed by North
western train near Crystal Lake, Ill.
The warehouse and stockhouse at
the Monongahela plant of the Ameri-
can Tinplate company at Pittsburg
were buried. The loss is $4,000.
| Alice Edwards, a young woman with
numerous aliases, was held in $1,000
bail for trial by United States Conn
missioner Craig, charged with using
| the mails to defraud. Her plan was
to write letters to men, claiming &C
| quaintance and ask for small loan.
| Many sent her amounts from S. to
| $25.
United States Senator J. r. Burton
| of Kansas was admitted to $4,000 bail
! in the federal court at st. Louis to
| answer March Z for trial on the In
oictment charging him with accept
| ing money for his influence with the
! postal authorities to prevent the issu'
| ance of a fraud order against the Ri
alto Grand and Securities company.
| Joseph Bradley and John Maggie,
prisoners in the city Jail at Saco, Me.
| hn and made
| their escape. Charles Chase, another
prisoner, also fed. Frank Murphy
1 the guard, is seriously hurt.
United States Senator Burton OF
Kansas reached St. Louis and declared
he was confident he would clear him
self promptly of the charges in the
federal indictment.
The three Los Angeles detectives
who were freed by the court after Kill
ing the Choissers have been rein
stated in their positions. The district
attorney may reopen the case.
Fire destroyed all the lumber In
the big yards of White, Rider & Frost
at Tonawanda, N. Y. Loss, $15O,ooO
The residence Of A. G. Weber, pro-
prietor of the Weber Touring mills at
Cairo, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire
Loss, $500.
: Archbishop Farley of New York
denies the report that the members
of the faculty of the Catholic UNIVERSE
ty at Washington are to be succeeded
by the teaching orders of the church
He says there is no trouble at the
university. , .-,.....
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