Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31

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against fourteen members Of the st.
Louis police force, charging neglect of
duty at the recent Democratic primar-
les. Indictments charging intimida-
ton of voters were returned against
Central Committeeman J. ]. LAWN,
his brother, Timothy LAWN, and
James Holmes.
The Hanna Memorial Chair associa-
ton at Cleveland has elected these
trustees: Gov. Herrick, Secretary of
State Hay, Senator Dick. Gov. Durbin
OF Indiana, John Mitchell OF the Unit.
ed Mine Workers, +. M. Atterholt of
Akron and Rev. j. S. Rutledge, State
Senator j. w. Stewart, f. A. Henry,
w. r. Hopkins, ]. b. Zerbe, Judge Il
X. Disette, Elmer Dover, w. G. Os
wald, II. S. Hatch, l.. Il. Holden, Har
ris Creech, Samuel w. Meek, u. S.
Marshal Chandler and F. ii. Haserot
all of Cleveland.
The Cuyamaca Mines company, cap
italized at $2,500,000. has been incor
porated at Dover, Del, by New York
| parties.
The Newark, N. j., Methodist con
ference has adopted memorial tc
the general conference to be held at
Los Angeles favoring repeal of the
law removing the time limit on pas
toral appointments and urging a re
turn to the five-year term. Rev. Drs.
II. A. Buttz and Henry Spellmeyer
were elected delegates to the general
| conference.
A. Cass Garfield, a prominent
yachtsman, died at Aiken, s. c. Mr..
Garfield was so years old and was
born in Detroit. He was the son of
Capt. Garfield Of the United States
typographical engineers. His mother
was a daughter of Gen. Lewis Cass,
secretary Of war under Andrew Jack
son. He married Miss Josephine
Houghteling of Chicago.
Six structures in the business sec.
ton Of Jermyn, Pa, including the Mer.
riman and Thomas Bray buildings and
the Assembly hall, were burned, caus.
ing loss Of 100000.
Three negroes, Garrett Flood, Will
lam Madison and William Baldwin.
were shot and killed by posse of
deputy sheriffs at St. Charles. Ark,
who were searching for two negroes
who had wounded two white men. The
blacks fred on the officers from am.
bush.
The authors of the recent bomb out
RACES at Liege, Belgium. two French
anarchists, Laobin, alias Beaumanois
and Gudefln, have been arrested. They
have confessed.
In the chamber Of deputies opposi
ton by the clerical party practically
stopped progress on the religious edu
cation bill. Eventually, the sitting
was adjourned, owing to the lack of
quorum. #.
General Won Puttkammer, governor
of the Cameroones, cables to Berlin
that the revolt of the natives has
spread to British territory in Nigeria,
and that the British custom house at
Obokum was attacked on March 10.
In litigation over the Boston Gas
Company it was charged that, Henry
II. Rogers was carrying in his own
name 5000 shares Of Butte and Boston
copper mining stock that belonged to
j. Edward Addicks, and that 1t was
really property Of the gas company.
Mr.. Rogers said he probably bought
the stock Of Addicks.
Two trainmen were killed and one
fatally injured on the Baltimore and
Ohio, near Oakland, Md, by fast
freight being wrecked on a rock slide
from the mountain side.
Chemists testified in the trial of
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin at San Francisco,
for poisoning Mrs. j. p. Dunning, that
they found large quantities Of arsenic
in the candy which she sent her.
Sophomores at the University of
Michigan have caught fifty-nine fresh
men and forcibly clipped the hair of
the first year students.
Mrs. Garlic Wynkoop, wife of DR..
David WynRoop of New York, died in
San Francisco. Mr.. and Mrs. Wyn-
koop were on their honeymoon trip.
John ]. LAWN, a politician. and
eight members Of the police force,
indicted on the charge of having in
timidated voters, were discharged in
the Criminal court at st. Louis, on
the grounds that the indictments were
defective. sm
William Rogers and George Dawn
were killed by train al Cincinnati,
while quarreling on the track.
Several passengers were injured,
none fatally, by wreck of the Santa
Fe west-bound limited train in Tulare
county, California, caused by wash.
out.
The Mercantile Trust Company,
trustee for the bondholders of the
United States Ship building Company,
was given permission to file supple.
mental bill in its foreclosure proceed.
lrgs, adding five subsidiary companies
as defendants.
The Cleveland Electric Railway
Company, claiming IT has lost 5000,
900 in earnings since last July, when
the practice went into effect, has
abandoned the sale of six tickets for
% cents and will limit transfers to one
for each fare. Eleven tickets will be
sold for so cents.