Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27

mining community in Arizona. They
were entertained by officials and citi-
zens of Jaurez, Mex.
The government has informed the
leaders of the Jewish community that
in the event of bomb throwing all the
Jews in Siedlce will be massacred.
The situation in Morocco is becom-
ing daily pDore menacing. European
properties 1T Tablet, Riff, Mogador,
Casa Blanca and even Tangier are
threatened.
ten minutes the jury at Warsaw, N. Y,
in the cases of former Supervisors
William B. Jackson and Byron d. Glib
son, of Erie county, rendered verdict
Of guilty Of the charge of bribery.
In the familiar guise of prospective
purchasers from the country, two de-
tectives met by appointment and ar
rested two alleged green goods" men
at house in West Sixty-fifth street,
New York.
Jockey Bertrand Freishon was in
stantly killed and Jockey c.. Ross sus-
tanned fracture of the skull as a re-
suit Of an accident in the fifth race at
Gravesend.
Gen. John Ludwig, member of the
state capitol commission, mayor of
Winona, Mimi, for several years and
of the staff of Gov. John Lind, is dead.
Robert r. Hit, the veteran Illinois
congressman, died at his summer
home in Narragansett Pier, R. /.
Heart trouble was the immediate
cause Of death. Mr.. Hit represented
the thirteenth Illinois district in the
House of Representatives, and had
been in Congress continually since
1882.
The Bates National bank of Butler.
Mo-, was closed by the directors for
the purpose of going into liquidation.
The last statement showed deposits
Of $105,000 and loans of SOL, 900. w.
J. Butler was appointed receiver.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey was nom
mated for governor of Colorado at
convention Of independents made up
of Republicans, Democrats and others,
held in Denver.
The state convention of the Prohi-
bition party of Connecticut at West
Haven nominated Matthew A. OBrien
of Bridgeport for governor. The plat
form advocates the election of United
States senators by the people and
municipal ownership.
The Republican state convention of
Utah overwhelmingly defeated a reso-
luton placing the party on record
against the participation of high Off
GERS of the Mormon church in politics
and against Senator Reed Smoot.
One thousand Democrats of Harris
county, Tex, have formed the nucleus
of an anti-Bailey movement and have
ordered printed and distributed $780,
600 copies of a circular, entitled "The
Shame of Texas" attacking Bailey
and urging all the counties of the
state to organize to prevent Bailey's
return to the United States senate.
Oberlin M. Carter, former army Of
fetal, who is being sued by the gov
eminent for money he is supposed to
have embezzled, actually saved it
more than 100000 on contracting
work at Savannah, Ga, Judge Kohl
saat was told at the trial at Chicago.
Five claimants have filed claims in
the Clayton circuit court at st. Louis,
Mo, for the $4,000 prize offered by
the Would's Fair Contest company
for the correct estimate of the total
paid attendance at the worlds fair.
Sir Thomas Upton has sailed for
America. He will spend some time in
the United States, and will make a
tour of the country, visiting Chicago.
George Siler, who refereed the ia
nous Gans-Nelson fight at Goldfield,
has started $4,000 suit against Bat
Ting Nelson and his manager, Billy
Nolan, for defamation of character.
At meeting at New York of the
Nut and Bolt association it was de-
bolts, ETC., on an average of five per
cent
William Snyder, aged 10, member
of the football squad of the Western
university Of Pennsylvania, is prob
ably the first victim of the season of
1906. While practicing at Conneaut
Lake he had two ribs broken and
received what are believed to be fatal
internal injuries.
George P. Earling, of Milwaukee,
son of A. ]. Earling, president of the
Milwaukee road, was released of all
responsibility at the coroner's inquest
over the death of George Overland,
who died as the result of being struck
by Mr.. Earrings automobile.
Tom McCarey, of Los Angeles, has
offered a $4,000 purse for Jack
O'Brien and Tommy Burns for the
January date.
Within a few days laws Of religious
freedom, removing practically every
restriction and disability under which
| TIE unorthodox Russians have Ia
bored, will be promulgated. This is
the second point in the Stolypin pro-
gramme. The first, including meas
ures for the distribution of land, al
ready has been published.
Gov. Terrell issued an order calling
out the militia Of Atlanta, Ga, to
protect from a mob a negro who is
alleged to have committed a criminal
assault upon Mrs. John A. Kimball, 3
farmers wife, living in Oakland. a
suburb of Atlanta.
Train No 7, the west-bound Balti-
more G. Ohio Southwestern flyer,
crashed into the side of accommoda-
ton train No. 1 while the latter was
attempting to back its train into a