Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-22

| theh United States.
| The safe In the State Bank of Mara.
mac, Fawnee county. Okla. was blown
open by nitroglycerin and the robbers
escaped with $1,000.
! Lyle Nicol, the 16-yearold son OF
Hugh Nicol, athletic director OF Pur-
due university died at Lafayette from
| the effects of an injury received in a
| football game.
Congressman John Wesley Gaines,
Of Tennessee, is seriously iii Of appen-
dicitis In st. Louis.
Louis w. kirkland. 33 years old, en-
ployed In Pittsburg confectionery
store, had his skull ground off by be-
ing caught In the spokes Of a fly
wheel.
Hereafter certain colors which the
department of agriculture after inves-
tigation has found to be harmless may
be used in the manufacture of meat
food products. A circular giving the
names of these colors will be issued.
Rev. DIR. Raphael Benjamin, rabbi
of the Temple Beth Elohim, of Brook
Ign, and formerly rabbi of the Mount
Street temple Of Cincinnati, died in
Brooklyn. He was 60 years old, and a
member OF many geographical, histor-
ical, scientific and charitable societies.
William Randolph Hearst, Independ-
ent League and Democratic candi-
date for governor, certified to the Sec
rotary of state that he had spent 1885,
$40 In promoting his canvass.
Mrs. Frank r. Stockton, widow of
the novelist, is critically Ill at her res.
idence In Washington.
The Bank of Henderson, Ia, was
dynamited by robbers. They secured
nearly $4,000 and escaped.
The grand jury at San Francisco
brought five indictments against Eu-
gene Schmitz and Abraham Ruef on
the charge Of extortion. On each
charge the bail was fixed at $4,000
and bond at $4,000.
A small fire occurred in the Ameri-
can embassy at st. Petersburg. Start
ing at the fireplace in Ambassador
Meyers office, it crept beneath the
flooring for a considerable distance
Firement tore up the floor and extin-
guished the fire.
The deep water ways convention,
which held it's opening session at ST.
Louis, passed resolution calling on
congress to appropriate $31, 100000
for water way between the great
lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. 1t
was evident from the start that the
delegates were emphatically opposed
to the effort to limit the amount OF
water Chicago may turn into the
drainage canal
Several lives reported lost, the
town of Catlin swept away by the
Cowlitz river, railroad traffic between
Puget sound and Portland at a stand
still, the railroads of western and
northwestern Washington in the same
gon Railroad G. Navigation track tenn
porarily blockaded by land slide at
Dodson, briefly summarizes the known
destruction wrought by the storm in
Washington.
The insurance department Of the
state of Connecticut has issued an Of
fetal statement giving the figures of
the net amount of fire insurance paid
out by Connecticut companies by rea-
son Of the San Francisco disaster.
The total amount is S17.56S,190.
Six Columbus. o., ice companies
and firms alleged to be in combina-
ton to control prices were indicted
for the third time, the first and Sec
ond indictments having been dis
missed by the court as defective.
The American National Red Cross
sent $4,000 to San Francisco for use
in relief work during November.
Copies of an order recently issued
by John F. Stevens, chief engineer of
the isthmian canal commission show
that since October % all non-contract,
unskilled labor on the isthmus has
been worked on ten-hour basis on
any work where such hours were
deemed necessary.
Rev. DR.. James Mason Hoppin, pro.
fessor emeritus Of art at Yale univer-
sity died in his eighty-sixth year from
disease incident to old age. He was
retired from active connection with
the art school In 1899.
Oficial returns from county can.
wasting boards in Iowa gave Cum
Minis (Rep.) 20,453 plurality for gov
ernor over Porter (Dem.). The total
vote was: Cummins, ZIG, sos; Porter,
196,052. Cummins' plurality in 1903
was 1907.
Embodying membership of over
million, claiming to represent more
than one-seventh of the entire popula-
ton of the country, the American So
ciety of Equity, the recently formed
national farmers union, Thursday be-
came affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, now in conven-
ton at Minneapolis and agreed to an
interchange of labels.
H. HI. Marley, who up to the time he
resigned last year has been a travel
Ing passenger agent for the Michigan
Central railway for 81 years, died at
his home in Olathe, Kan, aged 76.
Representative Bourke Cochran and
Miss Annie Ide, daughter of Henry
Clay Ide, formerly governor general
of the Philippines, were married in
New York by the Rev. Father Mcs
Kinnon of st. Ignatius church.
Senator w. A. Clark is soon to an
nounce the projection of branch
railroad from Tintic Junction to the