Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-22
The expenditure of ss,ooo,ooo for


ment OF marriage may be obtained and
six causes for absolute divorce were
agreed upon by the National Congress
On Uniform Divorce Laws in Philadel-
phia. The delegates adopted about
Dne-third of the proposed uniform bill
rs drafted by the committee which
was appointed nine months ago at the
first meeting of the congress, which
was held in Washington.
has returned to Washington from
Iowa. He said that Iowa and other
corn states furnish no exception to
the rule in regard to needing farm
hands for the harvesting of crops.
Good men make from SO to $3.50 a
day and board.
The village of Richland, o., was
practically wiped out by fire which
was caused by an explosion of gas.
Two children of foreign miner were
burned to death.
The Erie railroad has placed orders
for $3.50 tons of steel rail for deliv-
cry during 1907.
A man believed to be Len Harris, of
Sturgeon, Mo-, was found dead from
asphyNiation in a room at the Hoeff-
ner hotel, st. Louis. The gas jets
were open and the room was filled
with gas.
Charles w. Zimmerman, Missouri
Pacific brakeman, and his wife, were
arrested at East st. Louis on the
Iron Mountain yai1rpad
Count White, the former premier,
will shortly be received by Emperor
Nicholas at Tsarskoe-Selo.
V. G.. Sweatman, of Philadelphia,
dropped dead at Newton, N. j., while
running to catch train. He was SIS
years of age. Mr.. Sweatman was one
of the heaviest dealers in malt in
the United States.
Upon the urgent appeal of a delega-
ton of citizens from Flint, Mich, Gov
Harris, of Ohio, granted go days re-
prieve to Frank Conrad, alias Caster,
sentenced to be electrocuted Novem-
Der %, for the murder of Policeman
Dan Davis, of Columbus.
Senator w. A. Clark is soon to an
nounce the projection of branch
railroad from Tintic Junction to the
mines of Deep Creek in western Utah.
Capt. M. Norris, a pioneer of Du-
luth. aged 62 years, died of heart
trouble. He was the largest individual
owner of real estate in Duluth and his
estate will run considerably more
than S1,000,000.
Following an Investigation of the
alleged differentiation of precious
stones in the customs service at the
port of New York, Gen. George w.
Mindil, for many years chief examin.
er, has been dismissed from the serv-
ice.
The first annual dinner of the Hook
er Association of Massachusetts, COM
posed of men who fought under Gen.
Joseph Hooker in the civil war, was
held in Boston.
After being in jail over two years
charged with the murder of Jesse
Brown at Girard, La, w. D. Womack
and Ryan Henderson, white men, were
acquitted.
The pecan crop of Mexico has been
almost total failure Last year over
90 carloads of the nuts We're shipped
to the United States and for the pres.
ent year there has been only one.
Fort Sam Houston received orders
from Washington to discharge without
honor from the army the IL negro sol.
diers, members of companies b. G and
d, Twenty fifth infantry. who are now
in prison at the fort, charged with ri.
citing and murder at Brownsville, Tex
The Maine supreme court decided
against the American board of commits
sioners for foreign missions which
contested the will of Solomon f.
Chandler, of Portland. Chandler made
his will in 1895, and directed that his
estate, valued at $1,000,OO0, should go
to the American board, but in 1902 he
wrote a codicil leaving his entire prop.
erty to relatives.
Mrs. Mary Hitchcock Cowles, wife
of Col. Calvin d. Cowles. of the Fifth
unitetd States infantry and the cousin
of Capt. William S. Cowles, United
States navy, died at the Johns Hopkins
hospital Baltimore, of aenemia. She
was So years of age.
One man was killed three fatally
and two seriously injured in the eX-
plosion of a casting at the Youngstown
(Oo Foundry e Machine company's
| plant.
In the circuit court at Houston, Mo-,
Joda Hamilton pleaded guilty to the
murder of the Parsons family Judge
Woodside sentenced him to be hanged
December 81.
Six men were killed and five seri-
ously injured when boiler in the
| power house of the Lake Shore rail
road, in Collinwood, suburb of Cleve.
land, blew up.
Six bystandefs were injured two
seriously. during balloon ascension
at Mount Vernon, Ill. A score of per-
sons were knocked down as the bal.
loon shot up into the air.
r. A. Tucker, for Is years superin.
tendent of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company, died