Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-06-14

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al district.
coal strike which has been on in the
Eleventh U. M. w. A. district since
April /, was reached by the scale COM
mittee of the Indiana miners and OPP
orators.
The miners international congress
at London adopted a resolution IA
voring a uniform international card
issuable when members of the Fedora
ton leave. one country to work In an
other.
The joint conference of the Ohio
| miners and operators ended In a
complete disagreement and both sides
| declare that the fight Is now on 10 a
| finish.
Wheelock Harvey, messenger for the
First National bank, 2 Wall street,
New York, disappeared, taking with
him cash, checks and drafts to an
amount which is reported to be close
to 100000.
Leaster Thompson and Benny Run
yam, aged about IL years, were
drowned while bathing in Paw Paw
river at Waterville, Mich.
John w. Foster, formerly United
States secretary Of state, has been
honored by the Chinese government
with an appointment as it's representa-
tive at The Hague conference.
DR.. Crapsey appeals from the &C.
clesiastical courts decision on every
| point He contends that the court was
| illegally and unfairly organized, that
| it erred in refusing to allow him prop
er time for the preparation of his de-
Tense, and that by it's decision under
took to determine questions of doc
trine, faith and worship.
Fire in the Knights of Pythias hall
in the Dugan block at Ashley, O., was
not eXtinguished until three business
houses had been destroyed and three
badly damaged, causing total loss Of
$50 ,00O
Duck Hill, Miss, town of 1000 in
habitants, was almost completely de-
stroyed by fire. More than 800 inhab-
itants were made homeless.
BY an agreement of counsel, the
cases against the packing companies of
Swift, Cudahy, Armour and Nelson
Morris, charged with accepting rebates,
were consolidated In the United States
district court at Kansas City and
Judge Mcpherson agreed to the attor-
neys presenting the cases to the jury
on statement of facts. No witnesses
will be examined.
Indictments against only one person
are to be found by the special grand
jury which has been investigating the
affairs of the Mutual Life Insurance
company. That person formerly was
q high official of the Mutual He is to
be indicted for forgery.
Vice President E. V. w. Rossiter, Of
the New York Central, testified that
the Beech Creek Coal G. Coke company
had presented the railroad with 5000
shares of stock. par value 500 "for
traffic reasons"
Mrs. Joseph Imholte, Jr., and her
five-year-old son. were drowned near
Clear Lake while driving across the
river at Elk River, Mimi.
Capt. Robert F. Wynne, of the United
States marine corps, on a charge Of
INSTRUMENTATION were suddenly halted
after DR.. j. G. Decker testified the
physical condition of Capt Wynne was
such as to blind him to the fact that
as a military officer he is under obli-
cations to obey the orders of his SUI
perior.
Doss Galbraith and Hill Gooch,
blacksmiths, were arrested at Spring
field, Mo-, charged with murder in the
first degree for their alleged participa-
ton in the lynching Of three negroes
on the night of April IA.
Several people were painfully hurt
and about 100, many of whom were
visitors to the Masonic grand lodge ses-
sion at Des Moines, escaped serious
injury in a wreck on the Fort Des
Moines line.
Congressman Hepburn was nominal
ted by reclamation by the Eighth Iowa
district Republicans. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing President Roosevelt,
Iowa's two members of his cabinet and
the Iowa delegation in congress.
All British admiralty and war Office
contracts which have been placed since
the disclosures affecting the meat
packing industry in the United States
stipulate that canned meats are for
British or colonial products.
What is generally regarded as the
most significant feature of the Mis-
souri, Democratic state nominating
convention was the pointed and abso-
lutte Endorsement of William Jennings
Bryan for tho presidency in 1908.
Charles Wood and William Baker
were killed in head-on collision be-
tween wrecking train and a work
train on the Grand Rapids G. Indiana
railroad four miles south of Cadillac,
Mich.
In argument before the Kentucky
railroad commission former United
States Senator William Lindsey, of
New York, urged a general revision of
intra-state rates on all commodities,
declaring that the power under Ken
lucky laws is indisputable.
Henry II. Powers, once a successful
member of the New York stock ex.
change, but who during the last years
had lost most of his fortune, commit
ted suicide at his home in Brooklyn
by shooting.
A resolution was introduced before
the southern states immigration COM
mission requesting congress to allow