Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

parliamentary group of toll were be
ing held, and seized all the papers o.
the committee.
The Carnegie fund for the pension
Ing of aged college professors has
been increased to $15,000,000 and the
conditions of the fund have been
altered to allow of the pensioning OF
widows Of professors who would be
eligible to the privileges.
"Strong-handed reform" is laid
down by M. Stolypin as he keynote OF
his administration in an interview in
which the new premier expressed his
confidence that this policy, with the
aid Of the Innate patriotism of the
masses" and the army, which, I'm
spite of all reports, is still loyal and
| reliable" will tide the country over
until the convocation of the next lar.
! lament.
Racial troubles have broken out at
Krasnoyarsk between Russians and
natives of Siberia. One person was
killed and six were wounded in the
first encounter.
| John Dietz, the Wisconsin lumber
man, who has held Cameron dam like
a fort for two years, has fought and
won his fifth battle with the authori-
ties. This time, after fierce fight,
which it is believed will cost two lives,
he routed a sheriff and a detachment
| OF soldiers sent by the governor to
capture him. One of Dietz's sons is
believed to have been killed, but the
old lumberman still holds his camp.
Plans for the reception to William
Jennings Bryan on his arrival from a
trip around the world are completed
In letter to Alexander Troup, treas
urer of the committee of arrangements,
Mr.. Bryan favors popular subscrip-
tion of one dollar each to pay the ex-
penses of the reception. He urges
that no subscriptions over $50 be re-
Eeived and insists that no funds from
questionable sources be accepted.
The New York Press says: will
liam r. Hearst will be nominated for
governor in Carnegie hall on Tuesday,
September IL, or on the following day.
At the close of the convention the
nomination will be rendered to Mr.
Hearst at mass meeting in Madison
Square garden.
Falling beneath large log upon
which they had been seated, James
Harding, so years old, and his eight.
year-old son were instantly killed
north Of Corydon, Ind.
Ten armed men entered a jewelers.
store in one Of the principal business
streets of Moscow, seized several
thousand dollars worth of gems and
escaped.
The Milwaukee road will make a
rate of eight cents on wheat and flour
from Omaha and Kansas City to Chi
cago, to run from July 80 to August
20.
A daring robbery was perpetrated
on the Vistula railway, in the out
| skirts of Warsaw. Revolutionaries
, stopped a passenger train by pulling
the emergency brake. The gendarme
in charge was killed and the engine
driver forced to proceed to a spot
where the line passes through a wood.
AT signal 80 armed men appeared,
broke open the boxes, distracted ST..
500 and decamped
Francis r. Reynolds, a bookmaker
and racing man, was found dead at
the bottom of an air shaft at New
York.
terrific wind and rainstorm struck
st. Louis and vicinity. Lightning
started seven fires in different parts
of the city. A negro was blown from
his wagon under passing fire engine
and killed.
Charles H. Whitaker, ST., editor of
the Clinton (Ia.) Democrat, for so
years a newspaper man in Missouri
and Illinois, died, aged 70 years. He
was member of the Illinois state
| legislature in 1877.
George w. Bartch, chief justice of
the supreme court of Utah, rendered
his resignation to Gov. Cutler, to take
effect October 1. Justice Bartch de-
sires to resume the practice of law.
The demand for labor in California
promises to exceed the supply tor
many months to come.
% " IA ASioilludL, Luo american
ambassador to Turkey, called on
| Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign
minister, and presented his new Gre
dentials.
y. w. Butt, formerly manager of the
Kansas City Ice C Cold Storage COM
pany, at the ice inquiry before a spe-
cial commissioner, at Kansas City.
gave the strongest evidence tending to
show the existence of an ice combine
here which has been introduced since
the hearing began.
Albert M. Crone, charged with a
murderous assault on Bertha Bowlin
and her escort, Frank Kern, on the
kersey Coates drive, at Kansas City,
resulting in the girls death, was held
for murder in the iirst degree.
The bodies of Fireman George Bell
and E. M Newcombe, killed in the
Great Northern wreck near Camden
were recovered from Diamond lase.
After securing every state in the
union for almost seven months the
police believe they at last have appre-
hended Frank J. Constantine, who
murdered Mrs. Arthur w. Gentry, a
bride of six months, in her apart
ments, at Chicago, on the morning of
January 6 last. The suspect is in jail
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
The funeral services over the body
of the late Russell Sage were held in
the First Presbyterian church at Far
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