Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

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seat in the senate for many months
Charged with having embezzled
more than 100000. Edwin S. Green
| field, head clerk of the banking and
brokerage firm of Harrison Snyder g
Son, of Philadelphia, has made a full
confession and Is doing everything
possible to assist the firm in straight.
ening out its tangled books.
Robbers held up the Imperial Linz
tied on the Canadian Pacific railroad
near Kamloops, and rifled the mail
| car
The yacht Nahma, with Mrs. Robert
Goelet on board, in entering the har-
hor at Venice, collided with an Italian
war ship and both vessels were dam
aged.
A band of Salvadors, long-haired re-
ligious fanatics known as Fuzzy
Wuzzies," looted the town of Malasita,
in the province of Pangasinan, p. l.
Eugene N. Foss, of Boston. vice
president of the Reciprocity league,
addressed the American Association Of
Commerce and Trade at Berlin, urging
reciprocity between the United States
and Germany.
The reichstag passed bill taxing
automobiles from two to ten marks
per horse power.
The Vfceroy of Canton has paid to
the American consul at Canton, $780,
900 as indemnity for the mission
buildings and property Of missionaries
DESTROYED during the rioting at Lem
chow in October last.
X. M. Smoot, who was in the plot to
kidnap President Abraham Lincoln
and who sold to John Surratt the
boat with which it was intended to
convey Lincoln across the Potomac,
died at Fort Smith, Ark, aged 70
years.
Fire damaged the Masonic temple at
indianapolis to the extent of $4,000
and caused total loss of $25, 900.
Raper commandery and several blue
lodges lost their paraphernalia.
Shortly before the time for the Co.
lumbia Savings and Trust company, OF
Pittsburg, to open it's doors for busi-
ness Wednesday word was received
from the state commissioner of bank
ing, ordering the bank Closed. The
order was at once obeyed.
Victor l.. Gangelin, for many years
city editor of the Milwaukee Herald
and one of the well-known German
newspaper men of Wisconsin, died al
his home in Milwaukee.
A. G. Bentley, editor of the Pike
County Times and former secretary Oh
the Democratic state central commit
tee, died in Springfield, H., of apo
plexy.
In the first American women's chess
congress, at New York, Mrs. Charles
P. Frey, of New York, won the cham
pionship, while Mrs. Frank w. Lynn
of Chicago, was placed second, and
Mrs. M. Wilkinson-Robert Shaw, Of
New York, third.
The marine strike which has tiet
up lake traffic for ten days was de
clared off and 10000 dock laborers re
turned to work.
The eighty-frst annual meeting o
the American Tract society was held in
New York, when William Phillips Hall
was elected president, to succeed Gen
o. o. Howard.
The court at Pana, H., held J. M
Mosby to the grand jury for swapping
| wives.
Paris strikers still number 10000
but there is no disorder.
The house of commons called upor
the British government to sound Tho
powers as to plan for armament re
duction.
Moses Haas, arrested at the in
stance of the government in connec
ton with the cotton leak, was dis
charged.
The announcement by insurance
companies that Frisco losses will soop
be paid created interest in the de
vastated city.
F. Wenham, formerly of Chicago, ar
rested in New York on the charge OF
using $4,000 of the Canadian Pacific
railways money, was discharged.
Chancellor Day OF Syracuse univer.
sity fiayed President Roosevelt for so.
called anarchlsm in attacks on corpor.
ations and courts.
The Standard Oil company con-
tinues to violate the antitrust laws
of Ohio, declares Attorney General
Ellis, despite the decree of the SUI
preme court of Ohio, which in 1899
compelled the Standard Oil company
to reorganize, cancel all its trust GER
tificates, and put all property in Ohio
into the hands Of the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey.
The construction bureau of the navy
is willing to undertake the building
of 20,000-ton battleship in 48 months.
The dam of the Crivitz Paper
Pulp company at Marinette, Wis, was
| carried out and the town Is flooded
with five to ten feet of water. Farm.
ers lose heavily in stock drowned.
James Henderson's house was nearly
washed away and his family forced to
flee. Hundreds of pigs, cows and
chickens were drowned.
Vesuvius is again showing consider.
able activity. A dense column of
smoke is rising from the crater, accom-.
panied by loud detonations and cleo.
trical discharges. The main crater is
discharging sand and cinders.
Charles f. McKenna, former Judge
of the United States court in Porto
Rico, denied at Pittsburg the story
that he borrowed $500 from litigant.
Mayor Thomas A. Combs, of Lex.
ington, KY, announced that he would