Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-12-06

and 20 injured during the hunting
season, Wisconsin and Michigan lead
ing in fatalities.
Orville K. Sherman, aged II, grand
nephew of Gen. William Tecumsef
Sherman, was arrested at st. Louis
with Esther Benson, 16 years old, his
betrothed, as they stepped from the
Chicago &C Alton train, having elopet
from Maquon, Ill, the home Of the
girl.
American residents IN London
Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Mexico City
and other foreign cities, celebrated
Thanksgiving day with banquets and
receptions.
George r. Pollock, of the depart
rsent Of the interior, says the charges
made against him by Special Agent
Myendorff In the Utah coal land fraud
case, are false.
Senior Moret Y Prendergast formed
a new cabinet for Spain with Perez
Caballero as minister Of foreign
affairs.
1t Is rumored that the Australian
government will prosecute the Aus
tralian representatives of the Ameri
can oil combine under the antitrust
act.
Charles H. Chamberlin, senior coun
cillor of the Wisconsin grand council
of the United Commercial Travellers
died suddenly of paralysis at La
Crosse, Wis.
The members-elect of the Hawaiian
Legislature will ask the United States
to raise their pay to $1,000 session
Vincent Spinner and wife and two
children, of Eastern Wells county
North Dakota, lost their way while
driving home from neighbours, and
Mr.. Spinner and one child were frozen
to death.
Jennie Yeamans, popular as singer
and actress a decade ago, died after
long illness in New York from
tuberculosis.
William Fisher, an inventor oil
steam contrivances in use in every
civilized country on the globe, Is
dead at Marshalltown, Ia.
Ten thousand dollars worth of Jew,
elry was stolen from two boarders in
a fashionable boarding house at SO
Twenty-second street, New York.
Brig. Gen. George w. Baird, U. s.
A., retired, Is dead at Asheville, N. G,
Gen. Baird was born In Connecticut
in December, 1889. He served in the
civil war and on the western frontier,
participating with gallantry in several
Indian campaigns.
Eugene Motz, Gillian consul to
Mexico City, has received an official
notice from his government to the
effect that the report circulated last
August at the time of the disastrous
earthquake saying that Juan Fernan.
DEE island had sunk into the ocean
was untrue.
So far as can be ascertained, "a
persons were killed, SO were seriously
wounded and several hundred were
slightly injured as a result of the ex.
plosion of the Roburit factory near
Amen, Germany.
The cathedral of the Sacred Heart,
the gift of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F.
Ryan, was dedicated at Richmond, Va.
The interstate commerce commits
sion recommends to President Roose.
welt that the public coal lands be with
drawn permanently from entry and
under government control,
thereby breaking up the coal monop.
oily and producing revenue which
1t is estimated, would pay the ex'
penses of the government.
Ethel Smith, Is years old, defended
her home against a man who broke
into the house at Thornton, r. l.,
shooting and killing him. She was
arrested, but the chief of police kept
her in his own home, giving her a
Thanksgiving dinner.
Sweet Marie, noted trotting mare,
was bought for $4,000 by Philadel-
phia banker at auction sale in New
York.
Engineer O'Brien was found dead by
the fireman in the cab of west
bound Rock Island passenger train
which was running so miles an hour.
O'Brien's skull was crushed, supposed.
ly by some projecting timber.
Billy Melody won welter-weight
boxing title in a 12-round fight with
Joe Walcott at Chelsea, Mass.
Secretary Wilson's annual report
shows the value of farm crops Is in.
creasing enormously with the progress
In the science of agriculture.
Mayor Elisha Dyer, OF Providence;
r. l., former governor of Rhode Island.
died of heart disease.
Seven soldiers were killed and an
officer and six men were wounded In
an encounter in New Dutch Guinea
between detachment Of Dutch troops
and strong band of Alfours.
One man was killed, two seriously
injured and a score of wedding guests,
including women, slightly hurt early
yesterday morning in riot following
a Polish feast In Chicago.
Mayor Schmitz. of San Francisco
was put under arrest at Truckee, Cal.
on charge of extortion found by the
grand jury.
1t Is reported that the federal grand
jury at Salt Lake City has voted sew
eral indictments IN the coal land
fraud case.
A syndicate of capitalists proposed
to committee of congress to take
over the postal service. promising
penny postage and better service
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