Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-18


wife and stepdaughter endeavored to
snatch the bottle containing the poi
son from the physicians hands.
Miss Bertha Krupp, who married
Lieut.. Gustav Won Behlen Und Kali
bach, has possessions valued some
where beyond a hundred millions of
dollars, and position in Germany
that is more than that of the richest
subject
Philippe d. Hammel, former secre-
tary and treasurer of system division
No. Of the Order of Railroad Tele-
graphers, was found guilty in the
| court of kings bench at Montreal of
embezzling $4,000 of the funds of the
order.
Will Thomas, a fisherman, was as
sassinated in the northern part of
Cairo, Ill. The killing is said to have
been caused by a quarrel between
Thomas and John Lewis.
The individual championship of the
New England Intercollegiate Golf as
ISOLATION was won by e. Stanton, of
Dartmouth, who defeated f. e. Up
ton, of Bowdoin, in a 36-hole contest 3
up and l to play.
After the Selamlik the sultan grant
ed private audiences to several mem
! bers Of the diplomatic corps, mclud-
ing the American ambassador, John
G. A. Leishman.
The Farmers National congress at
Rock Island, ILL.,, adopted resolution
demanding the passage of a law pro-
hibiting dealings in futures and puts
and calls, and denying the use of
mails and telegraph wires for quota
tons OF stocks.
Great impetus has been given to the
movement on foot to merge the Con-
gregational, Methodist Protestant and
United Brethren churches into one
body by the east Pennsylvania confer
ence of the United Brethren church.
A quantity of loaded bombs, rifles,
cartridges and daggers have been
found in two Armenian churches at
Shusha. Several priests were ar
rested.
The governor general warned the
factory owners and shopkeepers of
Lodz not to pay wages to the striking
workmen and clerks under penalty of
$1,000. The Weather residents are
leaving Lodz in fear of an anti-Jewish
attack.
Revolutionists at Kaluga succeeded
In obtaining possession of box con-
tanning sections of a machine gun
which was bound for Moscow from
the lula artillery factory.
Fresno, Cal, gets the next quad
rennial session of the Danish Brother
hood, to be held in 1910.
Portland, Ore, freight handlers
have been granted an increase
amounting to about ten cents a day.
John B. Moran accepted the Demo
cratic nomination for governor of
Massachusetts.
President Harvie Jordan, of the
Southern Cotton association, esti-
mates that between 10000 and $4,000
bales of cotton were killed in Georgia
alone by the cold snap.
The celery crop in Michigan has
been practically destroyed by the
frost. The growers were caught I'M
awares and had failed to bank it.
Capt. E. L. Taylor, retired capital
list and formerly president of the At
lanta and West Point railroad, died
at Admission, Ala. He suffered strok/
of paralysis.
Charles w. Bennett, a lawyer, who
was prominent as a candidate for
United States senator when Utah was
admitted to statehood, was run down
and killed by a street car at Salt
Lake.
The stockholders of the Norfolk &
Western railroad at their annual
meeting decided to issue $34,000,000
of additional stock.
Advices from important cotton sec
tons of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory are to the effect that the crop
was materially damaged by the frost.
The crop was practically made, but
much of the cotton has not yet ma
tured, and the plant in that stage will
be killed. A conservative estimate
cleaned from the reports places the
yield at one-half bale per acre.
James Thornton and e. Hofsess,
gamblers, engaged in a pistol duel in
the offices of brokerage company in
Denver, and Thornton received a
wound in the abdomen which may
prove fatal. Hofsess was shot in the
right wrist.
Free distribution of seeds by con-
gressmen was frowned upon in res
olution adopted by the Farmers Ma
tional congress. 1t recommended
that money thus spent be devoted to
investigating agricultural methods in
foreign lands and introducing them
here through agricultural schools.
Employees of the Pittsburg Railways
company decided to strike unless the
company reinstated Conductor M. ].
Murray. The men claim Murray was
discharged because he was absent
from duty on account of sickness.
Senator Cullom is confined to his
room in Springfield, ILL.,, suffering
from a severe cold contracted. He is
under the care of a physician.
Judge Frank Hurd Robinson, for
two terms grand master of the Free
and Accepted Masons of the state of
New York, died in a sanitarium in
Hornell, N. Y, after an illness of sew
eral months. He was 81 years of age.
The Marchesa De Grille, better
known as Adelaide Ristori. the cele-
brated Italian actress, died at Rome.