Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-26

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a wholesale liquor license. He tipped
coin with the attorney for the petit
I, toner, and he lawyer won.
State Secretary M T. Filming of the
Illinois Association of Letter Carriers
issued call for the eighth annual
convention, the date being fixed at
May 80 at Elgin.
Fire has swept the town Of Mari
| quina, Rizl province, p. !. Many thou
sands of persons are homeless and
starving. Two thousand dwellings are
In ruins. The government is rushing
! assistance to the sufferers.
Fire destroyed Pasil, near the town
! of Cebu, p. |. Two hundred dwellings
were burned and many persons are
homeless.
Miners spurned the arbitration
scheme of operators in western Penn.
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
r. G. Dun & Co. report trade condi-
lions as favorable.
The report of the Canadian section
OF the international waterways COM
mission declares the maintenance of
Niagara falls is a national matter and
SHOULD be dealt with as such.
DR.. Mary Z. Breen, en- route for her
home at Lemars, went violently insane
at Fort Dodge, Ia, upon hearing of
the terrible catastrophe at San Fran.
cisco.
William Perry, negro, who killed
.nwfc IUi11ioYr,o nj h1ino al
colored, In New York, gave himself
up to the Philadelphia police.
Maggie Goeken, of Green Valley, H.,
aged four years, was burned to death.
Her clothes caught fire from stove.
A committee of the Ohio Brewers
association decided to employ attor-
neys to contest the constitutionality
Of the Aiken law and the Jones local
option law, passed recently by the
general assembly.
Fire Chief William Kennedy of Green
Bay, Wis, pleaded guilty to a charge of
bribery on information secured on his
voluntary statement.
An automobile owned and driven by
Daniel Kenney, formerly of Chicago,
and containing three friends, was
| struck and demolished on the Big Four
crossing at Danville, one occupant be-
ing killed.
| The Chicago Burlington e Quincy
Railroad company, Darius o. Miller,
the vice president and traffic manager,
and Claude G. Burnham, the foreign
! freight traffic manager, were fined an
aggregate of 100000 by Judge Bethea
in the United States district court at
Chicago on the charge of granting IL
| legal rebates In the shipment of tin
plates to British Columbia.
| An earthquake shock of unusual vio-
lence at Calumet, Mich, spread con-
sternation through the mining coun.
| try and caused the death of one man
and the serious injury of four others.
| A gift of 1900 pennies, saved up
in bag, representing the absolute
old Raymond Shannon from candy
and other childish luxuries, was the
most cherished gift received ON Easter
by the sisters of st. Francis hospital,
in Trenton, N. ].
| Dependency because the trial board
had recommended his dismissal from
the department, Christopher A.
Schreck, Chicago policeman, killed
| himself.
An overhead walk at the Duluth,
Mesabe & Northern docks collapsed at
Duluth, Mimi, and q men sustained
serious injury.
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth will sail from New York
June for England. They will remain
abroad all summer and return to
Washington October l.
Vast coal interests in West Virginia
are aroused by the state tax commits
| sioner's announcement that coal as
sessments previously made in various
counties would be advanced.
Two simple cures for domestic quar-
rels have been discovered by Magis-
trate Eisenbrown, of Philadelphia. One
Is to allow an angry wife at all times
to have the last word and the other
requires the husband to take a walk
of four squares as soon as quarrel
starts.
Frank Thompson. son OF Gardner
Thompson, prominent farmer living
two miles south of Paw Paw, H.. COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the neck with shotgun.
The anthracite coal operators after
blaming President Mitchell. of the
miners union for the coal strike, say
they have nothing further to offer.
Many divorced persons prominent In
New York society are affected by the
supreme court decision, among them
Mrs. Shaw, young Waldorf Astors
promised bride.
| An all-American crusade to resist
unwarranted advances in freight rates
and compel the railroads to cease re-
| classifications that have extorted mil.
lions of dollars from merchants and
manufacturers has been begun by the
| shippers.
President Roosevelt and the dow.
ager empress and emperor of China
exchanged greeting on completion of
the cable to China.
Virtue was Its own reward In the
case of Ernest Chapman, who picked
up checks totaling the sum of $780,
900, returned them TO their owners and
was handed $40 bill for his honesty
Springfield, Mo-, was thrown into a
frenzy OF excitement by the killing Of
negro who attempted to hold up a
white youth and his girl companion.
Warrants have been issued for the ar