Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-15

Indictments In IL cases were hand
sd to Judge Lochren in the United
States district court at Minneapolis,
covering the giving of rebates by GER
ain railroads and the receiving of
he same by grain firms and individu-
ais.
Orders have been received at the
headquarters of the department of the
Missouri to dispatch pack train Of
about so animals from Fort Riley to
Cuba, via Newport News.
Jet Hicks, negro, was lynched at
Sale City. Ca. for the murder of John
Akridge.
A message from Claremont, CAL,
announced the death there of Lasalle
A. Maynard, of Oneonta, N. Y, associ.
ate editor of Leslie's Weekly and a
prominent figure at Lake Mohonk
peace conferences.
With scores Of children nearby, an
Italian was stabbed IL times In the
back and his watch and $3.50 In bills
We're taken from him opposite public
school No. 8 at Mosholtu Parkway and
briggs avenue, Bronx, New York.
Mrs. Henry Williams, about so years
old, was found murdered In her home
tear Stafford Springs, Col. Robbery
apparently was the motive and the
murderer is believed to be tramp. v
Edwin Stone, of Brooklyn, who died
In Saratoga, left half of his estate,
valued at 100000 to various educa-
1onal and charitable institutions.
John F. Stevens, chief engineer Of
the Panama canal, granted a day off
to the British canal and railroad en-
ployes throughout the zone for the
purpose Of celebrating the birthday of
King Edward.
DR.. James Oliver Flower, Ga years
OF age, prominent dentist and wide
ly known in the east and west, died at
Pittsburg, Pa, of tuberculosis after an
illness of four years. He was the
father OF DR.. w. S. Flower, who sew
eral years ago eloped with a daughter
of Charles Lockhart, the Standard Oil
magnate, who disinherited her.
One Italian laborer was instantly
killed, one is missing and thought to
have been blown to pieces, two are
fatally hurt, and Is others are seri-
ously injured by the explosion of ten
sticks of dynamite in Carrick borough,
near Pittsburg, Pa.
The agitation in Italy against the
action of the government in placing an
order for armor plate for an Italian
man-of-war valued at $1,O00,00O with
the Midvale Steel company, of Penn
sylvania, is assuming a serious char
acter.
The house of lords continues to bat
ter the education bill out of all sem.
blance of it's original form.
Prompt and decisive action by the
authorities at Spring Green, Wis, pre-
vented the lynching of Thomas Bali,
who is accused of assaulting Mrs. Ed
ward Frank.
In fire in an east side five-story
tenement house on Madison street,
New York, a woman and her four
children were suffocated.
AT Lodz, Russian Poland, seven ma
tionalist workmen were shot down by
socialists.
Three boys condemned by a court
martial for robbery were shot to death
at Riga. The firing party was COM
pletely unnerved at the sight of mere
children before them for execution
and fired wildly, and it was only after
several volleys that all the condemned
were killed.
The executive committee of the new
Louisville Jockey club, after a confer
ence at the Latonia race course, de-
cided to rule Steve L'Hommedieu, the
well-known bookmaker, off the turf
for life.
The will of Mrs. Caroline Fl. Polhe-
mus, filed for probate in Brooklyn,
gives 100000 to charities.
Maitre Bonnet, counsel for Count
Boni lie Castellane, charges bribery Of
witnesses on behalf of the countess,
and further holds a full inquiry is
necessary to vindicate his client.
E. H. Hartman, at meeting of the
Illinois Central board in New York
ousted and Inundated President
Stuyvesant Fish and had ]. T. Hara.
han elected as his successor. Court
proceedings to invalidate the action
are threatened.
Announcement is made of the re-
tirement from the presidents cabinet
of Secretary of the Interior Ethan Al
len Hitchcock on March and his re-
fusal to accept the ambassadorship to
France. James r. Garfield will sue
coed Mr.. Hitchcock.
Justice Bischoff at New York denied
motions by Richard A. McCurdy to
compel the Mutual Life company to
make its complaint more definite IN
its suit against him to recover $2,37O.-
341.
President Roosevelt has directed
that reprimand be administered to
Willis l.. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, for his action in the case of a
printer named Cooper in his office who
had been expelled from the Typo
graphical union for not paying his
strike assessments.
Mrs. Esther A. Stanard, wife Of for
mer Gov. E. o. Stanard, died of neu-
ralgia of the heart at st. Louis. Mrs.
Stanard was 73 years of age.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan, which has twice been stranded
and refioated, left Honolulu for San
Francisco in tow Of the army tug Slo-
cum and the transport Buford. The
Sheridan Is In an utterly helpless con-
dition.