Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-26

erdl weeks. Inc regular physician ana
two eminent specialists announced af-
ter her ladyship's death that the inn
mediate cause of dissolution was heart
failure, due to her weakened condition
and the hot weather.
Ella Farmerie, Is years of age, en-
ployed in the dressmaking department
Of the drygoods establishment of Nc
stantly killed by falling down the ele-
vator shaft from the tenth floor Of the
building.
The commission appointed to inves-
tigate the surrender of Port Arthur
has finished its labors and recon-
mends that Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel, the
former commander of the Russian
forces at Port Arthur, be dismissed
from the army and shot.
With the peasant war spreading
like fire through the central Russian
provinces, where troops are shooting
down peasants by hundreds and es-
tates are burning in scores, the lower
house of the douma adopted the long
looked for proclamation to the nation
on the agrarian situation.
The six-story brick building at the
corner of Tenth street and Broadway,
owned by the Frankel-Frank Whole
sale Millinery company, was partially
destroyed by fire at Kansas City. The
fire started in the sixth story, which
was struck by lightning.
The Sewer Pipe Trade association,
Familiarity known as the "sewer pipe
trust" practically entered plea of
guilty to the charges Of secret con-
tract to limit the production and
control the territory and prices of
sewer pipe before the federal grand
jury in jamestown, N. Y.
Action of greatest Importance in la
Dor circles is contemplated in a direc-
tion given by the president to officers
in charge of public works, at the in
stance of Secretary Taft. This is to
employ the governments own officers
to direct and punish violations of the
law of 1902, providing except in case
Of emergency, work upon government
buildings, ships and other properties
shall be limited to eight hours each
day for each workman.
The reports regarding the earth
quake at Socorro have been exagger-
ated, the damage to date being linn
tied to the falling and topping over
Of loose chimneys and shaking Of some
of the walls Of buildings not of a sub
stantial character.
The Georgia Bar association conven-
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Jerome, district attorney of New York.
There is one injustice which public
opinion not infrequently Does" he said,
and it is one which lawyers can do
much to correct, and that is the criti-
cism of judges for decisions which
they could not avoid making If they
obeyed the law.
Some interesting railroad rate sta
tistics as applied to the carrying of
oil were submitted at Kansas City,
Mo-, when the Missouri board of rail-
way and warehouse commissioners re-
sumed the oil rate hearing postponed
at st. Louis on July 9. The indie
pendent shippers presented the fig
ures which formed comparisons of
railroad rates for oil in car load lots
in several states.
That a justice of the Wisconsin SUI
preme court tried to obtain by letter
a rebate from the Union Central Life
Insurance company was the statement
made by James G.. Albright, of Mil
waukee, general agent for the COM
pany, before the insurance investiga-
ton.
A collision took place between the
excursion steamer Thomas Patten, of
the Patten line, and Perseus, of the
Iron Steamboat company at New
York. The vessel had about 1900
passengers on board and a wild pan
ic ensued, but no one was seriously
injured.
The porte sent note to the am
bassadors accepting the powers de-
mands regarding the three per cent.
increase In customs duties.
| According to a statement issued by
the United States geological survey
the value Of the products of clay in
the United States in 1905 was $149,.
697,1SS, as against an output valued
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Three thousand coal miners In the
Fifth Ohio district will return to work
at once as a result of the settlement
reached here by the operators and
miners delegates. The scale of 1908
was adopted in its entirety.
Rev. B. Royal Cheney, pastor of the
Second Congregational church of Be-
lott, Wis, was killed in an elevator
accident at Florence, Italy. Rev.
Cheney was spending the summer in
Europe.
There was a demonstration at the
tomb Of Emile lola, commemorative
OF the acquittal of Dreyfus. The lat
ter sent a wreath of roses and or
chids.
The governments colossal fight
against the Standard Oil company Is
to be transferred from Cleveland to
Chicago Immediately. Claiming that
enough evidence has been brought out
to make clear case against the al
legged oil trust, but the federal court
lacked the legal jurisdiction for indict
ment and prosecution, the government
Unexpectedly and summarily ended the
proceedings before the Cleveland grand
jury.
That the properties of the Devlin es-
tate will be closed out completely by
the first of the next year, is the an.
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