Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30

Democrats of the Sixth Nebraska
district nominated G. l.. Shumway, Of
SCOTS Bluff county, for congress.
The First National bank of Birming.
ham, Ala, entered suit against p. G.
Smith, and the Odell Stock e Graip
company to recover s48,203 of the
banks money, said to have been lost
by the bank teller.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, aged SO
years, of New York, died at her sum-
mer home near Little Falls, N. Y. Her
son Is the husband Of Corinne Roose-
welt, sister to the president.
Republicans of the Thirteenth Ohio
congressional district in convention
renominated Grant L. Mouser, Of
Marion.
Montana Socialists nominated H. L.
Murray, of Butte, for assistant justice
of the supreme court and John Hud-
son, of Carbon county, for representa-
tive in congress.
The appointment of T. H. Schu-
macker to the position of traffic man.
ager of the Ell Paso & Southwestern
railroad Is announced.
1t is reported that the steamer Els.
peranZa which sailed for Cuba from
New York, carried in her hold a com.
plete field battery of artillery con.
signed to the Cuban government at
Havana.
There have been a great number of
arrests at Riga of leading revolution
lists, including the whole of the social
revolutionary committee and members
of militant organizations.
Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury, will open the Republican
campaign in Tennessee with speech
at Nashville, September IA.
Gen. Fernando Figueroa has re.
signed the Office of minister of war to
become candidate for the presidency
of San Salvador.
Secretary Root, who is on his way
to the Straits of Magellan, probably
will not be heard from again until he
reaches Punta Arenas, the only stop
he is to make in the straits.
The Fifth Ohio district Republican
congressional convention renominated
w. w. SdLlpUSlly VI &NupO1SOll, lOI COu-
gress.
William Macdonald, a representa-
tive of the agricultural department of
the Transvaal is travelling through
this country studying agricultural
conditions and methods.
For 60 days prior to August the
department of commerce and labor
had assessed in fines on steamship
companies $500 for bringing into
this country diseased aliens. Since
the 4th the aggregate Of fines for the
same offenses has been proportionate-
ly as large as during the previous 60
days.
Charging nearly a million dollar
swindle through the operation of
fake Mexican plantation scheme, Chi.
cago postal authorities raided the of.
fees of the Tabasco-Chiapa5 Trading
e Transportation company and the
Lu-Me-Ha Mills company.
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sional district convention Of Ohio is
deadlocked, after casting IS ballots.
By the explosion of 300-horsepow.
er boiler the plant of the Marion CO.,
Railway G hit company was
wrecked and five persons were in
jured.
The earl of Leven and Melville, lord
high commissioner of the general as
sembly of the Church of Scotland, and
keeper of the privy council, is dead.
He was born in 1885.
M. ]. Sage & Co., brokers of No. /
Montgomery street, Jersey City, and
No. 81 Broadway, New York, posted
notice at their Jersey City office
that they had discontinued business.
Capt. Ross, chief of the revenue
cutter service of the treasury depart
ment, reported to Acting Secretary
Murray of the department of com.
merce and labor, that he had received
advices that the Canadian cruiser
Vigilant was destroying the nets OF
American fishermen in Lake Erie.
Jay C. Morse, at one time president
of the Illinois Steel company and
brother-in-law of the late Senator M.
A. Hanna, died at Cleveland of COM
plication of diseases.
The Japanese government notified
the foreign governments that Tairen
(the new Japanese name for Port
Dalny) will be free port from Sep
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j. G. Lapre, balloonist, was seri-
ously injured by fall from para
chute at Wichita, Kan.
During a religious revival in Magof.
fin county, KY, Boyd Sturgeon shot
and instantly killed John England, his
rival for the affections Of young
woman.
Rev. G. w. s. Bell, Is years old.
Baptist preacher, was bored to death
by bull on his farm at Centralia, Ill.
His son Frank was seriously injured
by the same animal week before.
Worthan Brothers company, dry
goods dealers at Rockford, ILL.,, was
placed in the hands of a receiver. AS.
sets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000. The
failure is attributed to the injudicious
report Of commercial agency.
Illinois Democrats in state conven-
ton at Peoria by a vote of LOTT to 581
tabled resolutions asking for Roger
G. Syllivan's resignation as national
committeeman and Endorsed Bryan.
The presidential boom of Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon, for 1908, which
was launched recently by his own con-
gressional district, was given an en-
thusiastic Endorsement by Illinois Re-
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