Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08

A band OF 100 Ute Indians, it is re
ported, captured wagon loaded with
5000 pounds OF -four and supplies
bound from Arvada to the Tenth and
! the Sixth cavalry.
| Six revolutionists, disguised as a
sergeant and five privates, drove W
In a wagon to the government powder
stores at Okhta. suburb of st. Pc
tersburg, and presented formal order
for delivery Of 575 pounds of pyroxy
lin and $50 pounds Of smokeless pow
der. The material was delivered, the
six men loaded 1t on their wagon and
drove away.
Herchall Order. aged SO years, OF
near Rowena, KY, fell asleep IL years
ago, and all efforts to awaken him
have proved unavailing to this day.
Sensational charges were made In
ten indictments which were returned
by the Chittenden county grand jury
in connection with the sale of diseased
cattle In Vermont end In tho sale OF
which, according to the indictments
two former members of the state cat
tie commission, participated with a
full knowledge that such cattle would
be used for food purposes.
Fire destroyed the entire opera
house block at Leipsic, O., entailing
a loss of 100000. The fire started in
the Knights Of Pythias lodge rooms
and within an hour the entire block
was consumed.
William Horlick has purchased and
presented to the city of Racine, Wis,
large island In Root river. Mr.. Hor-
lick has also donated generous sum
to convert this island into beautiful
park, much needed in Racine.
Judge Joseph e. Gary, the oldest
member of the Chicago bench, and the
man who sentenced the anarchists to
hang, died suddenly, aged IS.
The University of Moscow was
closed by order of the rector until No
vember IL, in consequence OF viola.
lions of the rule against open political
meetings being held in the university
building.
In a decision handed down by the
Indiana state railroad commission, a
number Of new rules were ordered
adopted that will compel the railroads
hereafter to consider their own neg.
lect, weather conditions and the man.
ner In which shippers are to be mott
fed of the arrival of cars.
Advices received at army headquar-
tiers at Omaha from Maj. Grierson, in
command Of the detachment Of the
Tenth cavalry, which first took the
field in pursuit of the Utes in Wyo-
ming, say that there Is no prospect of
clash between the troops and the
Indians.
The colonial government has de-
cided to test the validity of the modus
vivendi. 1t issued an official notice
enforcing the bait act, which forbids
New Foundlanders to fish on board
foreign vessels within colonial waters.
and 1t intends to prosecute one or
more colonial fishermen who have
been shipped by Americans outside
the three-mile limit.
Further reports from agents of the
interior department who superintend-
ed the opening Of the Walker Lake In
dian reservation in Nevada have con-
vinced Secretary Hitchcock that the
infractions of the regulations govern
ing the opening were not serious
enough to warrant recommendation
in favor of invalidating 1t.
William A. McLain. an employee Of
the Big Four railroad, fell under q
moving car at Greencastle, Ind, and
was instantly killed.
John Dolan, his wife, two daughters
and son were saved from burning to
death at Chippewa Falls, Wis, by
their dog. When the animal finally
awakened Dolan their home was in a
mass of flames and it was with diff
Guilty that they made their escape.
Five persons were scalded to death
by a column of escaping steam from
broken boiler drum In sugar house
near Vacherie, La.
Capt. A. c. Grimes, confederate vet
eran, proprietor of the Grimes club
house at Grimes, Station, Mo-. shot
and killed Joseph Hines, farmer Of
the neighborhood, and wounded Jas.
per Church, who was with Hines in q
wagon. The shooting is said to have
been caused by insulting remarks
made to Capt. Grimes young wife.
Three hundred shares of stock Of
the First National bank of Cincinnati,
whose present market value is $76,500
was left by the will of Mrs. Charles
cassidy, for home and foreign mis-.
sions."
Three hundred striking and sus-
pended Lawrence university freshmen
and sophomores have capitulated.
Bishop C. M. Galloway, of the M. E.
church, south, was stricken with con-
gestion of the brain at Jackson, Miss.
Walter E. Koch, fellow of the Geo.
logical Society of London, and G. B.
Richardson of the United States Geo
logical Survey, in excavation at El
Paso, Tex, unearthed jawbones of two
tapirs, supposed to have existed here
$4,000 years ago and an elephants
tooth, from an animal which probably
lived about 10000 years ago.
Inferior grades of coffee put In
ships manifests as peas and beans
and shipped from this country to
Porto Rico and then reshipped from
there to other countries and, in some
instances back to the United States,
as high grade Porto Rican coffee,
have been the subject of an investi-
cation by the department Of COM
merce and labor.