Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31

90 10 iyncn Munroe Ialvers, negro,
who had been found under the bed OF
q white woman. Before he strangled
the negro was cut down by the police
Numerous points in Missouri, Kan
sas and Indian territory report .
soaking rain, breaking drought OF
from three to six weeks and doing In.
calculahle benefit to crops,
Frank Gotch defeated Tom Jenkins
for the championship of America al
catch-as-catch-can wrestling at Kan.
sas City. Gotch won the first and
third falls.
In wreck of work train on the
Wanawha & West Virginia railroad
Fireman Elmer James was scalded tc
death and Engineer b. l.. Bickle fatal.
ly Injured. Lewis Wolhouse, Charles
Dickers and IA others were injured.
The Association OF French Policy.
holders of the Equitable Life Assur.
ance company has decided to partici.
pate in the International conference to
be held at Vienna.
Arthur Davis, who killed Heel Reed
at Springfield, o.. was caught al
Clarksburg, Ross county. He admitted
his guilt and said jealousy was the
motive.
George Younger negro. VINO shot
and killed John Rector of Columbus,
Miss. while the latter. as n member OF
a posse. was endeavorlng to effect the
Negroes arrest. was taken from the
Jail by mob and lynched.
AlonZo Parks, carrier on rural mail
route No. /, out of Buena Vista, Tenn.
was found unconscious and dying by
the roadside, shot In the head. The
mail sack had been riled.
Albert de LUXE, the French cham
pion Mt Bordeaux, defeated Jay Gould,
OF Lakewood, N. j., at tennis, sc.
Miss May Sutton, af Pasadena, Cal,
sailed from New York on the Oceania
to defead her holdings OF the English
national lawn tennis championship.
IL Is estimated that 1000 veterans
were In the parade at Galesburg, H.,
which was the feature of the G. A. r..
encampment, department OF Illinois.
The national convention of the Unit
ed Brethren Women's Missionary
board held n memorial service at Ms
Kinley's tomb. An immense bouquet
OF carnations was deposited on tho
late, presidents casket.
The Anglo-C Cuban treaty shorn OF fea.
lures objected to by the United States
was reported to the senate at Havana
The convention of the National AS
sociation OF Railway Claim Agents adj
journed to meet In Norfolk. Va. next
year.
A verdict OF suicide was rendered by
the jury In the inquest into the death
by pistol shot wound or Charles l..
Spier at his home at st. George,
Staten Island. on the morning of Mon
day, May Z.
ii. II. b. Lynch, Liberal, moved In
the house OF commons that parliament
consider that further reforms In Mace
donia are urgently required In the in.
terest alike of the Christian and the
Mohammedan population.
The car refused the douma's do
mand for full amnesty for political
crimes. He refused to pardon bomt
throwers and assassins.
The appointment of Komura as Jap
anese ambassador at London Is dc
clared a snub to England.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian drn
matist and poet. died at Christiania
aged rs.
The local contest at Decatur. H., In
stituted to prevent the union OF thu
Cumberland Presbyterian church viii
the Presbyterian church, has been co
cided In favor of the unionists,
Judge Smith Mcpherson, OF Iowa
sitting in place OF Judge John II. Phil
lips. at Kansas City, overruled the do
murrer of the Burlington railway In
dictments against that company, and
must go to trial.
Archbishop Messmer startled thu
Wisconsin Antisaloon league by thu
statement that intoxicants, used mod
erately, are no worse than ice cream
The first legal victory In the fgh
between the warning factions Of Zior
went to adherents of Dowle Jndg'
Lands declared his investigator
found no evidence of mlsappropriatior
OF funds, that the assets exceed nj
liabilities, and that no receiver VIII b.
appointed.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Des Moines knocked out all author
ity for the book of forms and services
The seventh annual meeting of thu
Illinois Congress Of Mothers convened
at Springfield. Gov. Deneen deliver eG
the address OF welcome.
A resolution was adopted by the an
nual conference of the Structural
Building Trades Alliance OF America
asking the local unions TO urge lheii
members against the use Of alcoholic
liquors.
At the semiannual meeting OF the
executive committee of the National
Life Underwriters association at New
York, It was decided that the next
annual convention shall be held In st.
Louis on October %, "a and rs.
Alarmed over the prospect OF a diff
ferential passenger rate war, members
of the Trunk Line association and the
Central Traffic association held a
meeting In New York at which the en-
tire dispute was finally adjusted.
Excitement over having caught big
fish was the cause of Barney and
Henry Lehman, 18 and 10 years old,
at st. Cloud, Mimi. losing their lives
in Mathew lake. The boat was cap
sized.
Francisco Elizado, of Laredo, Tex,