Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
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held the decision of Judge Kinkade,
Of common pleas court, in the SEN
| fences he gave Reuben Lemon, Rol-
land Beard and Joseph Miller, convict,
| ed of conspiracy in restraint of trade
In the sale of ice.
The first test of the federal eight
hour day law at Cincinnati, ended in
a victory for the government. After
being out only Is minutes the jury in
the United States court found Sheri-
| dan-Kirk Contracting company guilty
| of violating the law in the construc-
ton of the big Ohio river dam at
| Fernbank.
A thrilling story of the rescue of
half dozen men In the recent storm
off the Florida keys and the subse-
quent suicide of captain was relat-
cd by Capt. Rudolph Rubelli, OF the
Standard Oil company's steamer Cap
| tain A. M. Lucas, which arrived at
New York, after the most tempestu-
Gus voyage of her career.
Holding fully 100 terrified citizens
at bay. a band of robbers Shot up the
town. deliberately dynamited the
Odin Qll) bank, took $4,000 from the
wrecked safe and escaped.
The Utes are now headed northwest
| toward the northern Cheyennes,
| whose reservation lies about so miles
east of Fort Custer, Mont. 1t Is said
| that their purpose is to induce the
| northern Cheyennes to join them in
some kind of raid.
Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens, of Port
land, Me-, as president. opened the
| thirty-third annual convention of the
National Woman's Christian Temper
| ance union at Hartford, Conn. More
than $50 delegates from all parts of
the United States were present. Dele
gates from Austria, Japan, England,
| Greece and other countries were on
| hand.
Sensational incidents marked the
| Offering of testimony before the inter
state commerce commission in SEES
sion at Des Moines. After several
members of the Cereal club had tes-
titled that they could not remember
that the organization had ever voted
to fix prices for grain, r. w. Harper
testified that he had often attended
it's banquets and meetings and that
after discussion of prices the vote of
the meeting was taken on motion by
the secretary of the Grain Dealers
| association and expressed by lifted
hands as a basis for quotations for
| the ensuing week furnished to mem
| bers of the association.
Believing he had killed his sweet
heart with four bullets he fired at her,
Frank Dorsey, clerk whose home
was in Brooklyn shot himself dead
in a Fourth avenue bird store at New
York, where both were employed.
Fire at the Paris Qll.) hotel caused
hurried adjournment Of banquet
at which Speaker Cannon was being
entertained by Republican politicians.
John FOCUS, well-known war vet
eran, of Marietta, o., was bitten by a
small family dog three weeks ago
and developed hydrophobia. He be-
came unmanageable and was taken to
Jail, where he died.
The Bank of Jamestown, in Moni-
teau county, Mo-, was entered by
robbers, who blew open the safe and
secured s2,70O.
Samuel Mcclellan Hay, for IS years
identified with the interests of Osh-
kosh, Wis, and pioneer merchant
and banker of wide reputation, died,
aged 81 years.
Eugene T. Wilson, bank examiner
in charge of the Aetna Banking and
Trust company at Butte, Mont, issued
a statement to the comptroller In
which the liabilities of the concern
| are given at $4S5,S2S, and the nominal
assets at s461,526.
The knights of Pythias have deter
| mined to fight through the courts the
organization recently formed by ne
groes in the state of Georgia calling
themselves the supreme lodge Knights
of Pythias of North America, South
| America and Australia.
Four persons are known to be dead,
| eight others are missing, two are ia
tally injured and so are more or less
| seriously injured as the result Of the
fire which destroyed the Chamber of
Commerce building in Kansas City,
Kan.
The Trans-Alaskan-Siberi Rail-
way company, with an authorized
capital of $6,000,000 was incorporated
at Trenton, N. ].
| In Joint convention the Kentucky
State Grange and Farmers institute
passed resolutions condemning the
government free seed distribution.
More than dozen persons were in
\ jured and babe was killed in fire
which destroyed the chamber of COM
merce building, four-story brick and
stone structure, used as store and
tenement building, at Park and Cen
trail streets in the Riverview district
of Kansas City, Kan.
Benjamin Sager, farmer, was shot
dead and his son. Claude, aged 81,
| fatally wounded at Paris. Mo-, by John
Sebastian, an aged farmer. The
Sagers had rented field from Sebas-
tian, and were to pay Sebastian for
rent half the crop of corn grown
thereon.
! Running at speed estimated at so
miles an hour, the fast train between
Cleveland and Pittsburg on the Fort
Wayne road known as the cleveland
Flyer" was side-swiped by the caboose
of freight train near Bellevue sta
! Atrn fra ipt Hny,