Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-19

VI dSIiCuituIS COuCiuuSu Ills WOfk ia
Chicago by issuing statement in
which he denied meat packers the
use cf the United States government
inspection label as a guarantee to the
world OF the fitness of their products
as food, until they have made perfect
the sanitary COZ ditions in the build.
ings where food is prepared.
The steamer Quincy of the Diamond
10 line, burned near Trempeauleau,
Wis, with 200 people aboard The boat
ran into the bank and turned half
over, when the fire started. One babe
was drowned.
At Sevastopol an attempt was made
by mutineers to assassinate Vice Ad-
miral Chuknin. commander of the
Black sea feet. The admiral was
wounded and taken to hospital
The Continental Limited, No. /, on
the Wabash railroad had a remarkable
escape from disastrous wreck. When
speeding at the rate of so miles an hour
it crashed into some track construc-
ton work near Cass station, Indiana.
Robbery Is believed to have been the
motive Of the brutal murder of Miss
Mile Ellison, of Ellsworth, Wis. who
was attacked while in her room in a
Minneapolis hotel.
In the United States appellate court
at st. Louis, former Attorney General
Grow, of Missouri, for the government,
began a searching investigation into
the methods by which rates on coal
are made and maintained by the rail-
roads ON the east side of the Mississ-
ippi river.
The Association of Rhenish ami
Westphalian Grain Importers has sent
circular to the various German and
foreign chambers of commerce and
produce exchanges regarding the al
legged incorrect classification of Amer
lean grain.
The parole system was attacked by
Lieut. Gov. Sherman in an address de-
livered before the Illinois States At
torneys association at its annual con-
vention in Springfield. He said that
of all the criminals paroled most of
them had returned to their bad life.
The automobile bearing Vice Pres
iden Fairbanks and party from Dan
vile, ILL.,, to Champaign crashed into
buggy driven by Joseph M. Dough-
erty. The two vehicles came together
with a loud crash at curve in the
road, and Mr.. Dougherty was thrown
out and painfully bruised.
A half score of persons were injured,
five painfully, by the stampede of a
bucking broncho during the perform
ance of a wild west show at Granite
City, III.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was arrested at
Cleburne, Tex, charged with having
misused the mails.
At the Sanitary Inspectors confer,
ence al Bristol Eng, delegate said
If the British public only knew a
quarter of what was going on in the
slaughter houses of the country the
Chicago scare would become insight
ficant by comparison.
The long coal strike in the Dubois,
Pa, region was settled in confer
ence between representatives of the
President T. E. Young, of the Ohio
coal operators, said it was probable a
conference of representatives of op.
orators and miners will be held.
Because of a misunderstanding the
miners of the Hooking valley, 10000
men, went out on a strike. Negotia.
lions resulted in the misunderstood.
ing being cleared up.
Indications that American farmers
this year will harvest the largest
grain crops in the history of the coun-
try are given in the government re-
port on condition as Of July /. Not
only is the prospect for a bountiful
harvest most bright, but market quo
tations show that the farmer will get
:air price for his grain, while re-
ports from Europe are that the wheat
crop will be 15O,O00,000 bushels short
of that of 1905, indicating that the ex-
port demand will be large and that
America will have to fill a good share
of it.
Harry X. Thaw protests against be-
ing regarded as insane and declares
his counsel assure him that no such
course as the appointment of a CON-
mission to inquire into his mental
condition is contemplated.
The French chamber of deputies
passed the bill providing for a compul-
sorry day of rest weekly. The measure,
which Is designed to terminate the
present system of Sunday labor, has
already passed the senate.
Gov. Magoon, at Panama, confirms
in measure the report that Colon
bian warship had seized the captains
of two British schooners at point
off the Colombian coast. Upon discov-
ering the men were British subjects
they were released.
Sheriff Charles Wilson, of Clay
county, Florida, was shot and instant
ly killed in train near Green Cove
Springs, by a negro prisoner in his
custody. A deputy shot and killed the
negro.
Secretary Metcalf named Director
North, of the census bureau, as the
representative of the department of
commerce and labor to assist in pre-
pairing regulations for the operation
of the pure food law.
Ten armed men attacked the CASH
Ter of the Vistula railway at Warsaw.
He was accompanied by an attendant
and two soldiers. The assailants
stopped the carriage, shot the soldiers
dead and got $4,000.
A large lumber mill, two stores, ten
dwellings and 100000 feet of lumber