Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-12-20


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Justices OF the Illinois supreme
court viii hereafter wear uniform
dress coat on the bench. 1t is Primo,
Albert In cut, somewhat long ant
with silk-faced lapels.
Antonio Cassiamano, an Italian o.
Trvington, N. Y, is seriously Ill from
having eaten porous plaster, which
the doctor prescribed for pain in his
chest.
Four hundred persons have typhoid
fever in Pittsburg. Doctors have
been forced to send patients to the
municipal hospital because of the
crowded condition of other hospitals
Two officers Of the negro troops who
.ook part in the Brownsville riot were
ordered before q court-martial fol
trial.
Strife between the Roman Catholic
church and the French government
may be ended by the announcement
Of Cardinal Richard, archbishop OF
Paris, that, while members of the
clergy are forbidden to do so, laymer
may conform to the terms Of the sep
aration law.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
voted TO accept the terms of Kine
Leopold's win for the annexation Of
the Congo.
The Standard on company advanced
the wages of all employees receiving
less than 500 a month 10 per cent
William A. Heron, for "a years
president of the Peoria Savings bank
died at the age of "a years.
The interstate commerce commits
sion sent an appeal to presidents Of
western and northwestern railways tc
relieve the suffering due to the cal
shortage.
Cardinal Gibbons declared the
French separation law was tremen
dous injustice to the Roman Catholic
church, and asked the sympathy Of
America in the crisis.
Roman Catholic priests In France
held services in defiance of the sepa
ration law and many were summoned
in court.
A boy was killed in the gallery Of
the Majestic theateI, Chicago, with
an umbrella by a man who was an
gered by his applause.
Andrew Carnegie, speaking before
the National Civic Federation in New
York, said the major part Of the es
tates Of enormously wealthy mer
should go to the state at the death OIL
the owners Of the fortunes. Melville
u. ingalls, spoke in favor of income
and inheritance taxes.
w. X. Vanderbilt, while speeding
his big racing automobile along the
shore of Lake Success, Long Island
was hurled into the ice-coated lake by
the swapping Of the front axle of the
machine, but escaped without serious
injury.
King Oscar, Of Sweden, critically I'll
with heart affection at Stockholm, was
reported to be failing fast.
German emperor dissolved the
reichstag and ordered new elections
following defeat of the government
on the African bill.
The female suffragists of London
made another attempt to hold a meet
ing within the precincts of the house
of commons, and as result five wo
men and one man were arrested after
an exciting fight with tho police.
, Fire, probably Of incendiary origin
destroyed the Charles H. Mears & Co
lumber yard at Chicago, drove several
families from their homes, and caused
$4,000 damage.
The majority report of the commit
tee appointed by the last Wisconsin
state senate to investigate the feast
bility of establishing a state life in
surance department In Wisconsin, IL
not In favor of having the state gc
into the life insurance business be
cause it does not find it feasible a.
this time.
Brazil has granted to a New Yorl
syndicate a concession for buildins
and carrying on large harbor work:
a. Para, one Of the principal CONNER
cial oenters in North Brazil. The to
tai cost Of the work will be about SIS,
100000.
The lifeless bodies of Father c. s
Quinn, formerly assistant pastor Of st
Agnes church at Atlantic Highlands
N. j., and Miss Bridget Kiley, unit
recently househeeper at the st. Agne.
parish house, were found in a room
at a New York boarding house. The
room was filled with gas, which wa!
escaping from half-open Jet.
Letters patent were issued by thu
British government, granting a con
stitution to the Transvaal. Manhood
suffrage is provided and the assembl,
will be elected for five years.
William L. Brown, formerly publish
er of the New York Daily News, dice
at his country home in Great Barring
ton, Mass. He was Ga years Of age.
The United States Steel corpora
tons improvements to existing plant.
planned and the construction of tn,
steel city" at Gary, Ind, call for al
expenditure of s6O,O00,OO0 in 1907, &C
cording to an official statement giyel
out in New York
Bdouard Muller, vice president O
the federal council, was elected presi
dent of the Swiss confederation, IL
succession to NJ. L. Ferrer, whose tern
has expired.
A new balloon has just been or
dered by the United States govern
ment for use in the war department
for experimental purposes In militar,
work.