Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-26

A disastrous fire broke out In tie
bonded warehouse OF James Watson
&c Co., at Dundee, the largest concern
of its kind in Scotland. Large guam
titles Of blazing whisky ran into the
streets. The loss is estimated at
$1,250,O0O.
District Attorney Morrison of Chi
cago has received transcript Of the
grand jury in the Standard Oil inquiry
and he is going over it with Oliver
E. Pagin, special attorney delegated
by Attorney General Moody to have
supervision of the prosecution of the
Standard Oil company.
Circuit Attorney Sager filed huge
Ice trust suit at St. Louis, In which
he asks that fines of ST., 400 be levied
against the Polar Wave Ice & Fuel
company and the Merchants Ice &
Fuel company. The suit is the result
of a three-weeks' investigation and
the amount named represents PEN
atty of 500 for each day since the
two Ice concerns are alleged to have
formed combine and trade-restrain-
ing agreement.
Much evidence was introduced at
the ice investigation in Kansas City
in support Of the theory of County
Prosecutor /. B. Kimbrell that some
ice plants were closed down and the
output of other plants was curtailed
in accordance with a deliberate plan
of the alleged ice trust to reduce the
supply of ice.
The New York World says: Harry
Thaw will never be placed on trial for
the murder of Stanford White. An APP
plication will be made for the appoint
ment Of commission to inquire into
his sanity. There is no doubt that he
will be declared insane and sent to
the hospital for the criminal insane at
| Mattewan.
The breach between Harry X. Thaw,
accused of the murder of Stanford
White, and his mother, Mrs. William
Thaw, of Pittsburg, as to the char.
acter of the defense is wider than
ever.
An armistice between the armies of
the warning Central American repub.
| lies was arranged IL hours before the
officials of the state department be,
| lieved the various forces could be mott.
| fed
According to advices received by
| the bureau of manufactures, the Jap.
anese government has undertaken one
Of the greatest experiments in the
worlds history which indicates a clear
purpose to protect, supervise, develop
and nationalize all Japanese indus,
| tries.
| Four of the members Of the interna.
tional policyhOlders committee of the
Mutual and New York Life Insurance
companies, who were included in the
new board of trustees nominated by
the Mutual Life Insurance company
trustees as an administration, ticket,
declined to permit the use of their
names in this connection.
Kate Millet, daughter of Francis D.
Millet, the American artist, was mar
ried at the Parish church, Broadway
Worcestershire, to Frank Adlard, son
of Worcestershire landowner.
J. Pierpont Morgan sailed for New
York from Liverpool on the White
Star line steamer Baltic.
The Elm Grove coal mines, at Elm
Grove, w. Va, resumed operations
with a force of nonunion miners. The
strikers, who have been idle since
| Ar,-i1 I off icfo
Archbishop John Ireland, a member
of Acker Post No. 81, department Of
Minnesota, Grand Army of the Repub
lie, has accepted tender of an appoint
ment as aide-de-camp on the staff OF
Communicating James Tanner
and will ride with him in the Grand
Army parade at Minneapolis on Wed.
nesday, August Is.
William NJ. Akin, Jr., twice elected
mayor Of Evansville, Ind, and presi
dent of the Akin Manufacturing com
pany, died of bronchitis. He was 81
years old.
Miss Grace Howe Mckinley, niece
Of the late President Mckinley, and
at one time prominent in White House
social life, was married at Fort Des
Moines to Capt. Grayson Willard
Heidi of the Eleventh cavalry.
The joint scale committee, repre-.
senting the Hooking Valley operators
and miners met at Columbus, O., and
settled two minor points remaining in
dispute and signed the revised scale
which will be in effect for two years
Socorro, N. NJ, has been badly dam.
aged by an earthquake. Fifty-two
shocks were felt. The courthouse is
wrecked. The buildings of the school
Of mines are cracked and nearly
every residence in the city Is cracked
or wrecked.
At Lancaster, Mass, Lancaster Inn
was burned; loss $4,000.
Two men were instantly killed and
a third is believed to have been fatal
ly injured as a result OF the derail.
'ment of switch engine in the Hous.
ton & Texas Central railway yards in
Houston. Tex.
The bureau Of statistics of the de-
partment of agriculture has so extend
ed the scope of its work that its re-
ports will hereafter cover a far larger
number of agricultural products than
in the past.
A number of minor chiefs of the
Guatemalan revolution who made an
invasion of the northern portion of
that republic say all movements Of
the revolutionists in Guatemala are
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