Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-29

| Grover Cleveland and others paid
tribute to the memory OF Carl SchurzI
at meeting in New York to further
the project for a monument to the
German-American.
| The American Federation Of Labor,
by decisive vote, permitted steamfit-
| ters to retain charter of affiliation.
thereby giving singing repuke to
Madden.
James J. Hill, testifying In the grain
| investigation at Minneapolis, said he
| owns no elevator stock and would not
permit any Great Northern man to re-
tain an interest in business affected
| by the road. He asserted the farmers
were victims of the railway and ele-
| vator> men.
Railroads of the entire country have
decided on an era of rigid economy,
| involving a decrease in expenditures
for 1907 of between $s0,0O0,000 and
$500. 100000, as compared with 1906.
Engineer Frank Detnauer assumed
all the blame for the railway wreck at
Woodville, Ind. which cost SO lives.
Joseph Papineau of Chicago was
held to the grand jury to answer
charge Of saturating his wife's cloth
ing with gasoline and applying a
match, burning her to death.
Party expenditures in tie New York
election were more than $3,000,000.
The outlay of w. r. Hearst was $685.
$40. Morgan, Rockefeller AMI Carne-
gle gave generously to the Republi-
cans.
Chicago, southern Michigan and
northern Indiana were swept by a
fierce gale, and much damage was
| done.
10. Rochester & Pasburg, was wreck
ed near Golden NJ Y, and Is persons
were injured.
Christ Klaiss, expert malster at q
Cincinnati brewery, fell headforemost
into huge barley hopper and was
smothered to death In the flowing
grain.
The Hawaiian Planters association
is planning to manufacture denatured
alcohol from the 100000 gallons of
molasses produced annually, and for
this purpose will erect distillery at
Pearl Harbor.
| Through an error In the new code,
4 Mississippi celebrates two Thanksgiv-
ing days this year.
President Bird S. Coler of the bor-
ough of Brooklyn has appointed O'Don-
ovan Rosa, the Irish patriot, as cor
poration inspector at salary Of four
dollars day.
Sixty guests at wed ding In Spring
field, Mass, were poisoned by beef
tongue, and one died.
The secret marriage Of John John
son, the grandson of ]. M. Studebaker,
ST., of South Bend, Ind, which took
place at Milwaukee two weeks ago,
has been announced. The bride was
Miss Dorothy Phelan of Ludington,
Mich.
In the presence OF his fiancee, at
whose home he had spent the evening
making plans for their wedding. Viii.
liam D. Hollis, of Chicago, suddenly
announced that he was i'll and fell to
the floor dead
The Missouri supreme court has az.
firmed the decision of the trial court
in awarding Mrs. Sallie Nephler of
Kansas City $4,000 for injuries re.
ceived in fall caused by catching her
foot in hole in Kansas City theater
carpet.
Church riots resulted from attempts
to take inventories in edifices in the
French provinces, and troops and peas
ants were wounded in clashes.
Secretary of State Root in an ad-
dress before the trans Mississippi Com
mercial Congress at Kansas City told
the nation that it should cultivate
closer relations with all the republics
of the western hemisphere He urged
a ship subsidy as means of building
up trade.
Divorce and 100000 alimony were
demanded by Mrs. Earl Jungbluth,
wife Of a Louisville tobacconist and
turfman. who alleged her husband con.
spired with servants to defame her.
The American Sugar Refining COM
pany was found guilty by a New York
jury Of having accepted rebates
amounting to $4,000 from the New
| IOIh SculIdl TdIIIDdu.
Saying that the stories of his Inn
| pending separation from his wife were
absurd, Frank j. Gould sailed with
Mrs. Gould from New York on a trip
to Europe for his health.
The American Federation of Labor,
after spirited debate, decided to con-
tinue political activity on the lines laid
down by President Gompers, and vot.
ed down plan to endorse socialism.
dusty old carpet, bought as II lay
on the floor at an auction in the home
Of the late John Mullen, of Detroit,
was taken up by it's purchaser, who
found under 1t $4,000 in gold.
Ten men, declared to compose but
a small part of one of the greatest
''frenzied finance" schemes that has
ever been brought to the attention OF
federal officials, were caught in Chica.
go in dragnet which had been set for
a gang whose operations were said to
have penetrated the uttermost regions
of the United States.
A bill has been drafted for submis.
sion to the Illinois legislature to pro-
vide radical reforms In the present
jury system.
Seven trackmen on the Norfolk &
Western railroad were killed as thu
result of big slip of land. The men
were swept down the mountain side
and into the river.
The elimination of the microacopic