Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-24

cereal company, AT Boone, II, owned
by Fred Frear & Co., of New York
city. The loss is 100000. Insurance,
$43,250 Dan Weston, an employee, was
injured.
That the oil report of Commissioners
Garfield and the accompanying mes
sage to congress by President Roose-
welt are inaccurate and unfair Is the
burden Of long statement issued to
its shareholders by the Standard Oil
company. The company denies that it
profits by secret rebate agreements with
railroads and lays special stress on the
competition which it declares 1t is
forced to meet in every section of the
United States.
The Illinois house, by vote of n to
SO, adopted the conference committee
report on the Shurtleff bill. The SEN
ate passed The conference committee
bill by vote of 81 to IA. The legIsla-
ture adjourned after the senate had
passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
payment of the expenses of the ses-
sion.
A sensational charge of campaign
fund grating was made when Insur-
ance Commissioner Zeno M. Host testi.
fed before the legislative investigating
commission at Milwaukee that Secre-
tary of State Walter A. Houser had Of
ferde him a bride of $4,000 to render
decision in favor of the Equitable Life
Assurance society of New York.
Resolutions favoring the erection of
a bureau for the test of the health and
product of all breeds of cows, to be
conducted by the department of agri-
culture, was adopted by the American
Guernsey Cattle club, held at New
York.
The national association of man
ayers of newspaper circulation meets
at Louisville June 5, 6 and Z.
Elbridge c. Jordan, of Eau Claire,
who was on the United States gunboat
Pontiac during the civil war, has been
allowed $1649 as his share of prize
money for the capture of confederate
gunboat on the Savannah river in
1865.
The Carnegie hero fund commission
made &c awards, including $10,500 dis
tributed to the several beneficiaries.
Miss Lucy Ernst, Of Philadelphia, was
awarded a silver medal for saving the
life of Harry Schoenhut, 16 years old
when he was bitten by rattlesnake.
Miss Ernst applied her lips to the
wound and sucked away the poison.
Fever sores on her lip made her act
particularly heroic and dangerous.
The Cuban senate passed the house
bill amnestying all who have engaged
in revolutionary attempts, but amend
ing it so as to exclude participants in
the Cienfeugos trouble of September
%, 1905, and the Guanbacoa outrage of
February a. 1906.
At Hennebont, France. striking
smiths ignited the outhouseS at the
residence of a factory manager where
a detachment of troops was billeted,
and also cut down a number of tele-
graph poles.
Fire at Monument Beach, Mass,
burned IA cottages and the passenger
station of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad. The loss is $780,
600.
While the torpedo boat Vesuvius was
engaged in practice with the new 81
inch turbine off Codington Cove in
Narragansett bay, tho torpedo which
is worth about $4,000 %as lost.
Having first seen Miss CCncetto Roc
co, daughter of a wealthy Kansas City
Italian, in st. Louis two years ago, but
being unable again to find her until a
few months ago, Francesca Ferrullo,
leader of Ellery's band, won her love
and was married to her.
Secretary of War Taft and Charles
T. Catlin of Brooklyn, N Y, have been
named by graduate electors as candi-
dates to fill the vacancy in the Yale
corporation caused by the expiration OF
the term of Chauncey M. Depew. The
election will be held on June 26.
The important fact that the Balti-
more & Ohio and the Pennsylvania
railroads had made special assign
ments of coal cars regardless of the
system of percentage distribution was
t. ought out before the interstate com.
merce commission which met at Phil
aIelphia to resume its investigation
into the alleged connections between
tie railroads and the large coal com.
panies.
Judge Henry c. Ross, widely
known Cherokee Indian, died at his
home near Saline Courthouse, |. T. He
was one of the supreme judges of the
Cherokee courts under the old Indian
regime.
John Adams Thayer, treasurer and
general manager of the Ridgway-
Thayer company, publishers of Every
body's Magazine, will retire June l
from active participation in the man
agement of the company.
Crossed in love and crazed by liquor,
James Clark, night telegraph operator
for the Southern railway in Chamblee,
Ga, ran amuck with pistol, a shot
gun and torch, terrorizing for IS
hours community of "a miles After
killing one man outright, wounding six
other, some of whom will die, and fir
ing residence, Clark put his pistol to
his breast and fired his last bullet into
his heart
Miss Mary F. Byrd, Of Northampton,
Mass, head of the Smith college rs
Economical observatory for 10 years,
has resigned, because of scruples re-
garding the acceptance of gifts from
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie.
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