Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-06-14

the secret night session OF the court
in itself an extraordinary proceeding
was he'll to consider the evidence in
the case.
The number killed In tae riots at
Cananea will probably never be
known. The Mexican authorities bur-
led the dead without any attempt at
Identification.
| The Miners International Congress
held its closing sitting at London un-
der he presidency of ]. p. White, pres
ton. Resolutions were adopt..' in ia
vor OF miners old age pensions and the
naturalization of miners.
f. l.. McKoy and Chester Ogle,
miners, were blown to atoms in a
shaft by premature explosion in a
mine near Carterville, Mo. Scott AL
| frey and II. G. Bishop were injured
when a freight train backed into the
ambulance.
Representative Charles E. Fuller, of
| Illinois, while on his way to his hotel
| at Washington, was overcome by the
heat and fell unconscious to the pave
ment. He was removed to the hos
pital where he was pronounced out of
danger.
All the Ohio troops in the Jefferson
county mining region have teen or
dered home.
The Stockholm Bladet asserts that
Russia has sent military detachment
to the Aland islands lin the Gulf of
Bothnia) to do patrol service against
Finland, and that this section is a
breach of the treaty of Paris.
Six dead, many seriously injured and
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty blown away, briefly summarizes
the effects of the storms which devas-
tated sections of Minnesota and Wis
consln.
Sweeping a path one mile and a
miles tornado that struck the viii
lagos of Martin and Monteith, Mich,
killed William West, farm laborer,
aged 54.
A tornado passed a section of Win
nesheik county, Iowa, doing much
damage and injuring number of peo-
pie.
Thunder showers, electric storms and
heavy downpours of rain that have
prevailed throughout western Pennsyl-
vania during the entire week Gull
minated in cloudbursts in Cambria,
Westmoreland, Somerset and Butler
counties, that caused the rivers and
creeks to overflow, flooding the streets
in many communities and disseminat-
ing general flood scare.
At Rocky Fork, near Red Lodge,
Carbon county, Mont, eight men are
dead, all victims of the deadly white
damp that filled the corridors of the
mine after a fire. OF the dead two
were members of one of the parties
that entered the mine in the effort to
reach the men known to be there
The Illinois Central mixed train was
wrecked two miles out of Benton, Ill.
The engine rolled down an embank-
ment, killing the engineer, S. I. Gent,
and injuring the fireman slightly.
Ina Maritime and his wife, Hungar-
ians, while walking along the railroad
track four miles south of Ludlow, KY,
were struck by Cincinnati Southern
train and instantly killed.
Secretary of State Houser appeared
in the municipal court at Madison and
was released upon the signing of his
own recognizance.
The Iowa Women's Relief corps
elected Addie e. Unangst, of Daven-
port, president. The ladies OF the G.
A. R. reelected Annie B. Weaver, of
Waterloo, president.
Gen. Edmund M. Pope, of Msnkato,
Mimi, died at Grand Marias, where
he had bene engaged in banking. Dur
ing the civil war he was colonel of the
Eighth New York cavalry and brev-
eted brigadier general of volunteers
in the army of the Potomac.
That he accepted gifts of stock
amounting to $4,000 from coal mining
companies during period Of about
three years was admitted before the in
terstate commission at Philadelphia
by Joseph Boyer, chief clerk in the
office of A. w. Gibbs. superintendent
of motive power of the Pennsylvania
railroad.
Joseph K Aiken, chief clerk to A. G.
Mitchell, superintendent of the Monon-
gahela river division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, admitted owning stock
in numerous coal companies, some of
which was given to him while for the
other shares he paid privileged
price.
John Mitchell settled the trouble
in the conference of miners and
operators of the southwest, at Kansas
City over the wage scale. The agree
ment renews the 1903 scale.
Democrats of Indiana in convention
adopted a platform strongly indorsing
William j. Bryan for the presidency,
and selected state ticket.
George w. Sutherland died at Clin-
tonville, Wis. Mr.. Sutherland was a
veteran of the civil war, and it is
said was the first man on top of Look
out mountain at the time of the great
battle.
A dividend of Is per cent. will be
paid the depositors of the defunct First
National bank of Topeka, Kan, July
/ by Receiver j. T. Bradley.
Dr. Frank S. Whitman, superintend-
ent of the Illinois northern hospital
for the insane at Elgin, resigned.
The National Liquor Dealers asso-
citation, in convention at Louisville,
KY, issued an address to the people of