Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-13

country districts of the provinces OF
Pinar del Rio, Havana and Santa
Clara is to the effect that twothirds
OF the people in the country and small
towns of these provinces are insur-
gents in sentiment if not in fact.
Peace is in the air, and on all sides
there is hope that matters will be
arranged between the Cuban govern
ment and the insurgents so as to
avoid further bloodshed. Fighting has
been practically suspended.
Roger c. Sullivan, member from H.
linois Of the Democratic national COM
mittee, has issued a lengthy state
ment in which he replies to the recent
attacks made upon him by Mr.. Bryan.
Asphyxiation, chloroform and drown
ing were the methods used by Claude
Unger, wealthy business man to
commit suicide at ST. Louis.
Henry Potts killed his wife at Eu-
faula, I. t., by cutting her throat and
was himself shot twice during a des-
perate fight with deputy marshals.
Westphalian newspapers complain
OF the increase of Polish agitation In
the Industrial districts, where large
number of Polish immigrants are
working.
The sultan of Morocco's troops have
defeated the forces of the pretender,
and Blu Hamara has fed from Zelouan.
Abel Anderson, president Of the
Northwestern National bank, died at
his home in Sioux City, Ia, of Bright's
disease, aged 81 years.
The formal organization of the
Michigan Sugar company, which will
take over six sugar beet factories, has
been completed.
The Victoria house of representa-
tives after an all-night sitting fixed the
duty on harvesters at $50 and strip
pers at $50.
DIR. F. B. Gault, of Tacoma, Wash,
has been appointed president of the
South Dakota university at Aberdeen.
This ends long controversy and po-
litical fight.
Pope Plus appointed J. McGrain, of
New York, the conductor of the latest
American pilgrimage to Rome, a
knight of st. Gregory.
The grand duke of Baden, cele-
brating his eightieth birthday at his
castle at Mainau, Lake Constance, re-
ceived deputation of German Ameri-
cans who crossed the ocean for the
purpose of presenting him with an adj
dress.
Miss Bessie Greene and Miss Alta
Bingham are dead and Misses Grace
seriously i'll as the result of drinking
stagnant creek water during a picnic
near Trenton, Mo.
In an exhibition at the Maine state
fair grounds at Lewiston, the stallion
Masconoma (by Arien) broke the
worlds two mile trotting record for
a half mile track, reducing the time
from 4:59 to 4:46.
John Mielke, laborer at the plant of
the Railway Steel company, at De-
troit, is dead after having been par
boiled in a pit of hot water. Mielke's
shoes had become greasy and as he
was passing the pit he slipped and
fell headlong into the scalding liquid.
The state supreme court handed
down a decision in the case of the
state Of Minnesota versus Mabel c..
Evans, upholding the decision Of the
st. Louis county court at Duluth,
which held that the state law govern
ing mineral leases is constitutional.
This case involves the title to the ia
nous Virginia silver mine, located on
the Minnesota range and which is
said to be worth several million dol
lars.
Mrs. Margaret Evans, widow Of
John Evans, formerly governor of Col
orado, died at Denver at the age of TO-
She had been resident of Denver
since 1862, when she came here from
Chicago with her husband.
A statement made by George H.
Bowers, United States commissioner
of fisheries, of the operations of his
bureau for the past fiscal year, says
that the aggregate output of fry from
the commissions hatcheries during
the year was only a trifie less than
100000. The actual figures were l.
931, S54,609, an increase of nearly
200,00O,00O over the output of 1905.
Mrs. Henry Knippen, wife of farm
er living near Cloverdale, Putnam
county, Ohio, decapitated her two
children, boy aged three and q girl
aged one and one-half years.
Miss Dora Bright, aged IS, of Fos-
ter, Mo, who killed herself at Wichi-
ia, Kan, directed that her body and
that of Ray Stevens, of Schell City,
Mo-, should be buried side by side.
On the theory that suicide pact ex-
listed between the couple, the county
attorney has sworn out an informa-
ton charging murder in the first de-
gree.
The executive committee of the
American Civic association elected to
honorary life membership Congress
man Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, in
recognition of his services in the pres.
ervation of Niagara Falls.
AS a result of her hair being caught
in the shafting of one of the sewing
machines at the Bemis Bag company's
factory, Minneapolis, Annie Shema,
% years old, is now at the city hos
pital with her left ear and the entire
scalp torn.
The United States cruiser Boston,
damaged on Peapod rock, made the
start for Bremerton navy yard from
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