Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

A daughter was born to Mrs. Stell;
Brennan in the state prison at Still
!, water, Mimi. Mrs. Brennan is serv
ing life sentence for the murder o
her stepcEildren in Minneapolis abou
year ago.
. Maj. Dreyfus was the victim of 3
cowardly attack in the Military cluf
where all the officers were assembled
regiment artillery, to which Dreyfus
A report was received from the
commanding officer of the cruiser Co
lumbia at Boston saying that the sick
men brought from the isthmus were
all well or nearly so.
AS the result of experiments with
mice, the superintendent of the i'm
perial cancer research fund labora
tory at London announced at a meet.
ing of the subscribers to the fund
that the prospects of discovering the
mystery of the origin of cancer were
more hopeful than ever.
and Commandant large, one of his
stanchest defenders, are attached
The moment Dreyfus and his friend
presented themselves in the salon of
the Cercle Militaire a commandant,
whose name is still unknown, ap.
preached Dreyfus and slapped him
squarely in the face.
| w. H. Williams, brother of G.. III.
| Williams, a member of the Georgia
house of representatives from Laur-
ems county, was killed in a ball game
at Soperton. He was catcher, and a
pitched ball hit him in the breast.
| The funeral of former Judge James
B. Kicks, of the Illinois supreme court,
was held at Taylorville The present
members of the supreme court were
present.
| The navy department has called
upon Lieut.. II. Dunn for an explana-
ton of newspaper paragraph pub
lished concerning his conduct while
temporarily in command of the re-
ceiving ship Independence at Mare
Island.
"he Cooperative Live Stock Commits
lns-.Sn company, representing large
part of the sheep and cattle raising
industry of the west, has started a
contest against the Kansas City live
stock exchange. Hostilities will begin
| September /.
A maddened three-year-old Durham
| bull, named Mike" seriously injured
Chris Solterman, butcher, at Wor-
den, ILL.,, kept Gus Albright up tree
for several hours, killed horse and
| by besieging tactics kept the family
of Louis Blume imprisoned at home
| Finally the bovine Mike" was shot
dead.
| Every dollar of Russell Sage's great
fortune is left to Mrs. Sage by will
made in 1901 except an insignificant
bequest made to Mrs. Fannie Chaplin,
Of Oneida, N. Y, an only sister, who
died two years ago.
| The body of Brig. Gen. Edmund
Rice, gallant soldier of the civil
war, who died at Wakefield, Mass,
was buried in Arlington national GEN.
etery, Washington.
Arthur Spaugh, convicted of second
degree murder for the killing of the
sheriff of Iron county, Missouri, was
sentenced to 55 years in the peniten-
tiary.
| The mistake of Alonzo Kimberlin,
a bell boy at the Terminal hotel in
| Union station, st. Louis, in giving a
suit case containing $15O,000 in cash
and negotiable securities to the wrong
man, caused William Bender, Jr., Of
Mankato, Mimi, IS hours of anxiety
which ended when the suit case was
returned intact.
| Serious forest fires are raging
northwest Of Marquette. Mich. The
town of Birch, the scene of the ex-
tensive operations Of the Northern
Lumber company, is in grave danger.
Declaring his nomination for trus-
tee of the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany on the administration ticket was
but sop thrown to the policyholders,
who had a right to elect the whole
board, Col. A. M. Shook, of Nashville,
Tenn, went to New York to consult
counsel as to what should be his atti-
tude in the matter.
| Fines instead of imprisonment will
be the punishment asked by the Unit
ed States government for those found
| guilty Of lawbreaking in connection
with the oil industry. Proceedings
soon to be instituted in Chicago in
connection with the federal inquiry
will class the offenses as misdemean-
| ors instead of felonies.
One man was instantly killed and
| another fatally wounded in a shoot
ing ARRAY at Edwards, Ill. Lige
| Wages, coal miner, fired the fatal
| shot, in fit of jealous rage.
Paper-makers in the 80 mills of the
International Paper company in the
United States and Canada have given
notice that they will go on strike on
August 6 unless their working hours
| are reduced to eight hours q day.
without reduction of wages.
transcripts and bills of exceptions
were filed in the United States cir
cult court of appeals at st. Louis by
Armour Packing company, Swift &
Co., Morris & Co., and the Cudahy
Packing company, which were con-
victed in the. United States district
court at Kansas City on charges of
accepting rebates
Peonage in vicious form is
charged against the officers of the
Jackson Lumber company at Lock
hart, Ala. If the allegations are true
about 100 immigrants, mostly Ger
mans are hold In tho I,,poho,, oo,>,.,,,