Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-22

| oldest In western Wyoming.
| The tribunal Of first instance OF the
Seine, Judge Ditto presiding, granted
divorce to the Countess de Castel
lane formerly Anna Gould or New
York; and gave her the custody of her
children. who, however, will not be al.
lowed to be taken from France, with.
out the consent of their father, Count
Boni de Castellane. The counts plea
for alimony was denied.
Thirty-eight kegs OF dynamite ex.
ploded at the surface workings of the
Boston Consolidated copper mine in
Bingham camp, near Salt Lake City.
The dead: Mike Coglietta. Fatally in.
jured: Samuel Coglietta, N. Coglietta.
Hurt seriously: John Monahan; may
lose both eyes; George TelegrinQ
head end face cut.
I. E. Larry pleaded guilty to the
embezzlement of $1,000 funds belong.
ing to the First National bank of
West McLennon county. Texas,
where he was cashier, and was sen.
fenced to five years in the federal pen.
itentiary.
The Oregonian received telephone
message that Seattle is cut off from
the surrounding couA.y by floods.
Three lives have been lost. The dam.
age will run into the hundreds of thou.
sands.
The charges of bribery against Rob-
ert M. Snyder, the Kansas City capt.
talist recently killed in an automobile
accident there. were dismissed in the
criminal division of the circuit court.
An entire freight train consisting of
II cars, 15, of which were loaded with
cotton, was destroyed by fire on the
Santa Fe railroad four miles south of
Brennan, Tex.
Harris Swimmer, grand foreman
OF Illinois Ancient Order United Work.
men, past president of B'nai Birth of
the middle west and prominent mer-
chant, died at Quincy, Ill, aged 62
years.
Application for the appointment of
a receiver for the two Delmonico's
restaurants in New York was made
by Albert Thieriot, executor CT the
wills of Rosa Delmon.co and Lorenzo
Delmonico. Mr.. Th;eriot declared the
solvency of the business is unques.
toned.
Mrs. Margaret Bottome, president
of the International Order of the
Kings Daughters and Sons, and of
the women's branch of International
Medical missions, died at New York,
aged 70 years.
Colonial officials boarded the Amer.
lean herring schooner Ralph Hall at
Bay OF Islands, made note of the
names of New Foundlanders at work
on board the schooner and notified
them that they would be prosecuted.
Inquiries by wire sent to different
points elicit no new information as to
the present location of Commander
Peary's arctic steamer Roosevelt, and
it is impossible to- tell definitely
whether or not the steamer had left
Battle Harbor, Labrador.
The barge l. l.. Bell, owned by the
Pittsburg Steamship company, was
sunk in the rapids at Port Huron,
Mich, by collision with the Cana.
dian steamer Seguin.
At a meeting of the firemen of the
Erie railroad at Cleveland It was
unanimously voted to strike to en-.
force their demands for increased pay
and shorter hours. There were 240
men at the meeting.
The Southern railway and its ma.
chinists have each chosen an arbitra.
tor to decide the question of rate of
wages between the seven-eighths cent
per hour advance offered and the two
cent rate demanded
The Association of American Agri.
cultural Colleges and Experiment Sta.
tons will urge the establishing of
national university at Washington.
Reports that more than 30 persons
the number given out by the railroad
officials as the dead-had been killed
at Woodville, Ind, received some con-
firmation when it vas learned that
some of the babies and smallest chill
dren on the train were not named In
the records kept by the officials. All
children under six years Travelled with
out transportation. 1t is stated that
20 children were on the train and not
listed.
Indictments charging conspiracy to
violate the interstate commerce act
were returned by the federal grand
jury at Kansas City against David H.
Kersky, freight broker, and w. A.
McGowen, local agent for the Nickel
Plate fast freight line. At the same
time an indictment was returned
against Henry s. Hartley, grain deal.
er, on charge Of accepting rebates on
freight shipments.
The expenditure of $6,00O,000 for
public works now under course of con.
struction In Cuba or of urgent neces-
sity has been recommended by Lieut..
Gen. William M. Black in a report
which has been approved by Gov. Ma
COON.
Seven causes under which annul-
ment of marriage may be obtained and
six causes for absolute divorce were
agreed upon by the National Congress
on Uniform Divorce Laws in Philadel-
phia. The. delegates adopted about
one-third of the proposed uniform bill
as drafted by the committee which
was appointed nine months ago at the
first meeting of the congress, which
was held in Washington:
William Rufus Shafter, u. s. A., re-
tired, died at the ranch of Capt. w. HI.
McKittrick, his son-in-law, 20 miles