Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-09

trio street cars which occurred at
Vincennes, France.
Secretary Root, Lloyn c. Griscom,
the American ambassador, and Senior
Nabuco, president of the Pan-Amer-
lean congress, visited the Brazilian
parliament and were received with
great courtesy. Secretary Root made
short address.
John B. Caldwell, who was charged
with having stolen upward of $4,000
from the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke
company, has been sentenced at Wise,
Va, to seven years in the peniten-
tiary.
The monthly statement of the di-
rector of the mint shows that during
July the coinage executed at the minis
of the United States amounted to &c.
303,164, as follows: Gold, $6,175 900;
silver, $12S,164. These amounts, how
ever, do not include 10000 pesos mint
ed for the Philippine government.
The navy department has been in
formed of the death of Medical Inspec-
tor William e. Taylor, retired, which
occurred at Honolulu, Hawaii
In accordance with an order issued
by the emperor of Russia the Ameri-
can syndicate represented by Baron
Loicq de Lobel of Paris is authorized
to begin work on the Trans Siberian
Alaska railroad project.
The final account of the trustee of
| the bankrupt estate of Frank G. Bige-
low, the defaulting Milwaukee bank
president, who is now serving a SEN
| tence in Fort Leavenworth, has been
filed. The trustee says that there is
sufficient money on hand to pay final
dividend of 11.22 per cent on APP.
proved claims, aggregating s3,242,255.
| A stick of wood containing dyna-
mite caused an explosion in the home
of Mrs. Carl Ostman at Toledo, O.,
and pieces of the wrecked stove struck
Mrs. Ostman and her daughter, seri-
ously injuring them.
Gov. Davidson, of Wisconsin, will
| appoint commission to investigate
the DietZ situation at Cameron dam.
For the present, at least, there is no
! intention on the part of the executive
to send troops to capture Dietz.
At Louisville, KY, United States
Commissioner Cassin held j. NJ. Scott
chief train dispatcher of the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad company
in $500 bond for alleged violation OF
the Erdman arbitration law.
Rockland, little mining town in
Ontonagon county, Mich, was the
4 scene of wild disorder when the strik.
ing TRAINERS at the Michigan copper
mine attacked the miners who were
! going to work under the protection of
| Sheriff Mcfarland One man was
killed and another MORALLY wounded
Henry Porter, the last of the famous
| ring of aldermen which f1eeced con-
tractors desiring jobs in Green Bay,
Wis, for thousands of dollars several
| years ago, pleaded guilty to five
bribery charges.
A compromise has been effected be.
tween the trustees of the Devlin
estate and the receivers of the First
National bank, of Topeka, Kan, in
volving the division of 100000 worth
of property formerly assigned to the
First National bank by C. ]. Devlin.
William r. Hearst has decided to
run for governor of New York as an in,
dependent candidate. The state com
mittee of the Independent league, a
| Hearst organization, decided the
league shall hold a state convention in
September IL to nominate Hearst for
governor and put full state and jul
dietary ticket in the field.
President Roosevelt has contributed
one dollar to the Republican national
congressional committees campaign
fund in response to general appeal
for one dollar contributions.
An important informal conference
between the interstate commerce
commission and representatives of the
Western Trunk Line association and
the traffic officials of various southern
and southeastern railroads took place
in the hearing room of the commits
sion at Washington. 1t related to the
construction to be placed by the
commission or the recently enacted
railroad rate law.
The negro who was charged with
criminally assaulting Miss Annie
Poole, young girl in Lakewood, an
Atlanta, Ga, suburb, was captured and
lynched.
Albert b. Cummins was nominated
for governor of Iowa by the state
Republican convention Wednesday on
the first ballot, securing 933 votes to
603 for George B. Perkins and 1o4 for
S. w. Rathbun.
The Nebraska Prohibition platform
reasserts adherence to the principle OF
no traffic whatsoever in liquor, but
insists that the people have the right
to vote out the saloon by states, coun'
ties or municipalities, and to that
end declares for the enactment by the
next legislature of county option
law.
James H. Sage, Of Troy, N. Y, a
nephew of the late Russell Sage. Tues.
day declared that the will of the de-
ceased millionaire will be contested.
Four men were killed and fifth
man is missing, as a result Of an ex.
plosion of guncotton in the works OF
the Cooper Chemical company on the
outskirts of Newark, N. ].
After crawling on hands and knees
for great distance through the for.
est, Duyo Rogich, of Milwaukee
wounded In three places by Clarence
Dietz, reached the homestead OF
Charles Johnson, at Dadison, Wis, and
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