Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-30


sufferers, the famine having been
broken by the ripening of the new
crops.
Train wreckers at West Glendale,
Cal, pulled rails from under the
Southern Pacific coast line flyer kill.
ing two men and injuring % other
persons.
Sleeper of Chesapeake & Ohio flyer
was derailed in Kentucky. One killed,
20 injured
Nicholas Murray Butler urged that
the question of disarmament be avoid
ed at the Lake Mohonk conference on
international arbitration and suggest
ed instead that the restriction of fur
Their growth of great armies be advo-
Gated.
Secretary Straus. in speech before
Manufacturers association, urged
larger share for labor in prosperity
and drastic publicity" for corpora
lions.
A Chicago & Alton train was mar
rowly saved by the station agent at
Lemont from going through a bridge
wrecked by the flood.
The National Manufacturers as5o-
citation passed a resolution favoring
tariff revision and more reciprocity
treaties.
A New York diamond broker ran off
with s250,00O worth of gems belonging
to society people.
The president of the Illinois Medical
association, in session at Rockford,
scored the legislators for lightly treat
ing laws wanted by the medical men.
Thirteen workhouse prisoners at
Toledo overpowered guard and es-
capped.
Secretary Cortelyou, in addressing
postoffice officials, said he placed fit
ness and merit above party service as
recommendation for Office.
President W. e. Corey, asked to va
cate his job with the steel trust,
dumped his stock in order to depress
the market.
T. P. O'Connor, in an address to the
United Irish League of Great Britain,
declared that the defeat of the Irish
! bill will result in renewed efforts for
| the cause.
Evansville street car strikers lost
their fight, the company being able to
run all it's cars.
Deposed school trustees of Chicago
gained a partial victory when Presi-
| dent Ritter declared a quorum present
at board meeting Executive then
sends in his resignation.
Henry G.. Prick lost $30,000,000 in
the recent stock slump, after an amaz-
ing career as a plunger, Wall street
hears.
Railroad officials presented argu-
ments before Gov. Deneen urging the
repeal of the twocent fare bill
Two men attacked and murdered
the 15-year-old daughter of Long Is
land farmer and escaped
Alleged agent of China disappeared
from New York with gems valued at
$250000 and sent back pawn tickets
Nineteen women, the first legisla-
tors of their sex ever to be elected in
Europe, took their seat in the new Fin
nish diet, which assembled at Helsing-
| fors.
Five lives were lost by the burning
of the steamship Naomi during trip
from Grand Haven, Mich, to Milwau-
kee. Four stokers, imprisoned, died as
the rescued passengers looked on.
One passenger was burned fatally, the
others being saved through heroic
deeds performed by the crew.
| Because they have been denied the
privilege of bringing beer into the
shops during working hours, and also
because the company refused their de.
mand that an unpopular foreman be
removed, $50 men employed in the
blacksmith shop of the Rogers loco
motive works at Paterson, N. j.,
walked out.
| Heavy frosts fell over the eastern
half of Kentucky, damaging gardens.
and is believed to have about complet-
ed the work of killing fruit.
Bank examiners refused to let a
mysterious bank open at Philadelphia.
Pittsburg, angered by increase in
the price of gas and by street car
abuses, will ask the courts to annul
grants to the utility company.
One man was killed, seven fatally in
jured and 10 others received minor
hurts and bruises in wreck on the
Panhandle railroad at Holidays
Cove, W. Va, near Steubenville, o.
Five men were killed and four fatal
iy injured at the Eliza furnace of the
Jones G. Laughlin steel company at
Pittsburg.
The steam yacht Pantooset, one OF
Yacht club fleet, has been sold to the
Cuban government, the price being
about $270,000.
A cablegram from President Ze-
laya of Nicaragua, stating that rev.
olution broke out in Salvador was re-
ceived by the Nicaraguan consul, at
New Orleans.
facturers will raise $1,500,000 to fight
oppression of labor unions on both
industrial and political affairs.
John Thompson Hargrave, former
Methodist exhorter and Episcopal cler-
| gyman, was arrested at Richmond, Va,
on charge Of swindling
Rudolph Spreckels criticised Mayor
Schmitz' committee of seven and the
supervisors of San Francisco.
Gen. Sherman M. Bell declared
trial of Haywood at Boise was "a
farce, unfair, and un-American."
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioners
Oh corporations, reported to the presi-
dent that the Standard Oil company,
by accepting rebates and evading the
law with its pipe lines. has throttled
competition until it has gained a
practical monopoly of the industry.
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco,