Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-16
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
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ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the GIobe-Latest Home and For.
eign Items.

Queen Victoria, of Spain, gave brit
to son and the entire country re
joiced. The baby was formally pre-
sented to the court and diplomats by
the king, who also proclaimed a pub
lie holiday and pardoned thousands
of prisoners.
Both the strikers and the street cal
company In San Francisco refused tC
arbitrate their trouble. Experimental
trips showed the cars could not be
run without heavy police guards and
that the police force is inadequate tc
supply protection for real resump
ton of the service.
Mexico decided not to press to the
point OF war her demand on Guate
mala for the extradition of Gen. Jose
Lima, but to show her displeasure by
sending her minister to Salvador
leaving the legation in charge of a
consul.
The heads of the steamship compan
les in New York included in the Inter
national Mercantile Marine company
served notice upon the striking long
shoremen that unless the latter re-
turned to work within a week their
places would be filled.
Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox, U. S.
A., retired, former governor of the
National Soldiers home at Washing,
ton, died at Coburg, Ont, aged IS.
Thn hnIxy Of Wyittnhnrt
the artist, who lost her life in the de,
struction by fire of the University
building in Kansas City, was recov.
cred from the ruins.
Nine persons were badly injured
near Edwardsville, ILL.,, by collision
on an interurban electric road.
Harry Cole, suspected of being one
on the North Coast train robbers, was
killed by Butte policeman as he was
trying to escape from custody, and a
mob tried to lynch another officer who
they thought shot Cole.
Mrs. Michael Pendergast, of Sterl.
ing, H., stepped on a match, set fire
to her clothing and burned to death.
w. r. Fulton shot and dangerously
wounded his wife, from whom he had
been separated, in Wichita, Kan. Full.
ton was pursued by a crowd and sur.
rounded in freight yard. After a
battle with revolvers he escaped, but
is believed to have committed suicide
Two persons were killed, two fatal
ly injured and ten badly hurt when a
train broke through a trestle near
Flemingsburg, KY, and fell so feet
into a creek.
DR.. T. B. Rider was probably fatal.
ly Stabbed in Hot Springs, Ark, by
DR.. A. N. Williams, one of the best
known physicians in the city.
Thomas S. Marshall, cousin of Will
liam j. Bryan, and member of the
Illinois state board of agriculture
filed a petition in bankruptcy In the
United States court at East st. Louis
fixing his liabilities at 100000
The heaviest creditors are the trus
tees of the Chicago National bank, OF
which John r. Walsh was president
at the time of it's failure. Among his
creditors is w. J. Bryan, to whom
$4,000 Is due.
The Penn-Wyoming Copper com.
panys smelter, tramway terminal and
crushers at Grand Encampment, Wyo.,
were destroyed by fire believed to
have been of incendiary origin. The
loss was over 100000.
Troops and engineers have been
sent to Stromboli to render assistance
to the islanders, whose exodus, due to
the volcanic outbreak, continues
while many of those who remain are
destitute.
Abraham Hummel, the New York
lawyer who was convicted of conspir
acy in the Dodge-Morse divorce case
was sentenced to one year in state
prison and to pay fine of $500.
The Master Builders association Of
Berlin and it's suburbs decided to loci
out all masons and bricklayers assist
ing building workmen on May IS
Over 100000 men are affected by this
decision.
Capt. A. Krech, of the Hamburg
| American line steamer Graf Valdez
see, one of the oldest commanders il
the transatlantic service died on boart
his ship while the steamer was IL
midocean.
William Schellhas, prominen
brewer of Winono, Mimi, died from
| pneumonia
A pitched battle between strike
| breakers in the uniforms of car in
spectors and strikers and their sym
pathizers was fought in San Francis
co for more than an hour. Eight mel
were shot, among them a policeman
and one of the wounded men died IL
the night.
Irvine L. Lenroot, of Superior, Wis.
withdrew from the senatorial race
without making any requests as to thu
future course of his followers.
The life insurance companies init
mate that they will withdraw from
Texas when the new insurance Law
of that state becomes effective June /
Indictments charging violation O
the Elkins anti-rebating law wer,
handed down by federal grand jur,
in New York against the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific railroad, tn,
Ontario & Western railroad, the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
and the Western Transit company.
The entire leper colony of Dare,
Island, B. c., consisting of eight Chi
nese. has been sent back to China.
Eleven of the Is Italians who ha,
been on trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa
charged with "Blackhand" crime
were declared guilty. The other tw,
defendants were acquitted.
Seven battalions of Turkish troops
about $500 men. were practically an
initiated in a battle with rebels in tn
province of Yemen, Turkish Arabia