Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-31

"A SSHSu5 VI the ul6n puiiuluSS II
New York shows that If all the sky.
scrape.e were piled one on top of an
other the pile would be 5000 stories
high. The highest is As stories.
Embarrassed by the stringency of
the money market, four Westinghouse
companies at Pittsburg and one trust
company went into the hands of re-
ceiyers. All were said to be solvent.
The State Bank and Trust COM
pany, of Nevada, with headquarters
at Carson and branches at Goldfield,
Tonopah, Manhattan and Blair, closed
its doors because it couldn't realize
on its securities.
The German balloon Pommern,
which landed at Asbury Park, $50
miles from st. Louis, won the inter
national aeronautic cup. The French
balloon L'Isle de France was second
with SIS. Lincoln Beachey, of To
ledo, o., won first prize in the dirigi-
BILE airship race.
President Roosevelt reached the
White House from his southern trip.
He expressed himself as thoroughly
pleased with his trip but glad to be
at home again.
At public demonstration given at
the Marconi wireless telegraph sta
tion at Glace City, G. B., a message
was sent to Clifden, Ireland, and a
reply was received in five minutes.
Two persons were known to have
been killed and one seriously injured
as the result of the explosion of the
oil burners on the river steamer j. N.
Zeal at Portland, Ore.
Charles S. Cameron, convicted of
conspiracy to bride councilmen, failed
to answer to his name when called for
sentence in Pittsburg. Bonds amount
ing to $4,000 were declared forfeited.
The emperor of Japan has conferred
upon Thomas Burke, head of the Alas
Exposition commits
sion of Seattle, the Order of the Third
Glass of the Rising Sun.
r. E. Lockwood, a well-known Idaho
newspaper man, accidentally shot and
killed himself at Reggin.
Emerson Cole, one Of the pioneer
lumbermen of the northwest, died at
his home in Minneapolis.
The Hartford Manufacturing COM
pany of Hartford, Conn, which had
the contract up to July / last for
manufacturing stamped envelopes and
newspaper wrappers, paid to Post
master General Meyer 100000 as
settlement for all damages by reason
of the failure to furnish paper up to
the contract.
The Canadian Pacific railways big
Oriental liner Empress of China sank
at her dock at Vancouver while taking
on Cargo.
James H. Manning, banker in AL
bany, N. Y, obtained quarter dol
lar on which the date 1896" was
stamped over the date of the preced-
ing year, for the record price of $162.
Mrs. Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner, au-
thor and educator, who sued Dr. Flaw
ius Packer and DR.. Sidney D. Wilgus
at New York city, N. Y, for $4,000
damages because they adjudged her
insane and caused her commitment to
the Middletown insane asylum, was
awarded verdict of $4,000.
Two miners are known to have been
killed and at least three injured in an
explosion at the Kimberly mines two
miles east of Jacksonville, o.
Matthew c. Fleming, the special in
surance inquisitor in New York, has
brought out evidence that E.. H. Har
riman controls the cash Of the Mu
tual Life Insurance company, the
company having loaned s10,000,000 to
Hartman roads in the last year.
Credit trembled for time in New
York and before confidence could be
restored the Knickerbocker Trust com.
pany, New York's second largest finan-
cial institution, had emptied it's cash
vaults under pressure of the biggest
run experienced there in a generation;
a stock exchange firm had failed for
s6,000,000; Wall streets principal Sc
curities had settled from five to eight
dollars share; call money had risen
to 70 per cent, and local bankers, un-
able to stem the tide of distrust, had
been forced to appeal for relief to th~
secretary of the treasury at Washing
ton.
Four Italians near Corbin, KY, ate
a buzzard. One died and the others
were made dangerously i'll.
Havana's mayor has forbidden open
air meetings of railroad strikers and
authorized the companies to employ
armed guards to protect their work
men.
The French forces at Casablanca,
under the command of Gen. Drude,
suffered serious repulse at the hands
of the Moors.
Twenty thousand people weres in
danger of injuries at the Central sta
ton in Chattanooga, Tenn, when
President Roosevelt's special train
rolled into the shed. The demonstra-
ton was so great that it was practical
ly impossible for the president to
speak. BY earnest pleading he helped
to prevent panic. At Nashville Mr.
Roosevelt denied he was responsible
for the slump in stocks.
New York's five dog police, which
will be used in tracking law breakers
on the outskirts of the city, arrived
from Client on. the steamship Vader
land.
Rear Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge
u. s. NJ (retired), was married to Miss
Gertrude Wilds, of jamestown, r. l., In
Boston.
At a general meeting Of the share
holders of the Barnum G Bailey show
in London resolution was adopted
ratifying the provisional contract pro
viding for the sale of the property for
100000 to Ringing Brothers. of Wis
consin.