Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-04-18
John TempIe Graves, speaklng at 4

banquet at Chattanooga in honor oil
W. j. Bryan, urged that Bryan nomin.
ate Roosevelt for president on thu
Democratic ticket.
Secretary Taft declared that Cuba
was to be turned over to the Cubans
as soon as possible, made recommend.
atoms as to the holding of elections
and sailed for Porto Rico.
The Bank of Conception in Clyde
rotary of state.
Fifteen persons were burned to
death in fire that destroyed an
apartment house in Lisbon, Portugal
Congressman Longworth came out
in favor of Taft for the presidential
nomination.
The New York Herald. James Cor
don Bennett, its proprietor, and its
advertising manager were fined S31,-
600 for sending improper matter
through the mails.
Seven hundred members OF the
union organized at Bisbee, Ariz., by
the Western Federation of Miners,
employed by companies which refused
recognition of the union, went on
strike.
A train bearing $40 political exiles
left St Petersburg for Siberia. This
is the largest consignment of politi'
cal prisoners sent to the far east for
several months past.
Commander Eva Booth of the Saliva.
ton army became seriously i'll at Can,
ton, o.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha railroad and II. M. Pearce,
acting freight agent, were found gull
ty Of granting rebates by a jury at
Minneapolis.
Four trainmen were killed on the
Southern Pacific In California by the
explosion Of two locomotives.
Mrs. Mary Bechtel, aged "a years.
and her son Charles. aged AZ years.
were burned to death In their home
in Philadelphia.
The Akron Printing and Paper com
pany went into bankruptcy, with liza
bilities amounting to $4,000 and as
sets the same.
The crew of naval barge No. l
which went adrift in a storm, were
rescued by the steamer Professor
Woermann.
Directors of the Provident Securi.
ties and Banking company of Boston
are accused by the receivers OF hav'
ing squandered 100000 of its money.
1T % Trftt
dead from swallowing muriatic acid,
which she mistook for a sleepins
medicine.
Richard Croker Is in exceedingly
poor health, according to John Fox, n
Tammany leader, who has just re-
turned to New York from England.
With a bullet in her brain Mabel
Guy, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. Charles Guy of Middleton.
N. Y, walked mile to Thrall hos
pital for treatment. She may re
cover.
The United Engineers society
opened its new home in New York
for the erection of which Andrew
Carnegie gave $1,500,00O.
The Lincoln Savings and Trust
company of Philadelphia was closed
by the state commissioner of banking
because it's capital was impaired.
1t Is said that the death of the late
| Congressman Galusha A. Grow waA
fastened by gang of New Yorh
| swindlers, who levied blackmail upon
him, using a woman as their willing
tool.
One person was killed and about
Is injured in a wreck on the St
Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad
near Hardwick, VT.
Gen. Lawrence s. Baker, who was
a well-known confederate commander.
died at Suffolk, Va.
Edgar Combe, son of the ex-premier
of France. died of Appendicitis.
Following his indictment on the
charge of using the mails to defraud
returned by the federal grand jury, II
H. Tucker, Jr., Of Cherryvale. Kan.
secretary and promoter OF the Uncle
Sam Oil company, who was arrested
in Kansas City, was arraigned In the
United States district court at Topeka
and held in $4,000 bail.
Dunbar hall at Philips-Exeter AGA
deny, Exeter, N. H., was destroyed b.!
fire and number of students haC
narrow escapes.
According to a decision reached b.
the interstate commerce commission
e. H. Hartman will be made to ap
pear in a United States circuit cour'
in the state of New York in answer t.
| proceedings to be instituted to com
| pei him to reply to certain question
which he refused to answer when h
was on the stand at the recent heal
ing by the commission in New York
A sneak thief took S1,700 from tn
paying teller's cage in the State Ma
tional bank, st. Louis, and escaped.
The plant of the Amsterdam IN
W Broom company, the largest inde
pendent brush and broom concern II
the country. was completely des
troyed by fire, causing loss of 800
900. William Sullivan, fireman, wa.
killed by falling wall.
The Memphis Jockey club was In
dicted for permitting betting at #
track.
The freight steamer Sycamore, ply
Ing between Oyster Bay, L. l., an
Port Chester, N. Y, went ashore OF
the rocks near the entrance of Por
Chester harbor. The crew Of ten was
saved.
Mrs. T. H. Ismay. widow of thu
founder Of the White Star STEAMSHIP
line and mother of Joseph Bruce l.
may, president Of the Internationa
Mercantile Marine company. died il
London.
One Of the large buildings in thu
| leland N yard philad nl