Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-28

cent railway fare bill.
Bishop Edward Fitzgerald, OF Littl
Rock. Ark, Is dead.
William c. Mcmillan, eldest son o
the late United States Senator Jane
Mcmillan, died in Detroit.
Mrs. Pete Zabrowski, of Fork Ridge
KY, gave birth to five children, all o
| whom lived.
| At a tribal council on the Oneid,
reservation decision was reached t,
| press the claims for moneys aggregat
ing more than s1,000,000 which the In
dams say is due them for land sales
Prof. Henri Moissane of Paris, whC
recently was awarded the Nobel priz,
for researches in science, is dead.
Frank MacVicars, who had beer
playing in the Man of the Hour" a.
the Savoy theater in New York, wa!
found dead at the foot of a flight Of
stairs leading to the areaway Of the
hotel where he lived. 1t is believes
his death was accidental.
The supreme court of Minnc7ots
handed down a decision forbid, ms
newspapers in the state publishing de
tails of bangings.
John Cunneen, former attorney gen
eral of New York state, died at his
home in Buffalo.
Harry p. Crowell, former council
man and well-known politician oil
Philadelphia, committed suicide by in
haling Illuminating gas.
The magnificent steel works club
house at Joliet, ILL.,, representing al
outlay of $4,000. was badly damaged
by fire.
Harry Pratt Judson, who has beer
acting head of the University of Chi
cago for over a year since the deatl
of President William Rainey Harper
was elected to the presidency by 8
unanimous vote of the board of trus
tees.
1t was reported in st. Petersburg
that another massacre of Jews was
going on at odessa. Foreign consul.
at Odessa have protested against the
outrages.
The French cruiser Kleber rammec
and sank the American fruit steamer
Hugoma in the Mississippi river, anc
seven of the Hugoma's crew were
drowned
Rev. G. L. Tufts of Portland, Ore.
representing the Pacific Coast Re
form bureau, was arrested by the
sergeant-atarms of the Idaho house
for lobbying.
E. E. Styner, late general manager
of the Mexican Central railroad, dice
in Mexico City from wounds inflicted
by himself.
None of the Peabody educationa
fund, established by George Peabody
of London, in 1867 and amounting t.
between S2.300,000 and $2,400,000 will
be distributed among the educationa
institutions of the southern states be
fore November.
One person was killed and five
were injured in fire which did dam
age amounting to $4,000 to the plan,
and stock of the Friend paper mill.
at West Carrollton, o.
Tremendous gales, accompanied by
snow, hail and thunder storms sweep
over the whole of northern Europe
and were especially severe in the
British Isles.
The administration ticket of the
Mutual Life Insurance company wa.
elected by majority approximately
of 10000 in the recent policyholders
election.
After weeping over the grave o!
his sweetheart, Estella Costello, 10
liet, Fred Foster committed suicide
with poison.
The Rhode Island senate passed
bill empowering the women of Rhode
Island to vote at presidential cleo
lions.
Gov. Hughes of New York recommend
ed to the senate the removal of Otto
Kelsey, state superintendent of insur
ance.
The Kansas house passed the maxi
mum freight rate bill.
DR.. j. c. Shedd of Colorado college
was blinded probably for life as re
suit of experimenting with Finsep
rays.
Martin J. Wade of Iowa City was
made Democratic national committee
man for Iowa.
The foreign consuls at Odessa pro
tested that the lives of their fellow
subjects were endangered by the anti
semitic disturbances there.
Ferreira, the leader of the raid from
German Southwest Africa in Novem.
Der last, and four of his followers
were sentenced to death.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia university, is to wed Miss
Kate LaMontagne, daughter of the
late August LaMontagne, also of New
York. No date has yet been set for
the wedding.
Mrs. Thomas Bagot, of Anderson,
Ind, lost her life in fire that destroy
ed the home of her sister at Red Key,
ind.
Letters received at Sidney, N. s.,
from the Grand bank indicate that the
schooners Mollie NJ. and Tubal Cain
have been lose, with IL men compos-
ing their crews.
Trichinosis has appeared in New
York, eight cases being under treat.
ment at the Bellevue hospital. Ply
sicians fear an epidemic.
Judge Finkelnburg of the federal
district court at st. Louis will resign
on account Of i'll health. He Is SO
years old.
Viroqua, Wis, was alarmed by %
cases of smallpox.
The fact that a spreading rail
caused the wreck of the White Plains
express on the New York Central
railroad last Saturday night, in which
81 persons were killed, was developed