Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-31
Morris Paul. chicago store keeper.

mUiIiS Tdul, OHlCdSO SpoIc hccpCis
confessed that he set fire TO his place
so that he could have fire SALE"
The British steamer Pampico, Bal
| timore to Rotterdam, has been aban-
doned in latitude AZ north longitude 81
west. The crew was saved.
Three armed men held up freight
train five miles from Los Angeles, shot
the fireman, who resisted, and took
| $3.50 and two watches from the crew.
William Durgal, of Lake Placid, N.
Y, was killed by George Martin, of
Averyville, N. Y, who mistook him for
a deer in the Adirondacks.
! Count Okuma, of Japan, in letter
to DR.. Louis l.. Seaman, ex-surgeon-
major, United States army, criticises
the sending of the American fleet to
the Pacific as mot good diplomacy"
The, first conviction in the cases
based on the disclosures in the New
York legislative investigation of insur-
ance affairs in 1905-1906 was obtained
when jury in the criminal branch
of the supreme court found DR.. Walter
r. Gillette, former vice president of the
MuIudl l<llG . 5uAAty
of perjury in the third degree.
Vast damage to many Calabrian vii
lagos was done by the earthquake in
Italy, but the loss of life was believed
not to be great
The Illinois supreme court affirmed
the convictions of John A. Cooke for
embezzlement while circuit clerk of
Cook county and of George S. Nc
Reynolds for ENFORCEMENT.
M. Inber. political editor of the
Odessa Novasto, was sentenced to
four months Imprisonment in fort
ress by the court at Elizabethgrad on
the charge of having published an un-
true statement.
Ensign Charles B. Ulmo, of the
French navy, was arrested at Toulon,
charged with being a spy. He con-
fessed to having distracted a secret
signal book and the naval cipher.
The Cunard line steamer Lusitania
made new record from New York to
! Queenstown. Her time of passage was
four days, 20 hours and 46 minutes.
DR.. F. o. Gross, of Oregon, a prom
lnent dentist and for many years a
resident of the isthmus, committed
suicide at Panama.
A mixing mill of the Atlantic Dyna-
mite company, about six miles from
Ashland, Wis, blew up, 200 pounds of
glycerin exploding. Four men were
killed and many injured.
Miss Helen Miller Gould was &C.
corded the honors of general officer
| Of the American army by the officers
and soldiers at Fort Leavenworth in a
review of the troops.
Eighteen thousand dollars In gold
and currency, supposed to have been
shipped by Chicago bank to bank
! in Oshkosh, Wis, was stolen from the
office of the United States Express
company in the Union station at Mil
! waukee.
Ruth Anderson, of Vincennes, Ind,
disappointed in love, drank poison,
walked to the morgue. lay down on a
slab and died.
Ute Indians on the Cheyenne river
reservation threatened an outbreak
ind troops were called for, but the In
dian police quieted the uneasy red
skins.
The Hennepin canal was opened
with ceremony at Sterling, Ill.
Counsel for Count Won Moltke in his
libel suit against Editor Harden, of
Berlin, said he would ask Emperor
William to testify.
Ten thousand striking levee cot
ton handlers at New Orleans agreed
to resume work pending arbitration.
Miss Catharine Cullom ,Ridgely,
elder daughter of the comptroller of
the currency, and Phelps Brown, of
Indianapolis, Ind, son of the late
Sevellon Brown, for many years chief
clerk of the state department, were
married in Washington.
Thomas c. Jenkins, well known in
the wholesale grocery and flour trade
of the central west for nearly half
century, died at his home in Allie
gheny, Pa.
Four hundred Chinese who had just
! landed near Santa Cruz, Mexico, made
an attack on the English ship Wool
witch and fatally injured several sail
ors. The Chinese were incensed be-
cause 200 of their number were being
held on board the ship by the sanitary
inspector.
| Federal Judge Dayton at Wheeling,
w. Va, issued an injunction restrain
ing John Mitchell, president; T. L.
Lewis, vice president, and the district
officers CT the United Mine Workers
of America from organizing or inter.
fering in any way with about 1000
nonunion miners employed by the
Hitchman Coal company, Glendale
Coal company and the Richland Coal
company, located in the Wheeling dis.
trict.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed at Birmingham, Ala
against the Southern Steel company.
William .Lepper, an aged resident of
Laramie, Wyo., shot and perhaps fatal
ly wounded ex-Judge Charles w
Brammell, then killed himself. Bran
nell had been his lawyer In some
long -drawn-out litigation.
The employees of the New York Cen
trail railroad, it is reported, will strike
unless given raises in wages.
Miss Helen M. Gould was present
at the dedicatory services Of the new
army Y. M. c. A. building at For
Lcavenworth, given to the soldiers by
Miss Gould.
The Texas Farmers Union Cotton
company announced that no further
advances would be made on cotton
and the effort to hold the crop Of the
state for Is cents was believed to be
failure.
Secretary OF War Taft was intro
duced as "the next president of thu