Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

The san francisco Coke and Gas
company and the power and paper
interests of the Flleschhackers at
Friston. Cal, are to be consolidated.
Lieut.. Splitter was shot in the alb.
domen and dangerously wounded in a
duel with Lieut.. Andreal near Yer
sailles, France.
Riots over the customs laws in the
province of Valencia, Spain, resulted
In the death of four persons.
Emperor William of Germany plans
to build cruiser larger than any
other warship in the world. 1t will
have displacement of 10000 tons.
Federal Judge lands decided In
Chicago that the Standard OIL COM
pany must stand trial on eight OF
the ten indictments returned against
1t.
Fire destroyed the big furniture
store of Cowperthwaite &c Sons at
Third avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-first street, New York, entail
ing a loss estimated at half a million
dollars and causing the injury Of four
firemen.
A sweeping Investigation into the
question as to the compliance with
the new corrupt practices net by can
didates and party committees con-
cerned in the November election in
New York is promised by the new at
torney general, William s. Jackson.
Mines in the Bullfrog district of Ne
vada valued by the owners at over
s20,000,000 were awarded to E. A.
Montgomery by Judge q. Seawell at
San Francisco, against the claims of
C. B. Fleming.
Will Harvey, negro was hanged
at Mayorsville, Miss, three minutes
before notice that his sentence had
been committed reached the sheriff of
Issaquena county.
Senator Culberson of Texas de-
Tended the order of the president dis
missing the colored soldiers for the
shooting affair at Brownsville.
Maj. Gen. Won der Launitz, project OF
police of st. Petersburg, was shot and
killed by young man at the Institute
of Experimental Medicine. The assas-
sin was killed by officers.
Snowstorms and billiards of excep-
tional severity are prevailing through
out southern and southwestern Rus
STA. According to some accounts 16o
persons succumbed to the cold.
Partisan clubmen created a riotous
scene in the Moulin Rouge in an In
effectual effort to prevent the Mar
4 ut nf
presenting an improper sketch on the
stage
Federal Judge Sanborn sentenced
to Jail several leaders of the striking
molders in Milwaukee for violating an
Injunction.
Mrs. Clara S. Heyl of Milwaukee
was granted a divorce from Jacob
Heyl and the property was divided.
A fire which started from the fash
of a miners blast in the Ellsworth
mine No. at Cokesburg, Pa, owned
by the Lackawanna Coal company,
caused a less of 100000.
Eight persons were injured, two
perhaps fatally, in street car ac-1
cident at Cleveland, o. While run
ming at high rate of speed car
jumped the track and ran into an iron
trolley pole.
Southern Pacific passenger train
No. IA, northbound, known as the
Portland express, ran into washout
near Comstock, 25 miles south of
Eugene, Ore. The engineer is report
ed missing, a mail clerk seriously hurt
and several passengers injured.
w. X. McDougal, railroad man.
committed suicide by shooting himself
He was well known in railroad circles,
especially in Chicago and Toronto.
Mrs Wilhelmina Kurdy, 70 years of
age, who lived with her son In st
Paul, Mimi, was found in the cellar
of the residence dead with her head
beaten to pulp. The house had been
robbed of $780,
Prof. Otto Benndorf, the archeolo-
gist, is dead in Vienna. He was noted
for his discoveries of antiquities in
Ephesus.
In Madrid counterfeit coin factory,
raided by the police, It was found that
women were used to distribute the
spurious product.
The Paris Journal says that Jacques
Lebaudy, the self-styled emperor of
the Sahara" is making a tour of the
United States.
Prof. Albert William Berg, for 40
years organist at the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION, commonly known as
1.-THE Little Church Around the Cor
ner," in New York, died in that city,
aged 81 years.
Another break occurred In the Col
orado river, and Washington officials
say the 100000 set aside for repair
work by E. H. Hartman will be insult
ficient to protect the Imperial valley
in California.
William r. Hearst. speaking before
the New York city committee of the
independence league, said: II myself
am not and will not be again a can
didate for any Office"
The Louisiana railroad commission
will investigate the complaint of lum-
bermen that they lose 100000 a
year by railroads charging in excess
of weight.
James H. Wilcox, So years of age,
ormer president of the Second Ma
aonal bank of Pittsburg. Pa, and d.
'ector in over two score Of corpora
ions died after an extended illness.
Fire did 100000 damage in row
VI buildings In Cincinnati owned and
occupied by the Diamond Distilleries
company.
With single blow of his fist Charles
smith Of East st. Louis, ILL.,, killed D.
J. Myers and made his escape. Mrs |
Smith told her husband that Myers
had attornntod 70 Airt NTH hax ar, tho |