Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-14


Lyndhurst, the country home OF
John Wanamaker, at Jenkintown, near
Philadelphia, was completely des-
troyed by fire, the loss approximating
$1,500,000.
All the evidence on which was
based the complaint Of Attorney Gen.
eral julius Mayer against the Ameri-
can Ice company for dissolution of an
alleged monopoly of the ice business,
served on December 20, has disap-
peared from the attorney generals Of
flee, in Albany, N. Y, and cannot be
found.
Mayor Schmitz and tt e school board
Of San Francisco arrived in Washing
ton in a conciliatory mood to confer
with the president on the Japanese
school question.
The navy department dispatched
the gunboat Marietta from Guantana-
mo to Greytown on the gulf coast Of
Nicaragua, in addition to the cruiser
Chicago, which has been sent down to
the west coast to ACajulta, Honduras,
SO that there will be an American war
| ship on each side of the scene Of the
threatened trouble Between the South
American republics.
Four men were killed and five In
| iured in a collision between an cleo
trio car and string Of wild freight
cars at Birmingham, Ala.
The engineer and fireman of the
Adirondack and Montreal Express of
the New York Central road were
killed and several passengers slightly
injured when the express crashed into
the rear of freight train.
Seven miners were entombed in a
colliery at Wanamie, Pa.
Fire Quilted one Of the principal
business blocks in Aberdeen, S. d.,
causing a loss of 100000.
G. NJ. OVerstreet, father Of Congress
man Jesse Overstreet, died at his
home in Franklin, Ind, aged 81.
Count Boni de Castellane filed an
appeal against the decree of divorce
granted his wife, formerly Miss Anna
Gould.
AS result of an explosion on board
torpedo boat of the French navy nine
men are dead and two men are in
jured.
Werner Townley was acquitted at
st. Louis of the murder of his brother,
Alfred N. Townley.
The South Dakota house killed the
two-cent rate bill.
Col w. Warder, poet, novelist and
builder of the Kansas City Auditori-
UNI, is dead.
Congressman-elect George X. Fav-
rot was indicted at Baton Rouge, La,
for the murder of DR.. Harry Aldrich.
Smiley N. Chambers who was fed
eral district attorney for Indiana dur
ing President Harrison's administra-
ton, died in indianapolis.
James Stillman, president of the
National City bank, New York, Is Sc
riously i'll in Paris.
Three Cinnamon were convicted in
Philadelphia of numbering another
oriental.
Rear Admiral William w. Mead was
retired on account of age.
Fred G. Gilman, the Goodland und.)
banker who was arrested for embez-
element, was sentenced to the Indiana
state prison for term of one to three
years.
John d. Rockefeller announced a
gift of $32,OOO,OOO in income bearing
securities to the general education
board. He had previously given the
board 81 100000.
Three men wera killed and four
badly injured When the Great West
ern Omaha fast mail jumped the
track at German Valley, Ill.
Pittsburg citizens were forced to go
to bed to keep warm, the temperature
being very low and the natural gas
supply short.
BY party vote of 20 to IL the
Jim Crow" bill was passed in the
Missouri senate.
Edinburg, N. D., appealed to the in
terstate commerce commission, say
ing it was in urgent need of fuel and
food supplies and had had no mail
trains in three weeks.
Thomas Lowry, president of the
Minneapolis, st. Paul e Ste. Marie
railroad, donated $4,000 to the LON.
bard Universalist college at Gales
burg, Ill. This completed an endow-
ment fund of 100000.
The house committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia made a favorable
report on the Murphy bill which
makes it unlawful to either give or
receive tips in any hotel or eating
house in the District of Columbia.
Troops and gendarmes participated
in the expulsion of the students from
seminary at Nice, France.
]. w. Simpson, the dentist Of Riv-
erhead, l.. l., was acquitted of the
murder of his father-in-law.
Six Japanese were drowned at Sac
ramento, Cal, when a gasoline launch
struck the draw of the railroad bridge
sized
In high quarters in Stockholm the
statement is made that King Oscar in
tends to abdicate in favor of Crown
Prince Gustaf June 6.
Eight employees Of the Insurance
Stove, Range & Foundry company
Covington and Cincinnati, were terri,
bly, burned by shower Of molten
iron. following a gas explosion.
Title to mines in the Ferguson dis
trict of Nevada, said to be worth many
millions. was won by Joseph de Lamar
through a decision rendered by SUI
pe-ior Judge Seawell at San Fran
| cisco.
The London music hall strike has
been ended. The stars are said to
have gained all they asked, but con.