Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-24
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elgn Items.
| William G. Rockefeller, assistant
treasurer of the Standard Oil company
Of New Jersey, testified in the govern
ment's suit for the dissolution of the
oil combine, that the Standard was a
heavy lender of it's surplus funds In
| Wall street, for which it obtained the
| prevailing rates of interest Mr.. Rock
| efeller made this declaration when
asked to account for the loans Of $780,
| 100000 made by the Standard Oil
company Of New York, in 1906, to
interests other than the Standard"
| Aeronauts ]. C.. Mccoy and Capt.
| Charles De F. Chandler, who assembled
from st. Louis for a test flight, won
the Lahm cup by travelling about 500
miles to West Virginia.
| Acting under instructions from
Judge Cochran, the jury at Decatur,
| H.. returned verdict acquitting Fred
erick Magill and his wife, Faye Ora
ham Magill, of the charge of murder
ing Mrs. Pet Magill, the first wife of
Magill.
Lewis M. Wilson, student at the
Eureka College Theological Seminary
at Eureka. ILL.,, shot and seriously
wounded John Walsh, classmate.
Edwin r. Wright was reelected
president Of the Illinois Federation Of
Labor, and James F. Morris, secre-
tary-treasurer.
Gov. Hughes. addressing the Repub-
lican club of New York city, declared
that he was not seeking the presiden-
tial nomination, directly or indirectly.
Negroes In New Orleans started a
riot in which they killed policeman,
barricaded themselves in a house and
wounded several other officers before
they were captured.
| The direct New York-Havana cable
of the Commercial Cable company was
! completed, the final splice having
been made at sea- 100 miles from
! Coney island.
The Canadian Pacific liners Tartar
and Charmer collided off the mouth
/ of the Fraser river and both were bad
/ ly damaged.
E. r. Brundick, former cashier of
the Peoples bank at Huntingburg,
! Ind. attempted to commit suicide
after he was arrested on charges of
perjury and for receiving deposits
after the bank was in an embarrassed
condition.
Delegates Frederick w. Priesmeyer
and Ferdinand Warder, of st. Louis
were arrested on the floor of the
house of delegates on indictments for
bribery, returned at special session
of the grand jury after the passage by
the delegates of bill granting per
| mission to build a garage on Delmal
boulevard.
Princess de Bearn, formerly Miss
Beatrice Winans, of Baltimore, Md.
died in st. Petersburg.
q John Antrobus, an artist, who was
widely known throughout this coun
try and the father of Miss Suzanne An
trobus, the novelist, died in Detroit
Mich.
The peace conference at The Hague
closed in a blaze of oratory.
George Kincaid, head of the public
works department in Yukon Territory
who was arrested at Dawson on 6
charge of stealing $4,000 from reg
istered mail sack, committed suicide
by taking poison.
President Roosevelt succeeded ir
shooting large black bear.
The police of Manila were warned
that an attempt would be made tc
throw a bomb at Secretary Taft.
Four persons were killed and many
hurt in trolley car collision at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
A Chicago jury returned verdict OF
life imprisonment for Michael Maher
accused of attacking an 11-year-old
girl
| w. w. Westcott, one Of the most
successful gamblers in America and
brother of Mrs. Katherine Tingley
head of the Theosophist organization
Is dead at his home in New York.
Gov. Gen. Grey of Canada an
nounced that some members Of the
royal family would visit the dominion
In connection with the centenary OF
the landing Of Champlain.
The Danish steamer Alfred Erland
sen was wrecked off Castle Point
Scotland, and 20 of the crew were
drowned.
Burglars butchered Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Seifred, an aged couple, near
Franklin, La.
The supreme court of Wisconsin de.
cided that fine-cut tobacco in Leaf
wrapper is not cigarette and that the
sale of such product is not a violation
Of the anti-cigarette law.
The state department designated
Algernon Sartoris. of the District OF
at Montevideo. Mr.. Sartoris is the
grandson of President Grant Gustavus
l.. Monroe, Jr., of Michigan, has been
designated as secretary of legation at
! La Paz. Bolivia
A fall of slate in coal mine at
Portview, Pa. crushed man and a
young girl to death. The girls mother
was probably fatally injured
Nineteen persons were killed and
many injured when train left the
tracks and was wrecked near Shrews
bury, England.
1t is declared in Paris that Philip
Coon, the young New Yorker who dis.
appeared from a wellknown hotel
there October IL. has eloped.
Robert l.. Carson, prominent
financier and street railway magnate
died suddenly while watching play
in Philadelphia theater.
The ferryboat running between
Point Pleasant, w. Va, and Kanau
| gam o. sank I'm deem water The