Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-04-04
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case decided to hear the opinion oL
DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton, the alien
fist who testified in court that he be-
lieved Thaw was insane and unable
to direct his counsel nationally.
San Francisco officials admitted
they feared an attempt would be made
to rescue Abraham Ruef by force.
Elisor Biggy's guards were instructed
in that event to shoot Ruef first and
then attend to the rescuers.
In an effort to enforce demands for
increased wages made by members of
the United Brewery Workers union,
about $50 brewery workers walked out
of the 90 breweries in st. Louis.
State Senator Thomas Conner, the
millionaire mine owner of Joplin, Mo-,
died, aged So years, at a sanitarium at
San Antonio, Tex, where he had been
for several months.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Maryland Steel Car Wheel company,
located at South Baltimore, in Anne
Arundel county, Me. The damage is
estimated at from 100000 to 100000.
Fire destroyed the wet mill" or
grinding department of the Castalia
Portland Cement company at Castalia,
o. The loss is $4,000 and 100 men
are temporarily thrown out of work.
An unknown woman jumped to
death over the brink of the American
falls from Prospect park, Niagara
Falls.
Republican members Of the Tennes-
see legislature in joint caucus unani-
mously adopted resolutions appealing
to Republicans throughout the nation
to renominate Theodore Roosevelt for
another term as president.
The Nebraska senate passed the
statewide direct primary bill with
amendments which the house concur
red in. The bill does away with state,
county and city nominating conven-
tons.
The physicians who are In attend
ance upon Queen Victoria of Spain
have reason to believe that she may
be confined sooner than has been an
ticipated, and it has been recommend
ed that King Alfonso curtail his visit
to Cartagena.
The secretary of the interior grant
ed the application of l.. L. Num- to
use the waters of Bear and Mud lakes
in Utah for irrigation and power pur-
poses.
Four white men and so natives
were instantly killed and three whites
and 16 natives were injured by the
explosion of two cases of dynamite at
the Dreifontein mine near Johannes
burg
Fire destroyed about % residences
and ten business houses in Newberry.
8. c.
Gov Campbell signed the bill max
ing gambling felony in the state Of
Texas.
Two men were killed and four in
jured by the explosion of bomb in
Constantinople.
Robert n. Edwards, a farmer, was
found dead and robbed on railway
tracks near Springfield, Ill.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Mag
nolia Stove works, Memphis, Tenn.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
James F. Hedden, general superin.
tendent of the Tonopah & Goldfield
Railway company, is in Jail at Haw-
thorne, New, for refusing to produce
the books of. his company on the or
der of grand jury.
A report published in Havana by
the Commerce. and the Cuba, conser.
vative newspapers, that Consul Stein
hardt was to succeed Provisional
Governor Magoon, is denied by both
Mr. Steinhardt and Gov. Magoon.
Passenger train No. on the Choc.
taw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad was
partially derailed near Oklahoma City
and the engineer killed. Seven pas,
sengers were hurt.
A. o. Fox of Madison, Wis, has
purchased for trolley company the
Galena Cll.) municipal lighting plant
which it is said has cost so much in
excess of what private plant would
cost that the people of Galena have
tired of their bargain.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer,
Is seriously i'll in Rome with consump'
ton. ... .~s.
Safe blowers robbed the Farmers
and Merchants National bank of Han,
over, Mich, getting $4,000.
Nebraska legislature passed q bill
permitting a large increase in the tax
alton OF railroad property.
The body Of Prokop Plecity, town
clerk of the town of Haugen, Wis
was found in his burning Office and
residence by neighbors. He had been
shot ~
Salvador asked MEXICO to intervene
and restore peace between the war
ring Central American Republics.
Jesse F. WELDON has been chosen
by the directors of the Colorado Fue
and Iron company to succeed the late
Frank ]. HeaTpe as president of tina
company.
Gen. Charles Dick, of Ohio, wa,
elected president of the Nationa
Guard association, which adjourned
TO meet, next year.
Hugh g. Shaugh, the organizer of tn,
Brotherhood of Railway Postal Clerks
was dismissed from the railway mai
service.
The town of Lincoln, N. j., offere,
Upton Sinclair big house and fertil,
land for the burned-out colony of Hell
conites.
The plant OF the Mennonite Pub
fishing company at Elkhart. Ind. wa
damaged by fire to the extent Of se5
600