Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-03

The New York Yacht club declined
the challenge of Sir Thomas Liptcn
for race for the Americas cup next
year because it sought to limit the
size Of the racers to 68 feet
Albert X. Nueent. a government
witness against Senator Borah In the
land fraud trial at Boise, admitted he
committed perjury in taking out q
timber land claim and that he had
been promised absolute immunity by
an officer Of the federal government
for testifying.
officers and seamen of the liner Ma
jestic had terrible battle at sea with
crazy and murderous stoker, sub
DUNG him with pepper and bullet
in the thigh.
Rev. Walter Fardy. vicar general OF
the Superior (Wis.) diocese Of the Ro-
man church. has been appointed by
Pope Plus X prelate of the pontifi-
cal household.
Gov. Magoon learned of a conspiracy
to start a revolutionary movement in
Cuba. backed by New York capitalists.
City ownership of waterworks plants
was defeated in various ways in Man
itowoc. Racine, Sheboygan and Apple
ton, Wis.
William III. Rockefeller and John d.
Archbold we're accepted by Judge
Grosscup and District Attorney Sims
in Chicago as sureties on the two
bonds of the Standard Oil company OF
Indiana, and Judge Grosscup ordered
that the supersedeas preventing the
government from levying on the de-
PENDANT company's property to collect
the s29,240,0o0 fine imposed by Judge
Lands should issue.
The Minnesota Union of the Ameri.
can Society of Equity, which claims
the allegiance of $4,000 farmers in the
northwest, passed resolution at its
convention In St Paul calling on Its
members to hold their wheat this fall
until the price is s125.
Mrs. Cyrus Baldwin, SO years old,
of Hampshire, Ill.,. was beaten to death
with a hammer, and her husband, IS
and in his dotage, confessed the crime.
The Countess Montignoso, ex-crown
princess Of Saxony, and Sig. Toselli,
the music master, were married at a
registry office on the Strand, London.
Prof. de Loge of Sorbonne, France,
is conducting series Of remarkable
experiments in the chemical develop
ment of life, having succeeded in fer
tilizing the eggs Of sea urchins by
treating them with solution Of sugar,
ammonia and tannin.
Harry Chernock, New York gar
ment cutter, attempted to kill his wife
by stabbing her with pair of tail
ors' shears and then jumped from a
fourth-story window, receiving injur-
les from which he died.
The Auglaize county (Ohio) infirm-
airy was completely destroyed by fire.
All of the 48 inmates escaped with
out injury by prompt rescue work of
Strother Jones and William Metzger,
two farm hands.
Frank A. MCGEE of Worcester,
Mass, national organizer of the Foun-
drymen's union, was found guilty at
New Haven, Conn, on four counts al
leging intimidation of nonunion work.
men, and on each count he was sen.
fenced to jail for six months and
fined 500.
lobe Gaddy met a would-be white.
Gaping mob at his front door near
Bloomington, Ind, with a shotgun
and. firing into the retreating men.
killed Jefferson Robinson.
A monster petition signed by hun.
dreds of British Columbians is on its
way to Premier Laurier Of Canada,
urging vigorous exclusion Of Asiatics.
Mrs, Lucy, Kelly, aged AZ, went to
morgue in Columbus, O.. and, throw.
ing herself upon the body Of Howard
Rhodes. swallowed a dose Of carbolic
acid and died in a few minutes.
Paul Meliege. a miner at Chisholm.
Mimi, was rescued alive after beins
buried 265 feet below the surface by
depression Of lis feet.
Judge Lands administered an i'm.
munity bath to the Alton road and
then summoned President Moffett Of
the Standard OIL company Of Indiana
before the federal grand jury at Chi
cago to substantiate charges emanat
ing from the company, that Relating
has been general in the Whiting dis
trict.
Gen. Frederick d. Grant has or.
dered all field officers above the rank
Of captain to report at one Of three
places on given dates to take the
Craftsmanship test recently called for
by President Roosevelt.
The reappointment Of WI Ting
Fang to his former post as minister
Of China at Washington was gazetted
at Picking.
The strike Of the Antwerp doch
laborers watch has been going on
since last June, came to an end With
sweeping victory for the Federation
Of Ship Owners. At meeting of the
strike leaders, 1t was decided that the
men should return to work uncondt
tionally, at the terms of the employ.
ers.
Anna T. Jeanes, the philarthropid
Quakeress, who gave 100000 last
April for the education of negroes In
the south, died at the Friends Board
ing home in Philadelphia, aged IS
years.
Margaret Griffin. rs years old, was
arrested In a rooming house in Chi
cago in connection with the murder Of
Justice Richardson, who was robbed
and killed by two msh and a woman
in Cincinnati.
A Chicago jury found Amasa C.
Campbell Of Amigo, Wis, guilty of
manslaughter for killing DR.. B. H.
Harris. and asked the state board of
pardons to keep him In the peniten.
tiary for not more than one year.
A census bureau bulletin shows that
American factories in the year ending