Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-18

10 erect monument to Theodore
Estes, for whose killing ex-Judge Low
ing recently was acquitted by jury.
A series of dynamite outrages oc
Cured at the mines near Johannes
burg in the Transvaal, where white
workmen are on strike. The Crown
! hotel at Ecksburg was damaged and
several persons were injured.
j. w. Jungen, of the Southern
Pacific, announced that since the
American navy broke the rules in
sending coal to the Pacific in foreign
ships his road would do likewise.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kronprinz Wilhelm, with Baron Speck
Won Sternburg, German ambassador to
the United States, on board, collided
with an iceberg four days out from
Bremen.
President Small, of the Commercial
Photographers union, gave up peaceful
| efforts to end the strike and prepared
| to start for Chicago and the east to
| extend it and make the fight more de-
| cisive.
DR.. Winfield S. Chaplin, chancellor
| of Washington university, st. Louis,
| resigned, to take a long rest.
United States Senator A. o. Bacon,
of Georgia, was reelected for the full
term beginning March 4, 1907.
Clarence Mackay, president of the
Postal Telegraph & Cable company,
declared that all this talk about the
Western Union Telegraph and the
Postal Telegraph & Cable company
working in harmony is nonsense" and
said the companies were fierce COM
petitors.
Samuel l.. Clemens mark Twain)
was entertained at dinner by the staff
of Punch, of London.
One man was killed, several per-
sons were injured and great prop
erty damage was done by tornado
in Louisville and nearby towns.
Six young men from Bangor, Me-,
of party of seven. were drowned in
Penobscot bay by the capsizing of a
sloop.
The historic national banner of
Stars and Stripes which inspired
Francis Scott Key to compose The
Star Spangled Banner" and which
foated over Fort McHenry, Chesa-
peake bay. during its bombardment
by the British on the night of Septem-
Der Is, 1914, has been placed on ex-
hibition at the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington.
Ellesley, the beautiful country home
of George C. Wallace, a capitalist, at
Arcadia, near Paducah, KY, burned.
The Iowa Grain Dealers association
in convention gave notice of war to
finish on farmers cooperative eleva
tor concerns throughout Iowa.
Col. b. NJ Moulton, past grand COM
mander of the G. A. R., department of
Ohio, died suddenly at Lima from
heart trouble.
H. j. Wilson, the messenger of the
First National bank of New York, who
disappeared a week ago after collect
ing S35, 700 in checks and cash, has
reported TO the bank officials that the
money was stolen by pickpocket
and he fed, fearing arrest. He will
not be arrested unless his story
proves false.
DR.. William LeGrange Ralph, cura
tor of the section of birds eggs in the
national museum, died at the George
Washington university hospital.
Acting on a petition filed by At
torney General William S. Jackson,
Justice NJ. w. Platzek in the supreme
court of New York appointed r..
Burnham Moffatt, an attorney, to take
evidence based on the attorney gen.
erals allegations that the Postal Tele.
graph e. Cable company and the
Western Union Telegraph company
have formed an illegal combination
to increase rates in New York and
other states.
Conspiracy and discrimination, in
addition to the exaction of excessive
rates, are the charges preferred in a
complaint filed with the interstate
commerce commission by the Bea-
trice Creamery company, of Iowa;
the Blue Valley Creamery company,
of Missouri, and the Blue Valley
Creamery company, of Iowa, against
several western railroads.
A monument erected by the state of
New Jersey to commemorate the serv-
ices of the Fourteenth volunteer in
fantry of that state at the battle of
the Monocacy was unveiled on the
battlefield, near Frederick, N. Y, by
Miss Alice Patterson, daughter of
Maj John c. Patterson of Freehold,
N. j.
The Olympic cup open to teams of
four from any golf association in the
world, and held for the last two
years by the Western Golf associa-
ton, was won at Cleveland by the
team of the Metropolitan Golf associa-
| ton with total of GAL strokes
Rudolph Johnson, Frederickson Won
| Borsen and Herman Won Borsen,
members Of the crew of Henry Clay
Pierce's yacht Yacona, drowned in
| Hudson river because one of them
| rocked a yawl in which they were
sailing.
Four children of Mr. and Mrs
Jason Field of Rogersville, Wis, were
| burned to death.
Marion r. Biggs, convicted of con-
| spiracy in the famous Blue Mountain
| land fraud case in Oregon, was SEN
| fenced to ten months in the Multno-
NAH county jail He will also pay a
| fine of $500.
Admiral Brownson, chief of the bu-
reau OF navigation of the navy depart
ment, said he was satisfied that the
Japanese admiral, Sakamoto. who was
reported in the Hochi, Japanese
anti-governmental paper, to have ques-
toned the patriotism of American
naval crews and the ability of the
| American naval officers. had been mis-.