Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-12

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death.
The steamer st. Marys Of the Mary
land, Delaware e. Virginia Railroad
company. was burned at Hallowine
Point, on the Patuxent river, In south
ern Maryland.
In the federal court at Topeka, Kan
demurrer to the indictment Of Secre
tary H. H. Tucker. Jr, charging him
with using the mails to defraud in
his efforts to promote the Uncle Sam
Oil company, was sustained, and
Tucker was freed
Rice hall, at Washburn college, To-
peka, Kan, was destroyed by fire. the
loss being 100000
/ Murdered by Black Hand enemies,
1t is believed, Gottlieb voegeli. so
years old, was found shot to death In
freight doorway of the La Sale
street station at Chicago.
The British turbine torpedo boat de-
stroyer Tartar has beaten all records
for her class by steaming 35.952 knots
an hour against the tide
Encouraged by the success of other
| 1eucoioh III AulcEIId, Mic.
Arzheffskaia, the foremost actress in
Russia. has decided to bring a COM
pany to the United States in January
and present series of modern Rus
| sian plays.
| Viscount Kaneko robled President
Roosevelt as follows: THE whole
empire is rejoicing at your strong
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participate in our exposition and
thank you on behalf of and with the
authority of the people of Japan"
| Police Commissioner Bingham an
| nounced that he would enforce strict
ly the Sunday closing law in New
York and that no form of public en-
tertainment would be permitted.
Mrs. Clara Bloodgood, the actress,
committed suicide by shooting in her
room at the Hotel Stafford at Balti-
more, presumably because she feared
an attack of nervous prostration.
Five men terrorized the town Of
Carney, Okla, blew open the bank
safe and escaped with $4,000.
A jury In Topeka, Kan, found the
International Harvester company
guilty CT being trust and entering
into an unlawful combination to con-
troll the price of harvesting machinery
and to force dealers to handle its
products exclusively.
President Roosevelt instructed Gen.
Funston to dispatch sufficient force
of regulars to Goldfield, New, to con-
troll the situation there. This action
was taken upon receipt of telegraphic
request from the governor of Nevada.
The National Bank of Commerce,
the second financial institution in i'm
portance in Kansas City, announced
its suspension after a steady run of
six weeks, during which the bank had
paid off $19,000,000 of it's deposits, re-
duced its loans $S,5OO,OOO, cut down it's
cash resources 11,750,O0O and sold
100000 of high-grade bonds.
John Nahan, wife-5eater, was SEN
fenced to five years in prison and
fined $1,000 by Justice Bowling in
New York.
V. B. Nethaway murdered his wife
on a Union Pacific train at Norfolk,
Neb., and later blew out his own
brains
An insane man entered the state
house in Boston and fired three shots,
probably fatally wounding Edward
Cohen of Lynn, president of the state
branch of the American Federation of
Labor; seriously wounding Dennis D.
Driccoll, of Boston, secretary of the
same board, and injuring with the
muzzle of his revolver Arthur M. Hud-
dell, of Boston, former president of
the Central Labor union.
Antonio Thompson and wife, of Los
Angeles, who recovered their daugh-
ter from band of gypsies at st.
Louis, were arrested on a charge of
having sold the girl to one of the
gypsies for $500.
Maj. w. T. Seward, doorkeeper of
the United States senate, dropped
dead while entering a revolving door
of the capitol.
The Cunard liner Mauritania cut
down the east-bound transatlantic rec
ord by 81 minutes.
James ]. Hill told the rivers and
harbors convention that railways
favored the development of the coun-
try's waterways because the roads
could not take care of the rapidly in
creasing traffic.
Prominent officials of the national
government, governors of states, rep
resentatives of foreign powers, mem
GERS of the senate and house of repre-
sentatives and leaders In all walks
of civil life in America participated in
the opening of the convention of the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
in Washington.
The Cornell association football
team probably will play in South
America next summer, the manage
ment having received an offer of ex-
penses and rs per cent. of the gate re-
ceipts for series of three games with
the football of the Province of Sac
Paulo, Brazil
Baron j. R. K. Won Ittersum of Ber-
lin was the victim of card sharps, ac-
vording to his story, on the steamer
Kronprinzessin Cecilie on it's last trip.
He says he lost $500 in cash and gave
notes for 81 400
The policyholders' committee of the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance COM
pany has issued an address 20 policy
holders warning them not to send
their proxies to the officers of the
company.
A New York jewelry store was
robbed of $4,000 worth of jewelry ny
thieves, who cut their way up from
the cellar into the window where the
goods were displayed.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Annie
NJ. Bradley, charged with the murder