Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-27

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Porto Rico, has been granted the
privilege of transferring the body of
Ponce de Leon from the church of
San Jose to the cathedral.
d. w. Cell, of Fountain, Col, and
his wife were killed by Colorado
& Southern train near Crews, Col.
Prince Piscara, member OF the
Italian nobility, and four other per-
sons were killed in an automobile ac-
cident at Caianello, Italy.
Word was received in Mexico City
that President Cabrera of Guatemala
was dying of blood poisoning.
Mrs Emma Kaufman, wife of
Moses Kaufman, for years a wealthy
Sioux Falls brewer, charged with the
murder of Agnes Polreis, her 16-year-
old servant, was found guilty of man,
slaughter in the first degree.
Viscount Hayashi. Japanese minis
ter of foreign affairs, declared the ru-
NOR that Ambassador Aoki would be
recalled from Washington was totally
without foundation.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York
turned the first sod at Peekskill in an
enterprise which begins the Catskill
water aqueduct, $50 miles long, and
which will supply New York and en-
vironments with S0O,OO0,O0O gallons of
water daily.
The Persian revolt has been
crushed. About Faith Mira, brother
of the shah, who raised the standard
of revolt Immediately on his fathers
death, has taken refuge at the British
consulate at Kermanshah and has
asked security for himself and fam.
lily.
The body of Attorney Vincent
Schwab of Cincinnati, who disap-
peared after making his will, was
found in the Ohio river.
The duke of Manchester, who mar
ried Miss Zimmerman of Cincinnati,
has denied report that he intended
to come to America to live while he
worked on railroad
A dynamite bomb was thrown into
the Greek chamber of deputies, but
failed to explode.
The body of Midshipman Murfin,
the last of the Minnesota's launch
victims, was found.
The general executive board of the
Commercial Telegraphers union APP.
proved strike against either or both
the Western Union and Postal Tele
graph companies The date for the
beginning of the strike was left to
President Small.
The interstate commerce commits
sion decided to institute proceeding
of inquiry and investigation into the
affairs of the Hamburg-American
Packet company, which is charged by
Peter Wright & Sons, general agents
at Philadelphia of the Cosmopolitan
Shipping company and the Cosmopoli
tan lines, with pooling and maintain.
ing monopolies in restraint of trade.
Ira B. Smith, a member of the
wholesale grocery firm of Smith,
Thorndike e Brown, of Milwaukee
which recently went into involuntary
bankruptcy, was arrested on a charge
of obtaining money under false repre-.
sentation of the firms finances.
Rev. j. P. Deane, of Ashland, Wis,
wac uppolhICu VI DCiOlI COl
lege. Prof. A. w. Burr, who has held
the place for "a years, resigned to take
up work on the college faculty.
The surprise of the second session
of the peace conference at The Hague
was the formal reservation by Gen.
Horace Porter on behalf of the United
States of the right to present the
Of irait tot Of NJ
Together with this, he also reserved
the right to introduce the subject OF
the collection of contractual debts by
force.
Strenuous measures have been
adopted by both the government and
the railroads to avert fuel famine
in the west and northwest which is
thought to be impending next winter.
Frank Earl, on trial on the charge
of robbing and numbering William B
Legg, business man of Sidney, O.,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Serious rioting took place in several
cities of southern France, the mobs
fighting with the troops and endeavor.
ing to release prisoners. M. Ferroul.
one of the leaders of the wine-growers.
was arrested.
w. f. Bechtel, former president of
the Northwestern National Life Insur.
ance company of Minneapolis, was
found guilty of grand larceny by a
jury.
Robert Nicely, aged SIS, and head OF
a family, shot Maude Winter, at Day.
ton, O., and then turned the weapon
against himself Both will die. Miss
Winter was to be married soon.
A New York jury has awarded a
verdict of $4,000 against the American
Hatters' and Furriers' association of
Danbury, Conn.,, in favor of Matilda
Civetti who lost her hair by having
it caught in machinery at it's factory.
Enraged because some schoolboys
had tumbled her over while she was
playing a street piano in New York,
Philomena Casino, young Syrian
girl, drew a stiletto and fatally
stabbed Charles Mccarthy in the
breast.
Oliver NJ. bennett, the New York
broker who was arrested in connec-
ton with the theft of more than
100000 in bonds from the Trust Com
pany Of America, pleaded guilty to a
charge of criminally receiving stolen
goods.
An enormous school of finback
whales trailed the Atlas liner Virginia
from the West Indies to point near
the capes of the Delaware.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana sailed
for Europe and while in Germany will
study the inheritance tax system with
a view of Introducing q hill at the |