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

An omnibus contract, whereby the
Standard Oil company obtains from
every steamship company operating
between New York and all ports in
Africa a rate for the shipment OF
lubricating oil that is about one-halt
what it's competitor, the New York
Lubricating Oil company, pays, was
produced in the hearing of the fedora
suit against the alleged oil combine.
James H. Farrand, superintendent
of delivery in the Davenport Qa.)
post office, was arrested charged with
opening registered mail Soon after
he committed suicide.
Miss Katherine Rittenhouse, stu
dent at Northwestern university, in
Chicago, has fallen heir to an estate
worth $4,000 by the will of COL Isaac
Wing, who was rejected by her moth
er when a girl.
Owen " Anderson, recently ap
pointed to lieutenancy in the United
States army, was blown to atoms at
San Antonio, Tex, while handling a
bottle of nitro-glycerine.
Ambassador Tower has written
President Roosevelt asking that he be
permitted to retire from the diplomat
ic service next spring.
The captain of the steamer FREQ
Hartweg imperiled the lives of Pres
ident Roosevelt and his party on the
steamer Mississippi by reckless navi
cation and on order Of the president
his license was suspended for 90 days.
The immense cotton shipping bust
ness of New Orleans was tied up by
the strike of 5000 members of the
Dock and Cotton Handlers union
Herbert r. Morton of Australia, a
millionaire, slipped on the steps of the
Vancouver opera house and fractured
his skull
John E. Daley, United States sur
veyor general, slipped on the stairs
in the Selling-Hirsch building in Port.
land, Ore, and broke his neck.
Clarence S. Darrow, the spectacular
genius of the Chicago bar and of Chi
cago politics, lies seriously Ill in a
hospital at Boise City. He went
through an operation for tumor on
the brain.
A tremendous forest fire in Sonoma
county Cal, burned over thousands of
acres and did vast damage to prop.
erty.
Three American Mormons have been
expelled from Germany as the result
of persisting, despite final warnings
prohibiting them from spreading their
propaganda, in conducting river hap.
tisms and making converts.
The Union Pacific in federal court
at Omaha, Neb., pleaded guilty and
confessed judgment to the indictment
| of violations of the safety appliance
! laws.
Prince Peter A. Kropotkin, the so.
cialist leader, has been arrested at
Luga, Russia, on the charge of par
! ticipating with band of revolution
lists in the robbery of the country
house of the metropolitan Antonius.
Illinois sheriffs met at Springfield tc
form state association
Mrs. Russell Sage gave $4,000 to
the st. Paul Young Woman's Chris
tian association toward its new build
| ing.
The next congress OF the National
Drainage association was called 70,
November 1927 at Johns hopkins uni
versity. Baltimore.
Announcement was made of the or
ganization at Halifax, N. S., of the
Aerial Experimenting association, with
a membership including Prof. Alexan
der Graham Bell, the inventor, ano
Capt. F. w. Baldwin Of Toronto, aero
naut. The association will carry or
Prof Balls aerial experiments.
Seven. indictments were found b,
the special Judge in the Cuban con
spiracy cases and the men indicted
were held in default of $4,000 bal
| each.
A young woman was beaten to death
in New York rooming house, hei
murderer escaping.
IT was announced in Stockholm that
the Swedish Yacht club would issue
challenge for the Americas cup.
Leonard ]. Clarkson. manager oil
the Norwich university football team
died at Hanover. N. H.. as the result
of an injury received in q football
game.