Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-26

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Two prisoners In tho jail at Laporte,
Ind, knocked down the sheriHs wife
and escaped
Mrs. Frank Joy Of st. Louis, one of
Congressman Longworth's party, was
lost for hours in the Grand Canyon.
Arizona
The two-cent fare law, enacted at
the recent session of the Pennsylvania
legislature, was adjudged invalid, un.
constitutional and void in its applica,
ton to the Susquehanna River & West,
ern Railway company.
The hearing in New York In the fed.
eral suit against the oil trust revealed
the large earnings of the subsidiary
companies of the Standard. The
Standard of Indiana made more than
1000 per cent profits in 1903 and
1906.
The long-expected arrests of those
held to be responsible for the frauds
committed in the furnishing and dec
Grating of Pennsylvania $13.000,000
capitol were made in Harrisburg, the
attorney general causing warrants to
be issued for IA of the IS persons and
ton commission as being involved In
the scandal
The governor general of the Philip
pines has issued formal proclama.
ton converting the national assembly
on October 16. Plans have been made
to render the inaugural session of the
assembly brilliant function.
Forty thousand dollars, mainly in
large bills, is declared to have been
secured by the robbers who held up
the Great Northern train near Rex
ford, Mont, September IL.
Directors of copper companies con-
trolled by the Amalgamated ordered
the output reduced so per cent.
The Shipbuilders' Federation of
England announced that between 40,-
600 and $4,000 members of the Boiler
makers society would be locked out.
Motive power officials of the Harri-
man railway lines recommended the
installation and use of steel passen-
| ger coaches ON the Pacific coast
Three men were imprisoned in
burning mine at Sparta, MINI.
Alvah w. Trowbridge, former presi.
dent of the American Bankers associ-
alton, died at his home in Hacken.
sack, N. ].
Edward Richards, OF Dayton, an
| aeronaut, dropped 1000 feet to death
at the Miami county fair grounds at
Troy. o.
At meeting of the directors of the
| Illinois Central railroad the charges
| recently made against President j. T.
Harahan and Vice-President J. G. Hack.
staff by Stuyvesant Fish were dropped
upon the recommendation of com.
mittee of investigation.
The decision of the Belgian govern.
| is attributed to the command of King
| Leopold, who Is fearful that his claims
/ in the Congo might be effected in the
event of the adoption of the proposal.
| The kings action in this connection
is regarded at The Hague as being In
the nature of scandal.
Trouble has arisen over the extra
| uilAOD VI V.HlI. fauOCli, dSCuStu vi
murder at Hongkong. He took refuge
on the American warship Galveston at
| Chefoo and the American authorities
insist on trying him themselves.
A Japanese steamer, the Tattoo
| Maru, has been burned three miles
| off Ching Kiang, ON the right bank of
the Yangtsekiang, As miles from Nan
4 EipO &c fha{
| were lost.
The coroner's jury investigating the
recent wreck on the Canadian Pacific
railway at Caledon, in which seven
| people were killed and others injured,
| made its report at Toronto. Ont, and
directed the arrest of Engineer Hodge
| and Conductor Grimes. The railway
company was blamed for putting mex
perienced men in charge of passenger
| trains
Every railroad in Mississippi was
indicted by the grand jury at Jackson
| for failure to furnish the state rail.
road commission with list of passes.
Members of the legislature and state
officials may be indicted.
! The largest bonds in the history of
! criminal jurisprudence-$6,0 600, 600
were fixed by Judge Peter S. Grosscup,
of the United States circuit court. to
secure the governments $29,240,000
| Judgment against the Standard Oil
| company of Indiana pending an appeal
from the sentence imposed by Judge
| Landis
| George c. Taylor, who inherited the
income of $20,OO0,O00 from his father.
Moses Taylor, is dead at his home at
| Great River, l.. l. He was about "
/ years old.
| In the federal suit at New York for
dissolution of the Standard Oil COM
pany of New Jersey 1t was disclosed
that the company had made $490,315.
934 profits in the eight years from
| 1899 to 1906 inclusive.
In the Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory election the constitution was
adopted, the statewide prohibition
proposition carried and the Democrats
elected their ticket headed by Haskell
for governor.
| protocol was signed at the state
| department by the diplomatic, repre-
sentatives of the five Central repub
lies, accepting the invitation of the
United States and Mexico to meet IL
Washington at an early date to ne
gotiate an agreement providing 70:
permanent peace between the coun
tries represented.
Ludwig Szcygill, Catholic priest
from Chicago. was convicted OF nun
der in the second degree at + lrg
Pa, for killing two brothers -dmeo
StarZynski.
At San Antonio, Tex. All records foi
| rife shooting at wing targets were