Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-01
MlSCELLAN EOUS.

Rev. Levont Martogessian, an Ar
menian priest, told the New York au-
thorities he believed the Matchmaking
of wealthy Armenians was being done
by Turkish government spies to dis
credit the Armenian patriots.
Judge w. H. Munger, in the fed.
eral court at Omaha handed down
decision holding that the Sibley law.
passed by the last Missouri legisia
ture, providing for reduction of 20
per cent in express rates, is constitu
tional.
While Emperor Nicholas was review.
ing the troops encamped at krasnoye.
Selo the Seminovsky regiment refused
to participate in the maneuvers and
broke up the order OF parade. The
men demanded the retirement of Gen.
Reiman, who, with Gen Min, ruthless
ly put down the Moscow uprising in
December, 1905.
Thousands of persons attending the
ninth day session of the novena OF the
shrine of St. Anne at Kankakee, Ill,
saw several persons arise in st
they had been healed of infirmities.
Gertrude F. Atherton. Katherine
Glover and Poultney Bigelow, well
known authors, are directors in the
Maiden Poultry farm of Maiden, N. Y,
which filed articles of incorporation.
President Richard H. Halsey. of the
Oshkosh, Wis, Normal school, was
accidentally shot and killed at Geoge
bic lake, Wis.
A Jack the Ripper" in Berlin
stabbed three little girls in one af
ternoon. One of them died and the
others probably cannot recover.
The census bureau perfected its ar.
rangements for collecting cotton gin
ming statistics covering the cotton crop
of 1907-0S. There will be 10 reports,
the fist appearing September and
the last March 20. The intermediate
dates of publication will be October 2,
October 25, November s, November 81,
December 8, December 20, January 8
and January %.
The celebrated convent at Oiseaux,
where so many young women of the
aristocracy of France and other coun.
tries have been educated has. been
closed under the law forbidding the
continuation of institutions of secular
instruction.
Acting Secretary of the Interior
Woodruff said a coal famine was
neither necessary nor imminent be-
cause the geological survey has deveI-
oped such immense areas of coal lands
in the west and northwest
The supreme court of Guatemala has
confirmed the death penalty on all
those sentenced in connection with the
recent attempt to assassinate Presi-
dent Cabrera
The unwilling of monument to
oliver P. Morton, Indianas war gov
ernon, in Indianapolis, was the occas-
| ion of large gathering of veterans
of the civil war. Among those at
| tending were Vice President Charles
! w. Fairbanks and Gen r. B. Brown,
commander-in-chief OF the G. A. r.
A syndicate of Kentuckians bought
about 100000 bushels of Kentucky
oiuS 5iaSs oSeu, pidCllCdlly dill tHeTe
is In the country.
James b. Duke, president OF the
American Tobacco company, wac
married to Mrs. Nanaline Holt Inman
in Brooklyn.
The New York authorities were in
formed that Fl. s. Tavshanjian, the
rug merchant who was murdered. was
one of ten wealthy Armenians who
had been marked for slaughter If they
failed to give up $4,000 each to a
matchmaking band of their country
| men.
Bishop John H. Vincent in a speech
at Coffeyville, Kan, attacked REVEALS.
He said the sensational methods used
often did more harm than good.
Miss Helen Madigan, of New York,
died of injuries received in an auto.
mobile accident in which her fiance,
Dr. K. j. Gallagher. was killed.
Charles Warner. former merchant,
while insane shot and killed Miss Els.
telle Norling In New York store
Tewfk Pasha. the Turkish foreign
minister, has pledged the American
minister at Constantinople that no re.
currence of the recent bomb explosion
Will be permitted.