Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13

y
l.eved to be member of prominent
family at Princeton, Mo-. committed
suicide at the Wellington hotel in
Kansas City.
American horses won number of
prizes on the opening day of the Lon.
don horse show.
The strike of 200 teamsters In
Hammond, Ind, was settled, the
1 Transfers association agreeing to
meet demands for an increase in
wages from $3.50 to $14 per week
John A. Grant, one of the most
prominent citizens of Atlanta, Ca.
lied at his home there, aged 70 years.
He built the Mississippi Valley, rail
road, now part of the Illinois Cen
trail, and the Texas & Pacific.
BY vote of n to 10 the Wisconsin
assembly passed the public utility
regulation bills.
| Columbus Croy, town marshal at
Shirley City, Ind, was shot and in
stantly killed by burglars who were
looting saloon.
Gen. William Mcmahon McKraig,
former member of congress for two
.erms, died at Cumberland, Ind, at
lineage of 60 years
Thomas Battle, confederate vet
eran, 70 years old, was sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Atlanta, Ga, for
throwing ID. NJ Berry to his death
from a roof 100 feet from the ground.
Through the arrest of August Do
lin. SO years old, for Ia years past a
trusted employee of S. Baumann &
Brother, furniture dealers, of New
York, thefts aggregating $4,000 by
means of false checks will be brought
to light.
Isaac G.eenbaum was almost In
stantly killed ard his wife and daugh.
Ter, a .giri OF 10. were seriously in.
jdred at Philadelphia IRE. J. J.
Reynolds, negro, mas oeen arrested
on charge Of arson.
Andrew Simouson, ? former post
master of Racine, Wis. dice in Chi.
cago. Mr.. Simonson was a prominent
Democrat, and was identified in the
building of Racine
Great damage was. done by
cyclone that struck the city of Kur-
rachee, India
France rendered her good Offices to
the United States to promote a COM
plete understanding with Japan con-
corning interests in the far east.
Mrs. Emma Leahy, proprietor of the
Leahy hotel in Brownsville, Tex, told
the senate committee on military af-
fairs that she saw 16 colored soldiers
shooting at the Cowan house and she
believed she could identify one of
them.
United States Senator Philander c.
Knox, of Pennsylvania, announced his
willingness to become a candidate for
the presidency in 1908 should the Re-
publican party see fit to nominate
him and expressed his appreciation of
his endorsement. by the Pennsylvania
Republican convention.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the deaths of Fred Hating, of
Reddick, and Austin Stockton and
John Frasee, of Danville, by the ex-
plosion of car of gasoline at Red
dick, held the Chicago & Southern
railway responsible.
The president announced the APP
pointment of Gen. William " Nc
Macklin as collector of internal reve-
nue. at Toledo, o.
Helen w. Cougar, the well-known
temperance leader and lecturer, fell
dead at her home in Lafayette, Ind, of
heart failure. She was 20 years old.
There is another reign of terror in
Lodz, Russian Poland, and terrorists
are executed every night by work
mems vigilance committee.
A jury in the United States district
court, at Springfield, ILL.,, returned
verdict finding the Wabash road guilty
on Is counts, alleging violation of the
interstate commerce laws by failing
to have freight cars equipped with
safety appliances.
The golden wedding of King Oscar
and Queen Sophia was joyfully cele-
brated throughout Sweden.
Clarence Mckenzie, president of the
Standard Brake company of New
York, was instantly killed in an auto
mobile accident near Albany.
Eugene A. Sittig, a prominent Ger
man resident of Chicago and publisher
of the Brewer and Maltster, died of
pneumonia.
Prof. Ernest o. Sweetzer, of Wash
ington University, st. Louis, was hit
on the head by pitched baseball and
probably fatally injured.
Gov. Harris, of Ohio, granted a res.
pite until June 81 to James Cornelius,
the Canton wife murderer, who was
to have been electrocuted.
Jimmy Britt and Battling Nelson
signed articles for 20-round fight on
the night of July in San Francisco.
Florence Morales and Bemada Mora
have been found guilty in Mexico of
the murder of Gen. Manuel Barillas,
former president of the republic of
Guatemala, and have been given death
sentences.
Former Judge ]. s. Bossier, a we'll
known confederate veteran of Easley,
s. c., fell from train and was killed.
President Castro read his message
20 the Venezuelan congress and paid
high compliment to w. w. Russell,
the American minister.
DR.. L. H. Blanton. who has been
vice president of the Central Univer.
sity of Kentucky for the past so
years, resigned.
One hundred armed confederate vet
Grams from Tennessee, carrying the
stars and bars. were denied admission
to the United States capitol until they
had lowered their flag and disarmed.
A special dispatch from Hongkong