Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-29

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Whitehall, Ill, hog sale to residents Of
Kirksville, Ill, for $500.
DR.. James c. Monaghan, of Wash
ingtan, has been appointed to the
chat. OF economics at Notre Dame uni
versity. He 10 at present chief of the
consular reports of the bureau of sta
tistics at Washington
With the arrest of four Mexicans in
Los Angeles, Cal, the revolutionary
movement, which under the name of
La Junta has for three years been a
source of endless trouble and annoy
ance to the administration of Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico, 1t Is believed
has been stamped out
John Porter Stollings and William
J. Sewer, prosperous farmers, engaged
in street duel with pistols in Lib
erty, Mo-, resulting in the death of
Stollings
King Charles of Roumania granted
amnesty to all those who were i'm
plicated in the recent agrarian revolt,
with the exception of about 200 mill
tant priests and those already sen
fenced for murders committed dur
ing the uprising. The prisoners total
about 5000
The American minister at Madrid
Mr. Collier, is negotiating an extradi.
ton treaty between the United States
and Spain.
William ]. Bryan said in the Com
moner: 1T is the trust magnate, not
the opponents of the trust, who is
striking at property rights. He tres.
passes upon the property rights of
the small manufacturer and the re-
taller, and heartlessly drives him
into bankruptcy"
Information has come from Rome
that Pope Plus X. has bestowed the
title of countess on Mrs. Thomas f
Ryan, wife of the well-known finan.
cier, in recognition of her charities
and benefactions to the church.
Advices from Macon, Ga, state that
John F. Gaynor, the Syracuse con
tractor, who was convicted of com.
plicity in the Savannah frauds, is
critically i'll.
The forest fires which broke out
August II in the neighborhood Of the
forts at Toulon, France, have again
become menacing. A large force OF
colonial infantry is engaged in fight,
ing the flames.
Announcement was made that the
heads of the marlborough Metropoli.
tan company, the traction cSmbina'
ton in New York, have, refused to
open their books to the public-service
commission.
Evander McIver, a wealthy con
tractor of Chicago, was found dead
in basement, and is believed to have
been murdered
Fred Kersters, aged IL, was burned
to death in fire that destroyed his
home at La Crosse, Wis.
Robert E. Bundy has begun a quo
warranto action in the circuit court o.
Pepin county, Wisconsin, to remove
Frank L. Taylor sheriff of the county
from office on the ground that Sheriff
Taylor was a deserter from the
United States military service on two
occasions, once in 1862 and again il
1863.
Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer
has leased 100000 acres of grains
land in the Standing Rock reserva
ton, South Dakota, comprising one o
the finest cattle tracts in the north
west.
A receiver was appointed for thu
big wholesale grocery firm of E. c
Hazard & Co., of New York, with Ii
abilities placed at $26O,0O0.
Della Fox, the coincidence, is seri
ously i'll at the Hotel Lincoln in Pitts
burg of appendicitis and peritonitis
All her engagements have been can
celed.
Central Illinois distillers paid int,
the collectors Office at Peoria durin,
the fiscal year ended July l more thai
$35, 100000 an average daily collec
ton of 100000.
Sensational disclosures, involvin;
padding of accounts to the extent o
hundreds of thousands of dollars b,
the marlborough company headed b,
August Belmont, were made by tn
New York public service commission
The Nebraska railway commission
rescinded its action advancing tn
minimum charge on small shipment
on the Burlington from 20 cents to 8
cents.
William H. Edwards, aged 60, o
Utica, N. ", who was lost in tn
Adirondack woods Aug. IL, was foun
in pitiful plight. He had been livin
on berries and roots.
Corporal James A. McLain, Jr., al
army recruiting officer, committee
suicide at hotel at Rutland, VT, b.
drinking carbolic acid.
Moors made an advance on tn
French camp under cover of fog
but the fog lifted and the fanatic
were driven back with heavy losses
William w. Prosser, 1921 Yves
Belle street, st. Louis, city passenge
agent of the Glover Leaf route, died a
La Porte, Ind, while visiting rels
tives.
The empress of Germany fell an
sprained her ankle and injured a vel
in her left leg.
Frau Frances Won Bredow, daughte
of Senator Francis G. Newlands, G
Nevada, and wife of Lieut.. Leopol
Won Bredow of the Cuirassiers of tn
! Guard, died in Berlin.
Judge Cochrane of Sullivan, Ill
| granted a change of venue to Decatu
| in the case of Fred H. Magill and hi
bride, accused Of the murder of tn
first Mrs. Magill, at Clinton, Ill.
Francis Rea MacMillen, the Amer
can violinist whose genius has attrac
ed attention both in this country an
abroad, is reported in cable advices t
be lost in the Alps.