Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

MlSCELLANEOUS.
John ID. Rockefeller, William Rock
efeller and other officials of the Stand
ard Oil company, arrived in Chicago
to answer questions by Federal Judge
lands relative to the Standard Oil
company of Indiana.
Chester B. Runyan, the defaulting
teller of the Windsor Trust company,
was arrested in New York and $54 ,410
of the money stolen from the bank
was recovered. He was betrayed to
the police by Mrs. Laura NJ. Carter, in
whose fiat he had been hiding.
Twenty-one persons are known to
have persisted in the tornado that
swept through part of Wisconsin.
Flour shippers of Oklahoma, Kan
sas and Missouri filed charges with
the interstate commerce commission
against several western railroads, al
leging that they raised the rates on
-four to the Atlantic seaboard in re-
venge.
An entire afternoon sitting of the
committee on the Geneva convention
was given over to a discussion of the
American proposition, presented by
Joseph H. Choate on June "a, regard
ing the inviolability of private proper
| ty on the high seas. Some of the
delegates said they would support the
proposal but many said they were OPP
| posed to it.
The New York Central Railroad
company was fined $4,000 by Judge
Hazel in the federal court at Roches-
ter, N. Y, for failure to file rates on a
| shipment of oil for the Standard Oil
company.
! ]. G. McMaken, prominent politi-
clan of Ohio, died suddenly at san
| itarium in Martinsville, Ind. He was
81 years old.
The business portion of North
Lawrence, N. Y, was wiped out by a
fire that destroyed Is business houses
eight residences, the post office
Dunn's and the Commercial hotels
and the telephone exchange. The loss
is $4,000
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late
President Garfield, and occupying the
chair of politics at Princeton, was
He will succeed Henry Hopkins in
June, 1908.
A severe earth shock was recorded
at the university of Florence, Italy
1t began at four o'clock and LASTED
until $3.50. The distance was esti
mated at SITS miles.
Nicholas Deidrich, Of Sioux City, Ia.
shot a woman who refused to marry
him and then committed suicide.
Most Rev. John ]. Glennon, arch
bishop of ST. Louis, has been appoint
ed by the United States census bureau
as special agent to compile complete
statistics of the Catholic population
of the country estimated at $4,000, 900
A motorman was killed and about
80 passengers injured in a collision
of interurban trolley cars at North
Tonawanda, N. Y.
Miss Ethel Bish of Findlay, o..
some time ago helped Mrs. Mary M
Kendall of Oswego, who was hurt in
street accident, and received $40,
900 as legacy from the woman she
aided
President Small, of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union, ordered the op
orators strike extended to another
city, but would not say what one
The emperor of Japan has bestowed
war medals on ten American womer
who served as volunteer nurses and
10 American war correspondents.
The National German-Americar
Teachers association, in session al
Cincinnati, adjourned after selecting
Milwaukee as the next meeting place
Four men were killed and a large
number received dangerous injuries
as a result of an explosion in a dyna
mite factory at Muelheim. Prussia.
Reports from all parts of Texas are
to the effect that the pecan croI
promises to be the largest ever known
OF the 49S sudden deaths reported
to the New York coroner's Office IL
June 236 were due to violence or acct
dent, 15 were killed by street railways
and three by autos.
imam - hyicS, ihFSh'oi VI gan
powder. died at Akron, o., aged 81
years.
Embezzlement of 100000 by Her
Woelke, manager of the Marienburs
bank in Germany, is reported as on,
of the factors in the failure of tina
institution.
August Weber and Victoria Gripp,
were crushed to death by a huge
bowlder which fell from the wall o
the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel I'm
der Second avenue near East Thirty
second street, New York.
Cloudbursts in Cleveland and Pitts
burg did great damage to property.