Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-31
NEWS OF A WEEK
TOLD IN BRIEF
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATH.
Erred FROM ALL POINTS OF
THE GLOBE.
GIVEN IN ITEMlZED FORM
Notable Happenings Prepared for the
PerusaI of the Busy Man--Sum-
mary of the Latest Home and For
eign Notes.

eign Notes.
The financial crisis in New Torl
was declared to be safely passed. Al
association of trust companies anala
gous to a clearing house was formed,
secretary of the treasury directed tht
deposit in New York banks OF $40,
100000 of government funds, ane
John d. Rockefeller said he wouie
lend the banks large sums.
Three minor banks closed In Ne"
York but the general financial situa
ton was vastly improved. A pool
headed by J. p. Morgan lent millions
Of dollars in the stock exchange, there,
by preventing a ruinous sacrifice OF
securities The Trust Company OF
America successfully withstood an all
lay run.
Six minor banking institutions In
New York closed their doors, but all
were believed to be solvent and the
general financial condition was I'M
proved. The Morgan pool lent $l5,-
100000 in the stock exchange and
stocks moved up. The Union Trust
company of Providence, r. l., suspend
ed and there was a run on all the
banks of Pawtucket, r. /.
Charged with having aided his wife
Laura to commit suicide James War
dell was convicted in New York OF
| manslaughter in the first degree.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse broke her
rudder while just east of the Grand
Banks Of New Foundland, but pro-
ceeded, steering with her screws.
King Alfonso of Spain has tubercu-
losis and will go to London to consult
a specialist.
Sergt. Baker, in charge Of the dis
tribution of rations to the Ute Indians
on the Cheyenne river reservation,
was killed by the Indians.
A horse valued at $4,000 by its own
er, H. Vervack, of Buffalo, N. Y, sent
to Pittsburg, Pa, for the horse show,
had to be shot after an automobile had
struck it, breaking both hind legs.
Adolphus Busch announced that he
will offer cup valued at 81 1000 as the
trophy for balloon race to be held in
st. Louis annually.
Col. Stephen l.. Littler, capitalist,
died in Springfield, Ill, of typhoid
fever, aged 81 years.
The Iowa Central railway shops at
Marshalltown, Ia, were destroyed by
fire, the loss being 100000.
The arrest of Ensign Charles B. VII
mo of the French navy at Toulon on
the charge of being spy. and who
later confessed to having distracted
secret naval signal book and the naval
cipher code, was followed by the ar
rest at Vendome of an officer nance
Berton, who is charged with negotia
tons with an agent of foreign powe'
arrests are creating a great stir and
as Ullmo is Jew, the papers term his
case second Dreyfus affair
Hanson Penn Dilts. aged so, novel
list, poet and journalist, died at Hop
kinsville, KY, of an accidental over
dose of choral, taken to relieve pain
James Kelly Cole, the poet-counter
feiter of Chicago, was given three
concurrent 20-month sentences in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan, by Judge Dyer in the United
States district court at St. Louis.
]. c. McAllister, white, aged 72, was
attacked by mob of about 100 ne
groes in Columbus, o., when he had
been pointed out by Mrs. Henry Pace,
oolored, as the man who had attempt
ed to assault her 13-year-old daugh-
ter.
Samuel F. Whitlow was held in $10,-
900 bail for trial for the murder of
Miss May Sapp at Moran, Kan.
Telegraphers in convention at Mil
waukee elected w. w. Beattie of
Washington president and he named a
committee to go east and negotiate
for settlement of the strike.
Thirty-three suits against the South.
| ern Pacific company have been filed
in the United States circuit court at
San Francisco for violating an act of
congress to prevent cruelty to ami.
mails in transit on the cars.
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treasury at Philadelphia and fed, but
were captured and the money recov.
cred.
1t was estimated that GOO persons
lost their lives in the Italian earth,
, quake.
The conference on trusts opened in
Chicago, Nicholas Murray Butler pre-.
siding.
James Lloyd Jones, member of the
board Of regents of the University OF
Wisconsin and brother of Rev. Jenk
in Lloyd Jones. of Chicago, died at
his home at Wyoming, Wis.
In a quarrel over money matters
Mrs. Phoebe James shot and killed
her husband, George James at Howell
suburb Of Evansville, Ind.
Feliciana Cara, aged lit, Mexi
can who fought with Santa Anna and
witnessed the fall of the Alamo. IL
dead at Stockdale, Tex.
William A. Forgey, professional
strike-breaker, committed suicide In
San Francisco.
A colored revenue officer made 9
desperate attempt to assassinate Nor
man Lockhart, colonial treasurer anC
comptroller of customs at ST. George
Grenada. B. w. /.
The annual convention of the In
ternational League of Press Club!
opened at Birmingham, Ala.
A federal grand jury in New Mex
leo indicted Phelps. Dodge & Co., o
New York. and 10 individuals for con
spiracy to defraud the United State
out Of coal lands.
Astronomers announced that a new
comet discovered by Mr.. Mellist, o
Wisconsin, was rapidly approachin,
The oo.-th hut xuc,,ldp,t hi4