Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

MesSrs. McCrea, Mellen,E Hugnltt
and Newman, the railroad presidents
for whose visit to the White House j.
Pierpont Morgan arranged, decided
not to go to Washington because they
did not feel that they had any proper
mandate from the railroad corpora
lions to represent them.
The new constitution for the state
of Oklahoma was completed. 1t in.
cludes some very modern ideas of re.
form in government.
Macias G. Tonnage, a Mexican car
penter who was close to the barracks
at the time of the shooting at Browns
vile, Tex, made a good witness for
the colored soldiers.
A Rock Island passenger train was
wrecked at Cuneo, Ark, and the en-
gineer and fireman were killed.
The house of representatives Of the
Tennessee legislature ordered the ar
rest of Mayor Thomas o. Morris and
% members of the city council of
Nashville, Tenn, for contempt.
Standard Oil received the most
crushing legal blow in its history
when Judge Landis in the United
States district court at Chicago over
| ruled all the objections of the defend.
| ants counsel to the further trial OF
the Alton rebate case.
Judge Thomas Maloney, who was
private secretary to President Andrew
Johnson, died in Ogden, Utah.
Rather than face prosecution for
the embezzlement of $4,000 from the
Washington brokerage firm Of Wade
& Hedges, of which he was manager
Charles Abbott, 20 years old, commit
ted suicide by shooting. "
The date of the national G. A. R
encampment at Saratoga, N. Y, was
fixed for the week of September 9.
1 George Stewart, Of Cedar Rapids
Ia, dropped dead at the Trocha hotel
in a suburb of Havana, Cuba.
Arnold thinner (white) and Ton
Grimes (coloredD, who pleaded guilty
to the murder of John Gavin, Jan. %
were sentenced to life Imprisonment
by Judge Withrow at Mount Pleasant
Iowa.
The second section of a freigh
train on the Erie railroad went ovel
an embankment at Meadville, Pa. Two
traiamen were killed and a number
fatally injured.
| William O'Brien, member of parlia
ment for Cork, was awarded six farth
ings in his libel suit against the Free
mans Journal.
Engineer kellogg and his fireman
were killed in a wreck on the Chicago
Great Western railroad at Dubuque.
Fifteen persons were crushed wher
a Southern Pacific freight engine
crashed into Maple avenue stree
car at a crossing near Ascot park II
Los Angeles, Cal.
Horace G. Mcdowell, president o.
the Farmers bank of Canton, o., sho
and killed himself.
Adolph Huntemann, who died In TIT
general hospital, in Kansas City, Mo.
leaving an estate valued at 100000
has no heirs. as far as the public ad
ministrator can learn.
A continuation of disorders, the sus
pension Of service at three o'clock II
the afternoon after an intermitten
and Intellectual service. and the frs
move towards Intervention by thu
commercial interests of the cit,
marked the third day of the street ca
strike in Louisville, Ky.
The Iroquois hotel in the Michigan
500 was destroyed by fire, causing
loss of 100000. 1t was one of the fin
est hotels in northern Michigan, an,
did large tourist business.
A huge icicle fell from the Magyar,
gorge cliffs onto a trolley car, killing
] the motorman.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois designate,
Friday. April &c. as Bird and Arbo
day."
President James j. Hill told Mir
, nesota legislative committee that h
|. would be glad to have the government
take the Great Northern railroad Of
his hands.