Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-04

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! pany, was arrested, charged with the
embezzlement of $4,000 of the funds
| of the concern
George Hamfeldt, an American
while in Copenhagen, Denmark. gave
a reward of $3.50 to messenger boy
who found bag containing $4,000
in money and jewelry and returned /,
to Mr.. Hamfeldt.
Col. Orestes Ferrara, secretary OF
the Cuban delegation at The Hague
has resigned because of attacks made
on him due to his once having been
sentenced to prison by an Italian
court for writing a political pamphlet.
Cornell won the varsity eightoared
race at the Poughkeepsie regatta,
Syracuse the varsity four-oared race
and Wisconsin the freshman eight.
Dared contest.
A block of hotels and other build
ings adjoining the jamestown exposi-
ton grounds were destroyed by fire.
The oil fields of northern Indian
Territory were swept by a tornado
that killed three men and destroyed
hundreds of derricks. The loss was
estimated at 100000.
Prospects of peace in the telegra-
pliers strike were made brighter by
President Smalls making an appeal
direct to President Mackay, of the
Postal company, and by the appoint.
ment of conference committee of
the striking operators.
ID. Leet Oliver, of Pittsburg, a senior
in Sheffield scientific school at Yale,
was killed in an automobile accident.
Three other men were injured.
Lightning struck and shattered 4
presidential banner pole which stands
less than 100 feet from the executive
office at Oyster Bay. No one was in.
jured
Richard Croker won the Irish derby
with Orby, who won the English derby
of 1907. This is the first time that
these two great classics have been
won by the same horse.
Premier CampbellBannerma res.
olution in favor of curtailing the pow
er of the house of lords in vetoing
bills passed in the house of commons
was carried by 1872 to lat.
AS result of the premature explo.
sion of box of dynamite near lola,
Charlotte county, Virginia, eight per.
sons We're killed outright and six 9TH
ers seriously injured.
Andrew Bauer, cashier in the
branch office of Simpson, Crawford &
Co., New York, was knocked senseless
by two thugs and robbed of $4,000
while placing the money in the safe.
Vestmakers in east side shops OF
New York, numbering 1000, have
gone on strike for an advance of
wages of IL to 16 per cent.
Albert Woltemade, cashier of the
Alton (Ill) branch of the Anheuser.
Busch Brewing association, who had
been missing for eight days, returned
home after having travelled $500
miles with his mind a blank
The formal opening of the first com.
pleted tract of irrigated land finished
by the reclamation service of the ma.
tional government took place at
Billings, Mont
1t is rumored in court circles in
Copenhagen that Princess Thyra, sec.
ond daughter of King Frederick, is
betrothed to Prince Adelbert, third
son of the kaiser.
Bees swarmed on the handle of
switch in Sioux City, Ia, and delayed
traffic on four railroads for time.
Attorneys for the eight principal
Missouri railways and Attorney Gen
eral Hadley for the state have prac
tically agreed to take the matter OF
jurisdiction In the enforcement of the
Missouri two-cent law to the Uniteo
States supreme court.
Terrorists threw a bomb into Err
van square, Tifiis, killing and injurine
many persons, and then robbed
wagon of $125,000 belonging to the
government treasury.
Four men were killed and five in.
jured by the fall of scaffold in San
Francisco.
Chief Justice w. F. Frear, OF
Hawaii, has accepted the governor
ship of the islands.
John Chandler, 107 years old, was
killed near Quincy, H., by being
thrown from a buggy.
The formation of an sS,000,000 com
bination of nine independent brew
cries in st. Louis, East st. Louis, Ill.
and Granite City, ILL.,, was announced
in st. Louis.
The possibility Of serious trouble IL
Central America growing out Of the
disturbed conditions existing there in
cident to the alleged ambition Of Pres
ident Zelaya, of Nicaragua, to form
union of Central American states, has
caused the administration to dispatch
the fine new cruiser Milwaukee to thai
locality.
henry Harness, wealthy farmer
who was in Jail in Kankakee, ILL.,, for
shooting his wife with intent to kill
her, committed suicide by hanging
himself with a towel and necktie
Samuel Hill and John Hilbure were
drowned in Conderay lake near Chip
pewa Falls, Wis, as the result of the
explosion of a gasoline tank aboard
launch.
AS protest against the department
officials in laying off some of their
fellow workers, $50 employees of the
STRENGTHENING department in Manhat.
tan and Bronx boroughs, N. Y, went
on strike.
Charles r. Richardson was con.
victed in Pittsburg, Pa, of conspiring
with Harvey P. Bostaph, Joseph Flah'
erty and ]. H. Milholland to attempt
t, bribe councilmen to pass the Pitts
burg & Tube City railroad franchise
ordinance.
w. r. Abbott. president of the