Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-19

From statement made by Assist
ant District Attorney Francis ]. Heney,
of San Francisco, it was believed that
the prosecution was contemplating
granting Abraham Ruef immunity in
order to successfully prosecute the
bribery-graft cases by getting the
former political boss to take the
stand
| Dr. William Wells, the Oldest pro
fessor of Union college, affectionately
known to the students for quarter
OF century ass"Uncle Billy" died at
the age of 81 of grippe. He had been
connected with Union since 1855
The Bank of Aldrich, at Aldrich,
Mo-, was robbed of $4,000 by three
bandits
Prince George of Greece and Prin-
cess Marie Bonaparte were married in
the cathedral at Athens.
Sir John Roger. governor of the
English Gold Coast colony. told "a
Philadelphia audience the negro was
the greatest problem confronting
civilization and was becoming as acute
in the English colonies as in the
| United States.
George McCulloch. who for MANY
years was associated with the devel-
opment of mining industries in Austria
liza, died in London He the nos
SCISSOR of one of the finest art collec-
lions in the world.
Acting Gov. Sanchez of Chihuahua.
Mexico, committed the death sentences
of Dr. c. S. Harle, William Mitchell
and c. T. Richardson to 20 years in
the penitentiary.
Regis III. Post, who recently was
renominated governor of Porto Rico
by President Roosevelt, was enthusi.
astically welcomed upon his arrival at
San Juan, Porto Ricans and Ameri,
cans participating in the demonstra
ton as rebuke to the opposition.
According to the Pennsylvania rail
road, the operation of the two-cent
fare law has caused large decrease
in it's earnings in Pennsylvania.
On the farm of John Duff, near Bris
tol, Tenn, his son William, aged Is
years, was playing with stick of dy
Mantle when it exploded, killing the
boy, Mrs. Nathaniel Barnes and Mrs
Elijah Moody and her child.
The governor of Kentucky ordered
troops to Hopkinsville to protect the
town from night riders.
Harry c. Pulliam was reelected
president of the National league for
the sixth time. Secretary-Treasurer
John Heydler was unanimously re-
elected, as was the board of directors.
John G. Jenkins and his three sons,
John G., Jr., Frank and Fred, all bank
ers of Brooklyn, were indicted jointly
for criminal conspiracy in having IL
legally obtained loans aggregating
10000 from trust companies OF
which they were officers.
Lee Pemberton, of Clay, KY, shot
and fatally wounded his son Chauncey.
aged II.
Gov. Harris of Ohio committed to
life Imprisonment the sentence of
death imposed upon John Soloy, OF
Cleveland.
For love of his neighbor's wife, who
had first accepted his advances, but
later decided she loved her home and
her babies more, d. Fl. Breese,
wealthy farmer of Jefferson, Ia, sent
bullet through his brain.
United States Senator Stephen r.
Mallory is seriously i'll at his home in
Pensacola. Fla.
When the Democratic national com.
mittee met to select place for the ma
tional convention practically the only
candidates were Louisville, Denver
and Chicago, with the chances in favor
of Louisville.
The last vacant berth in the impos
ing double line of Pacific-bound battle
ships was filled when the heavily ar
mored Minnesota, the flagship of Rear
Admiral Thomas, steamed into Hamp
ton Roads and took her place at the
head of the outward column.
Five most valuable pictures, the
works of Fragonard, Boucher and Van
loo, have been stolen from the Musee
de Picardie, at Amiens, France to
gether with collection of coins and
art objects valued at about $4,000
T. Otway Sadleir, manager of the
West End branch of the California
Safe Deposit and Trust company, OF
San Francisco, committed suicide by
blowing off the top of his head witt
sawed-off shotgun.
Reports of race war in Pickens
county, Alabama, in which many ne
groes were said to have been killed
were fatty denied by newspaper men
of that county.
John Busha. aged ia years, who
served in the Blackhawk war, died in
Council Bluffs, la.
Justice Burr, of the supreme court
of Kings county, decided that the
New York police have no right to take
photographs and measurements of {
man under arrest but not convicted.
In the midst of his speech at the
annual dinner of the Minnesota So
ciety of New York, Frank Kellogg, OF
st. Paul, Mimi, who is the prosecutor
in the case of the United States
against the Standard Oil company for
a dissolution of the corporation, sud.
denly collapsed from fatigue due tc
overwork.
James Henry Stoddart, the veteran
actor, died at his home in Sewaren, N.
J. Mr.. Stoddart was born in England
in 1927. -
Disastrous panics in the Studebaker
theater and Fine Arts Music hall in
Chicago were narrowly averted when
fire in the Chicago Musical college
building, adjoining filled the corridors
of the Studebaker building with dense
smoke.
Charging that George A. Pettibone, I
the defendant at bar, is the most
guilty of all those charged with caus
ing the death of ex-Gov. Frank Steun-
enberg James H HaWley outlined