Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-27

In the senate from 1895 to 1901
A sheriff's jury in New York has de-
termined that James Bartlett Ham
mond, president of the Hammond
Typewriter company, is incompetent
to manage himself and his affairs and
will so report to the supreme court.
His estate Is valued by the jury at
100000.
Arnaud Massey, the French golf
champion, won the open championship
Of Great Britain at Hoylake. Alex
Ross, of the Brae Burn Golf club, won
the open championship of the United
States.
Four men lost their lives when the
steamer Crystal Stream was burned
near st. John, N. B.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army,
arrived in England from his tour of
the world.
Isidor Wormser, well known bank
er of New York, is dead, aged II
| years.
| Robert Pitcairn, former resident as
sistant to the president of the Penn
sylvania railroad and one of the old
est and best known railroad men in
| the country, was run down by bicy-
Gle rider while on his way home from
Carnegie institute, Pittsburg, and in
ternally injured.
Prof John Wright Decker, of the
agricultural college faculty Of Ohio
state university, Columbus, o., died
suddenly of pneumonia.
The Continental limited, Wabash
railway, left the track south of La
porte, Ind, injuring the engineer. fire.
man and woman passenger.
The Jewish World, of London, says
that the will of Daniel Osiris, the
Jewish banker and philanthropist, of
Paris, who died some time ago, leaves
100000 to the Pasteur institute
The estate is valued at $13,000,000.
Mrs. Daisy Gordon Maud Hanna
was granted a divorce from Dan R.
Hanna, son of the late Senator Hanna,
on her charge of cruelty and neglect
of duty.
John Sheets and Alexander Nc
Kenzie, convicts who sawed their way
out of the state prison at Jackson,
Mich, were recaptured within "a
hours after their escape.
Capt w. j. Downs, who laid out the
Miami and Erie canal and surveyed
the Pennsylvania on the Panhandle
route between Pittsburg and Chicago,
died at Black River Falls, Wis, aged
81.
Premier Clemenceau was subjected
to hot fire of questions In the
French chamber of deputies concern
ing the severe measures adopted to
quell the wine growers uprising. He
justified the use of the troops. In
Narbonne and other cities the rioters
engaged in bloody battles with the
soldiers and police.
Over 300 employees of the Pennsyl-
vania state hospital for the insane at
Norristown were taken suddenly i'll,
apparently suffering from ptomaine
poisoning 1t is thought that the i'll
ness was caused by eating stewed
chicken which was served for dinner.
/ Two of the regular stages from
Raymond, CAL, bound for Wawona,
were held up and 16 passengers re-
| lieved of their valuables by "Black
Kid" the famous lone bandit of that
section
The public land convention in Den
yer came to an end with the adoption
of a series of resolutions which were
not so radical as expected. A letter
from President Roosevelt was fea-
ture of the last days session.
The Newport News Shipbuilding
company of Newport News, Va, with
one bid at $3,9S7,O0O and the Fore
River Shipbuilding company of
| Quincy, Mass, with bid of $4,377 900
were the successful bidders for the
construction of two American Dread
noughts" or what are officially known
as battleships Nos. % and 20, each
to be of approximately 10000 tons
displacement
John ID. Rockefellers automobile, in
which Mr.. Rockefeller was being hur-
riedly driven to his country home,
was stopped by constable at Elms-
1
sequently fined $25 for exceeding the
speed limit Mr. Rockefeller paid the
! fine.
By an overwhelming majority the
citizens of Des Moines, Ia, adopted
what is known as the Des Moines plan
of government, by which the city will
be governed by commission of five.
Nealon, western horse, owned by
G. E. Durnell. ridden by Jockey W.
Dugan and quoted at 20 to l, won the
great suburban handicap at Sleeps
head Bay.
Thomas H. Huntington, Ami B.
Todd and Fred Hoyt were sentenced
| to Imprisonment and fined by Federal
Judge Munger in Omaha for conspir-
acy to defraud the government out of
| lands.
Western Union telegraph operators
were ordered to go on strike at San
Francisco and Oakland, Cal, for a 25
per cent. increase in wages. Presi-
| dent Small of the Commercial Tel
egraphers' union refused to abide by
the decision of the executive commit
tee in New York calling off the
strike.
After hot debate the Democratic
state convention in Oklahoma turned
down a proposition for making the
new state prohibition one.
John ID. Rockefeller has closed his
park at Tarrytown, N. Y. to the pub
lie because automobiles have disre-
garded signs and thus endangered the
safety of his family. .
Prof. Alexander Stewart Herschel,
the distinguished astronomer, died at
the observatory house, Sic ugh, Bucks,
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