Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-18


Vespasian Warner of Illinois, commits
sioner of pensions, will succeed him.
Many of Gloucester (Mass) famous
fish wharves, storehouses and ships
were seriously threatened with des
truction by fire which broke out in
the plant of the Gloucester Cold Stor,
age company.
trying to escape from his burning
home grasped live wire and was
killed instantly.
David H. Green of Newark, N. j.,
was elected president of the Theatri.
cal Mechanics association of the
United States and Canada.
Fourteen Japanese laborers who,
under the labor laws, are not permit
ted to land in this country, evaded
the authorities in Philadelphia and
are at large somewhere in the United
States.
A vigorous protest has been re-
ceived by the government from the
Japanese and Korean Expulsion
league, the headquarters of which are
at Seattle, Wash, against what is as
serted to be an organized traffic in
Japanese women, who, it is alleged,
are being brought to this country in
large numbers for immoral purposes.
Thirty-three contestants for the ma
tional amateur golf championship at
Cleveland, o., finished their qualifying
rounds with scores of 165 or better.
Eleven eastern players, 10 western
ers and two Canadians qualified for
the championship. W. j. Travis won
| the gold medal for low qualifying
| score, LAG.
Three men are known to have been
killed, one was fatally hurt and IS
others were injured in the collapse of
a new concrete building at the plant
of Bridgman Bros. company in Phila-
delphia.
Attorney General Bonaparte started
| proceedings in New York to dissolve
the tobacco trust.
Admiral Baron Yamamoto, a distin-
! guished Japanese naval officer, ar
rived in New York. He said the talk
of war between America and Japan
was foolish
An indictment charging the Atchi-
! son, Topeka & Santa Fee railroad with
| granting rebates amounting to $12 900
| to the United States Sugar and Land
company was returned in Judge Ian
dis court, at Chicago, by the federal
! grand jury.
| +. c. Fox, banker of Middleport,
| o., was indicted and arrested on a
charge of trying the bride prosecut-
! ing attorney.
The balloon house of the Wellman-
Record-Herald Arctic expedition was
damaged by storm July and al
though the. airship was uninjured the
! accident probably will delay the de-
parture of the expedition until early
in August.
jeremiah Kahanagh, a retired ice
dealer of Wenham, Mass, "A years
old, was instantly killed by an automo-
bile owned and operated by w. Y.
Smith, of Detroit, Mich.
A 20-ton fywheel in the plant of
the American Car company at Joliet,
| H., burst and Charles H. Bowers, an
oiler was killed.
Gilbert Kenyon, who is said to have
| saved the union army from defeat at
the battle of Shiloh, was killed by a
railway train at Oconomowoc, Wis.
E. c. Cooley, superintendent of the
Chicago city schools, was elected pres
ident of the National Educational as
ISOLATION by unanimous vote.
Misses May and Nell Dwight, of
| Toledo. o., were drowed at James
Lake, Ind.
Herbert W. Tyler, secretary of the
Sheridan, Wyo., chamber of commerce,
| committed suicide by blowing off the
top of his head with a shotgun. FL
nancial difficulties are given as the
| cause.
Former Congressman John H. Bank
| head was nominated for United States
| senator to fill the unexpired term of
| Senator Morgan, by the Democratic
caucus of the Alabama legislature.
The Chinese authorities are on the
| lookout for a vessel which is said to
have left the north Pacific coast of
the United States with arms for the
Chinese revolutionists.
Hiram S. Jones, colored, former
steward of the Capitol club when
Grant was president, is dead at Red
Bark, N. Y. He invented" the Sara
toga chip.
! Fire caused a damage of $4,000 to
the factory of the Decatur Oll) Coffin
company fand destroyed five nearby
dwellings.
According to Engineer Dobson, of
the steamer st. Louis, the titled Eng
lishman who gave up his rights as
heir presumptive to a coronet and an
income of 100000 year to work for
living is Lord Francis Patrick Glenn
ents, the 22-year-old son of the earl of
Leitrim.
In the list of American Rhodes
scholarships given out at the Uni
versity of California appear the
names, among others, of Ben l.. Tom
linson, of Champaign, ILL.,; Albert X.
! Whallen, of Des Moines, Ia, and Law
renee C. HUT, Jr., of Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Judge Dunno, of San Francisco, re-
fused to admit Mayor Schmitz to bail,
and denied him the privilege of visit
ing his attorneys.
Judge Kenesaw M. Lands an
nounced at Chicago that he would
give his decision regarding the pun
ishment of the Standard Oil company
on Saturday August g. This decision
will cover the assessment of fines
for 1,462 violations of the interstate
commerce act, aggregating in their
maximum $29,240,000.