Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
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son isity, Ia, has been notified tina.
he Ia heir to $4,000 as his share OF
the estate OF Gen. Butterfield of SYRIA
cuse. N. Y, his great-grandfather.
The grand Jury at San Francisco re.
turn~d 65 indictments against Abra.
ham Ruef charging the bribery OF
men bers of the board of supervisors
in connection with overhead trolley
and prize fight permits, S5-cent gas
dictments were returned against T.
v. Halsey for bribery in connection
with the telephone franchise.
A duel VITA swords. that went six
bouts, was fought at Paris between
Emmanuel Arene, senator from Cor
sica, and Adolphe Brisson, a journalist.
Both contestants were wounded in
the arm.
The armies of Honduras and Saliva
dor made an attack on the Nicara-
guans at Namasigue and both sides
claim victory.
In the Hermann land fraud trial A.
d. Pueter told how he paid money to
DR.. LOOMS and to Senator Mitchell
and arranged with Hermann for the
fraudulent issue of patents to IL
homesteads.
Several bridge builders and indi.
viduals were indicted at Freeport, H.,
for conspiracy to prevent competition
and for bribery.
Gov. Folk called an extra session of
the Missouri legislature to begin
April 8.
Alonzo l.. Hart, of Detroit, Mich,
was fined $4,000 for illegally manufac!
turing oleomargarine.
w. H. Martin, prominent citizen
of Detroit and director of the Mich.
igan Mutual Life Insurance company,
was drowned while surf bathing al
San Diego, Cal.
j. A. Wild, IS years old, promi.
nent lumberman of Hoffman, Mimi,
died on Missouri, Kansas & Texas
train just before reaching st. Louis.
A bill forbidding state officials from
using or soliciting free passes on the
railroads, passed both houses OF the
New Hampshire legislature.
Six men were killed by an explo-
sion in the Emporium powder mill
near Emporium, Pa.
Frank H. Jones, assistant cashier
of the Charlotte National bank of
Charlotte, N. c., is missing with $685.
900 of the banks funds
The coast line of the Southern Pa
cific railway was completely blocked
by a landslide that closed the long
Santa Margarita tunnel in the noun
tains north of San Luis Obispo.
John Blake, an employee Of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road company, met his wife Mary, in
South Boston, shot her and then COM
mitted suicide. The woman may live.
The lining Of furnace of the Wood.
ward Iron company at Woodward,
Ala, fell in and hundreds of tons Of
brick and mortar buried a number of
workmen. Five dead bodies were
taken from the debris.
A south-bound homeseekers' excur.
sion train on the Missouri, Kansas e
Texas railroad was derailed at Ladue,
Mo. A number of passengers receiv.
ed bruises, but none was seriously
hurt.
Edward Howell, colored, president
Of the Peoples bank of Harrisburg,
Miss, was shot in the back and killed.
BENJAMIN Parker. in the burning OF
whose boarding house at Mayfield.
KY, one man lost his life, was indict
ed for murder and arson.
John Harrison was convicted at
Elizabeth City, N. j., of kidnapping the
son of former State Senator Beasley.
The fish store of Joseph Tulsa in
Philadelphia was wrecked by a bomb
supposed to have been thrown by
BLACK Hand" agents.
Two colored women, accused of a
murderous attack on a white woman,
were killed by a mob near Stamps.
Ark.
A bomb was exploded in front OF
Judge Ogden's house in Oakland. Cal
The whole front of the house was de-
stroyed, but none of the inmates was
injured.
Mrs. Russell Sage gave $4,000 for
the erection of a new sailors home
in New York. ~.
The 81. X" ranch of 100000 acres
in the Texas panhandle was sold for
about $1,000,000 and will be cut into
farms.
An American mail bag whose con
tents were worth about 100000 was
stolen from the French line steamer
La Provence.
President Roosevelt conferred with
Charles S. Mellen, head Of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad,
on the railway situation.
Heavy rains in western Pennsyl
vania caused new floods in the Pitts.
burg district. Floods In Nevada and
California did great damage.
s. E. Howell, president of the Omaha
coal exchange, was sentenced to pay
fine of $1,000 and serve six months
in the county Jail for conspiracy in re.
straint of trade.
''Suffragettes" of London made an.
other raid on parliament and about 70
were arrested.
A turn of sinister and widespread
significance was given to the Central
American war by the finding, on the
persons of captured Nicaraguan SOL
diers, of proclamations promising them
the loot of the first cities which they
can capture in both Honduras and Sal
vador.
Thousands of Roumanian Jews, at
tackled and plundered by peasants, fed
into Austria. The town of Botosahni
was nearly destroyed by flames.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the author
died at his home in Boston.
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