Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS.
! AT a meeting held in Oakland the
| telegraphers' union voted unanimously
to accept the terms of settlement pro-
posed by the Western Union and Pos
tai Telegraph companies. The teleg-
| raphers will return to work and then
both telegraph companies will receive
committee of arbitration to discuss
and settle matters affecting the teleg-
raphers.
After the emperor of Korea had alb
Dictated company of Korean troops
mutinied, escaped from the barracks
and fought with the Japanese. Many
were killed and wounded on both
sides before the revolt was quelled.
William January, alias Charles W.
Anderson, for whose pardon a petition
containing the signatures of $4,000
persons was presented to President
Roosevelt, was released from the fed.
eral prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
The Southern Railway company was
fined $4,000, and Thomas ]. Green,
ticket agent of the company, fined five
dollars in the state court at Raleigh,
/ n. c., for selling railroad tickets at a
rate in excess of that provided by the
recent state law for a uniform rate
of two and one-fourth cents mile in
North Carolina
Thomas B. Mcpherson, of Omaha,
was elected president of the National
Livestock Exchange association to
succeed James c. Swift, of Kansas
City, Mo.
| Adolph Ruegger, former treasurer of
Madison county. Ill, committed sui
eide owing to the intense heat, which
prevented him from sleeping.
In the United States district court
at Cheyenne, Wyo., E. M. Holbrook a
millionaire. E. e. Lonabaugh, promi-
nent attorney, and Robert McPhil-
| lamey, a we'll known business man Of
| Sheridan, were found guilty of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States
government of coal lands in Sheridan
county.
Said Kali Hack, the Syrian drago-
man, who announced that he was go
ing to marry Miss Elsie Ellwood, of
De Kalb, H., gave up his plan because
of the opposition of Miss Ellwood's
family.
1t was announced by President Mel
len, of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad company that John
+. Stevens, former chief engineer of
the Panama canal, had been appoint
ed vice president of the road.
Midshipman James F. Cruise, of the
battleship Georgia, died at the naval
hospital in Chelsea. He is the tenth
man to die, as a result of the powder
explosion in the after turret of the
Georgia.
Great damage to property in st.
Joseph, Mo-, and vicinity was done by
a tornado and a terrific rainstorm.
Many houses were wrecked, cellars
flooded and street railway tracks
washed away.
Capt August Azzali, leader of the
Mexican band, which organization &C
companied the Ell Paso, Tex, lodge of
Elks to Philadelphia, was drowned
while bathing at Atlantic City, N. j.
Roy l.. Reece was elected mayor OF
Springfield, ILL.,, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mayor Griffiths
1t is believed that war is about to
break out again in Central America
Salvador and Guatemala being about
ready to attack President Zelaya, OF
Nicaragua.
All records for immigration were
broken in the fiscal year ending June
80, the total number of aliens who
landed in America being 1,285,349.
Theatrical combines of United
States, London, Paris, Berlin and
Vienna are to unite in syndicate
representing capital of 100000, 900
The Elks selected Dallas, Tex, as
the next convention city and elected
John X. Tener, of Charleroi, Pa.
grand exalted ruler of the order.
The Black Hand society blew up a
grocery store in East Harlem, N. Y.
amid crowd of 10000 Italians cele
brating festival
The war department has ordered
the fifth field artillery, now at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. to the Philippines
Herman Bartels, the millionaire
brewer, who escaped from a sheriff a
Toronto, Ont, as he was about to BIZ
taken back to Auburn, N. Y, has beer
recaptured.
Fritz Ulrici, Rochester IN. "
) salesman, was killed when Burling
ton train was run into by Grea
Western one near Bethel, Kan.
Two robbers held up freight trair
on the st. Louis & San Francisco line
and killed o. ]. Brown, harvest hand
who was stealing a ride.