Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-03
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Ins-rest from All Parts Of
the Globe-Latest Homo and For
eign Items.

tnc Siopc-LdteSt f1Omc dno For'
elsn Items.
The federal grand jury at San Fran
cisco returned indictments against
the Southern Pacific Railway com.
pany and the P.cific Mail Steamship
company for secret cutting OF rates.
The armored cruisers West Vir.
ginia, Colorado, Maryland and Penn
sylvania arrived at San Francisco
from the Philippines.
Two army surgeons were named to
physically examine every officer re-
quired to make the 15-mile test ride.
Those not healthy enough will not
AXE the test.
Secretary of State Root, on his way
to Mexico, declared that President
Roosevelt would not be candidate
for denomination.
The steamer Minnesota, with Secre-
tary of War Taft on board, arrived at
Yokohama.
Rev. Wilbert P. Ferguson Of Lin.
coin. Neb., resigned from the state
Methodist conference rather than pro.
coed with the church trial in which
he was being tried for unbecoming
conduct with Mrs. E. A. Cross.
The directors of the Toledo. st.
Louis & Western railway at meet,
ing in New York voted to sign con.
tract for the purchase Of the Chicago
& Alton railway from the Rock Island
interests.
Methodists of Indiana refused to
elect Vice President Fairbanks lay
delegate to the general conference be-
cause he served cocktails at a dinner
In honor of President Roosevelt.
Mrs. Marguerite Bower, the leading
lady in the Broadway After Dark
company, playing at Washington
theater, was found dead In bed at a
hotel.
President Roosevelt defeated the
Bishop of London at tennis and then
gave dinner in his honor.
Richard Walton, colored, confessed
to the murder of Mrs. Lillian White
Grant in Chicago.
Six hundred lives were lost by the
overlooking Cf the river Otonashiga-
wa in Japan.
Hundreds of houses and boats were
destroyed by fire in Wuchow. China.
and 1t is feared many lives were lost
Theodore F. Rice, a resident Of Chi.
cago for over 40 years and well.
known in the wholesale paper trade,
died after months illness.
Eight persons were injured in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad
at Duncannon, Pa, when the Altoona
accommodation train ran into q
freight.
Henry T. Scott, builder of the Ore
gon, said in a New York interview
that in future warships could not be
b.lilt on the Pacific coast owing to the
nigh prices of labor and material.
Three men--James Cooper, James
Reilly and Richard Smith--who were
loading a sprinkling cart with oil for
use on the Morris park automobile
track at New York, we're killed by an
explosion of oil at tank In the
Bronx.
Children playing with matches In q
hay shed on the Trafford farm, near
New Haven, Ill.,, started a fire that re-
suited In the loss of four lives
Two hundred railway clerks In To
ledo, o., representing six roads
struck, demanding working agree
ment with the roads. More than thai
many remained at their desks.
President Roosevelt announced al
the White House that he assumed
there would be no objection to the
appointment Of WI Ting-fang as min
lister from China to the United States
The handsome home of Francis G.
Landon, ex-secretary of the American
embassy at Vienna, was robbed BY
two men at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
High officials of the Persian army
have signed a document presented II
the shah saying that unless full &C
ceptance is given to their demands
for a constitutional government they
will resign in a body.
The union labor city and county
convention of San Francisco nominal
ed a ticket headed by P. H. McCar
thy, president of the Building Trades
council, for mayor.
The bishop of London preached II
Trinity church, New York, to a great
throng Of financiers and business men
and scored the dishonesty Of the
wealthy.
Gov Folk of Missouri. was the CUES
! of honor at Nashville, Tenn, on home
comer's day.
Trinity Episcopal cathedral a
Cleveland, o.. was dedicated will
elaborate ceremonies. The edifice cos
81 ,000. 900 and has been under con
struction i've years.
Gov. Folk lost his suit against tn,
city of st. Louis for back pay as cir
cult attorney.
George w. Beavers, who was sen
fenced to Imprisonment in connec
ton with the postal frauds severa
years ago, was released from the pen!
Tertiary at Moundsville. w. Va
William E. Burch, of Glendale. o
federal prisoner en- route to Cir
cinnati. plunged from fast flynn
train near Dayton and was killed.
| Mrs. John Routh, aged 40. dea
mute. was burned to death at Kokc
mo, Ind, when she tried to start FIR
with kerosene.
In fire at 3425 Morgan street. s.
Louis. Miss Grace Slocum attempte
to lower her sister Nellie from a SEQ
end story window with blanket, bu
Nellie lost her grip and fell headlon
to the pavement. fracturing her skull
Grace jumped from the window an
fractured both ankles.
The postoffice at Mindoro. Wis. wa
blown open by gang of burglars an
the safe demolished with dynamite
The rohherS got n large uuantity c