Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-26
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 Interest from All Parts OF
the GIobe-Latest Home and For.
eign Items.

/ Standard Oil company it was disclosed
that John ID. Rockefeller owned 247,-
692 shares of it's stock, or nearly five
times as much as any other individ-
ual stakeholder. The methods by
which the trust coerced the independ-
ent refineries were related.
Judge Loehren at st. Paul tenn
porarily enjoined enforcement OF the
new commodity rates and called the
recent rate legislation in Minnesota
vicious and disgraceful.
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, Chicago
kindergarten principal, was strangled
to death in her room by robber.
Eleven men were killed and seven
| fatally injured by the falling of cage
$50 feet down mine shaft at Negau-
nee, Mich.
Five members of the Parkamite sect
at Zion City, ILL.,, were arrested for
! torturing to death an aged woman in
an effort to drive out the devil with
which they believed her possessed.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois appointed
DIR, Cyrus II. Anderson, of McLeans-
boro, superintendent of the asylum
for insane criminals at Chester in
place of DIR. Walter E. Singer, who
died
The Wisconsin railway commission
ordered the La Crosse Gas & Electric
company to raise it's rates for elec-
trio lighting.
Frederick Mcleod, of the Midlothian
club of Chicago, won the annual tour
nament of the Western Professional
Golfers association on the Normandie
clubs links at st. Louis. His total
Tor the 70 holes was 305 strokes.
Advices from Picking intimated that
WI Ting Fang will be sent back as
: minister to Washington.
The South Dakota board of railroad
commissioners adopted a resolution
reducing fares in South Dakota from
three to two and one-half cents a
mile, to become effective October Is.
John Hustis, pioneer of Wiscon-
sin. and one of the leading spirits in
the development of the state, died at
Hustis Ford, In the ninety-seventh
year of his age.
The will of Robert A. Pinkerton, the
detective, left an estate of 100000
to his widow and children.
An angry mob of citizens of Whit
Ing. Ind, prevented the granting of
50-year franchise to street car com
pany by driving the aldermen from
the council chamber.
Capt. James Il. Lindsay and Capt
Z Of
teenth infantry, have been arrested by
their colonel for indulging in a fist
! fight while on board an army trans
port en- route to San Francisco from
the Philippines.
The American government has in
vestigated the ill-treatment of Hindoos
at Bellingham and Everett, Wash, in
response TO a note from the British
government, and the local authorities
insist that they are entirely capable
of dealing with the situation.
The new law providing an eight.
hour day for telegraphers has been
declared unconstitutional by the cir
cult court of Cass county, Missouri
The court ruled that the law is class
legislation.
Nine. Emma Calve, who arrived in
New York on the Pannonia, devoted
large share of her time during the
voyage from Gibraltar to making rag
dolls and hats for children in the
steerage.
Col. William Goddard, chancellor OF
Brown university, and one of the best
known residents of Rhode Island, dice
at Providence
Joseph Labriola, said to be the las,
murderer to be put to death in New
Jersey by use of the moose, was hang
ed at Cape May, N. j.. for the killing
of John Buiglio, his brother-in.law.
The First National bank of Gary
Ind, organized year ago by Elkhart
men and established at Gary last
March, has been sold to steel men at
handsome profit.
DR.. H. L. Getz, former president of
the International Association of Rail.
way Surgeons and city physician of
MarShalltown, Ia, attempted suicide
at the railway station at West Liberty
by stabbing himself over the heart. He
is believed to be insane.
Pratas island, near the Philippines,
because it is mo mans land" having
hitherto been unclaimed.
The marriage of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle and Miss Jean Leckie took place
} in London. Only relatives of the cou
pie attended
Nurse. bride and widow all within
few hours was the experience OF
J Mrs. Adler of New York. Her fiance
glove manufacturer, was stricken
with typhoid fever. She nursed him
IL hospital, at his request they were
J married as he lay dying and three
hours after he was dead
, Chlcago's new city charter, the re
suit of many months work by com
mittees and organizations. was defeat
ed in the special election. The vote
was two to one against it.
Director General Barr of the James
town exposition resigned because o.
disputes with President Tucker.
Four men were killed in an automo
: bile accident In Colorado Springs. Col
At Midal, Saskatchewan, Mrs. JohI
Anderson, farmers wife. killed hel
three sons. aged respectively Is
: month, six years and eight years. Sh,
] has religious mania and says tn,
D triple murder was blood sacrifice.
! Car repairers struck at Galveston
4 Tex. In sympathy with the Southern
j Pacific dock workers.
. While playing with revolver. Johi
b. Horton, six years old, accidental!
!, ehot and killed his fve-year.old friend
Robert l.. Donaldson in Washington