Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07
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 Al, Parts Of
the GIobe-Latest Home and For
eign Items.

SonPictS REVIEW OI happenings OF
Greatest interest from Al, Parts Of
the Giobe-latest Home and For
cign items.
Financial conditions in New York and
the east generally were nearly normal
again. The need of currency to move
the cotton crop developed in the south
and a committee from New Orleans
conferred with Secretary Cortelyou.
The California Safe Deposit & Trust
company's bank in San Francisco
closed but was believed to be solvent.
Bankers in the state of Washington
ignored the holiday proclaimed by the
governor.
Indications that the available sup
ply of cash would be materially in
creased within a short time, both by
imports of gold and the increase or
the bank note circulation, and that
the movement of cotton and grain
crops would be facilitated In every
way possible with the result OF in
creasing our credits abroad, were the
salient features of the financial situa-
ton.
The executive committee of the
Amalgamated Society of Railway
Servants of Great Britain voted to call
a general strike and it was thought
the trouble was unavoidable, despite
the efforts of the president of the
board of trade and others to effect a
settlement.
| nun ar,aif in fr1rp nxnln6nH in the
Union depot at Pittsburg. Pa, and
two men were seriously injured.
Police headquarters at Buffalo, N.
~. was destroyed by an incendiary
fire, all the records were burned and
eight firemen were badly injured.
A life convict at Rawlins, Wyo.,
killed keeper, tried to effect his es-
cape with dynamite and failing, killed
himself.
The G. B. Rickmans Wine company
cellars at Brocton, N. Y, the largest
and oldest plant in the Chautauqua
grape belt, were destroyed by fire.
After travelling around attired in
mans clothes for six weeks, a girl,
giving her name as Rosa Moore, of
Newark, O., was arrested at Kanka-
kee, Ill.
Ten male inmates and one woman
nurse were attacked by diphtheria at
the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the
Insane at Kankakee.
Cows. Glenn, of North Carolina;
Cooper, of Alabama, and Smith, OF
Georgia, reached complete agree
ment on the question of railroad rates
within their states.
Deeds were filed with the secretary
IF state of Minnesota conveying to
the Great Northern Railroad company
all the subsidiary lines of that system
in Minnesota.
Huntington Smith, a wealthy resi-
dent of st. Louis, died in his summer
home in Castleton, VT, following a
stroke of apoplexy.
Papers in a suit for 100000 in sal
airy and commissions were served up
on Mrs. l.. 2. Letter, of Chicago, as
\ steamer in New York. The suit is
brought by Hugh Crabbe, of Chicago,
who declared he was Mrs. Letters
confidential agent.
Cotton growers in all parts of Okla
homa and Indian Territory held secret
meetings and decided to hold the
1907 pick until cotton prices have ad-
vanced to a certain point.
Ernest Saunders, aged 81 years, was
found guilty at Pana, ILL.,, of the muir
der of John Lundak and his sentence
fixed at 25 years in the penitentiary.
The Illinois senate passed the Ogles.
by direct plurality primary bill as
mutilated by it's amendments.
Pope Plus was reported to be con
fined to his bed with heart trouble
: Lieut.. Gov. Sanders, of Louisiana
! refused to fight duel with Donelson
Caffery, son Of the former United
States senator.
/ Wages Of Grand Fork (B. c.
) miners and smelter employees were
. fcut by the CRANKY Smelter company
SO cents a day. A strike may follow.
Mystery surrounds the death Of
, Princess Shun, sister of the dowagei
empress of China. Women connected
' with the foreign legations are stirred
/ up over the princess DEATH
. A verdict of $500 against Joseph
: Ramsey, Jr, former president Of the
, | Wabash railroad, in suit brought by
E John S. Jones, financier and Goa
land operator, was handed down in the
supreme court of New York.
q Angered over the summary dis
I charge Of Miss Helen Z. M. Roberts
/ of Chicago. the popular assistant prin
! cipal. SO students of the Pewaukee
(Wis.) high school went on strike
leaving the school in body. They
: refused to return unless the teacher
, was reinstated.
Col. Leverett Hull Walker. u S. A.,
IN command of the defenses of Boston
: harbor, died at Fort Banks, Win.
ihrop.
DR.. George B. Gordon, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, reports the
! discovery OF hitherto unknown tribe
! of aborigines IN Alaska
n An explosion of natural gas wrecked
e the home of Mrs. William Eldridge, In
s Kansas City, Kan, and perhaps fatal
r ly injured the woman and her ten.
4 year-old daughter.
/, s, j. Small, deposed president of the
q telegraphers, issued statement call
ing off" the strike.
Ten thousand United Mine Workers
;. were idle in the Northumberland, Mon,
: tour and Columbia county districts
q enc day in honor of President John
Mitchell
John c. Kruse, of Iron Mountain
Mich, was mistaken for a bear and
shot dead by George Gibbons.
A committee was organized in Mad.