Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-24

In their nfteenth annual reunion.
The Illinois house and senate adopt
ed two joint resolutions, one providing
for submission to the people In the
general election next fall of proposal
for constitutional amendment to al
low S20,000,000 bond issue for funds
to proceed for the deep waterways
work, and the other providing for a
deep waterway commission to submit
a report on the subject in time to in
form the people so they may vote in
telligently on the proposed amend
ment.
Marguerite Magill testified at Deca.
tur in behalf of her father and STEP
mother, on trial for the death of Ma
gilps former wife. and her story
strongly supported the suicide theory.
1t was mistaken by cross-examination.
Secretary Of State Root returned
from his Mexican visit, pleased with
the trip and bearing many gifts.
The Heinze corner in United Cop.
per collapsed in New York and prices,
especially of copper stocks, declined
violently. The stock exchange firm of
Grous & Kleeberg suspended
Marx Bros, Paris, antiquaries, who
sold the statue of St. Catherine to the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art In New
York last May, while unable to ac-
count for the exact origin of the
statue, are quite certain that 1t Is not
product of the recent church rob-
berries in France.
The wooden steamer Case of the
Gilchrist feet was sunk in collision
with the Pittsburg Steamship CON-
pany's steel steamer Mariska opposite
Amherstburg, Ont, In the Lime Kilns
Crossing.
President Andrews of the University
of Nebraska in a speech at Washing
ton advocated hanging for muck
rakers who maliciously misrepresent
the acts of public or prominent men.
Five men were drowned and 20
others narrowly escaped like death
by the capsizing of small boat In the
Illinois and Michigan canal about ten
miles from Joliet.
Fire which started in the opera
house at Plant City, Fla, destroyed
20 business houses and residences.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Hospital physicians having declared
both Rev. Maxwell Walenta, pastor OF
st. Lucas German Evangelical Luth.
eran church of Williamsburg, and Mrs.
Dora Bauer. his affinity" insane, the
couple was discharged in police court
in New York
DR.. c. w. Hotchkiss was arrested
in his home in East Springfield, Pa,
on charge of arson. He is accused
of having burned his home and office
to secure the insurance of S2,50V. on
the contents.
George H. Kuhl, of Chicago, secre-
tary of the National Racing associa.
ton and one Of the best-known race
horse men in the United States, died
in Pueblo, Col, from intestinal tuber.
culosis.
The Cargill company's branch house
in Columbus, O., has closed 1t was
a racehorse investment concern which
paid from three to five per cent. per
week. The general Offices are in New
York.
The wholesale price of spirits was
advanced one cent a gallon at Gin
cinnati. o. The advance brings the
basis price of proof gallon of spirits
up to s1.35 per gallon. minus the reve.
nue. duty, the highest reached since
the civil war.
Simon Won Vetsera, scion of noble
Austrian family and a notorious foot
pad at the time of his incarceration
in San Quentin prison, California, was
released on the ground that his SEN
tence had been too severe. He had
served seven years.
According to advices received by
the steamer Empress of China at Vic
toria, B. c., the Japanese government
will organize a bureau of immigra-
ton and colonization.
At St. Gregory's hospital in New
York five stitches were taken in the
eyeball of Frank Post, an iron work
er, silk thread split four times being
used.
Five political prisoners were shot in
Hayu according to dispatch received
at the state department In Washing
ton.
The drubbing of Theodore Roose-
welt, Jr., in the Exeter Harvard foot
ball game was deliberately admins
tered. say the college boys, to test the
presidents sons nerve.
An attempt to extort $4,000 from
]. Grier, manager Of the Homestake
gold mine, under threat Of dynamiting
his home unless the money was placed
in a designated place was frustrated
at Lead, 8. D., by the arrest OF the al
legged blsckmailers.
That the uniform bill Of lading
which It is proposed to put into effect
on all the railroads of the country on
January l next by the interstate com.
merce commission Is not satisfactory
to the commercial interests and that
two separate bills of lading should be
adopted instead, was pointed out at
hearing of these interests before the
interstate commerce commission.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane announced that his inquiry in
San Francisco had disclosed the fact
that the Southern Pacific had been
paying rebates since the Hepburn rate
law went into effect.
w. w. Ward, mayor of Fairmount,
Mimi, disappeared and it was feared
he had met with foul play.
: Bion j. Arnold. for FIVE years ad-
wiser of the city of Chicago in trans
portation matters, was appointed con-
sulting engineer for the subway sys-
TENS in New York city by the public
service commission.
Five persons suspected Of being
the parties who dynamited the Joplin
(Mo.) News-Herald plant on the night