Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-04

golf championship at Hinsdale, Ill.
with total of 307 strokes for the Z:
holes.
A federal jury at Fort Dodge, Ia.
decided that grain deals on the Chi
cage board of trade were gambling.
! Augustana college. Illinois, is of
fered 900 for an endowment fund
by Andrew Carnegie on condition that
$4,000 additional be raised
Fire at Baraga, Mich, destroyed the
i big sawmill of the hester Estate com
pany. causing loss of $4,000 and
throwing 300 men out of work.
Fire in Birmingham, Ala, destroyed
the Chalifoux Office building, with a
loss of 100000
Russia is massing troops on the Ar
menian frontier, fearing new Turkish
massacres.
DIR. Gilmore F. Elliott escaped pun.
lshment for an assault in New York
by making the novel plea Of "pyschic
epilepsy" which is epilepsy without
external manifestations.
c. C.. Clark, checker champion of
Ohio, and known all over the country
as checker player, was stricken with
paralysis at Columbus.
Judge ]. E. Fulton, who shot and
killed Sam Parker, a widely known
football player, was sentenced in
Huntsville, Tenn, to ten years i'm
prisonment.
Monk Gibson, a negro boy, was con-
victed by jury of completely in the
! murder of Mrs A. ]. Conditt and four
children near Edna, Tex, and the
death penalty was ordered.
Subpoenas were issued by Judge
Lands of the federal court in Chi
cago for the appearance of John ID.
Rockefeller, William D. Rockefeller,
! II. III. Rogers, and ten other officials
of the Standard Oil company to APP
pear in his court on July 6.
Yale defeated Harvard by boat
| length in the best race ever rowed at
New London. E. H. Hartman, the
railroad magnate, deliberately trans
| crossed the rules of the course and
was arrested by Lieut.. Bulmer, Presi-
dent Roosevelt's naval aide.
Five hundred Chinese persisted in
the burning of native theater in
Hongkong.
Gov Pindall of Arkansas pardoned
F. o. Butt, formerly state senator,
convicted of the bribery of Senator
X. r. Adams of Grant county and
! sentenced to the state prison for two
| years.
| Walter Swinburne Hancock, former
ly an Episcopalian clergyman of a
! fashionable church in Chicago, whom
his bishop inhibited on account of
scandals with women, is under police
surveillance in London, being suspect
ed of having poisoned his wife.
| Fire destroyed the entire saloon Sec
ton of Morenci, Ariz. The loss aggre-
gates 100000.
| Twenty-seven letter carriers of
Butte, Mont, walked out as a demon
stration for higher pay, but in three
hours all but nine returned voIuntar-
| lily.
| The taking OF evidence in the muir
! der trial of Judge Loving at Houston,
Va, ended after the court ruled that
the prosecution could not attack the
truthfulness of the story told by Miss
Loving to her father.
The social revolutionists OF Russia
have revived the terrorist organiza-
ton and are contemplating attempts
on the emperor and Premier Stolypin
and big. robbery in st. Petersburg.
The Lloyd Baxter company of
Parkersburg. w. Va, and Montpelier,
o., large music concern, petitioned
for receiver.
Several hundred natives of the
! Caroline islands persisted in a hurri-
cane
Mrs. Elizabeth Agassiz, widow of
Louis Agassiz, the famous zoologist,
died at Arlington Heights, Mass.
Bills were filed by the Pittsburg &
Connellsville railroad, B. & o. cor
poration, in the Pennsylvania courts,
attacking the validity of the two-cent-
fare law.
Harry E. Kicker. formerly business
manager of the Metropolitan opera
house of st. Paul, Mimi, was found
guilty of having stolen over $4,000
from the funds of the theater.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Anglesey, England. Buildings were
rocked, but no damage was done.
Seismographs in Austria and England
recorded violent shocks at distances
of from $500 to 1900 miles
Irving T. Bush, president of the
Bush Terminal company, of New York,
has received a black hand" letter
demanding $4,000 on threat of death
| Tor him and his wife.
A legal battle for the 100000 es-
tate of the late Cornelia A. Miller was
begun in Joliet. ILL., Charles Fish, the
fsvorite nephew. is charged by his
brothers with gaining the proper
| ~ by Illegal means.
| Harry Vaughan, Edward Raymond
and G >rge Ryan were hanged at
Jefferson City, Mo-, for the killing of
Prison Guard John Clay during an at
tempt to escape from the penitentiary.
Three persons were killed by light
ming during an electrical storm that
swept over New York city.
Elizabeth Loving testified at the
trial of her father at Houston, Va,
for numbering Theodore Estes, telling
the jury the same story she told her
father, of how Estes had drugged and
assaulted her.
Andrew Feine, of Milwaukee, killed
his sweetheart, Elsie Volkmann, her
father and himself as result of a
lovers quarrel.
Reports from China say the rebels
there are advancing upon Canton. and
refugees from the surrounding coun-