Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-04-11
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
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ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the GIobe--Latest Home and For
eign Items.

eign Items.
District Attorney Jerome, on legal
advice, decided not to prevent the re.
sumption Of the Thaw trial Monday.
1t was believed verdict could be
reached on Thursday
Fifteen or more lives were lost and
vast amount of property destroyed
by tornado that swept across Lou.
isiana. Mississippi and part of Ala.
bama.
United States Senator Penrose OF
Pennsylvania denied that he had
told the president of the alleged
"rich mems cabal' to defeat the aims
Of Mr.. Roosevelt, and said he never
had heard of 1t.
Rioting by strikers at the American
Shipbuilding companys yards in
Lorain, o., practically ceased owing to
the presence Of troops under arms
Canada has an option on Michael
Pablow's herd of about 500 bison,
now in Montana. The herd comprises
about one-half the surviving bison.
The jury in the case of Edward
Collier, at Kenosha, Wis, charged
with manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree for the running down and killing
of William Dryer while driving an au-
tomobile, brought in verdict of
guilty.
Fire destroyed the Chinese portion
of Stevenson, B. c., at the mouth of
the Frazer river. Five hundred Chi
nese are homeless.
In a collision between two freight
men lost their lives.
Maj. Daniel ]. O'Brien, senior vice
commander of the New York state de.
partment, G.. A. r., died suddenly at
Albany of heart disease.
The Tiger Republican club of Kan
sas City, Mo-, appointed a committee
of prominent citizens to raise 100000
to bring the Republican national com.
vention of 1908 to that city.
The London Daily Mirror said the
car of Russia would abdicate soon
and military dictatorship would be
established under Grand Duke Mi.
chael.
Anthony Comstock made three raids
in New York in which he seized Is, 500
picture postal cards which he claims
are obscene.
Col Charles Morton, Seventh caval-
ny, now in the Philippines, has been
selected for promotion to the rank of
brigadier general upon the retire
ment April II of Gen. Markley.
The steamer City OF Troy was
burned to the waters edge at Dobbs
Ferry, N. Y. All the passengers, some
90 in number, were landed safely.
Mercos Flores, supposed to be in
sane, was arrested in New York for
writing letters to the United States
pension department threatening the
president.
Fifteen hundred brewery workers in
Plttsburg went on strike.
Andrew Carnegie made an endow-
ment of 100000 to the Carnegie In
stitute of Pittsburg.
Several persons were injured in the
wreck OF st. Louis G. San Francisco
fast mail train at Catoosa, /. Il.
The whipping post was revived at
Baltimore, a negro wife heater receiv
ing nine lashes.
Col. A. S. Hutson, assistant adjutant
general of West Virginia, was indict.
ed for embezzling state funds.
The president has decided to an.
point George Otis Smith of Maine tc
be director of the geological survey to
succeed Charles c. Walcott, who has
been appointed at the head of the
Smithsonian institution.
The Chicago Cairo express on the
Illinois Central was in collision with
coal train near Duquoin, Ill. The
fireman of the passenger train was
killed and the engineer slightly hurt.
Numa Pompilio Liona. Ecuador's poet
laureate, died in Guayaquil. He was
70 years old and noted educator.
France and England are disturbed
over the Cuban situation, according
to dispatches received at Havana, and
may bring pressure to bear on the
United States to insure the protection
OF property when the American troops
are withdrawn.
William III. Huffman, a veteran of
the civil war. ran amuck at the Sol
diers' home, Dayton, o., and stabbed
five veterans while they were asleep.
The island of st. Michaeps, in the
Azores, was violently shaken by
earthquakes.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder
of Christian Science, through her
| counsel, put her entire estate in the
hands of three trustees, to foil the
| relatives who began suit.
William RI. Proctor, the soap manu-.
facturer who committed suicide in
Cincinnati. left his entire estate of
$10,O0O,000 to his five children.
Only four persons were killed by
the earthquake at Bitlis. Armenia,
but the survivors are suffering
| greatly.
| A plot against the life of King
| Charles of Roumania was discovered
| in Bucharest
| The long drouth which has caused
so much loss to wheat and corn crops
of Spain was broken by a torrential
rain which fell throughout the coun-
| try.
The Shamokin (Pa.) wagon works.
an adjoining planning mill and seven
small dwellings were destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at SIS, 900.
Mrs. Joseph Jack. of Trenton, N. j..
is blind, with little prospect Of re-
gaining her sight, as the result Of a
violent attack of sneezing.
A. b. Jacquith. a grain commission
man OF Omaha. Neb.. killed himself.
\ Thrilling cxperiences In storm at