Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06

we're killed and two other passengers
gere perhaps fatally injured.
A general strike of sailors and 9TH
srs belonging to the French naval re-
,erve begun at almost all the ports of
i france threatens the complete paraly-
SIS of French commerce.
At meeting of the executive COM
nittee of the Bondholders' Protective
association of the United States indie
pendent Telephone company, resolu-
ion was passed favoring the sale OF
he properties to the syndicate which
recently offered $6.000,000 for them.
President Roosevelt, in his Indian
apolis speech, clinched his policy to-
ward railroads, saying stock jobbers
must be punished, overcapitalization
checked and publicity enforced, while
at the same time honest operators
must be encouraged.
William j. Bryan in a speech at
the jamestown exposition in observ-
ance of Patrick Henry day, said the eff
feet of the rate bill was to enable the
railroads to keep the money formerly
paid out as rebates.
Secretary Taft in an address at St
Louis praised the nations altruistic at
titude toward Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines, and declared the sac
rifice being made for them is worth
while.
Senator Foraker, in Memorial day
address at Steubenville, o., declared
the people may safely be trusted to
name their own officials and entered
protest against one-man power In
the nation.
Declaration day was generally OBJ
served in northern cities, the serv-
ices including the decoration of the
graves of the dead, while in many
places the observances were of more
elaborate character.
Finding the constant care of her lit
tie crippled sister too great, Cora
Leaderbrush killed the child and her.
self near Springfield. ILL.,, the discovery
of their bodies leading first to re-
ports of double murder.
John r. Walsh's Chicago newspa-
per, the Chronicle, has quit publica-
| ton.
Relief from the existing tariff was
| he keynote of an address by Judson
Harmon before a Cincinnati club
| President Finley in speech to mill
ers' convention said unjust rates will
react on public by causing inferior
service.
National Committeeman Frank o..
Lowden declares uncle Joe" Cannon
Is making gains in the race for the
Republican presidential nomination.
! The great destructiveness of rats is
pointed out in a statement issued by
the department of agriculture.
In complaint to the state depart
ment an American sailor asserts that
he was asked to aid in scuttling a
steamship by the captain of the ves-
sci.
Chinese rebels have issued procla-
nation declaring their intention to
kill all officials and overthrow the
government.
The Spanish government submitted
70 parliament plan for the distribu-
ton of uncultivated lands.
Japanese newspaper urges the gov
eminent to demand of the United
States that San Francisco officials be
made to protect Japs in treaty rights
In welcoming visiting British jour
nalists to Germany Herr Buehlberg,
Indersecretary of state, asserted that
his country is for peace, seeking only
free and fair competition in the
worlds markets.
San Francisco Japanese issued a
statement blaming race prejudice for
recent assaults and demanding pro-
lection.
Comptroller Ridgley in an address
told Detroit, bankers that under the
Aldrich law the treasury is able to
keep volume of money in circulation
up to maximum by placing govern
ment funds with banks.
In speech at dinner signaling
his retirement from the federal bench
of New York Judge William Wallace
judicial life terms is blow at exist
ing government.
Sentence of Abraham Ruef on a
plea of guilty of extortion was post
poned for two weeks by request of
the prosecutor.
Mrs. Howard Gould demands $780,
900 alimony, which sum the husband
refuses to consider.
1t is reported that the Standard Oil
company is about to grasp control of
the turpentine market of the world.
Government Chemist Wiley declared
any man could live to be 100 years
old
Peoria fugitive deposited three
900 bills in Davenport bank and
was arrested as suspect in Chicago
subtreasury robbery.
A frightened horse endangered the
lives of Queen Maud, of Norway,
Nine. Fallieres and Gen. Michel latter
saving ladies from going into lake
with landau.
Packers agent at New York was
arrested because chickens are sys-
tematically sold at short weights to
butchers.
Bertha Beilstein, matricide, who
escaped from an insane asylum, sailed
from New York, leaving statement as
to how she got away from institution.
Attorneys for plaintiffs in actions
for personal damages and loss of life
in the Iroquois theater fire ask the
United States circuit court In New
York to postpone the trials until the
October term of court. Defendants
will ask that the cases be dismissed
II plaintiffs are not ready at calling
In June.
Miss Achha Clark, native Of Bal