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

IellOW cOunIryman.
Anton A. Higbee, a fisherman from
Colona, Mich, was pickea up on Chi
cage. after he had been four days
adrift in wrecked sloop.
James Hensly OF indianapolis shot
and killed Walter McClintock, farm
er, and his son Enoch near Mobiles
vile, Ind.
The bodies of Claude III. Perry,
soldier, and his wife were found in
their apartments in Brooklyn, and 1t
is believed the man killed his wife
and then himself, rather than endure
separation from her, which inn
pended, because of his threatened
transfer from Fort Hamilton, Brook
Ign, to another post.
The District of Columbia supreme
court finally fixed November IL as
the date for the trial of Mrs. Anna M.
Bradley, charged with the killing of
former United States Senator Arthur
M. Brown, of Utah.
District Attorney H. B. Means, Of
Arkansas. has entered suits against
the Southern Telephone & Telegraph
company and the Southwestern Tele-
graph & Telephone company, charging
violation of the antitrust laws and
asking that penalties aggregating
So. 000,0 900 be assessed.
Valentine Cotrel, woman of Rouen,
was sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for mutilating Jean Auguste
Jporas, pint,ra Upi,c VII In tho Gle.
tine Chapel" in the Louvre.
United States Senator William e.
Borah was acquitted of the charge of
conspiracy to defraud the government
out of valuable Idaho timber lands
The people of Boise celebrated the
verdict with band concerts, parades,
bell ringing and speech-making.
A tramp who was refused food by
Mrs. John Hathaway Of Oquawka, Ill,
beat the woman, tied her little son to
tree and burned him to death.
The forty-fifth triennial general con-
church in the United States opened
in Richmond, Va, with many foreign
church dignitaries present.
Secretary Of War Taft was granted
a private audience and entertained at
luncheon by the emperor of Japan and
then left Toxic for Kobe.
The Cunard Steamship company
accepted the offer of Charles Frohman
to give theatrical performances on the
big liners by regular players, who, for
the time being, may be travelling to
and from the United States and Eng
land
The police of Warsaw took into Gus
tody almost all the members, together
with 60 chiefs of different local
branches, of the society known as the
"Buddists of Holland"
The National Association of ANA
teur Billiard Players decided that the
amateur national billiard champion
ship tourney should be held in the
Chicago Athletic association next
March.
The annual statement of the Stand.
ard Oil company of New Jersey, made
public for the first time, shows the
concern has surplus of 1851, 900, 900.
Layton Hines (colored), arrested on
suspicion Of being connected with the
murder of Anna Markowitz of Coving.
ton, KY, and Abe Cohen of Indianap.
oils, Ind, in Dayton, o., made full
confession, according to Sheriff Boes.
Three men were killed and two
were fatally injured by the collapse of
new building in Spickard, Mo.
The steamer Raymond H. was
burned in Flint river, at Jones Land.
ing, Ga. Two negroes jumped into
the river and were drowned.
With roar like that of cannon, a
big meteor fell in the mountains back
of Elizabethville, Pa, setting fire to
the forest and frightening hundreds Of
people.
A sleeping car attached to a Big
Four train caught fire at Cleveland,
causing panic among the passengers
and the serious injury of Station Mas
ter Miller.
A political sensation was caused in
Cincinnati by the announcement that
nine of the 81 candidates named at
democratic municipal convention had
decided to refuse the places given
them on the ticket.
Early prosecution of the Interna.
tional Harvester company as trust
is promised by Attorney General
Bonaparte, who had a conference with
his assistants at Washington.
Ten alienists in the H. K. Thaw
trial Lave presented their bills aggre.
eating over 5000 to the city of New
York.
The memory Of the late Gen. Baron
Kodama, who was chief Of staff Of
Field Marshal Oyama during the war
with Russia, and who died at Toxic
July %, 1906, was honored by the JAP
anese emperor, who invested the
baron's heir with the title of count.
The schooner John R. Bradley re-
ports in North Sydney, N. S., that DR..
+. H. Cook and party were left at
Smiths sound, latitude 10, with pro-
visions for two years and that efforts
will be made to reach the pole by the
polar sea.
Attorney General Jackson of New
York filed a bill asking the appoint
ment of receivers for the New York
City Railway company and the Metro
politan Street Railway company, and
making serious charges of extrava-
gance If not fraud.
A new law by which boys under IA
years are prohibited from selling pa
pers between the hours of ten D. m.
and six a. m. went into effect In New
York.
Forty-two persons, including 80
Japanese soldiers, are reported killed
or injured In a train wreck, the cars
running out of Seoul, Korea.
Leading officials Of several of the