Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07

lVU years mas nnatiy been adjudicated
1t was known as Pock VS.. Borden and
100000 was at first involved. Only
$4,000 remains to be divided between
400 persons.
The tobacco situation in Kentucky
became serious. Burley growers
agreed to cut out next years crop. Eff
forts were made to pool this years
crop and to induce buyers to leave the
fields. Opposition at Henderson and
elsewhere gave promise of trouble.
The mutinous crew of the Russian
torpedo boat destroyer at Vladivostok
fought with four other warships and
fort and was subdued only after a
number of mon had been killed or
wounded.
The little town of Karatagh, in the
Hussar district of Bokhara, was over.
wheimed and completely destroyed by
a landslide that followed the earth
quake of October 81 1t was believed
1,5OO persons persisted.
Commissioner General Sargent of
the bureau of immigration denied the
appeal of a confessed clipping couple
from Berlin, Germany, for admission
to the United States.
t. E. Mcdonald, superintendent of
the United States Express company at
Milwaukee. announced that the
amount of money stolen from his com.
pany at the night depot office in that
city the night of October % was $lS,.
500.
Charging that football is prize fight.
ing, Attorney S r. Moore. of Kanka.
kee, ILL.,, filed bill in the circuit court
for an injunction restraining high
school students from playing the
game.
The grand jury indicted John ].
Stanley, vice president and general
manager of the Cleveland Electric
Railway company, charging him with
endeavoring to influence witness.
The Friend Paper company, of West
Carrolton, a suburb of Dayton, O., was
placed in the hands of receiver on
application of its president, j. Howard
Friend
Raymond Hitchcock, indicted in
New York for alleged misconduct with
three little girls, disappeared and the
district attorneys men say that he
either has fed to Europe or has com.
mitted suicide. His wife, known on
the stage as Flora Zabelle, says she
thinks he has been murdered
E. II. Slower, sheriff of Coles coun,
ty, Illinois, arrested Judge Peter s.
Grosscup of the United States circuit
court on a charge of manslaughter,
contained in indictments returned at
Charleston, ILL.,, as result of the fatal
wreck last summer on the Charleston
Nation interurban line, of which
Judge Grosscup is director.
The steamer Cormorant, of the Ed
ward Heinze Lumber company's feet,
caught fire and burned to the waters
edge near Superior, Wis.
Receivers were appointed for the
company. Its liabilities were nearly
81 ,000,000 and it's assets much greater.
William d. Everett, president of the
Williams & Everett company, picture
and fine arts dealers, of Boston, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas. No
cause for the act is known.
Hawaii's sugar crop fer 1907 is the
largest in the history of the islands.
1t amounts to 100000 tons. Next
years crop promises to reach $4,000
tons.
The pope communicated Father
Tyrell and other critics of his en-
cyclical on modernism.
Nearly 5000 Chinese arrived at the
port of Salina Cruise, Mex, on their
way to the United States, where they
are under the impression they will be
allowed to remain.
Gov. Warner of Michigan and his
staff, in full uniform, accompanied by
members of their families, were re-
ceived at the White House by Presi-
dent Roosevelt on their homeward
journey from the jamestown exposi
ton.
Eloping lovers and others who seek
hasty or secret marriages will no
longer find Gretna Green in the
Little Church Around the Corner in
New York. Dr. George 1. Houghton,
tie rector, says 1t is his purpose that
the bans shall be published in the
old-fashioned way in the future.
The miners and smeltermen's
unions at Butte, Mont, received notice
from the Amalgamated Copper and
other companies that the old scale OF
wages will be enforced after Novem
Der /, in accordance with contract,
which will mean a reduction for about
1000 men.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of the
United States circuit court, and Mar.
shall e. Sampsell, one of the receivers
of the Chicago Union Traction COM
pany, with other members Of the
board of directors and officers of the
Nation G Charleston Interurban Rail-
road company, were indicted at
Charleston, H., in connection with
the wreck on the electric railway last
August. The true bills charge Grim
inal negligence tending to produce
manslaughter. Warrants for the ar
rest of the defendants were issued.
Maximilien Harden, editor of the
Zukunft, was acquitted in Berlin on
the charge of defamation of character
brought by Gen. Count Kuno Won
Moltke, former military governor of
Berlin. Gen. Won Moltke was con-
demned to bear the costs of the trial.
Charles H. Deere, manufacturer
of agricultural implements, mainly
plows, at Moline, H., where his father,
John Deere, established the industry.
died at the Lakota hotel in Chicago.
The distillers strike at Peoria, H..
involving 700 men, has been settled
The employers signed the schedule.
acceding the demands. except the
recognition of the union.
The biennial convention of the Uni.