Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

by Il majority Ot lUf the FISuSh
chamber of deputies voted confidence
in the government and gave the min.
listers a free hand to employ the
measures they think best to establish
the sovereignty of the law in the dis
turbed departments of the south. The
funeral of the victims of the Mar
bonnie riot was held without disturb.
ance. but there was bloody fighting in
several other cities. One battalion OF
infantry mutinied but afterward sur
rendered.
Western Union and Postal telegraph
operators in San Francisco and Oak
land struck to enforce their demand
for % per cent. increase in wages.
Several persons were killed and
others injured by lightning during a
severe electrical storm that passed
over southern Michigan. One man at
Kalamazoo was struck while in tree
and was bereft of reason.
Terrorists in Odessa are beyond the
control of the police and are killing
with bombs merchants who refuse to
contribute to their fund. 1t was re-
ported that As of the mutinous sap
pers at Kiev were convicted and shot.
Frank E. Woller, clerk of the mu-
nicipal court of Milwaukee, pleaded
guilty of embezzling $4,000 and was
sentenced to three years in the house
of correction.
Six women were arrested at AS
sumption, ILL.,, on the charge that they
were implicated in the attempt to
lynch Alfred Bouland.
Striking metal polishers and ma
chinists of Detroit were enjoined from
interfering in any way with workers
employed at the plants affected by the
strike.
German Ambassador Speck Won
Sternberg denied positively that he
was about to retire from the diplo.
matte service.
Joseph Soloy was sentenced at
Cleveland to death in the electric
chair for theRmurder of Veronica
Vargo.
Brig. Gen. Henry T. Allen, chief of
the Philippine constabulary of the
United States army, will tender his
formal resignation as head of that de-
partment to take the position of head
of the Yellowstone park service
Eddie Tate, Eddie Fay and Patsy
Flaherty were indicted at Peoria, H.,
for robbing the school board safe and
stealing the Dougherty forged scrip.
G. Fl. Beasley, prominent resident
of Linton, Ind, shot and instantly
killed his wife whom he had sued for
divorce.
Mrs. Flora Beall Ginty, the 6S-year-
old widow of Gen. George C. Ginty,
| and one of Wisconsin's most promi
nent women, died at Chippewa Falls.
Augustus E. Wilson, of Louisville,
was nominated by reclamation as Re.
publican candidate for governor OF
Kentucky.
Harry Leaphart, of the class of '09
at Annapolis, died at his home in
Brookfield, Mo.
James Bullock, of Belleville, ILL.,,
killed himself and Cora Miller. They
left joint note saying that as their
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die together.
Col. Thomas Smell, millionaire
banker and land owner, died at his
home in Bloomington, Ill.
The naval board of inquiry decided
the launch of the battleship Minnesota
was sunk by fouling the steel hawser
of the tug Crisfield, which was towing
barge.
A battalion of sappers at Kiev,
Russia, mutinied, killed an officer and
fought with loyal troops. Nearly 200
of them escaped.
Orange j. Salisbury, chairman of
the Republican state committee of
Utah, died at st. Luke's hospital In
New York of heart disease.
Sidney Hollis. a nine-year-old col
ored boy, was convicted of man
slaughter in Baltimore. Sentence
was suspended.
A gold cup, presented by King Ed
ward for one of the races at Ascot
and valued at more than $1,000 was
stolen.