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


visitor at the City of Mexico. He was
present at special meeting of the
chamber OF deputies, convened espe-
cially to show the appreciation of the
lawmakers of the republic for the dis
tinguished guest, was made a mem
Der of the academy of Jurisprudence
and legislation and was given a ban
quet by the City of Mexico.
Americans in Mexico should be
good, loyal and true Mexican citizens"
was the gist of Secretary Roots
speech at banquet given him by the
American colony Of Mexico City at the
Country club.
The Republican state committee of
New York nominated Edward T. Bart
lett and Willard Bartlett as candidates
for associated justices of the court Of
appeals, and the Democratic commit.
tee Endorsed the nominations.
Insanely jealous of his handsome
young wife, John Bohnrueller, a
Brooklyn saloon keeper, shot her to
death and then killed himself.
The president has directed the ap.
pointment of Col. Charles S. Smith,
ordnance department, to be brigadier
general on the retirement of Col God.
frey.
The housewives of Kennebec coun-
ty, Me-, are on strike against high
meat prices. Nearly 1000 persons in
meat for ten days until prices are
lower.
At Danville, Wash, an angry mob
drove a small party of Hindoos across
the line into Canada. A few shots
were discharged but no one was in
jured.
Three men were shot when Fred
Robolledo, Mexican student, 20 years
old, ran amuck with revolver in the
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, Cal.
United States Senator Plat made
formal denial in court that he ever
married Mae G. Wood, who is suing
him for divorce.
That the Galena Signal Oil COM
pany, subsidiary of the Standard
Oil company, controls 81 per cent. of
the lubricating oil business with the
railroads of the United States and that
the prices for it's products are not uni
form with all railroads was written in
the record of the hearing of the fed
eral suit against the so-called oil
trust.
Robert M. Thompson, New York
financier and retired naval officer, will
take Is friends around the world in
the steam yacht Mineola, at an esti-
mated, expenditure of 100000.
That he deliberately destroyed
checks for s43,S7S so that he would
not be compelled to say to whom the
money represented by them was paid,
was admitted by Lemuel Ely Quigg at
the hearing on street railway merger
matters before the public utilities COM
mission of New York.
A letter from the Toxic chamber
of commerce appealing to the New
York chamber of commerce to do all
in it's power to prevent a breach in
the relations between the United
States and Japan over the San Fran
cisco incident, and the reply of the
New York organization expressing
confidence that wholesome public
sentiment will assert itself in the
locality where these incidents &C.
Cured" were made public at the
meetings of the New York chamber.
Several hundred of young German
women left Hamburg on the steam
er Fliedmarschal, bound for Ger
man Southwest Africa, where they
will take positions with the families
of the German settlers and govern
ment officials.
All leading railroads having lines
in South Dakota commenced a
united action in the United States
court for a permanent injunction
preventing the state board of rail
road commissioners from putting
into effect an order reducing passen-
ger rates in the state from three to
two and one-half cents a mile.
Ludwig Szczygiel, the Polish priest
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree for the killing of Andrew and
Stephen Starzyuski, was sentenced to
80 years Imprisonment in the Western
penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
Rev. Wilbert P. Ferguson was ar.
rested at Lincoln, Neb., on charge
sworn out by Arthur N Cross, alleging
criminal relations with the wife of
Mr.. Cross.
Rev. James M. King, LII. D., execu-
tive head of the board of home mis-
sions and church extension of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and
known throughout the world of Meth
odism, died at Philadelphia.
ID. d. Edwards, on trial for the muir
| der of Sam Brooks, negro in Chat
tanooga, declared he had killed IA
men in the Kentucky mountains and
| Chicago.
A serious revolution broke out in
the Province of Corrientes, Argentine
Republic.
The sum of s1,000000 is divided in
ten portions of 100000 each and be-
| queathed to several colleges and
church and charitable organizations
! by the will of d. Willis James, which
was filed for probate in New York.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, widow of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt, made formal an
nouncement of the engagement of her
daughter, Gladys, to Count Ladislaus
| SZechenyi, of Budapest
| Mrs. Susan e. Wallace, widow of
Gen. Lew Wallace, the author of Ben
Hur," Gied at Charlottesville, Ind.
The Illinois supreme court declared
Chicago's new primary law unconsti-
| tutional.
Canada has consented to pay $4,000
to Japan for the damages arising from
the Vancouver riots.
Confirmation of the murder In
China ~ Nfco CarfruAa naufor an