Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
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ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the GIobe-Latest Home and For.
eign Items.

| OJnerS injured In the wreck OF an ex-
press train on the Rock Island rail-
road at Norris, Ia. The express train
jumped the track while going at full
speed and collided with freight train
standing on the siding.
France and Spain decided that it
was necessary for them to occupy the
searc 8 of Morocco and establish the
police Organizations, the sultan being
admittedly powerless.
The James River bank at Frankfort,
s. d., was dynamited and the robbers
escaped with $4,000 in cash and val
liable papers, after holding the citi-
zens at bay with pistols.
A receiver was appointed at Chica-
go for the Belding- Hall Manufacturing
company whose president, Jesse F..
Hail. had disappeared. The assets
were figured at 100000 and liabilities
at $550,O00.
Three armed crooks, who had
picked the pockets of a number OF
Rock Island passengers at the station
in Lincoln, and attempted to continue
their game on the train, engaged in a
! desperate encounter with Conductor
Henry Duval on the Rocky Mountain
! limited, near Alvo Station, Neb
] The $4,000 Dryden trophy and $3.50
| cash, the most coveted prize offered
at the New Jersey Rifle associations
tournament, was won in an exciting
finish by the United States cavalry
! team which scored 1,001 points.
With every possible indication that
she was not guilty of the crime of
murder, for which she has already
served 16 years of life sentence in
the state prison, Wilhelmina Bache
was released from Waupun prison
in Wisconsin. Her life sentence for
! the murder of Michael Sell, of Shaw
ano county, was committed by Gov.
| Davidson.
More indictments for rebating were
returned against the Standard Oil COM
pany and the Pennsylvania and New
! York Central railway companies by
the federal grand jury at jamestown,
! N. Y
John King laborer, cut his throat
in the presence of hundreds of shop
pers in the Fair store, Chicago.
James Bellows McGregor, acknowl-
edged to be the oldest Mason in the
world, celebrated his one hundred and
sixth anniversary at Mt. Sunapee, N.
H. Joining the Masonic order in 1927,
makes him a member of 80 years
| standing.
| Moooboctar ooupla roonacfiyalv
70 and IS years old, having waited 25
years for the passage of the act legal
| iZing marriage with deceased wife's
| sister, have given the necessary notice
of their intention to marry.
| A wild boar hunt with javelins is
being prepared for President Roose-
velt's entertainment in Texas.
Acting Secretary of the Navy New
berry postponed indefinitely action
upon the project to remove the famous
old frigate Constitution from the Bos-
/ ton navy yard to Annapolis or to the
naval basin in Washington. Boston
people objected
Gen. Morteza Khan, minister pleni-
potentiary from the Kingdom of Persia
to the United States and Mexico, ar
rived in San Francisco.
! The Royal Typewriter company is
reported in New York to be the
nucleus of gigantic trust backed by
powerful interests.
! President Roosevelt is said to be
planning peace conference to be
held at Washington, d. c., with the &C
credited ambassadors as members of
the gathering.
The members of the Hoboken, On.
j. Young Women's Christian associa-
ton have started out to collect one
mile of pennies, which they will string
together on a>ribbon.
! William S. Wirsing was awarded
/ $4,000 damages at Uniontown, Pa,
for injuries received at the hands of
| his father-in-law, James r. Smith, a
wealthy coal operator.
The International Harvester COM
pany of Wisconsin pleaded guilty to
violation of the Texas antitrust laws
and paid fine of $4,000 assessed by
the court at Austin. The company also
! agreed that perpetual injunction be
entered forbidding it to operate in
| Texas.
A scientific hunt for the germ of
infantile paralysis has been begun by
the physicians of New York city.
An exploding tank of gasoline in the
cellar of burning building in Have
meyer street, Brooklyn, N. Y, serious.
ly injured five firemen. Two probably
will die.
AS the result of an appeal in behalf
of eight children in need of the care
of mother, President Roosevelt has
granted Communication of sentence in
the case of Mrs. Alkaline Rose, of
Jackson county, KY, convicted of
making and selling whisky in viola
ton of law.
Congressman Theodore e. Burton
consented to accept the Republican
nomination for mayor of Cleveland, o.
Practically all of Kentucky, except
the portion directly adjacent to the
Ohio river, is threatened with a coal
famine. Shortage oil cars to haul the
coal is given as the cause.
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, willie
stopping at the Hotel Astor in New
York proved generous with tips, Civ
ing a waiter 500 and q chambermaid
$50.
Mrs. Louisa Iiill Carabajal and sew.
en- children drowned in flood in
Sierra county, New Mexico.
Labor day riots occurred in Steuben-
vile, o.. San Francisco and Louis
Vile, several persons being injured.
The day was celebrate with paradcs
and picnics IN many cities.
Prince Wilhelm ended his strenuou,