Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-24


ing the burning out Of the timbers by
a fire which is supposed to have been
started from the sparks of locomo
tive.
Santa. Fe passenger train No. a
east-bound, the Chicago Limited, was
wrecked at Hutchinson, Kan, the en-.
gineer killed and number of passen.
gers injured.
The training squadron which sailed
| for Honolulu January Is, turned back
to Iokosuka. The squadron encoun-
tered severe storm lasting three
days. The masts of the vessels were
broken and other damage was sus-
tanned.
Abe Attell knocked out Harry
Baker, of San Francisco, In the eighth
round before the Pacific Athletic club
at Los Angeles, retaining the feather
weight championship.
Speaking for the $4,000 negroes
which comprise it's membership, the
grand council of the National Indus
trial Association Of America adopted a
resolution indorsing President Roose-
velt's action in dismissing the negro
soldiers at Brownsville.
Business men of Finley, N. d., have
sent an appeal to the Great Northern
railway for coal. The town had not
had local freight train since De-
cember 21, although there were
freight trains on the road nearly
every day.
A bill was introduced In the Ne
braska senate to prevent the practice
Of tipping and making persons or COR
porations employing walters or serv-
ants who may demand or accept tip
guilty OF a misdemeanor. punishable
| by fine.
The Southern Cotton association In
convention adopted resolution unan-
imously indorsing President Roose-
welt in dismissing the negro troops at
i Brownsville.
F. e. J. Lloyd, of Chicago, for 25
years an Episcopal minister, and his
wife renounced their faith and joined
the Catholic church.
The Bank Of Midwife, Ca, was dyna.
mited by three robbers, but as the
blast failed to wreck the safe no
money was taken. Cashier C. w.
Powers was seriously wounded by the
robbers.
A box containing $500 in gold bull
lion was stolen at Barstow, Cal.
I Alec Balance, a Bulgarian mine
killed his wife and daughter Pearl,
aged Is years, and then committed
suicide at Barton. o.
Harvie Jordan was reelected presi-
dent Of the Southern Cotton associa-
ton.
The plant of the Southern Atlantic
Car and Manufacturing company at
Savannah, Ga, was destroyed by fire,
the total loss being about 100000.
partly covered by insurance.
The Philippines government de-
manded payment of the Standard Oil
company of $19,514 in gold, duty upon
oil brought into the Philippine islands
prior to 1901 upon which the proper
tax was not paid.
The MacAndrews & Forbes COM
pany of New York was fined 10000
and the J. s. Young company of Bal
timore $4,000 by Judge Hough in the
United States circuit court for COM
bining to monopolize the trade in lie
orice paste.
A Great Northern passenger train
reached st. Paul. Mimi, after being
stuck in snowdrifts for ten days.
Thousands of people were driven
from their homes In and around Gin
cinnati by the floods and were suf-
fering for necessities of life.
Heavy rains and floods caused the
washing out of Southern Pacific
tracks in Santa Cruz county, Arizona.
The Illinois board of charities took
steps to annul the charter of the in
dustrlal school for girls at Peoria on
the ground that it was badly misman-
aged
Albert B. Cummins was inaugurated
governor Of Iowa for the third time.
The Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany's liner Coptic sailed for the orr
ent carrying among her freight 25,-
600 sacks of -four for the famine strick-
en- people of China.
Ex-Congressman John Winans died |
dI JduSSNllle, WIS, dSSu 10.
William Fowler Thompson, presi- |
dent of the Standard Glass company,
of Pottsville, Pa, was arrested in Phil |
adelphia on warrants charging him |
with having obtained money by false |
pretenses on stock subscriptions.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York gave !
notice that he would ask that Attor-
ney General Jackson be punished for
contempt of court in permitting the |
quo warranto proceedings in behalf |
Of Hearst.
The convention OF United Mine |
Workers adopted resolution de- |
handing the separation of the depart
ment of commerce and labor and es-
tablishment Of department of labor,
and attacking Oscar Straus. the new
secretary of the department of COM
merce and labor.
The sultan of Turkey conferred |
upon Mrs. Mccormick, wife of the
American ambassador to France, the
grand cordonSof the imperial order of |
an-i-Chefakat.
The hotel at Stafford, Ariz, was des-
troyed by fire and William Williams,
one of the guests, was burned to |
death.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea opened their annual convention In |
indianapolis and heard President
Mitchell'S report.
A grand jury at Findlay O., re-
turned 939 indictments against the
Standard OIL company, subsidiary
companies, the Rockefellers and
others. for conspiracy against trade.
The lower house in Nebraska tabled
the resolution to investigate Norris
Brown, candidate for the limited