Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-09


unwilling of the Lawton statue at In
/ dianapolis on May 80, as the repre-
sentative of the secretary of war He
was Lawton's chief Of staff
Adjt. Gen. Lauck, of California
oustcd ten militia companies from
the state national guard for inefh
cheney.
Capt. Edgar Macklin was found by
a court-martial not guilty of charges
brought in connection with the
Brownsville affair.
The Mexican government learns
from prominent person who has JUS
returned from Guatemala that in his
Cabrera will be unseated as president
of the republic or will have to fight
to retain his office.
| Capt. G.. Def. Chandler, United
States signal service, and ]. c. Mccoy
OF New York, failed to break the long
distance balloon record and to win
the Lahm cup. The balloon, when
left st. Louis landed five miles north
Of Golconda, H.. $50 miles from the
starting point.
Forty persons, mostly women, were
| injured in a fire at 255 Wabash ave
| nue., Chicago. The victims were pa
irons and employees of lunch club
| and jumped or fell from the second
story.
John Kells Ingram, the political
economist, Is dead at Dublin. He was
born in 1923 and was an ex-president
of the Royal Irish Academy.
Miss Mabelle Gilman, who arrived
at New York from Paris, said she and
William r. Cory. president of the
United States Steel corporation. would
be married in New York on May IS.
Near Pabianice, Russian Poland,
bandits attacked carriage contain
ing five Hebrew merchants, whom
they shot and killed. The robbers
took all the money and valuables of
the dead men.
After an inspection of the Russian
training squadron at Libau, Minister
of Marine Rikoff decided to abandon
the idea of sending ships to this
JdLhSSlOWH eApOSlllOu.
Bitter feeling as result Of an as
sault on Mrs. Soften, an aged woman,
caused a race riot at Greensburg, Ind.
Six colored men were badly beaten,
one of whom may die.
May day brought strikes Of iron
workers in San Francisco, teamsters
in Los Angeles, machinists in Pitts
burg, and various labor organizations
in Canada. In Paris there were scenes
of violence and disorder and the po-
lice had several desperate conflicts
with the mobs. In Warsaw a general
strike resulted in complete tie-up of
business.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
by a jury in the United States court
in the case of Athole B. Reader, who
had been on trial in New York on a
charge OF perjury.
The planning mill and lumber yard
of j. A. Holinger at Chambersburg,
Pa, was burned, entailing a loss of
500 900.
Prince Edward of Wales, eldest son
of the prince of Wales, joined the
royal naval college at Osborne, Isle OF
ed exactly the same as the 400 other
cadets.
John L. Morgan, formerly of Chi
cago, starved to death on the desert
in Death valley, according to the story
brought to San Bernardino, Cal, by
A dor NJ
John Enjeck, while working in
licorice factory in Newark, N. j., fell
into vat of the boiling licorice
The judicial convention at Decatur,
ILL.,, selected Frank X. Dunn, OF
Charlestown, as supreme court jus.
second ballot.
The blockade in the harbor at Su.
perior, Wis, is estimated to have cost
vessel owners a quarter of a million
dollars.
twenty persons were injured whey
was wrecked at Pleasantview, w. Va
Five justices of the Michigan sa
preme court, constituting a majority,
decided that the city of Detroit can.
not build street railway tracks to be
leased to an operating corporation.
Judge Mcmahon at Hammond, Ind.
decided to allow Indiana to destroy
the Dearborn Park poolrooms owned
by the Smith-Perry-Whit syndicate.
The seven men who were impris.
oned in the Berwind White Coal mine
near Johnstown. Pa. by sudden rush
of water, were rescued after four and
half days, alive and unhurt. but
greatly exhausted.
ID. Max Gregg. son of Col II. H.
Gregg, wealthy mine owner of Jop
lin, Mo-, in ST. Louis on his honey
moon, was arrested on a charge OF
having attempted to ship four fish out
of Arkansas.
Six colored men were badly beaten
by mob of white men at Greensburg
| Ind.
G. r. Scrugham, manager Of the In
ternational Policyhol1ers' committee
and two watchers for the same or
ganization were arrested on charges
VI conspiracy W CAUSE INC CounliuS vi
defective, altered and forged ballots
in the recent election of New Yorf
Life Insurance company directors. ia
cob Frank. an agent for the New Yorl'
| Life. was arrested for forging the
names OF policy holders.
President Cobrera, of Guatemala
narrowly escaped death when assas
| sins exploded mine under his car
rage. The horses were killed anc
several men injured.
William January, the federal con
vict who escaped years ago and was
recaptured, was told by his wife the
news that President Roosevelt favor
ed his pardon. =
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