Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
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| oInciS, 1iduu LUKE INlCuOldS, lCihioi
Stolypin and two conservative mem.
bers Of the cabinet, who lately re-
ceived letters of warning.
Great suffering and loss was caused
In Cleveland by the cutting off of the
city's natural gas supply, due to
break in a main.
Kaiser William Is in deadly fear Of
assassination and is surrounding him.
self with guard as formidable as that
by which Gear Nicholas is protected.
| Boston's municipal court enforced
the blue laws that forbid all unneces-
sary work on Sunday.
| Modern methods of combining and
consolidating mammoth railway sys-
TENS and extending the principle of
community of interest were delved in
to at great length by the Interstate
commerce commission, which began
in New York an inquiry into the So.
called Hartman lines"
| Rivers in southern Indiana over
, flowed the lowlands, driving out great
numbers Of people.
Los Angeles, Cal, and Jet, Okla,
were in great distress for lack of fuel.
| Adolph Johnson, fish and cheese
peddler, was brutally murdered by
highwayman in barn Chicago.
Anxiety for the safety of the liner
Ventura was relieved upon receipt Of
news that she had reached Honolulu
from Australia and New Zealand.
Judge John F. Phillips in the United
| States district court in Kansas City,
denied the application of the attor-
neys for Mrs. Aggie Myers for writ
| of habeas corpus and preparations
were begun for her execution January
10.
Andrew Carnegie has given $750,O00
for the construction of a building to
| be used by the bureau of American
republics.
A lengthy protest by members of
the advisory board of the jamestown
exposition against "The diversion of
| the program of the exposition to the
service Of militarism" was issued.
| The small steamer Llndholmen,
which plies between Christiania and
Bergen, caught fire. Four passengers
were suffocated. one was drowned and
one went mad.
The Bay of Quinte. one Of the finest
hotels between Toronto and Montreal,
was destroyed by fire. Many of the
guests had narrow escapes. The loss
rPsce persons died at t.,s Angeles
as result of ptomaine poisoning
caused by eating canned beans. They
are Henry Carter, a well known resi-
dent of Ontario, his daughter, Miss
Mabel Carter, % years old, and
Charles Edward Abbott.
Arthur F. Davis, mayor Of Fayette,
| Mo-, and president of the Farmers and
Mechanics bank, who accidentally
shot himself while looking for burglars
In his residence, died of the wound.
r. G. Flower. who has been a fugi-
| tive from New York since 1903, where
he is wanted to answer a charge of
swindling credulous investors out of
about 100000, was arrested in Phil.
| adelphia.
Samuel H. Jones, for many years
one of the leading Republican poll,
ticians in Illinois, died in Springfield
| from the effects of stroke of party.
| sis.
A negro was lynched at Midway,
| Ala, because he had attempted to as
sault Miss Morrell King daughter of
| a prominent banker of Midway.
Hundreds of lives and thousands of
dollars worth of property were placed
In jeopardy by an attempt to blow up
the plant of the King Powder COM
pany southwest of Lebanon, o.
Rev. Dr. John Cotton Brooks. OF
| Springfield, Mass, brother of the late
Phillips Brooks, is dead in Paris,
where he went for his health. He was
So years old.
During a collision between the po-
lice and the people at Programme,
province of Buenos Ayres, Argentina,
six persons were killed and II
| wounded.
News of mutiny In the Austrian
navy has reached Vienna. The trou-
BILE is reported to have occurred on the
| battleship Arped, cruiser st. Georg
and the naval hulk Bellona.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion decided to investigate the block
signal systems on the Southern and
Baltimore & Ohio railways.
Gustave Bye of Duluth, tied the
! American record for ski jumping at
the tournament at Munising, Mich. His
record was LOG feet.
L pnu Cxryov ~ oil nh
fessed he caused fatal wreck on the
! Oregon Short Line at Peterson. Utah,
because he wanted to see the train
plunge into the river.
| Judge Mccall. of the federal court at
Memphis. declared the Lafollette fel.
low servants law unconstitutional.
Shippers In Oklahoma petitioned
President Roosevelt to have receiver
appointed for the Rock Island railway
because 1t cannot handle the traffic of.
tered to 1t.
/ Harry Ray. an animal trainer, was
seriously injured by lion In an ami.
NAL show at Toledo. O.
Frederick s. Camp one of the most
! prominent millmen In eastern Connec-
ticut. took his life by shooting at Nor
! wich. Conn.
The Algeciras convention was form.
ally signed at Madrid in the presence
of representatives of all the nations
that took part in the conference.
Bands OF negroes are pillaging es.
tates In Cuba and 1t is believed they
have arms that Were landed recently
In Pinar del Rio province.
Simon Guggenheim's candidacy fol
the United States senate was In,
/, dorsed by the Republican legislators
Of Colorado.