Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06

Official government bulletin de-
scribed rats as worst pest in exist.
encc, which costs the country millions
annually.
Actions against klaw & Erlanger fos
damages for injuries and loss of lifc
In the Iroquois fire were dismissed
by New York court because the plain
tiffs' attorneys delayed in preparing
their cases.
Indiana supreme court ruled that
the liquor traffic is lawful and consti.
tutional unless prohibited by the state.
the decision reversing lower courts.
Right of cities to restrict the traffic tc
prescribed areas also is upheld.
The New York senate, under spur
Of Gov. Hughes, passed bill in the
interest of w. r. Hearst, providing
for recount of the New York mayor
atty vote in 1905.
DR.. Long has written to the presi.
dent, citing proof of the truth of his
animal stories and demanding public
apology.
Wealthy clubwomen, of Rockford.
ILL.,, aided the escape from hospital OF
a mother accused of numbering one G..
her twin babies, an automobile being
provided for wild dash to the train.
Mrs. Della e. Dalrymple, of Worces.
ter, Mass, whose husband, a preacher,
fled to Chicago, has made public let.
ter written by young woman con-
Tossing her relations with the minis.
ter.
Floyd Pegg, cowboy, arrived at
Washington on horseback, covering
the distance from Chicago to the cap
ital on a pony.
Thomas D. Jordan, former control
Ter of the Equitable Life Assurance
forgery.
A friend said Howard Gould would
reply to wife's charges; chose to fight
case before giving wife 100000.
Uprising in China gains in strength
and inhabitants flee to Swallow, a forti-
fed coast town, for protection.
The loss of valuable art treasure
from church at Perugia, Italy, is laid
to an American.
Discrimination against the blue
jacket of the navy has led to COM
plant to naval secretary, jamestown
exposition management claiming it
has no Jurisdiction.
Attack on Japs in San Francisco
may be settled by cabinets explana-
ton that the strike was responsible.
Chief Oman, of San Francisco, is
charged by Prosecutor Heney with APP
preaching graft witnesses and pos
sible jurors.
Employees of the Chicago South Side
traction lines decide to withdraw their
wage demands and vote to accept two
cents increase voluntarily offered by
the company. Action means general
peace among traction interests.
President Roosevelt left Washing.
ton Tuesday to attend Mrs. McKin.
ley's funeral and to speak at Indianap.
oils and Lansing.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, dis
approved the utilities bill on the
ground that it confers too great pow
ers on commissioners. The measure
will be repassed by the legislature
without his signature.
According to a ruling of the SUI.
preme court West Virginia must pay
proportion of the Virginia debt in.
Cured before the separation of the
state.
One hundred thousand railway en-
ployes may lose positions through gen.
eral retrenchment order caused by
lack Of business.
A heavy snowstorm from Sault Ste.
Marie to Ontario tied up shipping and
damages Michigan farmers. Severe
weather is reported in many other sec.
tons.
Plan of Hindu rebels against Great
Britain was to call on Japs for aid,
according to information from Lahore
The funeral of Theodore Tilton was
held in Paris with simple ceremonies.
No summer we1tner Is in sight, de.
clares the weather bureau at Washing.
ton; frost conditions are general and
snow falls as far south as Texas.
Herman Leroy, prisoner at Fort
Sheridan, escaped his guard and later
was shot and killed by two negro
troopers.
The supreme court of the United
States handed down several important
decisions before adjolrning until Octo.
Der IA.
In the senate inquiry into the
Brownsville, Tex, riot one army Off
Ger fatty contradicted the testimony
of another.
The orthodoxy of half century ago
is about gone and the change is for
the better, DR.. Borden p. Bovine, OF
the Methodist Theological seminary,
says in an address to Cincinnati min
listers.
Homer E. Grafton, acquitted by
court martial of murder charge in
the Philippines and convicted for
same affair by civil court, was freed
by high tribunal.
The treasury is alarmed by Wall
streets latest made to order panic"
III opCSuion'O puiPooco, "SoI LIZ"
financial center and Is loaning money
in New York.
Widespread rain has aided Russian
wheat and is boon to famine district.
Police of a score of cities are
searching for a Chicagoan and two
others believed to have been involved
II. the murder of the New York priest
whose body was found in trunk Ar.
rest of man in Chicago failed to
throw light on the mystery.
Joseph Barteck, aged 80 years, com.
mitted suicide at Eastport, N. Y, hang.
ing himself to rafter in shed near
his house. Before he ended his life
he wrote this note: "The Lord would