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

meet in Minneapolis Sept to plan a
merger of farmers elevators.
j. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor, brought
suit in the supreme court against GER
tain members OF the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland to recover
&32,500 for alleged breach of contract
10 rejecting his model of an equestrian
statue of Gen. Philip Sheridan.
It was reported in Tangier that the
sultan of Morocco had been assas.
sinated in the palace at Fee. Gen.
Drude asked for aid and obtained re-
endorsements from Oran.
President Roosevelt and President
Diaz simultaneously telegraphed notes
to the presidents of five republics of
Central America offering the good Of
fees of the United States and Mexico
in bringing about a conference of the
republics for a discussion of plans to
maintain peace.
The inhabitants of Martinique were
thrown into panic by an earthquake
and other phenomena that caused
them to fear another Mount Pelee dis
aster.
Dr. George Waldron, physician Of
Rochester; Mrs. Catherine Farms
worth, of Rochester, and Mrs. William
Scandling and Mrs. Jane Hobbs, both
of Hopewell, were instantly killed
in a collision between an automobile
in which they were driving and troll
ley car, near Canadaigua. N. Y.
The will of Mrs. Catherine Harris,
of Cincinnati, who left nearly half a
million dollars to half-brother re-
siding in Topeka, Kan, is to be con-
tested bv her nephews.
Eugene Cargell, marshal of Cairo,
was shot and killed by Cohen Simms,
negro, near Moccasin Gap, Fla.
Simms surrendered Cargell was at
the head of a posse that located
| Charles Williams, the murderer of
Sheriff Tyus, of Grady county, in the
house of Simms, his uncle.
H. A. Woodman, "A years old, fur
niture dealer, was fatally injured by a
robber who entered his store in Kan
sas City.
A meeting of the directors of the
Illinois Central in New York was
broken up by fist fight between
/ President Harahan and Stuyvesant
Fish.
Hurled from a speeding automobile
in which she was riding trial test
around the Morris Park race track at
New York, Mrs Leslie Kelsey, wife of
r. G.. Kelsey, "a real estate man and
automobile writer, died almost in
stsntly.
| Mrs. Byron Hendricks, her six-year-
old grandchild and Arthur Oystar,
driver of their carriage, were killed
at Alliance, o., by a Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago passenger train.
Mckinley Richmond, negro, aged
ten years, was found guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree at Clarion, Pa.
He killed his little sister.
! All records for excavation on the
line of the Panama canal were broken
during July, despite reduction in the
! force of employees.
Col. Amos Stickney, corps of en-
! gineers, U. S. A, and Rear Admiral
Davis were retired, having reached
| the age limit.
Michael Brennan shot and killed his
brother, Antonio, near Lakeville,
Mimi, in quarrel over the dividing
/ line between their farms.
r. F. Singleton, of Newport, KY,
was robbed and probably fatally
wounded in Cincinnati.
| Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was the
| guest of President Roosevelt at lunch
con at Oyster Bay.
Death from natural causes" was
| the verdict of the coroner's jury in
the earl of Dunmore, the most promi.
nent Christian Scientist in England.
Grover Cleveland has given up the
idea of leaving his home in Princeton,
N. j., on vacation because of attacks
! by his old enemy, indigestion.
Scientists in Germany and France
! are considering the establishment OF
safety chambers" in coal mines in
order to prevent loss of life in time
of accident.
The Hungarian-American bank has
been started in New York to take care
of the business of the 100000 Hun
garians in the United States, who send
back to Europe sSO,OOO,O0O year.
James A. Allen, lawyer, has taken
steps to have the New York curb
stock market declared a nuisance and
abolished.
The lockout of dock laborers at Ant
werp ended, the men voting to GO
back at the old scale of wages, one
dollar per day.
Many sailors were injured in an ex
plosion of gas on the Portuguese bat
tleship, Vasco de CANA, at Lisbon.
Chicago packers and their teamsters
made an agreement binding for two
years and the threatened strike was
averted.
One man was killed and seven pas
sengers dangerously injured in the
wreck of a Glover Leaf passenger
train at Bowman, Ill. Two cars
jumped switch and crashed into O
box car.
A passenger train on the ST. Louis
] & San Francisco railroad, carrying
/ Secretary of War Taft, was wrecked
near the depot at Spring Hill, Kan
| None of the passengers or trainmen
was hurt.
Marriage with deceased wife's sis
ter finally has become legalized in
Great Britain, the house of lords hav,
ing passed the bill sanctioning such
/ unions by SO to 81 votes.
The explosion of boiler in the Rob.
bins G. Spencer -four and feed mills at
Scranton, Pa, resulted in the serious
injury of four persons and was re-
sponsible for fire which destroyed
the plant and that of Armour & Co.,