Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-19
A pittsburg Judge has decided tina,


no currency legislation should be en-
acted until An investigation is held as
to the causes of the panic.
Gov Guild of Massachusetts has re-
ceiyed official notification that the
king OF Italy had nominated him
grand officer of the Crown of Italy.
Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who
attempted to shoot Attorney S. r.
Hamill of Terre Haute, Ind, was com.
mitted to a hospital for the insane.
Butter makers from nearly every
state in the union assembled at st.
Paul, Mimi, for three days conven-
ton.
Reports to the New York and New
Jersey Metal Trades association show
that 5000 of it's 10000 members are
out of work.
Anthony j. Drexel, Jr., and two 9TH
ers were injured in Philadelphia when
their automobile was hit by trolley
car.
President Castro of Venezuela has
refused to arbitrate claims made by
American citizens as requested by the
In connection with the report Of the
senate committee on military affairs
on the Brownsville riot, which was
made to the senate, the president
transmitted a message.
A partial itinerary for the battleship
fleet after finishing target practice at
Magdalena bay was announced by the
navy department at Washington.
Harry Orchard, before Judge FIRE.
mont Wood in the Caldwell, Idaho,
district court, was allowed to with
draw his former plea of not guilty.
The Porto Rico house of delegates
by large majority passed bill au-
thorizing the insular government to
operate a lottery under the super
vision of the insular treasurer.
Charles w. Morse and Alfred H.
Curtis pleaded not guilty in the
United States circuit court at New
York to a joint indictment of 20
counts.
Miss Sarah Chamberlin Weed of
Philadelphia shot and killed Miss
Elizabeth Baily Hardee of East Sa
vannah, Ca, and then committed sui
eide at fashionable Boston school.
The khedive of Egypt, accompanied
by the duke and duchess of Connaught,
were present at Heliopolis at the first
automobile races held in Egypt.
The farmhouse of John Denthitt,
near WestbOro, Wis, was destroyed
by fire and three small children were
burned to death.
China, fearing that Japan was seek
ing preteXt for trouble, apologized
for hauling down the Japanese flag
and proposes to release the Tatsu
Maru, only recognizing force ma
jeure."
Discharged section hands are
thought to have been responsible for
an attempt to wreck a Pennsylvania
suburban train in Chicago
Fire at Thornton, Ia, wiped out
seven business blocks, the greater
part of the town.
State Senator-Elect D. S. Kemp
was shot dead in a duel at Amite, La,
by c. F. Hyde, prominent Demo
cratic politician.
The White House at Washington
was the scene of the opening of the
first International Mothers congress.
An ancillary bill was filed at Hous-
ton, Tex, in the federal court asking
receivership for the international
e Great Northern railroad.
Joseph Genetti, an Italian miner,
pleaded guilty at Belleville, ILL.,, to
murders by an Internal machine and
was sentenced to term of as years
in the penitentiary.
A Swede, apparently insane, fusil'
laded the royal castle at Christiania
with Remington rifle. King Haakop
was away.
Warran Mckay, native of Canada.
killed his wife and three children at
his Tenino (Wash.) home and then
committed suicide.
Representative Jesse Overstreet of
Indianapolis was selected for TEN.
porary chairman of the state Repub-
lican convention.
That there are serious defects in
the construction of American battle.
ships was charged by Capt. C. MGR.
Winslow and Commander A. l.. Key
before the senate committee.
Nine. Anna Gould, accompanied by
her three children, sailed from Cher.
bourg for New York.
Harry X. Thaw was served with d.
vorce summons in the proceedings
brought by his wife, Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, to annul their marriage. Mrs.
w. G. Thaw was also served.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
transmitted to congress recommend
alton for an appropriation for the
erection of hall of records in Wash
ington.
A bold attempt was made Tuesday
to rob the Merchants bank in Omaha,
Neb., by a man thought by the police
to be lunatic.
James Rathbun shot and killed Mrs
Rathbun and then committed suicide
in Omaha. Neb.
The Country club. one Of the most
exclusive social associations in the
south, pleaded guilty to selling liquors
in violation of the state laws at Mont,
gomery, Ala
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw instituted pro
ceedings in New York for the annui
ment Of her marriage to Harry X
Thaw. The action was based on the
allegation that the defendant was in
sane when the union was contracted.
Mrs. Rheus Miller, said to be the
only actual daughter of the revolu
ton in New York, died at the home
of her daughter in Mount Vernon,