Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17

The commodities clause of the Hep
burn railroad act was declared uncon-
stitutional by the United States cir
| Pennsylvania.
| Judge Kenesaw Lands, who fined
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
$29.000,000, is charged with having
| permitted outside influences to govern
his decision by the attorneys for the
company in their answer to the appli-
cation for a rehearing filed in the
United States court of appeals.
County Attorney English at Omaha,
Neb., filed complaint against Charles
e. Davis, charging him with murder
in the first degree in connection with
the shooting of DR.. frederick Rustin.
In flight requiring great skill on
account of a ten-mile wind, O-ville
Wright in his aeroplane circled around
the drill ground at Fort Myer So times
in IS minutes and So seconds, break
ing his own worlds record.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Albany, the capital of Western
| Australia.
Jacob Hernesniemi, with his two
sons, respectively IL and ID years old,
met death while trying to fight off the
forest fires that swept their homestead
on Otter river near Calumet, Mich.
Falling victim to it's policy of over.
extension and poor management the
well-known fish, oyster and sea food
house of A. Booth & Co. of Chicago,
the largest in this country, was forced
into the hands of receiver.
The supreme court of Oklahoma up
held the validity of the depositors'
guaranty law, denying the injunction
prayed by the Noble State bank to re.
strain the state from levying a one per
cent assessment upon the deposits OF
the bank
Miss Patricia Egan, daughter OF
Maurice F. Egan, the American minis
ter to Denmark, was married in Copen-
hagen to Jerome Elmer p Murphy of
Los Angeles, Cal.
The body of Mrs. Ashton Harvey,
dressed in white and literally covered
with jewels worth fortune, was found
in the private pleasure lake on the
estate of Stewart Hartshorn, at Short
Hills, N. j., by blood hounds which had
been brought from New York to seek
her. Mrs. Harvey was the wife of
Ashton Harvey, millionaire corpora
| ton lawyer.
The St. Vincent, the largest and
heaviest battle ship ever built for the
British navy, was launched successful
| ly at Portsmouth.
Queen Wilhelmina's hopes of pro-
tiding an heir to the throne of Hol-
land were frustrated once more by
miscarriage.
Robert Wiltse, a veteran of the
civil war, shot himself in the ante
room of the G. A. r. post at Oswego,
N. Y, while a post meeting was in
progress.
Battling Nelson clinched his claim to
the lightweight pugilistic champion.
ship by defeating Joe Cans for thu
second time at San Francisco. The
! fight ended in the twenty-first round
when Cans, beaten down by a success
sion of blows from his sturdy conquer
or, failed to get upon his feet within
| the count of ten.
A severe gale caused many casual
ties among smaller craft along the
coast of Great Britain. The schooner
Phyllis Gray, laden with coal, went
aground and turned turtle and the
crew of six men were lost.
Philip Lilienthal. manager of the
c1o Colt 10 ,,f1
was killed in an automobile accident.
The Republican squabble in West
Virginia was ended by the recognition
of the Swisher convention as regular
In view of 1000 persons at the Rich
mond county fair, held at Dongan
Hills, Staten Island, William CODY, a
youthful balloonist of Milwaukee,
| fell from an exploded balloon
and was probably MORALLY injured.
d. r. Anderson, former cashier of
the First National bank of Mason
! town, Pa, died at the penitentiary
| from paralysis. He was serving five
year sentence for embezzlement.
| Factions of the union and non-union
stogie makers of Gallipolis, O., met
on the street and fought a desperate
battle which resulted in serious injury
| to John White and Clarence Bayes.
Hibbing, the largest town on the
Mesaba Range, was threatened with
destruction by forest fires and a des.
perate fight was made to save it.
Grand Marais also was reported in
great danger.
Mrs. Abbie Rice testified at the in
quest over Dr. F. H. Rustin of Omaha
that he had planned for her to shoot
him and kill herself and that when
she weakened he told her he had
made the same arrangement with C.
E. Davis, bank clerk. Mr.. Davis ad
mitted DR.. Rustin gave him drugs
with which to commit suicide but de
MED any knowledge of the physicians
death.
Republican standpatters in the Iowa
legislature blocked the election of
Gov. Cummins to the United States
senate.
Kansas City is in fear of a race war,
the negroes having purchased fire.
arms.
Carroll Hall, aged IA, of Danville,
N. H., accidentally shot and killed his
16-yelr-old sister.
An attempt was made to turn
meeting of unemployed workingmen
of New York into an anarchistic DEM
onstration, and for half an hour the
big meeting held in Cooper Union was
the scene of wild excitement, during