Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-12

The third of the Pennsylvania Rail
road ccnpany's series OF four tunnels
under the East river, connecting New
York and Long Island City, was
opened
The eloquence of ex-Gov. Frank
Black was enlisted at Albany, N. Y, IL
the effort to defeat the anti-race-tracB
bills.
The charge was made on the floor
of the house by Mr.. Hitchcock of Ne
braska that the committee on ways
and means was party ito gigantic
schemes of plumber"
Judge c. Richter, in Laporte (Ind)
circuit court, on application of stock
holders representing 1000 shares of
the Chicago-New York Electric Air
Line company, appointed George F.
Null of Indianapolis receiver.
William J. Bailey. former governor
Of Kansas, announced his withdrawal
from the race for the Republican NOM
ination for governor.
Surgeon General Walter Wyman of
the public health service submitted to
Secretary Cortelyou at Washington a
report on milk in its relation to pub
lie health"
The budget passed the Japanese
house of peers without amendment at
Tokyo.
Kansas Republicans in state con-
vention at Topeka, Kan, instructed to
vote for the nomination of Secretary
w. H. Taft for president
United States Senator Redfield Proc
tor of Vermont died In Washington
after a short illness following an at
tack of grippe.
Nathan Vidaver, a special deputy at
torney general, was arrested in New
York, charged with attempted extor-
ton.
The body Ct Miss Rice Hill, an In
dian woman, was found at Black River
Falls. Her death was caused by a
stab wound inflicted by some unknown
person.
Former State Treasurer Frank p.
Glazier was placed under arrest at
Chelsea, Mich, on charges OF misap-
applying state funds. He had pre-
viously been indicted.
Safe blowers robbed the Mount
Grab bank, Mount Grab, o., 40 miles
east of Cincinnati, of $4,000 in curren-
cy and securities.
A complete shutdown of the coal
mines in Iowa. worked by $4,000
miners, Is threatened. The agree
ment expires March 81.
Me- Moroorat D,,rn xJ;aJ xub;l,
seated in her house in Williamsburg,
N. Y, and three days later her death
was discovered.
Secretary Taft rebuked Simeon
Ford, the New York joker, for poking
fun at President Roosevelt at the
annual banquet Of the Boston real
estate and auction board.
Three Italians carved Joseph Pr
raino, a California farmer, almost to
pieces, robbed him of $165 and threw
him into the Sacramento river.
At the New York home of E. H.
Hartman it was said that the condi-
ton Of Miss Carol Hartman, Mr.. Har.
rimans daughter. was improving.
The long-pending suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. A. Hart Mckee
against her husband came up before
the first tribunal in Paris.
After business career of half
century in Chicago. the drug store of
Dale & Sempill has been placed in
the hands of receiver.
Returns indicate plurality of from
5000 to 1000 votes for John F. Miller,
Republican candidate for mayor of
Seattle, and the city council promises
to be solidly Republican.
Jesse Price was murdered at Oar
rington, Wash, at a smelter of the
Pittsburg Gold Mountain Mining CON-
pany, of which he was president and
manager.
The town Of Eden, Me-, has voted
down proposition to repeal the anti
automobile laws, which amounts to q
practical prohibition of automobiles.
President E. d. Eaton of the Beioit
(Wis.) college announced a gift OF
$4,000 from Andrew Carnegie to the
school,
Mayor Taylor of San Francisco has
received letter from President
Roosevelt saying that neither he nor
Secretary Root can be present on the
arrival Of the feet under Admiral
Evans.
Although DR.. Otto Schultze testified
at the inquest in New York that an
autopsy proved conclusively that
Gerolamo Celia, wealthy importer.
was murdered, the coroner's jury re-
turned suicide verdict.
Charge that the government has
been robbed of over S70,000,000 since
1880 by railroads carrying the mails,
was made on the floor of the house
by Mr.. Lloyd (Mo).
Giuseppe ALA, the slayer Of Father
Leo Heinrichs at Denver. Col, is de-
clared absolutely sane in report
submitted to District Attorney A
Stidger by four experts.
The liberal government OF New
Brunswick, which has been continued
for Is years, was overthrown in gen.
eral elections.
King Leopold and the Belgian gov.
eminent have come to a complete
agreement on the question Of the an.
nexation OF the Congo Independent
State.
The Ormsby county New grand
jury returned indictments charging
embezzlement against every director,
the cashier and the assistant cashier
of the defunct State bank.
Application was made at Washing.
ton for the necessary authority to ex-
tradite from France Paul E. Roy,