Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-27
NEWS OF A WEEK
TOLD IN BRIEF
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATH.
Erred FROM ALL POINTS OF
THE GLOBE.
GIVEN IN TENTED FORM
Notable Happenings Prepared for the
PerusaI of the Busy Man--Sum.
mary Of the Latest Home and For
eign Notes.

d6diHSI the lives Vi eAdlleu pei oohaSSS
were frustrated by st. Petersburg po-
| lice by succession of arrests in va
rious parts of the city, aggregating %
men and women.
] Former Gov. Pennypacker of Penn
| sylvania emphatically denied that
there had been any official attempt to
white wash" the capitol scandal in
the inquiry by former Attorney Gen.
eral Carson.
| Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, once known as
''the Hero of Port Arthur" was con-
demned to death by a military court
in st. Petersburg for the surrender of
that fort to the Japanese.
George Dixon, a carpenter on the
American collier Abarenda, killed Wal
| ter Weichert, chief officer of the col
lier, at San Juan.
The Tri-City State bank closed at
Madison, H., and the home of a
| trusted employee of the institution was
placed under police guard
By the will of the late Mrs. Amy
Sheldon, filed at Newport, r. l., be-
| quest of 100000 to Harvard univer-
sity is made in the codicil.
Without leaving anything to indi-
cate why the act was committed, Col.
Eugene w. Guindon, president Of
Fuller's Express company, fired bull
let into his brain while seated at his
desk in New York city.
An explosion at Pinole, Cal, was re-
ported to have killed "a Cinnamon and
four white men.
John Mitchell, the retiring presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America, may be asked by President
Roosevelt to go to Panama and make
report on labor conditions.
E. III. Hartman w~n complete con-
troll of the Illinois Central railroad
when Judge Farlin O. Ball dissolved
| the injunction restraining the voting
of 2S6,231 Hartman proxies.
| Mohammed ell Torres, the sultan's
former representative for foreign af-
fairs at Tangier, has protested in the
name of Abd-elAziz against the Span
ish occupation of Marchica.
The marching of nearly 1000 for
eigners upon the Philadelphia city
hall, where they said they intended
to make demands upon Mayor Rey-
| burn for work precipitated a riot in
which 20 persons were injured.
William F. Barrows, aged So years,
a clerk in the Office of the Indianapo-
lis building inspector committed sui
eide.
| The Illinois supreme court has de-
clared that labor unions unfair hist"
Is an illegal boycott.
Attorney General Bonaparte has ap-
pointed special counsel to prepare
railroad rate law test cases.
Dispatches giving further details of
the fighting in Morocco have been re-
ceived in Paris from Gen. d'Amade,
the French commander-in-chief He
relates that the French lost four meu
killed and 27 men wounded in two en-
! gagements.
( With Chicago suffering in the after
math of storm which has broken al.
records since 1884, traffic was partial
ly paralyzed and want and destruction
are everywhere.
! Senior Gomez has resigned as a
member of the Philippine assembly
1t is believed that he will not be
, power in insular politics in the future.
| The Illinois supreme court affirmed
the decision in the Cook county crimi-
nal court in the Billik murder case
Senator Asbury c. Latimer of South
Carolina died in Washington of peri.
tonitis.
The will of Vernum Lincoln, Just
probated, leaves $500 to provide prizes
for annual old-fashioned spelling
matches at Andover, Mass.
! The formal reception of Baron
Takahira, as ambassador of Japan to
the United States, took place at the
White House.
Three business blocks, a hotel and
livery stable, which comprised the
larger part of the business section of
North Woodstock, N. H., were de-
stroyed by a fire at an aggregate
damage of approximately 100000.
Investigation into the affairs of the
American Ice company, promoted and
formerly controlled by Charles w.
Morse, was formally begun in New
York.
Following an operation for a twist
Of the bowels, Senator Asbury c. Lati.
mer of South Carolina was said to be
In critical condition in Washington.
Third Engineer William Davis, one
of the men suffering from yellow fever
on the steamer Crispin in Galveston
roads, died.
Twenty-eight miners were impris
oned in the Midvale collisry nea,
Mount Carmel, Pa. by the breaking OF
a dam, but it was believed all were
alive and would be rescued.
Mrs. Andy Baker and her five-year-
old daughter of Rainsley Place, KY.
we're accidentally burned to death.
The Merchants National bank OF
Portland, Ore, reopened for business
after remaining IL weeks in the hands
Of bank examiner.
Charles w. Morse, the New York
, fnancier, was indicted again, for
perjury while testifying before the
rand jury.
John F. Randolph of West Orange
N. j., treasurer of the Edison Manufac
3 turing Company, of which Thomas A
Edison is president, committed suicide
!. by shooting himself in the head.
Virgil Mcknight, member of the
Kentucky legislature from Maso:
county, died of cardiac asthma.
William Sells son of ono NJ tbs
}, three brothers who organized the ia
: nous Sells Brothers circus combina
: ton, died suddenly in New York.