Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-31

grant one-cent rate, the next Grand
Army encampment probably will not
be held in Salt Late City.
w. /. Buchanan was sent to Vene-
luela to conduct negotiations for re-
newal of diplomatic relation.
In Whan Chang, the Korean who
killed Durham White Stevens, the
American diplomat and adviser to the
Korean emperor In San Francisco,
was found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree.
Harvey Hazel, the 17-year-old boy,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree for the killing of his mother In
Toledo, o.. was found guilty of muir
der In the second degree.
More than 1000 persons were made
homeless and 100000 worth of prop
erty was destroyed in fire which
burned out an entire block of apart
ment houses in Brooklyn.
The board of trade at Little Rock,
Ark, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000.
A new cabinet was formed In Por-
trgal with Senior Antonio Azevedo as
premier.
E. II. Harriman's secretary, Albert
c. Welts, denied reports that the phys.
ical condition of the financier was
serious.
The Salvation Army prepared Christ
mas dinners for about 100000 poor
people throughout the country.
President Castro of Venezuela is
charged with forming a conspiracy to
assassinate Acting President Gomez,
who arrested the ringleaders single
handed. Castro's letter of credit was
Cancelled. Gomez suspended the VIII
lemstad decree and took steps to set
tie all Venezuela's quarrels with other
nations. 1t was believed Castro would
never return from Europe.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas pardoned John
Collins, serving a life sentence in the
Kansas state penitentiary for the MUIR
der of his father, j. S. Collins, we'll
TODD real estate and insurance man of
Topeka, in 1898. One of the witnesses
against Collins has admitted his testi-
mony was perjured.
The United States Steel Corporation
is planning to build $10,000,000 town
at the head of Lake Superior, about
six miles from Superior and Duluth,
similar to Gary, Ind.
Fire partly wrecked the Herald
Square theater in New York. The
flames broke out before the perform
ance was over, but through the cool
ness and bravery of the actors and en-
ployes the audience was got out with
out knowing of its peril
Leonard Smith, son of Chief of Po-
lice Smith, Charlie Moore and his
brother Virgil Moore, were killed and
Policeman Cain Walters fatally wound
ed in four-cornered pistol battle
fought in Ocilla, Ga.
Federal authorities began an investi-
CATION of the packing industry in Chi
cago.
Dora Fair, 16 years old, and Lewis
Rogers, 25 years old, Cherokee Indians
who eloped from Chouteau, Okla, were
arrested in Kansas City, Mo.
Six severe earthquake shocks threw
the people of Virginia City into
panic
Ebert Hubbard, author and lecturer,
was badly crushed by falling tree
near East Aurora, N. Y.
Acting President Gomez of Vene-
zuela ousted all the members of Cas-
tro's cabinet and formed new min
istry.
On charges Of bribery and con-
spiracy, President William Brand Of
the common council of Pittsburg, Pa,
six members of the finance committees
of the common and select councils.
and w. M. Ramsey president, and A.
A. Vilsack, cashier, of the German Ma
tional, one of Pittsburg's leading
banks, were arrested.
Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne Of
Chicago completed the payment of
possession of the valuable tapestries
and art works seized by customs Of
ficials when they were imported from
England last July.
A. B. Stickney, president and one
Of the receivers of the Chicago Great
Western railway, resigned his receiver
ship of that road and II. c. Burt was
appointed to the place.
Seized with sinking spell while
driving an electric automobile, Mrs.
Clara Cartwright, aged 60 years, of
Waterloo, Ia, fell from the machine
and was run over by it and killed.
The Frankfurter Zeitung learns from
reliable source that Austria-Hungary
Is prepared to grant Turkey $4,000.
900 as compensation for the annexa-
ton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The jury in the case of state against
James H. Parrish, an Greensboro (Ky.;,
banker, charged with receiving a de.
post when his bank, the greensboro
Savings Bank and Trust Company
was insolvent, reported that it could
not agree, and was discharged.
Father James A. Kelly of Paterson
N. j., on his way to Ireland, fell or
jumped overheard from the steamer
Arabic and was drowned.
John Robb Murdoch, member of a
prominent Pittsburg, Pa, family, COM
mitted suicide in a hospital.
M. Matter, the public prosecutor. in
presenting his conclusion to the Paris
court In the suit involving the custody
Of the Castellane children, recon-.
mended that the children be given tc
the mother.
Arizone Lyle, st. Louis carpenter,
and his brother, William A. Lyle, a
railway clerk, have been Informed that
they are part heirs to an estate in the