Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-19
GENERAL sEWS.

Francis J. Heney, leading figure
In the prosecution of municipal corrup-
ton in San Francisco, was shot and
seriously injured Friday by Morris
Haas, a saloon-keeper, who had been
accepted as juror in a previous trias
and afterwards removed, it having
been shown by the prosecution that
he was an eX-convict.
Evidence was introduced by the
prosecution in the Lamphere trial at
Laporte, Ind, tending to prove that
bodies found In the ruins of the Gun
ness farmhouse were those of Mrs.
Guinness and her three children, of
whose murder Ray Lamphere Is &C
cused
1t was reported in Picking tat the
emperor of China was dead and the
dowager empress dying. Two imperial
edicts were issued in quick success
sion. The first makes Prince Chun re-
gent of the empire and the second ap-
points his son, Pu Wei, heiI presump-
tive.
In boiler explosion at the Miller
Lumber Company's plant at Pound,
near Pound Gap, KY, four men were
killed and four more severely injured.
Three men were killed outright, two
were fatally injured and two others
were seriously hurt in an explosion at
a sawmill plant in Wise county, Virgil
MIA.
The new divorce law, increasing the
period of residence from six months
to one year was carried on November
in South Dakota by a vote of two
to one.
Francisco L. de la Barra, at present
Mexican minister to the Netherlands,
has been appointed to succeed En-
rique c.. Creel as Mexican ambassa.
dor at Washington.
University of Michigan alumni in
New York have subscribed funds for
the erection Of 100000 dormitory
with an immense commons" or eating
room in Ann Arbor.
The appointment of Col George H.
Torney as surgeon general of the
army to succeed Surg. Gen. r. M.
O'Reilly was announced by the secre-
tary of war.
Fire in the business district of Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, destroyed property
valued at $125.000.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by band of % Russians to rob
| railroad train that was carrying $12,-
100000 to st. Petersburg.
Ex-senator Carmack Of Tennessee,
! who was killed in street duel in
Nashville by Robin Cooper, was buried
| at Columbia, large delegations from
| all over the state being present.
Nine men were killed in a collision
Cf two Union Pacific freight trains at
Borie. Wyo.
Goaded by the fear that his name
was to be used in connection with an
| attempt to blackmail his father fer
$4,000, j. Edwin Stein of Chicago, %
years old, son of David Stein, head of
| the firm of Ederheimer, Stein & Co.,
clothiers, committed suicide in the
| Lexington hotel.
B. Frank Hall, wealthy resident OF
st. Mary's. Pa, shot and killed himself
on railway train.
A report that the body OF Prof. An
| dree, who tried to reach the pole in
balloon in 1897. had been found on
the Labrador coast was discredited
by authorities on Arctic exploration.
| The petition by the United. States
| government for a rehearing of the ap
| peal of the Standard Oil Company OF
Indiana from the $29.240,000 fine OF
Judge Lands was overruled by Judges
| Groscup, Baker and Seaman In the
United States circuit court of appeal
] at Chicago.
The woman who tried to compel
Mrs. Phipps Of Denver to give her
$4,000 and threatened her with dyns
mite was found to be the wife of AL
Ian Reed. Denver druggist, and the
heiress OF Massachusetts, million.
aire. She was thought 10 be mentally
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