Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

j. Bailey when the latter was in con
gress, was mysteriously assassinated
In Seneca, Kan.
sane asylum at Elgin, H., committed
| suicide by cutting his throat with q
piece Of glass.
The Oklahoma house killed the hote
bill which required 9-foot sheets or
beds and provided penalty for the
use of cracked cups.
Lieut.. Gov. Dickerson of Nevada or
dered so carbines from Chicago firm
for the new police force to relieve the
federal troops at Goldfield.
By direction Of the president, Act
Ing Secretary Oliver ordered com
pany of infantry from Fort Gibbon, in
Alaska, to Fairbanks, in that territory
to preserve order during the mining
strike in that section.
Indictments alleging perjury were
returned In New York against former
governor of New Jercey, Foster M
Voorhees,, and Frank II. Combes, fol
lowing grand jury inquiry into the
acts of these two men while they were
officials of the Bankers Life Insurance
company.
1t was stated on what was believed
to be good authority that w. B. Ridge,
ly, comptroller of the currency, has
decided to accept the presidency OF
the reorganized National Bank OF
Commerce of Kansas City, Mo, which
suspended payment during the late
financial stringency.
Mrs. Martha Anderson was found
dead, lying on a cot in her room In
GAINESVILLE, Wis, with her throat cut
from ear to ear. Investigations by the
police indicate she was murdered.
George H. Norman, who as an Off.
Ger on the gunboat Gloucester during
the Spanish.American war took Ad-
miral Cervera Of the Spanish fleet off
the burning flagship lnfanta Maria
Teresa, died in Brookline. Mass.
Newton Edmunds, former governor
of Dakota territory and president Of
the Yankton National bank, died at
Yankton of paralysis. aged SS years.
The IL laundries In Cincinnati under
indictment for organizing u combine
to raise prices pleaded guilty and each
was fined $50 and costs. The trust
also agreed to dissolve.
Violation of the postal laws by car.
rying first-class mail matter was
charged against the American Express
company in a suit filed in the United
States district court at Cincinnati by
District Attorney Mcpherson.
Clyde Cant of Belleville. H., was
convicted OF the murder Of Henry
Dickerman and sentenced to IA years
in the penitentiary.
That the fight of the administration
against the Standard Oil company was
only bluff was asserted in the
house of representatives by Mr.
Rainey of Illinois. who spoke at length
on his bill placing on the free list
petroleum. crude or refined. or it's
products.
John Il. Venson set a new American
record by jumping lie feet on skis at
the Duluth tournament.
Sir James Knowles, founder and
proprietor of the Nineteenth Century,
died in London
The Mississippi senate passed the
house statutory prohibition bill
1t is announced that there is pros.
pect of Raisuli. the Moroccan bandit,
appearing on the variety stage in Lon.
don.
The Chicago Cincinnati & Louis.
vile Railroad company was put In the
hands Of a receiver
Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, president of
the Missouri w. c. T, u. died at
Kansas City after long illness, aged
SIS years.
Charles Peccorino. said to be the
leader of Black Hand society which
caused the murder of a wealthy Italian
at Lake Charles, La, was arrested at
Hastings, Col
The British steamer Roda, Capt
Burdis, from Huelva for New York
with cargo of iron ore, went ashore
during thick fog abreast of the Jones
life-saving station. Just below Amity.
vile, Long Island.
Capt. E. b Underwood has been
chosen for the command of the cruiser
Colorado, vice Capt. Sidney Stanton,
who will be appointed a member of
the general board of the navy.
One boy was stabbed to death and
three wounded during fight among
inmates of the correctional institution
in Randalls Island, New York
After an exciting debate lasting six
hours which developed into a riot on
the floor of the Japanese house of rep
resentatives, the financial budget was
passed by majority of 102.
Col. Andrew Wendell, member of
the squad of soldiers which captured
J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin OF Abra-
ham Lincoln, and who was present
when Booth was shot, died at his
home in Chicago
Arthur Sullivan, pioneer OF south
ern Montana, died at Dillon, Mont,
aged 80.
The Michigan Republican state CEN
trail committee fixed May IL as the
date and Grand Rapids as the place
for the state convention to elect dele
gates-at large to the national Repub-
lican convention.
A. H., Cline, prominent lumber
man, was shot and instantly .-illed by
Luke Banner, wealthy merchant of
Elk Park, ". c.
Henry c. Mowry, former president
of the Illinois Grain Dealers associa-
ton and for more than 40 years a
grain dealer in central Illinois, died at
his home in Forsyth, Ill.
The announcement that about 1000
600 robins have been killed by hunters