Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-26


bacco ever made in America was
closed at Louisville, Ky, when the
Burley Tobacco society sold to the
American Tobacco Company the crop
of 1906 and part Of that of 1907 The
American company pays an average
of 201s cents a pound for the former
and IL cents for the latter, the total
/ being about s14,000000.
John D. Rockefeller completed his
story of the first 20 years Of the
Standard Oil Company, in the govern
| ment suit for dissolution of the trust.
and then was suddenly turned over
to the federal attorney for cross-ex-
animation.
That Ray Lamphere made damaging
admissions, amounting to a partial
| confession, of setting fire to the home
Of Mrs. Belle Guinness on the morning
of April % was testified to In the La
| porte trial by Deputy Sheriff Anstiss
and Deputy Sheriff Mari.
Malcolm Stewart, who was wanted
in Duluth on charge of being short
| $1,700 in his accounts with the Uni
versal Milling Company, leaped head
foremost through a lavatory window
on the Omaha's Twilight limited and
escaped.
The government of the Netherlands
has proposed to advocate the convoca-
ton of an International committee, to
arrange for third peace conference
| Mrs. Mary Harbour, accused of the
murder Of Miss Rose Adams, her
foster daughter, was found guilty of
murder in the second degree at Sioux
City, la.
All tender vegetation in southern
Alabama and northern Florida was
| killed by severe cold snap.
John Krauss, said to have been con.
nected with tee Pacific State and Sun
set Telegraph Company Of San Fran
cisco. committed suicide on the steam
er Adriatic as 1t was entering Queens
town harbor.
The balloon Yankee, which sailed
from st. Louis in an effort to win the
Lahm cup, failed to do SO, landing
near Tiger, Ga, after travelling 375
| miles.
John A. Boardman C Co., stock
brokers Of Philadelphia with 10
branch Offices in eastern cities, made
an assignment.
]. B. Walton, representing the Corn
Products Company, known as the
starch trust" had a most uncomfort-
| able time trying to answer the ques-
| tons of the house ways and means
committee at the tariff revision hear
ing and to explain why his company
! sold it's products much cheaper in
England than here.
Herbert Grigg, alleged accomplice
of Cline Wheeler and Walter Zeller
| in the murder of William Read at
Vineland, N. j., was arrested in Phila-
delphia.
The supreme court of South Dakota
granted new trial to Mrs. Emma
| Kaufman, wife of the Sioux Falls
| brewer, who was found guilty In the
circuit court of manslaughter on a
| charge of causing the death of a SER
want through beating. 30.
Mrs. Alpha M. Shevalier, convicted
! will case, was sentenced to five years
| in prison by Judge Lincoln Frost at
| Lincoln, Neb.
Two warehouses of the Tom Moore
| Distilling Company of Bardstown, KY.
| In which were stored $4,000 barrels
| Of whisky, were burned, entailing a
| loss to the firm of about 100000 and
to the government of S750,000.
! In view of the fact that an interest
| ing event is expected next spring,
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
been forbidden by her physicians to
hold her customary private audiences.
! The body of Brent Woodall, secre.
tary of the University of Cincinnati,
and former newspaper man of that
city, was found in the Ohio river at
Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. Howard Gould was allowed
| $4,000 year alimony by Justice Bis.
! choff in the supreme court of New
York, pending the decision Of her di
vorce suit.
Fifty state convicts employed in the
mines at Pratt City, Ala. formed a
| conspiracy to set No. mine afire and
escape during the confusion, and as a
result eight of them were burned to
death, one is missing and the other
Al were safely locked in the stockade.
Witnesses in the trial of Ray Lam.
| phere at Laporte, Ind, told of the
love affairs and quarrels of Lamphere
and Mrs. Belle Guinness and of his
threats against her.
Mrs. Sophie Eastman, daughter OF
the late Carter Harrison, former may
or of Chicago, was married at Ashe
vile, N. c., to Baker E. Edwards oil
Norfolk, Va.
The plant of the Indianola Miss
Cotton Compress & Warehouse Com
pany and several adjoining buildings
were destroyed by fire. the loss being
100000.
The demurrer of the New York. New
Haven & Hartford railroad to the bill
OF information by Attorney General
Malone of Massachusetts, to prevent
the New Haven railroad from holding
stock of the Boston & Maine railroad
was sustained by Judge Loring.
George A. Burnham of Detroit
Mich, general factory manager fol-
Morgan G. Wright and well known
among automobile men, was accident
ally killed while duck hunting at the
st. Clair fats.
The Hawaii Shimho of Honolulu
published what purports to be tex
of new treaty between Japan ant
the United States, the official an
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