Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-18
GENERAL NEWS,


bling bills were passed by the New
York senate by the constitutional ma
jority of rs to rs and were at once
signed by Gov. Hughes.
A jury In Pontiac, Mich, decided
that Henry Clay Ward of that city,
millionaire whose eccentric actions
led to his family's applying to have
guardian appointed for him, was
competent to manage his own affairs.
Mulai Hafid, the usurping sultan of
Morocco, entered Fee at the head of
large army.
Ten robbers, heavily armed, invaded
the customs office at Tiflis and killed
the official in charge and his four as
sistants, decamping with $4,000. The
police pursued the robbers, killing
three.
After a campaign of extraordinary
bitterness the voters of Sedalia, Mo-,
rolled up a majority of S4S against
local option.
Patrick O'Hare of Pittsburg, Pa,
his own throat.
Flood conditions in Missouri and
Kansas were much improved, though
there were three drownings at Kan
sas City.
Two children of Fall River, Kan,
which they had hidden.
Before the brewers convention adj
journed at Milwaukee 1t was decided
to raise 100000 to wage war against
the spread of prohibition.
The Republican national committee
volving 219 seats In the convention.
| Of these ZIG were given to Taft and
three to Foraker.
Explosions and fire in the Morris
packing plant at Kansas City, Kan,
resulted in two deaths and the de-
struction of about $350,000 worth of
property.
The Allison Glass works of Cen
tralia, Ill.,, employing 800 men, filed a
| petition in bankruptcy with the fed
eral court.
Nine bookmakers were arrested at
! the Gravesend racetrack for violating
| the new anti-racetrack gambling laws
of New York.
| John McGreer, landscape artist, SO
years Of age, who recently lived in
! Chicago, was drowned in the Hudson
river near New York.
Anthony Comstock, head of the New
York Society for the Suppression of
Vice, says his society will fight the
| sheath gown, whether worn by chorus
| girls or members of the 400.
The receding of the Mississippi
river flood in the vicinity of La Crosse.
Wis, revealed thousands of dollars
worth of pearls cast up by the high
| waters.
Sam T. Stevenson, former secre-
tary of New Orleans Local No. II,
| Typographical union, was arrested in
that city with $4,000 of the unions
| unds.
Twelve people were injured, two
probably fatally, in street car col
lision in Chicago.
Nine persons were killed and 65 in
jured by a rrar-end collision Of a
freight with a passenger train at Roc
capietra, Italy.
Roy A. Gormley, a Detroit grain
broker, ended a weeks debauch by
committing suicide in his apartment
ut the Auditorium Annex. Chicago
On claims aggregating 1871, DAT
due the National Car Wheel company
Of New York. the Wheeling & Lake
Erie railroad was thrown into the
hands of a receiver at Toledo, o.
The Hotel Gramatan at Bronxville,
" Y, and the new Cliff hotel at New
port, r. l., were destroyed by flames.
Nine hotel keepers and business
men of Galesburg, H., were arrested
for violating the local option law
For kindness shown his wife in her
sickness, Giles Gilbert, Duluth pi-
oneer who died few weeks ago, left
$4,000 to Miss Edith Balm. music
teacher of Chicago.
George w. Arndt. secretary of the
Los Angeles Chamber Of Mines, com.
mitted suicide by shooting.
The schooner yacht Dervish, owned
by Commodore Henry Morss of the
Corinthian Yacht club, won the ocean
race from Marblehead to Hamilton in
Class B,