Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-09
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MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
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Greatest interest from All Parts Of
the Globe-Latest Home and For.
eiqn Items.


The countess of Yarmouth, sister OF
Harry X. Thaw, applied to the divorce
court in London for notification of her
marriage to the earl of Yarmouth. In
brief her petition declares that there
has been In fact no marriage. AS
most of the testimony will be given
by medical experts the case will be
heard in camera.
Following a raid on Russellville,
KY, the governor offered reward of
| $500 for the arrest and conviction of
| each night rider.
The president has awarded a rail
road life saving medal to Edward Nc
Grath, station agent for the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway at
Stowell station, Milwaukee. He is a
cripple, and risked his life to save
that of a child.
The woman murdered on the Pas
identified as Mrs. Theodore s. Whit
more of Brooklyn, and her husband
was detained by the police.
At Lansing, Mich, Circuit Judge
West held that the use of cereal and
water in sausage is an adulteration Of
the product and brings it within the
scope of the state pure food law pro-
hibiting authorizations.
The notorious Harden-Von Moltke
libel suit came to an end in Berlin
when the accused editor Of Die
Zukunft was sentenced to four
months imprisonment and to pay the
entire costs of both trials.
Charles Carroll Marsh of Warsaw,
ILL.,, q years, son of the late Congress
man Marsh, committed suicide by
shooting. because Of Ill health.
A fiat refusal to be bound by the
publican state convention which is to
name state ticket and select dele.
gates at large to the national conven.
ton, was the conclusion reached by
United States Senator J. B. Foraker.
Mrs. Mamie G.. Hoagland, aged 80
philanthropist, George Hoagland, died
at st. Joseph, Mo.
One hundred members of the
Daughters of Liberty barely escaped
with their lives when fire swept
through Waverly hall, Brooklyn, on
the top floor of which the Daughters
were holding an entertainment. The
janitor's wife and child were killed.
Byron Williamson was found guilty
on the charge of attempted bribery of
juror to vote favorably to the Stand.
ard Oil company in conspiracy trial
at Findlay, o., last summer.
Horace Boles, twice governor or
Iowa and candidate before the Demo
cratic national convention for the
presidential nomination in 1896, was
reported critically i'll It Ell Paso, Tex,
with pneumonia.
Express companies in New Orleans
announced that they would ship no
more liquor c. o. ID. to southern states
jeremiah O'Meara, 20 years old,
married Helen Naughton, 65 years old,
| in Stamford, Conn, after a wait of 40
| years. O'Meara could not find his
sweetheart after he returned from the
| civil war, and she thought he had been
| killed.
H. l.. Storrs, bookkeeper for the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
company. is said to have confirmed a
$1,OOO,0OO scandal in confession.
Prof. Thomas C. Chamberlain, head
of the department of geology at the
University of Chicago, was elected
president of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science.
Clarence Sturgeon, 10 years old,
was hanged at Louisville, KY, for
murder.
Theodore Roosevelt officiated for
the seventh time as president of the
United States at the New Years re-
ception at the White House. Assist.
ing him in exchanging the salutations
OF the season were Mrs. Roosevelt
and the members and ladies of the
cabinet.
President Roosevelt and family re.
turned to Washington from their holi.
day at Pine Knot, Va
Premier Franco of Portugal, during
the first half of the fiscal year, eff
fected saving of $3,S50,00O as com
pared with the expenditures during
the like period for last year under the
previous administration.
A bill was filed in the United States
circuit court at Atlanta asking that
the Georgia prohibition law be de
clared unconstitutional
Jean Francois Edmond Guyot-Des
saigne, the French minister of jus
tice, dropped dead of apoplexy during
session of the senate.
Mine Inspector James Martin o
) Plains, Pa, died suddenly of hem
orrhage of the lungs. aged Sc years
In September, 1897, while sheriff o
Luzerne county, he led the deputies
who fired upon several hundred strik
, ing miners at Lattimer and IL wely
killed.
Judge John w. Barr, distinguished
Kentucky jurist, died in Louisville o
pneumonia at the age of SO.
In spite of the recent financial de
preston, the port of New York col
lected $212,697,926 in duties durin,
1907, an increase of s3,131,01S owe
Il 1906
J Wireless messages from Sitka
! Alaska, were received at Mare Islam,
; and Point Iona, Cal.
: Mrs. A. b. Upton committed sui
] eide in Elgin, H., by drinking car
. bolic acid. Her husband, formerly ;
merchant of Elgin, deserted her three
I weeks ago.
The torpedo boat fiotilla arrived a
; Para, Brazil.
. The New Jersey pardon board re
fused to pardon Walter A. McAllistel