Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-05

adjourned sine die, without reaching
an agreement upon the wage scale.
Because he would not take a drink
"Blacky" Collins, said to be member
Of prominent family, was shot and
killed at Erie, Pa.
The Italian cabinet was victorious
in its opposition to the abolition of
religious teaching In the schools.
Thomas A. Edison was operated
upon for mastoiditis in New York for
the second time.
Ned w. Barton, an assistant exam
liner of the patent Office; Henry E. Ev-
erding, a patent attorney and John A.
Heany, an inventor, were indicted by
the Washington grand jury and ar
rested on a charge of destroying pub
| lie records.
Resolutions favoring the candidacy
of William II. Taft for president were
adopted by the Missouri Republican
state convention at st. Louis.
Telegraph operators on the North
ern Pacific rejected the proposition
made by the road in regard to the
new schedule of hours and wages.
Senator Robert L. Owen of Okla
homa engaged in a tilt with Senator
Charles Curtis, declaring the Chero-
kee Indians are not under the control
Of the secretary of the interior.
Lord Kitcheners frontier war In the
Bazaar Valley against the Zakkakhels
tribesmen is making rapid and sue
| cessful progress in India.
The Ormsby (Nev.) county grand
jury returned an indictment against
4. B. Hickey, president of the State
bank on six counts for embezzlement.
A locomotive running wild through
Brockwayville crashed into the rear
of freight train, killing two men.
Edward r. Thomas and Orlando F.
Thomas, financiers of extensive inter
ests, were indicted in New York on
charges growing out Of management
of funds of the Provident Savings Life
Assurance society.
Twenty-Five specific charges are
made in petition praying for the re-
moval of William r. Jerome as dis
trict attorney of the county of New
York, which was sent to Gov. Hughes
at Albany, N. Y.
Seven Russian terrorists, including
| two women, were sentenced to death
for plot to kill Grand Duke Nicholas
and the minister of Justice in st. Pc
| tersburg.
The American Trust and Savings
bank and the Hibernian Banking asso-
citation may be consolidated in Chi
cago.
The Wisconsin Republican state
central committee Endorsed Senator
La Toilette for the presidency.
Lima, Peru, shopkeepers, fruit
vendors and curio dealers reaped a
rich harvest from American sailors.
The body Of John Jones, famous as
the Jim Bludso" of the upper Missis-
sippi river, was buried at Dakota,
MINI.
An opinion handed down by the
supreme court of Missouri held that
the law creating the court of general
| sessions in st. Louis is unconstitu.
tional and the court is invalid.
Owing to the refusal of the gov
| ernor OF Mazagan to deliver the gar
rison into the hands of Mulai Hafid,
the sultan of the south, Hafid says he
intends to attack the garrison.
George Dawkins, policeman,
charged with being a confederate of
thieves, has been found guilty of bur.
glary and grand larceny, in the su.
preme court of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Paul d. Elliser, an aged white
woman, who resides at Cayce, s. c.,
was killed by an unknown negro.
Operating officials of railways were
in attendance upon the hearing given
by the interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington and 81 applica-
tons for an extension of the time of
the going into effect of the nine-hour
law were made.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw moved out of
her New York apartments and 1t is
said she will go to Europe soon.
DR.. George Frederick Kunz has re-
ceived from Norway the cross of the
first class OF the Royal Order of ST.
Olav in recognition of his distin-
guished services in the department
OF mineralogy.
The Missouri supreme court decided
the law passed by the last legislature
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors within five miles of any state
educational institution having 1900
| students enrolled is unconstitutional.
Night riders set fire to the house of
RrnnCcaic GrnOnru yniIn IF
Hopkinsville, KY, and fired shots into
! the bedroom in which Mr.. Gregory,
| his wife and his daughter were sleep
ing.
| The German car in the New York-to-
| Paris automobile race broke the uni
| versal joint seven miles west of Elk.
hart, Ind, and was towed back by
| horses.
After making gifts of nearly $1,000,
900 to relatives and for educational
| purposes, Mrs. Anna M. Walker
Weightman was married in New York
to F. C. Pepfield.
The supreme court of Texas rem
dered a judgment for s1,600,000 dam
ages and custer from the state against
the Waters Pierce Oil company for
violating the Texas antitrust laws.
The first of the great system of tun.
nels linking New York and New Jer'
sey under the Hudson river was for
mally opened to the public.
Because of failure to agree in the
wage cut of the Southern Railway
company, the negotiations have been
broken off and President Finley will
carry the case to the interstate COM