Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

G. c. Breuer, Cincinnati capitalist,
ing to blow up and destroy building
he owned, the rentals from which he
had been ordered by court to pay to
two daughters who had refused to live
with his second wife.
Forcible resistance by tenants whom
York was trying to evict resulted in
the gathering of crowd of 1000 or
more sympathizers in the neighbor-
hood. who made so much trouble for
the, police that the precinct reserves
were called out. During the rioting
four women and a number of men
were taken into custody.
Miss Mary Robinson, an American
woman, the daughter of a southern
painter, who in the recent bruce case
testified that she knew bruce as the
duke of Portland, was arrested in Lon
don for perjury.
The American battleship feet was
joined in the harbor of Rio Janeiro by
the torpedo boat flotilla, numbering
six vessels.
o. S. Sisson, one of the leading
Grand Army men in Wisconsin and
known throughout the northwest
where he for many years acted as pen
sion agent, died at La Crosse, aged 62.
Three girls were killed, ten serious
ly injured and a score or more slight
ly hurt at fire in the Imperial Knit
ting company's mill in Scranton, Pa.
The mayor of Mobile, Ala, ordered
closed all the moving picture shows
in the city.
Demurrers to indictments against 10
prominent lumbernen charging con-
spiracy to defraud were upheld in the
federal district court at Minneapolis.
President Roosevelt informed Gov.
Sparks of Nevada that he would per-
NIT the troops to remain in Nevada for
such reasonable length of time as
would give the legislature opportunity
to organize force to perform the po-
lice functions of the state.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada went
into liquidation and other banks ar.
ranged to take over it's numerous
branches.
Former officials of the state dis
pensary of South Carolina and some
whisky men were accused of having
defrauded the state out of large sums.
A general inquiry into the conduct
of all state charitable institutions was
ordered by the legislature of Illinois.
1t was reported that Secretary of
the Treasury Cortelyou had resigned
and would become president of the
Knickerbocker Trust company of New
York
Benjamin Emmons, former clerk In
the post Office at ST. Charles, Mo-, was
adjudged guilty of having embezzled
$9SS.0l in office funds by jury In the
United States district court.
Fire Chief Harding of Jackson, O.,
was run over and killed while an.
swering fire call.
Mayor Gerber of Reading, Pa, re.
.eived black hand" letter in which
not only his life but the lives of the
entire police force of Reading are
threatened If any harm comes to tho
two Italians under arrest charged
with the murder of State Trooper
Kelleher.
The supreme court of Ohio sen.
fenced former Supreme Court Clerk
Lawson w. Emerson to ten days in
jail and State Senator Austin OF To.
ledo to ten days in Jail and 500 fine
in connection with the charge of sc.
curing the latter's certificate to prac.
tice law without proper examination
Misses Annie and Maggie Wade
sisters. of Oak Park. Ill, went insane
at Ocean park, near Los Angeles,
Cal, as result of the financial de,
preston.
The British steamer Tolesby was
wrecked on Cape Race. the crew be
Ing saved.