Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-04
GENERAL NOTES.

Five hundred Indian bucks and
squaws, after receiving their annuities.
INDUCED in one of the widest orgies
that the Leech Lake (Minn.) agency
ever witnessed. 1t was the last day
when saloons could sell liquor to the
redskins.
Mrs. Frank Stanley, at Pana, ILL.,,
shot and killed her husband, Frank,
during struggle for the possession
Of a shotgun. The woman claims she
shot in self-defense.
Frederick Gebhardt, the New York
self-confessed wife murderer, admits
he has been guilty of three such
crimes, for the purpose of securing
the women's money.
Grand jury at Chicago in their final
report to Judge Tuthill, declared the
jury-drawing system of Cook county
rotten and corrupt" and charge the
commissioners with wholesale viola
tons of the law.
Gen. oliver o. Howard, the last of
the union commanders of the civil
war, died at his home in Burlington,
VT, Of heart disease, aged 70 years.
Credence is given by Tokyo officials
to the report that the assassination of
Prince Ito was the elimination of a
plot, the ramifications of which ex-
tended through Korea and into China
Federal Judge Holt, at New York,
handed down a decision which will
allow Gustav E. Kissel and Thomas
W a.,
Gicted along with the American Sugar
Refining Company for criminal con-
.spiracy, to escape prosecution through
the provisions Of the statute of limita-
tons.
John r. Walsh, the former Chicago
banker, has received 100000 for an
option on his railroads from the United
States Steel Corporation, which will
enable him to settle his financial diff
culties for the time being, at least.
A secret investigation into alleged
irregularities in the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan, is being made by
Alexander Bruce Bielaski, a special
examiner from the department of jus.
tice at Washington.
The fourth annual convention of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway as.
ISOLATION Is in session at New Orleans
with President Taft, President
Sherman, Speaker Cannon, several
members of the cabinet. numerous
governors, senators, representatives
members of state legislatures and
members of industrial and semi-public
organizations in attendance.
The thirty-ninth annual reunion OF
the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee was held in Columbus, O., Gen
James Grant Wilson delivering the
address.
Fire destroyed billiards oper,
house at Kenopa, Ont. The loss is es
timated at $4,000. The fire started
In the scenery of the opera house.
The South Dakota Educational as
ISOLATION met in annual session 1,
Lead and the Nebraska State Teach
ers' association in Lincoln.
Sheriff Strassheim of Cook county
Illinois (Chicago), was fined $500 an
costs by the Illinois supreme court 70
contempt in not promptly obeying
mandate Of that tribunal. Gov. n.
neen will pay the fine, If the decisio
stands, as the sheriff was, it is allege,
following his instructions.
Harry X. Thaw's contention tn;
he was illegally committed to tn
Matteawan asylum was overruled I
the New York court of appeals.
BY decision of the Illinois supreu
court Chicago will have to pay $40
600 for cars burned during the b
railroad strike of 1890
The western section OF the Northe
Illinois Teachers association met
Galena, ILL.,. with Cyrus Grove OF Fir,
port presiding.
Fifty thousand people greeted Pre-
dent Taft upon his arrival at Cal
Ill. during his trip down the Miss
sippi.