Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-05

pay money to members of the Wfscon-
sin legislature. was convicted of per-
jury at Madison.
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan an
nounced that the family would not
live in Texas except during the winter
months, but would continue to make
their home at Lincoln, Neb.
Joseph H. Lesson of Indiana, Joseph
p. Walker of Denver, Col, and ]. ].
Harrington of Hartsell, Col, have
sued Benjamin Marks, Ernest E. Hart,
Jr., John ]. Spindler, James G. May
bray and the First National Bank Of
Council Bluffs, Ia, for the recovery
of money alleged to have been lost in
sporting transactions.
The plant of the Murray & Nickel
Manufacturing Company, located at
South Elgin, ILL.,, burned. Explosion
Of a large milling machine started
the fire. The loss is said to be $780,
900.
The tariff conferees signed the AL
drich-Payne bill and reported it to the
house after President Taft had
whipped several of the insurgents into
line for downward revision.
A report from Washington says
James Wilson of Iowa, secretary Of
agriculture, who has been a cabinet
officer longer than any other man.
will resign in January and probably
will be succeeded by Representative
Scott of Kansas.
Eleven persons died in Chicago
from heat and injuries sustained in an
electrical storm.
District Attorney Jerome, after two
days of grueling examination of Harry
Thaw, failed to make the slayer of
Stanford White show any signs of in
sanity.
Harry c. Pulliam, president of the
National League of Professional Base
ball Clubs, died in New York from the
wound he inflicted when he shot him
self in the head.
A barber at Winthrop Harbor de-
clares he shaved off the beard of a
man answering the description Of
Judge Clarkson, who disappeared from
Kenosha, Wis.
The Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition
company at Seattle has offered $4,000
for a race between either of the
Wright brothers and Louis Bleriot, the
French aviator who made the sue
cessful a%eroplane fight across the
English channel.
Harrison s. Green, a prominent Mil
waukee lawyer, and five other passen-
gers were hurt when a Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul train was wrecked
at Duplainville, Wis.
The Chicago grand jury, which has
already indicted a police inspector, a
detective and others, returned indict.
ments against 20 keepers of illegal
establishments.
Fire caused a loss of $4,000 to
buildings in Philo. Ill.
Arthur Eulan, John Ament and
Henry Zebotski, while raising sunken
logs from the Wisconsin river, about
two miles south of Merrill, Wis, were
drowned.
William H. Marker, cashier of the
First National bank, Upton, Ind.
whose brother fed after stealing nor
than 500, 600. resigned.
Mrs. John Mullarkey shot and killed
Edward Axline and then committed
suicide at Bellevue, Ky.
Six hundred miners of District No.
IL in Indiana have been ordered to
return to work pending a review of
their strike difficulty by T. L. Lewis,
the national president.
w. P. Kreis, a union pressman, was
shot and seriously wounded at At
lanta. Ga, by G. w. Stovall, a non.
union pressman, who was attacked
by union sympathizers aroused by a
strike.
Albert Reece, rs years old, of Dan.
vers, ILL.,, was sentenced to one year
in the federal prison at ~Leavenworth,
Kan, for illegally drawing a var pen.
sion for IS years. He drew a total OF
$4,000.
Harry Thaw showed no signs of in.
sanity in his first day on the witness
stand and more than held his own
in a battle of wits with District At,
torney Jerome.
With his kingdom facing civil war,
King Alfonso declared martial law
throughout his domain in an effort to
check the riots which have already
cost several hundreds of lives.
A dog is held prisoner in a Georgia
Jail and will be used as a witness
against a negro who is charged with
assaulting a woman. His mute testi
mony is expected to free the prisoner
or send him to the gallows.
County officials at Peoria, ILL.,, de
cided to ask the next state Legislature
to pass a law providing whipping
posts for men who abandon and beat
their wives.
Roy Blake, a travelling photograph
er, arrested in Denver, Col, at the re
quest of a former Belleville, ILL.,, WON
an who says he killed Peter Waltz, 6
Belleville photographer.
Police Magistrate Grammar Of Bal
timore acquitted Senator Stone of Mis-
souri, and said the senator was JUST
fed in %slapping a negro. waiter on
Pennsylvania train, when the blacl
was impudent to him.
William McCracken of Usage coun
ty, Okla, is under arrest in London
KY, charged with feigning death t
swindle an insurance company gu
of $4,000.
Henry Jordan, Sandusky, O., wa
killed and several others wounded
when a fireworks mortar exploded a
Cedar Point, o.