Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-05-13

! officers who served in the conflict
were in attendance.
Francis L. Wellman, noted cross
examiner and authority of court pro
cedure, declared in a speech to the
Catholic club in New York that per.
| jury by witnesses was increasing at
an alarming rate.
In default of payment of hotel bill
in Paris, France, the trunks and cloth.
ing Of Princess Louise of Belgium,
which have been seized, will be sold
in accordance with a court order.
John Bradley was found guilty of
murder in the first degree in Kenosha,
Wis, for killing Clifford L. Smith, a
Libertyville Qll.) contractor, on June
27, 1906.
A fierce electrical storm swept over
northern Indiana and lower Michigan
and the high wind dashed rain and
hail. cutting crops and stripping fruit
trees. Great property damage was
done.
Harry Josephs, who alleged he was
falsely imprisoned in Belleville, ILL.,,
at the instance of Harry Rosenberg,
; rival merchant, sued for $4,000 and
obtained verdict of one cent, or one
mill for each pound of flesh he had
lost while in jail
Mothers day" was celebrated gen.
orally throughout the country and con-
tributions were taken up in the
churches for destitute mothers.
The American Federation of Musi-
clans met in annual convention at
Minneapolis, with about three hun
dred delegates present.
The arrival of a British battleship
at Suadia, Asiatic Turkey, brought re-
lief to the survivors of the recent
massacre.
James Boyle was convicted at
Mercer, Pa, Of kidnapping Willie
Whitla, and the trial of his wife began
Immediately.
Advocates of international peace
through arbitration met in Washing.
ton at a dinner in honor of Secretary
Knox's fifty-sixth birthday anniver-
sary.
Mrs. Harry Thaw paid the judgment
obtained against her by a milliner and
avoided going to Jail for contempt Of
court.
Canon Arthur w. Behrens, chaplain
Of St. Adams School for Boys at
Galesburg, H., fearing insanity, COM
mitted suicide.
Several farm houses, much stock
and other property were destroyed by
oirin oh
ships near North Platte, Neb.
The fiftieth anniversary of the dis
covery of gold was celebrated with
fetes in Denver and other Colorado
cities and towns.
An ice skating rink is to be installed
in the Plaza hotel, New York, for use
| Of patrons in hot weather.
A crystal spring which was favored
in the early days of San Francisco for
its medicinal virtues but lost to sight
for many years has started to flow
again on one of the main streets.
Three thousand silk worms sailed
on the steamer Mauretania in charge
of John A. Emery of New York, who
will take them to the south of France
| for breeding in an effort to produce a
hybrid which will spin silk superior to
that of China.
| DR.. T. Z. Graham resigned as assist
ant physician of the state hospital for
| the insane No. 2 at st. Joseph, Mo-,
and asserted that inmates were sub
jected to gross outrages on the part
Of the attendants.
The Missouri senate passed a reso
luton to submit a statewide prohibi
ton amendment to the constitution tC
the people.
The trial of James Boyle, charged
with kidnapping Willie Whitla, was be
gun in Mercer, Pa.
The American Therapeutic society
opened it's tenth annual convention
in Lampson hall, Yale university
Two more lions were killed by Col
Roosevelt, making six he has nov
brought down with his trusty rifle.
1t is the hope of the sleeping sick
ness commission that Theodor,
Roosevelt will visit it's camp at Sesse
Uganda, and view the work being
done to find cure for the disease.
May wheat was sold in the Chicag,
market at $1.291a on the strength O
report that James A. Patten had re
entered the game.
British riflemen in the internationa
small bore match defeated the Amer
leans, 1853 points to 14,179 out of
possible $4,000.
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in buggy in Indianapolis fror
poison, after she had spurned his love
A plot was discovered in the Cal
fornia penitentiary in which J. T
Clifton, convict, planned to have
y friend steal Gov. Gillettes son an
hold him until Clifton was pardonet
. Mrs. Della Stringer was acquitte
0 at Washington, Ind, on a charge {
blackmail, but was sent to an insan
l asylum.
s DR.. Frank r. Hanson, wanted
Jackson, Mimi, for forgery, feigue
o sickness and escaped from Sheri
Terhaar in Kansas City.
, King Edward, who has been trave
o ing in the south of Italy, arrived
, Paris on his way to England.
II ExPresident Castro of Venezuela
6 says his physlcion had advised hi
to go to the Canary islands.
# The buildings of the Northwe.
@ Stove works at the Oregon state pen
It Tertiary, at Salem, were destroyed b
fire. Loss, $4,000.
e A bronze statue of Henry Wad
" worth Longfellow was unveiled
e Washington with much ceremony.
was presented to the nation by til