Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25


Henry G. Sharpe, commissary general
OF the army, recommends that each
military camp have school of in
struction in baking and cooking dur
ling their annual encampment.
AS a sequel of the South African
war stores scandal, Secretary for War
Haldane and the army council are ar
ranging to create new supply de-
partment. This department will be
composed of specially trained officers
assisted by civilian experts.
The twenty-fifth annual convention
of the Methodist Women's Home Mis-.
sionary society concluded its sessions
at Lincoln, Neb.. Boston, Mass, was
selected as the meeting place next
year.
The wages of miners in the Aspen
(Col.) silver district will be increased
from $3.50 to 1915 a day. Several
thousand men are benefited by the adj
vance.
Quarantine regulations were fully
restored by the Louisiana state board
of health on advice from Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman, Of the marine hospital
service, that future yellow fever con.
ditions at Havana are uncertain.
A southwestern railroad locomotive
exploded near Almogordo, N. NJ, kill
ing Fred Dobbin, the engineer, and T.
e. Brandon, the fireman, and serious.
ly injuring G. o. Gallagher, brake
ban.
The anti-British movement in India
is receiving much encouragement
from Japan, where every effort is be-
ing made to foster a feeling of kim
ship between the two dark races and
to preach the lessons of the Russo
Japanese war.
A man named Scheve, who tried to
sell to the French government the Sc
cret of the manufacture of the Ger
man nickel-coated cartridge, has been
sentenced to four years in the peni-
Tertiary for treason.
Sixteen more awards Of funds or
medals was made by the Carnegie
hero fund commission to individuals
that have saved lives and whose deeds
of heroism have been brought to the
attention of the commission.
Five persons were killed and about
hundred injured by gasoline explo,
sion in the Meinerding dry goods and
hardware store at Fort Recovery, o.
Willie Hoppe, of New York, again
proved his right to the title of worlds
champion at 1S-inch balk line, one
shot in. The young lad was challeng-
ed by the veteran Jake Schaefer, of
Chicago, and won by score of 500
to 472 in AZ innings.
While there is some apprehension
with regard to yellow fever in Cuba,
the situation is not regarded as espe-
cially dangerous. The number of
cases under treatment in Havana is
ten. There is one case at Cruces, two
at Cienfuegos. DR.. Finlay, chief OF
the department of health and SANTA
ton, said that while the fever in Ha-
vana was epidemic, the situation was
not one to cause serious alarm and
that there was every expectation that
the spread of the disease could be
prevented.
al I-OShpOlIJ ~ ILC JulJ III ]AS
case of Mrs. Della B. Sweeting against
the steamer Western States reported
to Judge Hazel in federal court YER
dict of $4,000 in favor of the plain
tiff. Mrs. Sweeting, whose home is in
Jackson. Mich, sued for $4,000.
James B. Mapen claims that on
shipments of baled straw from Gen.
ter Point, Ia, to Chicago the Rock
Island road charged him IA cents per
hundred pounds on a weight of a.
900 pounds to car, although the pre-
else weight was only 1920 pounds.
Three children, aged three, four
and seven years respectively, we-e
smothered to death in a gravel pit at
Canton, o. Their bodies were found
in the pit, where they had been play
ing. A landslide had caught them.
At Carmia, B. c., James A. Dale, a
boarding house keeper, is alleged to
have killed two men and to have
wounded a third, Dale is said to
have attempted to eject the men from
his house when the fight started.
Secretary and Mrs. Taft, Assistant
Secretary of State Bacon and Mrs. Ba-
con, Gen. Funston and others COM
posing Secretary Taft's party, arrived
in Washington from Cuba.
The controversy which had been
waged between the American and
Canadian lake fishermen for the past
20 years has been placed in an en-
tirely different light by report made
to the state department by Capt E. c.
Chayter, commanding the United
States revenue cutter Morrell on the
great lakes. The report shows in sub
stance that the American fishermen
have been transgressors and that the..'
have been treated with the greatest
consideration by the Canadian fish
ing patrol.
Mrs. ELIZABETH M. Holmes, wife of
William M. Holmes, of Brooklyn, who
was arrested in Washington last jan
uary while attempting to secure an
interview with President Roosevelt,
was ordered to be committed to
Bloomingdale asylum as paranoiac.
The fight between two women over
the distribution of the $60,000,000 es-
tate of the late William Weightman,
the chemist, was abruptly halted at
Philadelphia by the production of a
small piece Of note paper that had
turned yellow with age. What the
piece of paper contains was not made
public.
The legislative assembly at Perth,