Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-11

hour law, and instructions have been
sent to special agents of the depart.
ment In various parts Of the country
/ to Investigate the question in which
to whether there have been any viola.
tons OF that law on the part of con-
tractors engaged In public works.
Mrs. Charles s. Deneen, wife of the
governor of Illinois, gave birth to q
daughter.
Acting Postmaster General Hitch
cock has ordered the exemption of
over 100 assistant postmasters in
first and second class post Offices from
the requirement Of recording the time
OF their arrival at and departure from
their Offices
AS first step in the development
OF the emigran, business to the south
North German Lloyd Steamship COM
pany will send the steamer Wittekind
from Bremen to Charleston on October
Is, with several hundred emigrants on
board.
Two robbers entered the Kimmon
Ginko, a Japanese bank, also known
as the Golden Gate bank, at San Fran
cisco, and, after fatally beating 8.
Urakata, the manager Of the bank, and
seriously injuring A. Sassski, clerk,
with piece OF gaspipe, escaped with
$4,000 In gold. Manager Urakata died
two hours later from his injuries.
United States Senator Beveridge
opened the Republican campaign in
Des Moines with speech that was
heard by large audience.
Silico, bay son of Moko and Silicon,
won the $4,000 Kentucky futurity at
Lexington from the best field of three
year-olds that have faced the starter
this year.
Patriotism Ct substantial kind was
manifested at Philadelphia when the
convention of the United Irish League
OF America, amidst great enthusiasm,
pledged the organization to raise $780,.
900 for the cause of home rule for Ire.
land within the succeeding two years.
Albert Berger and Henry Reidling.
er, painters, were at work on scat.
fold at the fourth floor of building
at Cleveland, when the scaffold broke.
Berger was thrown to the ground, sus.
tanning fractured skull, internal in.
iuries and broken arm and leg. His
fall was broken very slightly by strik.
ing Rosetta Nieman, a four-year-old
child, who suffered serious internal
injuries and may die.
Police at Posen, Prussia, seized TO-.
300 copies of an appeal couched In
1ery language to Polish parents. urg.
.ng them to make a demonstration
October II against religious instruc.
ion being given in the German Ian.
guage in the schools.
Representative Ira w. Wood, OF
Trenton, was renominated by Repub.
Leans of the Fourth New Jersey con.
gressional district.
The Democrats of the Fifth New
Jersey congressional district nomi.
mated James Z. MARITIME, of Plainfield.
Samuel w. Mccall, of Winchester.
was nominated for congress at the
Eighth Massachusetts, Republican con.
vention.
Yale had little difficulty in defeating
Wesleyan in the first football game OF
the season, 81 to 0.
In a well played game of football
Harvard defeated Bowdoin on Soldiers
field.
The silver challenge shield donated
by Col. Sir Howard Vincent, aid de
camp to King Edward VII of England,
will remain on this side Of the Allan.
tic. The rife shooting teams of the
Seventh regiment, n. G.. Y, won the
trophy from the Queens Westminster
volunteers of London whom they de-
feated by margin of GO points.
In the Volga district the fact has
been established that fearful misery
and starvation exists there. Several
millions of persons are In a state of
semi-starvation. Typhus fever is wide
spread.
Literally cooked alive In a boiler
into which steam was turned by mis-
take, Boilermaker Gustave F. Friend,
OF Vincennes, Ind, lived five hours
with his flesh dropping frem him in
chunks.
Two retirements from the presi.
dents cabinet are slated for the COM
ing winter. They are those Of At
torney General Moody and Secretary
Shaw.
head-on collision occurred near
Murphysboro, ILL.,, between two pas
senger trains on the st. Louis Cairo
line of the Illinois Central road and
IL persons were injured, none being
reported fatally hurt.
Secretary Root will not make any
public statement concerning his recent
extended South American trip until
next month when he will deliver an
address In st. Louis before an organ
ization interested in commercial af-
fairs.
Inspector Mclaughlin, who was sent
by the bureau of Indian affairs to in
duce a wandering band of 200 Utes
from Utah to return to their homes Is
now in Wyoming, but Is having diff
Guilty in locating the Indians. They
have apparently learned of his errand
and have taken up their journey to-
wards South Dakota.
John B. keenan,, a Pittsburg lawyer,
personal attorney to several members
OF the Thaw family, has Joined the al
ready large array OF legal talent en-
ployed for the defense of Harry X.
Thaw.
Albert J. Adams, who made a large
fortune as the head OF the policy
gambling combine, shot himself IN the