Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-19
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was the way former Ambassador Luke
Wright, who just returned from Toxic
to resume private life, characterized
the war talk between the United
States and Japan.
Walter Wellman started for home
after disastrous attempt to start for
the north pole in his airship. The bal.
loon was driven back by a violent
storm and landed on top of glacier,
where the party took 1t to pieces.
Wellman said he would return to
Spitzbergen and make another start
next year.
The Illinois board Of pardons decid-
ed that the time was not at hand for
them to grant a release from the peni-
Tertiary for Paul o. Stensland, former
president of the collapsed Milwaukee
Avenue State bank of Chicago, and he
was sent back to prison to serve the
balance Of his term.
The Lusitania lowered. the record
for the trip from Queenstown to New
York to five days and 81 minutes.
The big turbine steamship failed to
lower the hourly speed average OF
23.5S knots made by the Kaiser Will
helm III. of the North German Lloyd
line, or the average of 1851 knots
made by the Deutschland, though 1t
covered the distance between ports in
an average Of 23.01 knots, which is a
record for maiden voyages.
Jacob Johnson, machinist, infuri-
ated after he had been knocked down
by a passing automobile at Michigan
avenue and Sixteenth street, Chicago,
leaped into the machine and stabbed
the chauffeur, ii. r. Almeney, in the
arm and breast.
The mines of the Amalgamated Cop
per company will not be closed be-
cause of the glut of the copper mar.
ket General Superintendent John
ellis says that while work will be
abandoned on Sundays there will be
no general close down.
Sir Thomas Upton mailed to the
New York Yacht club challenge for
the Americas cup.
Three bandits broke into the First
State bank at Leola, S. d., wrecked
the safe and escaped with $1,000.
An explosion of dynamite placed in
bundle of grain injured five men
and wrecked threshing machine on
the farm of Peter Peterson near Chip.
pewa Falls. Wis Investigation devel.
oped the fact that sticks of dynamite
had been placed in several bundles of
grain.
In riot between Purdue university
students and city toughs at Lafayette,
Ind, six students were seriously in
jured and Is others were badly
beaten.
Virginia Reed, the negro woman
who, according to Charles f. Letten,
the defaulting tax clerk of New Or.
leans, received about 100000 out of
the 100000 or more he stole from
the state, attempted to commit suicide
by jumping into the Bayou ST. John.
She was fished out.
Eight former striking operators, in
Guiding the vice president of the local
telegraphers' union, returned to work
with the Postal Telegraph C Cable
company in Cleveland, o.
AS a result of strikes declared in
several shops so or more of the lead.
ing manufacturers of furs in New
York decided, it is stated, to lock out
their employees. The lockout will at.
Sect about 1000 men,
The census bureau announced that
the total population of the territories
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, as
made public, is an increase of rs per
cent. over 1900, and that the aggregate
population is larger than any state at
the time of admission into the union.
Andrew Carnegie has begun suit in
the New York supreme court to have
the taxes reduced on his residence in
Fifth avenue and on Carnegie hall.
Mrs. Gertrude G. Clinton, of Read.
ing, Pa, was slain by Frank Palmer
for whom she deserted her husband.
Forty miners were hurt by an explo.
sion in mine No. 10, owned by the
Union Pacific Coal company, at Rock
Springs, Wyo
More arrests have been made in
Prussia on charges of betraying mill
tary secrets. One of the men under
arrest charged with high treason is a
noble.
M. III. Saville, professor of ethnology
at Columbia university, has returned
from trip of exploration to Ecuador
where he discovered q ruined city
supposed to have belonged to a race
of high development, now unknown
but which existed 500 or more years
ago.
Judges Wilson and Audendried OF
the common pleas court in Philadel
phia declared unconstitutional the
two-cent railroad fare law passed by
last legislature they offered important
case upon which the decision was rem
dered will be taken to the supreme
court
A combined Chinese and japanese
organization of Vancouver made over
lures to the Hindus to join them in ar
industrial strike all along the British
Columbian coast. The Hindus refused
The Japanese government had assur
ances that Canada would make amend:
for the Vancouver riots.
Nellie Wolkswitz, Russian girl
was arrested in New York, charged
with the theft OF brooch from Mrs
Bourke Cochran. The jewel contained
religious miniature which awakened
the girls reverence and it is alleged
she possessed herself Of 1t to satisf.
this passion.
Japanese and Chinese at Vancouver
B. c.. armed themselves for a renewa
of the riots in which their quarter o
the city was devastated. Another out
break was imminent and the govern
ments of Japan and Canada and thu
English press were much stirred NJ