Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-15

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During manuevers of the Turkestan
army corps in the vicinity of Askabad
Gen. Mistchenko, who played con.
spicuous part in the Russo-Japanese
war and who is now governor general
| OF Turkestan, was wounded In sham
battle. A revolutionist plot is sus-
pected
Hongkong dispatches asserted the
real reason for Sir Robert Harris re-
cent visit to England was to bring
about an alliance between China. the
United States and Great Britain to
conserve the interests of the nations
in the far east.
The Atlantic fleet sailed from Ma
Mia for Japan.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky sent a
company of state troops to Hickman,
KY, to prevent an attack by night rid
ers.
Fire destroyed the business section
Of Inkster, Y. d., the loss being $119,-
900.
A 15,000-gallon water tank supply
ing Tombstone (Ariz), Consolidated
Mines Company was blown up with
dynamite and the pipe lines supplying
the mill damaged.
Mrs. Rose d. Rittman of Memphis,
Tenn, leader of the so-called asti-ad-
ministration element in the Woman's
Catholic Order of Foresters, was
elected president of the order by a
majority Of one vote over Mrs. Eliza
beth Rodgers of Chicago.
Chicago won the National league
baseball pennant by defeating New
York in game witnessed by record
breaking crowd.
The jury in the case of Abe Raymer,
alleged mob leader charged with de-
struction of property during the re-
cent riots in Springfield, H., returned
a verdict of not guilty.
Charles H. Trotter, an American,
and Vicente Toledo and Jose Canayan,
Spaniards, were killed in the province
of Pampagna by party of Filipinos.
The Liberal party held its first ma
tional convention in Chattanooga,
Tenn, and the followin" ,ominations
were made: For president. Sydney c.
Tapp of Atlanta, Ga; for vice-presi-
dent, John Maddox of Minnesota.
Comptroller of the Currency MUIR
ray announced that he would put into
action plan for the for
nation of II districts of national bank
examiners, with chairman examiner
in charge at each of the following
oil
phia Pittsburg, Nashville, Chicago,
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Fort Worth,
Denver and San Francisco.
The arbitration treaty between the
United States and China was signed
in Washington.
The strike of Iowa Central railway
shopmen was settled, the shops re-
naming union.
Salvatore Sallina was convicted of
throwing bomb in New York and
sentenced to nine years imprison-
ment.
P. T. Ecker and S. Ecker were SEN
fenced at Clarksburg, w. Va, to four
years in the penitentiary for making
spurious nickels, which were used to
work slot machines.
Five Harvard men who sailed in the
old cup defender Mayfiower to recover
the treasure from long-ago wrecked
Spanish galleon, were wrecked in the
hurricane that swept the West Indies
and were rescued with difficulty.
With conclusion which shook the
entire village of Richford, VT, large
grain elevator, having a capacity of
100000 bushels, exploded. causing the
death of IL men and woman.
The French fishing schooner Juanita
foundered on the Grand Banks and %
of her crew drowned
Six Mexican miners were killed by
cave-in at Gananea, Mexico.
John w. Richardson, a Virginia far
mer, killed his fatherin-law, his sister
inlaw and himself.
Perry Roger marshal of Morrill,,
Kan, shot and killed j. H. Schumacher,
editor of the Morrill, News, and then
committed suicide.
Leaking gas in an Italian boarding
house at Waterbury, Conn, killed four
persons and made six others uncon-
scious.
In an attempt to escape after being
arrested, Lucian Ferriss was shot and
instantly killed by Sergt George
Smith at Nashville, Tenn.
After rescuing an aged woman from
a burning house Policeman Nicholas
Nestor of Jersey City plunged again
into the blazing building and met
death by suffocation.
One fireman was killed and eight
were injured by the falling walls of
burning grain elevator in Buffalo,
N. Y.
Messages of congratulation from
President Roosevelt and Messrs. Bry.
An and Taft were read in the trans
Mississippi congress in San Fran,
cisco.
woman, believed to have been
Mrs. l.. D. Draper of Saginaw, Mich,
committed suicide by leaping over
Niagara Falls.
The janitor of one of the largest
public schools in the Bronx, New York
city. discovered charge of dynamite
In the foundation walls.
While temporarily insane jacob
Hempfling. aged 20. prosperous
farmer who lived at Atwood, KY, shot
and fatally wounded his wife, and
then killed himself.
Eleven persons were killed, more
than dozen were injured and 80 es
capped death by the narrowest margin
in an incendiary fire which wrecked
tenement house on Mulberry street
New York
Fog caused wreck on the Pennsyl
vania railroad near Lancaster, Pa, IL
which one man was killed and a mum.