Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-11-12
GENERAL NEWS,

An explosion at the mine of Col. W,
P. Bond, three miles west of Benton,
ILL.,, wrecked the shaft, and as a result
four shot firers were entombed and
probably killed.
Vice-President-elect Sherman for.
warded to Albany for filing with the
secretary of state, a statement of his
expenses In the campaign just closed.
1t showed his expenditures to have
been $4,000.
The freight steamer B. M. Whitney
OF the Metropolitan Steamship line
was sunk in the East river while on
her way to Boston. The loss On Ses
sci and cargo is about 100000.
The second squadron of the Amer.
lean battleship feet left Annoy for the
Philippines.
The Union Telephone & Telegraph
Company. having a telephone system
in Rock Island and Moline, ILL.,, and
Davenport, Ia, and capitalized at
$3.50, 900, went into the hands of a re-
ceiver on an application filed by the
American Trust and Savings bank OF
Chicago.
A small steamer carrying 600 pas
sengers from Annoy to Tungan, China
sank and 200 of the passengers were
drowned.
Thrilling escapes and heroic work
by q Costa Rican student, Rubena
Herrera, marked fire which burned
10 the ground the Bliss Electric school
In North Takoma, suburb of Wash.
Ington.
James T. Mulhall was sentenced to
is months at the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan; Edgar McConkey
to one year and one day at Leaven.
worth, and Felix Nathanson to six
months in the county Jail by Judge
Milton Purdy at Minneapolis for
fraudulent operation of the Nicollet
Creamery Company.
Talk Of the election of Theodore
Roosevelt to the United States senate
to succeed Senator Platt of New York
was revived in Washington.
The Japanese steamer Taish Maru
sank in storm and $50 persons were
drowned.
The general committee of foreign
missions of the Methodist Episcopal
church, at its session in St. Louis, be-
gan the work of itemizing the appro-
priaticns for the year 1909, after vot-
inc to appropriate total Of $1,000
SIS.
President Edmund j. James of the
University Of Illinois, issued an ad-
dress on the subject Of hazing to the
students, in which he declared that
the sport will not be tolerated and
that any student found guilty of haz.
ing will be dismissed from the uni
versity.
An official statement made public
at Paris sets forth that France In.
tends to insist firmly upon arbitration
in the Casablanca incident.
The Unionist party won In the cleo
tons in Porto Rico and Tulio Larri
maya was reelected congressional
delegate.
The various japanese associations
lUleTebteu III lOISlSu IIduc gave q Odn-
Quet in Tokyo in honor Of the repre-.
| sentatives of the Pacific coast bust
ness interests.
Four men were injured, two of them
fatally, by the fall Of derrick at the
new courthouse in Duluth, MINI.
Jonah KALAMAZOO, Republican terri
torial delegate to congress from Ha.
wall, has been reelected by q de
creased plurality.
AS the result of an election row.
Will Jones of Unitia, Tenn, was
killed by A. b. Hull of Madisonville,
Tenn.
A collision between two motor boats
fiued with fishermen bound for the
fishing grounds in Jamaica bay, New
York, resulted in the death Of one man
and the destruction of one of the mo-
Tor beats.
The village of Savannah. N. Y, was
almost totally destroyed by fire.