Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-10
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Germany's policy in the Morocco af.
fair has annoyed British officials ex-
cessively, and they feel that the kaiser
is trying to secure an advantage ovel
the other powers. Great Britain in
tends to recognize Mulai Hafid after
he has pledged himself to accept all
the obligations of the former sultan.
Col Henry M. Nevius of Red Bank,
N. j., was elected commander-in-chiei
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and Mrs. w. L. Gilman of Roxbury
Mass, was chosen president OF the
Womans Relief Corps.
The forest fire which threatened the
famous Calaveras big tree grove was
brought under control and the great
trees were saved.
Chester Jordan, an actor, killed his
wife Honorah, an actress, during
quarrel in their home in Somerville
a suburb of Boston, and then dismem
bered her body and tried to take it
away in a trunk.
The special grand jury at Spring
field, Ill.,, returned III indictments ir
connection with the race riots, ant
made final report in which it com
mended certain officials and severely
condemned some of the police fol
their cowardice.
Late returns from the Michigan
primaries put Gov. Fred Warner in the
! lead for denomination.
More than $4,000,000 was left to
| charitable institutions, the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art and Yale univer
| sity by the will of Frederick Cooper
| Hewitt, who died at his home III
| Owego, N. Y.
Orville Wright made a fairly sue
| cessful test of his aeroplane built for
| the army at Fort Myer. Near Ithaca
N. Y, two Cornell students made 8
| good fight of several miles in ar
! aeroplane of their own construction.
Spanish war veterans voted to
aex: encampment at Tacoma. Wash.
The territorial supreme court a,
| Mania decided that the sultan o.
:ounaharra must hang for the part n,
took as leader of the raid on Par
ang, island of Mindanao, in January
! 1906, wherein J. w. Mcdonald Of ths:
I piace was killed by the raiders.
Judge Vandeventer in the United
| States circuit court at st. Paul en-
| joined the Arkansas railway commits
| sion from enforcing the two-cent-fart
| law.
Chief of Detectives Gill of East st
Louis and Patrolman Ransome Pain,
were shot while trying to trap bur
glars in the home of Philip Wolff
treasurer of st. Clair county.
The condition of the natives of the
Aleutian Indian village in Akutan har
| Dor, Boring sea is most deplorable
according to the report of DR.. Robert
Olsen, assistant surgeon on the rev
enue cutter McCulloch.
The First National bank of Niles
o., failed and a receiver was ap
pointed.
The United Spanish war veterans
drew the color line by declaring the
Charles NJ. Thomas camp of Washing,
ton unattached"
Daniel Walser, a Detroit confec.
toner, was shot and killed by burg.
lars at his store.
The Nevada Democratic state con
lands for United States senator and
George A. Bartlett for congressman
A new comet was discovered at the
Yerkes observatory at Lake Geneva
Wis, by Prof. ID. w. Morehouse OF
Drake university.
Seven summer visitors out of a
party of ten were drowned by the
capsizing of 35-foot sloop in Penob,
scot bay, off Deer Isle.
The cruisers of the Pacific fleet
each towing torpedo boat destroyer
reached Honolulu without any acct
dent worth mention.
In the Michigan primaries Auditor
General j. b. Bradley was nominated
for governor by the Republicans
Dispatches from Picking said the
Chinese government was likely to re-
call Minister WI Ting Fang from
Washington, because of dissatisfaction
with his doings and public speeches.
A crowd of men and boys in Chi
cago tried to lynch negro who had
attacked white girl in the hallway
of building in which she worked.
The British bark Amazon, for Iqui-
que from Port Talbot, has been
wrecked near the latter port Only
five out of her crew Of 80 were saved.
Fire destroyed the tannery Of Davis,
Medary G. Platz, in La Crosse, Wis,
the loss being about $4,000.
Becoming financially involved, two
brothers. Ben S. Woolaver, aged SO,
and Elmer. aged 80, committed suicide
in the Sangamon river not far from
their homes near Edinburg, H.