Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-12-03
GENERAL NEWS.

United States and Japan have made
an agreement which not only contains
a mutual guaranty to respect each
others territorial possessions in the
Pacific, but defines the attitude of the
two countries towards China, binding
each to defend by every peaceful
means China's independence and in.
tegrity, and to give equal commercial
opportunity in the Chinese empire to
all nations. The agreement, in the
event of complications threatening the
status quo, binds the United States
and Japan to consult each other with
view to acting. together.
The Philippines coasting steamer
Pointing, carrying a large number OF
laborers from Narvacan to the rice
fields in Pangasinan province, struck
a rock and sank during a storm off
the town of San Fernando and about
100 persons were drowned.
William Kallebrun of Jersey City
shot and killed his brother Leo and
then his aged mother, Mrs. Victoria
Kallebrun, in New York.
Nellie Morton of Belleville, H., con.
fessed that she watched her sweet
heart, Sydney Baker, chloroform aged
Peter Waeltz, who was found with his
skull crushed.
Sixteen thousand miners attended
the funer..L n Rev. II. F. O'Reilly, rec.
tor of a Catholic church at Shenan
doah, Pa, for 40 years. Ali the col.
lieries and schools closed and business
VAS suspended.
Martin H. Halloran, a Pittsburg,
Pa, mining engineer, was robbed OF
$4,000 in Kansas City.
DR.. d. X. Pearsons, the Chicago
rhilanthropist denying a story that
his fortune was gone, said he still had
$J,G00,000 to give to colleges.
The Chinese government decided
on Tuesday, December /, as the date
for the browning of Pu vi, the infant
emperor.
A hotel exclusively for Jews was
opened at Seventy street and
Lexington avenue, New York, where
all the old Mosaic rules of diet will be
Observed.
The Panama line steamer Finance
outward bound, was run into off Sandy
Hook in the fog by the White Star
freighter Georgia, and sank within ter
minutes. The Panama carried Sc pas
sengers and of these three were
drowned, together with one member Of
her crew.
The Grand Prize automobile race al
Savannah, Ga, 402 miles, was wor
by Louis Wagner with a Fiat car The
contest was most exciting and the
pace was the fastest ever set in al
international automobile race in Amer
lea.
A. B. Cummins was elected United
States senator to fill out the unexpiret
term caused by the death of w. B. AL
lison by the unanimous vote of the Re
publicans in the Iowa legislature. War
ren Garst, lieutenant governor, wa!
sworn in as governor in succession t.
Cummins.
President Castro sailed from l.;
Guaira on the steamer Guadeloupe TO
Bordeaux, for the purpose of under
going an operation at the hands of DR.
Israel of Berlin.
The revolt in Hayti is spreading
The rebels captured Minister of the In
terror Leconte and put him to death.
Edward ]. Stllwagen of Washington
was appointed chairman of the con
mittee 10 manage the Taft inaugura
ton.
An unconditional gift of $4,000 I
the endowment fund of the Uniye
sity of Virginia has been made by Co
Oliver X. Payne of New York.
The hospital ship Relief is severe
days overdue at Manila and some co,
Germ is felt for her safety
Following neighborhood quarrel o
Carona. Kan. Hezekiah Strader,
carpenter aged 20 years. slashed Mr.,
Butts. his next-door neighbor. with
razor. cutting her head entirely off.