Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21

Alfonzo is practically a prisoner, be.
ing guarded by a double Gordon OF
troops.
President Taft and President Diaz
of Mexico exchanged visits at Ell Paso,
Tex, and Ciudad, Juraez, both execu
tives leaving their native countries tor
the first time in an official capacity
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, refuting the
charges that he did not ascend Mount
Mckinley. will organize an expedition
to ascend the mountain and procure
the records he left there. He asserts
Guide Barrill has perjured himself,
Thirty-seven persons are dead, many
injured. and property damaged to
about $1,000,000, as a result of the
storm which swept Tennessee. Ala
bama. Georgia. Arkansas and South
Carolina.
The National Purity congress opened
in Burlington. Ia. with President B. S
Steadwell in the chair and about 500
reformers and social workers present.
Many well known men and women
were on the program.
sage of an act to enable Illinois mu.
inequalities to adopt the commission
form Of government were discussed al
the annual meeting of the Illinois
Mayors association In Elgin.
The Portola festival, celebrating the
discovery of San Francisco bay,
opened in the Golden Gate city.
The National Spiritualists' associa.
ton began their seventeenth conven
ton in Rochester, N. Y.
A convention of employing printers
met in Chicago to adopt uniform
methods that would end the price war
Mrs. George Ferguson, associate
pastor of the Peoples church in Wash
ington. says her sex would obtain the
ballot if they adopted the method sus
gested by Samuel Adams in revolu
tionary days-elect state committees
| study conditions and adopt state
platforms.
Marines from the cruiser ldzuma
were landed in San Francisco to aid
in fighting fire. The visitors thought
the city was threatened. They were
not needed.
Because he ran down and killed a
woman with his automobile. T. G.
| Goetz of Stamford, Conn. was con
victed of involuntary manslaughter
and sentenced to Jail for one year.
Wilfrid Thibeault and Prof Frank
Hill were charged in the Fall River
| (Mass) police court with the murder
of Amelia st. Jean. whose mutilated
body was found at Tiverton. r. |.
They pleaded not guilty and their
cases were continued.
A receiver was appointed for Solo.
mon Brothers. dealers in oriental
goods at New York. with branches at
Pittsburg. Cleveland. Chicago and St
Louis.
| In an interview at Buffalo. Explorer
Cook reiterated that he would bring
the Eskimos who accompanied him to
the north pole to this country in order
to disprove alleged distorted declara-
tons in Commander Peary's state
ment.
Pittsburg won the fifth worlds
championship baseball game from De-
troit by a score of to 4. The Pirates
now lead the Tigers in the series by
one game. ...
The second national convention of
the Congregational Brotherhood of
America is in session at Minneapolis
with a very large number Of represen'
tatives present from all parts OF the
country.
The constitutionality of the Illinois
ltwo-cent rate law Is attacked in an
action brought in the federal court
at Springfield by the Chicago. Peoria
& St Paul Railroad Company.
Milwaukee for ten days will be the
Mecca of the dairy farmers and per-
sons engaged in allied interests as
the National Dairy show there is
now on.
famous portrait by Velasquez, pur
chased by a wealthy American abroad
will soon arrive in this country. &C
cording to H. r. Duneen, an art deal
err. who has returned to New York
from Europe. He says 1t is likely &c
become the most noted picture In
America. The name of the owner is
not revealed
The general understanding In Wash
ington is that the court Of appeals
will render its decision in the con
tempt case against Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison Of
the American Federation Of Labor
within week
The Norwegian Sterk. small
freighter, foundered off the coast OF
Norway. The crew of IL was lost
1t has developed that the shortage
in the Mineral Point (Wis.) First Ma
tional bank failure will reach nearly
100000. 1t is said that Vice-Presi
dent Allen has lost heavily in mining
investments.
Charles r. Crane of Chicago. min
lister designated to China. was prac
tically deposed by demand from Sec
rotary Knox for his resignation TIL,
latter charges Mr. Crane with indis
erection. The latter had already ten
dered his resignation to Presiden
Taft.
Pittsburg defeated Detroit in tn,
third game OF the worlds champion
ship series by a score Of s to 6.
, Detroit defeated Pittsburg to Il
:, the fourth game Of the worlds chan
pionship series.
Five hundred homes were destroyed
more than 100 ships wrecked an
many churches and cigar factories d.
molished at and around Key West b
tho vacant hurricane Tho lpSs Of Hf