Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-22
GENERAL NEWS.

The United States government nleu
in the United States circuit court III
New York a bill in equity against the
alleged combination of fiber and ma
Mia paper manufacturers, praying for
a decree dissolving the combination
and prohibiting the members from
further operating under such combina-
| ton.
King Edward, while in Paris, had
long talk with Premier Clemenceau.
The European situation in general and
the Turkish disorders in particular
were discussed.
Among the three enlisted men OF
| the navy reported to have died abroad
was Henry Weed PAUL of Milwaukee,
electrician, special service squadron,
who died in a hospital at st. Thomas
d. w. /.
The American visitors to Rome are
so numerous that Mgr. Kennedy,
rector of the American college, is
presenting about fifty of them daily
to the pope.
Profit sharing with employees and in.
dustrial peace were the principal sub
| jects for discussion at the eleventh
annual convention of the National
Metal Trades association at the Hotel
Astor in New York.
That combination of silk indus
tries in southern France, representing
$10,00O,000 of capital, will transfer
their plants to this country was stated
by Jean Duplan, head of large silk
dye works at Hazleton, Pa
BY a vote of "a to 81 the Missouri
house of representatives passed the
bill submitting a constitutional amend
ment providing for statewide prohibi
ton to a vote of the qualified electors
of the state.
The president has appointed Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury Charles
P. Norton as representative of the
treasury department on the centra
committee of the national Red Cross
Fire destroyed the gas engine shop
main office, machine shop and store
house of the Nichols & Langworthy
Machine Company, and a dwelling
house owned by the company, ant
damaged six other dwellings at Hope
Valley, r. |. The loss is estimated a
$4,000
Eugene Gardiner, who is connected
with several prominent Kentucky fam
lilies, was acquitted of the charge o
having murdered Joseph Cordez, ;
colored boat steerer of the whale
Bowhead at San Francisco.
, In a riot at the coal mining camp a
Coahuila, Mexico, SO men were killed
Malcolm w. Rix, a clerk, was ar
rested in Utica, N. Y, charged will
E stealing s1.700 from the bank o
which Vice President Sherman is tn,
head.
, In a collision of interurban trolle,
cars near Gary, Ind, so passenger
were injured.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, in
speech before a church club, sal,
Theodore Roosevelt is a greater maj
than George Washington was.
vice-President Sherman, speaking
e at banquet in Utica, n. Y, recounte
, the elements of strength possessed b
s the United States.
' The missing Ann Arbor railway ca
q FERRIES NOS. L ana d, WHICH nave pee
t fighting heavy ice foes near Plum II
. land, arrived in port at Menomine,
6 Mich, safely.
6 A report from Rome denied tina
4 Mount Etna is in eruption and Their
is fear of another earthquake.
Annie Bugelnorth of Burlington
/ Conn, wears overalls and helps he
< father to build public highway b,
! cause she likes mans work
I According TO announcement mad
= in New York the anthracite operator
e have decided not to cut wages of tn
miners now.
Louis p. Allard. who is wanted |
, Peoria, H., for alleged frauds amour
!, Ing TO $4,000. was arrested in Ne
!, Orleans.
The cabinet has decided definitel
i, that the Spanish feet shall be reco
: structed. The work will be intruste
TO British firms.