Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-06-10

Following pleas of guilty the Mis-.
souri, Pacific & Iron Mountain rail.
road companies were fined $4,000 at
Little Rock, Ark, for rebating.
An earthquake which continued for
more than two hours was recorded by
the government seismograph at Ma
Mia.
Directors of the d. A. r. adopted
resolutions indorsing their new pres
ident general, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott
of Bloomington, Ill, who has been the
subject of attacks.
William Darragh, a chauffeur whose
automobile killed a boy in New York,
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
from seven to twenty years.
Dispatches from Washington say
the supply of labor in the isthmian
canal zone is greater than the de-
mand.
Precious stones worth s2,689, 213.49
were imported into the United States
through New York in May, as against
lmportations Of $~463,454.S5 in the
same month a year ago.
The Peruvian cabinet offered it's
resignation at Lima, following the
revolutionary outbreak of last week.
The North Platte river is at flood
near Douglas, Wyo, and has already
taken n life and caused much dam
age. Other floods and washouts are
reported from the west and south.
Enrico Caruso, the noted tenor, un-
derwent an operation on his vocal
cords at Milan, Italy, at the hand Of
Prof. Bella Vedova, aided by three
specialists.
Residents of Imperial valley, ear
San Diego, Cal, are excited by the APP
pearance of a mysterious airship
which they say is making nightly
trips over Salton sea.
Whether DR.. John n. Binkley OF
Evansville, Ind, whose body was
found in the Wellington hotel, was
murdered or committed suicide is a
mystery the Chicago police are try
ing to solve.
Machinists on every branch of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad went out
on a strike.
The lynching of a negro in Frank
fort, KY, has stirred Gov. Wilson,
who promises to do all in his power
to bring the guilty persons to justice.
The Japanese government has
adopted a rule requiring all of its
subjects coming to this country or
Canada to register at the nearest
consulate of their government.
Mrs. Sarah Richman of Springfield,
was arrested on complaint of her
brother-in-law, charged with stealing
flowers which he had placed on her
husbands grave.
Resolutions condemning the gov.
ernment's rule requiring the name OF
the guarantor on all food packages,
were adopted by the National Whole
sale Grocers' association.
Mr.. Palmer of Pennsylvania will
enlist the support of President Taft
in a plan to bring the remains of
William Penn to this country from
England.
A fireworks display will welcome
the Wright aeronauts home to Dayton,
o., on June II.
Joseph Jeskonski, II years old
started a railroad engine in Alpena,
Mich, and caused $4,000 damage. He
was arrested.
The New York chamber of com.
merce will soon issue a report con.
tanning facts as to the growth of the
United States since 1858.
The Arkansas river has left the
town of Douglas, Ark, three miles in.
land, by making a cutoff through q
narrow neck of land.
The engagement of Miss Marion
Lawson. second daughter of Thomas
w. Lawson, to James Fuller Lord OF
Chicago, has been announced in Bos.
ton, Mass.
The emperor of Japan has conferred
the Order of the Rising Sun upon
John ]. Carly, chief engineer of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company in New York.
An industrial exposition designed tt
show the diversity of the city's prod
ucts was opened in Cleveland, o.
The sixth annual conference on the
education of backward, truant and de
linquent children at Buffalo with Su
perintendent c. B. Adams Of the
School for Boys at st. Charles, III.
in the chair.
The American Society tor Superin
tendents of Training Schools fol
Nurses met in st. Paul, MINI.
Mayor Rose welcomed to Milwau
kee the American Waterworks asso
citation, which met in annual conven
ton.
Invited by the Northwestern Uni
versity School of Law, experts il
criminology, met at Chicago.
Danish residents of the middle ives
gathered in Chicago to celebrate thu
sixtieth anniversary of the adoption o
Denmark's constitution.
The first biennial festival of tn
Red River Valley Scandinavian Sing
gers association was held at Fergu
Falls, MINI.
The American Chronological assc
citation met in annual session at For
ress Monre, Va, with President C.. Z
Quimby of New York in the chair.
Ambassador Jusserand, on behalf c
the French government, presented
San Francisco a gold medal in reco:
milton of it's rapid recovery from tn
earthquake and fire.
Delegates to the convention of Sc
enth Day Adventists called at tn
White House and were greeted b
President Taft.
> Fighting among the clans in th
Heuwah district, China, over the a.
ductfon of a bride three years ago ha
broken out again, according to r
D.. ports from Annoy, China.