Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02

SO men dropped since March 9.
President Taft has not written his
message to congress nor any part o.
1t, although that body will assemble II
q weeks time.
Constable James H. Dobbs narrowly
escaped lynching at Columbus, Ill.
after he had shot and killed William
Thompson, his neighbor, during g
quarrel of their children.
In q speech at Chicago Mrs. EmTne
line Parkhurst, the noted English suf
| fragette, advised her audience to wiz
woman's suffrage by force and advo
Gated stone-throwing and other dras
| tic measures to secure to women the
| ballot.
The Philadelphia National Baseball
club has been sold to syndicate head
ed by Horace S. Fogel, a sporting
| writer, and 1t is reported that John
| Killing, the star catcher, formerly of the
Chicago team, was secured by the new
| management in the deal.
Ghouls stole the body of the infant
son of Harfield Conrad, a banker,
from it's grave in Highland cemetery,
near Great Falls, Mont., and are hold
ing it presumably for ransom.
Maj. Ii. ID. Bulkev, for more than
twenty years prominently connected
with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company, and for Is years it's comp
troller, died in Baltimore, aged 70
years.
Mrs. Margaret Smith, aged 35 years,
and Mrs. Minnie Wright, aged SO
years, We're killed by a gas explosion
in boarding house in Rochester, N.
Y. Mrs. Wright had applied q match
to leaking jet In their bedroom.
Accused of being leader in the
white slave" trade, May Won der
Guyhte Is on the way from Winnipeg,
Man., to Montreal in irons to be de-
ported to Belgium.
John Devery, homeless and friend
less, died of hunger in New York
while on his way to a Salvation Army
Thanksgiving dinner.
The Doyen system of operating for
the removal of cancer-the use of
electricity instead of the knife-was
employed on case at st. Luke's hos
pital in Baltimore. A cancerous
growth was removed from patients
mouth and from parts OF the face.
Evidence that Chauffeur Camp, who
some weeks ago drove an automobile
containing two persons besides him
self into the Chicago river. and all
three drowned. was incompetent, hav-
ing had but four days experience as a
driver, was introduced at the coron-
er's inquest. The bodies of the two
passengers of the taxicab have not
been recovered.
The new $4,000 building Of the
University of Colorado. the gift OF
United States Senator Simon Guggen-
helm, was dedicated at Boulder. Col.
Addresses were made by Senator
Guggenheim, President Baker of the
university and others.
A gift of $424,00 from an anony-
nous donor has been made to the
Children's Aid society of New York.
During the year the society has re-
ceived more than 100000. the
largest Iunu IN us history
A delegation of college girls. under
guidance of the College Equal Suf'
frage league, is arranging to go to
Washington to present a resolution
calling for the Interference by this
government in the Imprisonment in
England of Miss Alice Paul of Moores-
vile, N. j., who smashed the window
at the banquet of the lord mayor of
| London
William Mccormick, aged 81 years,
student at the Moody Biblical insti.
tute, Chicago, while temporarily de-
ranged leaped from third-story win
dow to the pavement and was killed.
The st. Paul mine at Cherry, H.,
which has been sealed again owing to
the ravages of fire. will probably not
be reopened for three months.
Capitalized at 100000, the Wright
Company of New York has been incor.
porated at Albany, N. Y, Ito manufac-
ture, deal in, and operate machines,
ships or other mechanical contriv.
ances for aerial operation.
President Taft ate his Thanksgiving
turkey with his family, there being no
guests at the White House He ex.
pressed his delight at being able to
eat real food" without being forced
to make a speech.
The barge canal proposition voted
on at the last state election at Ithaca,
N. Y, which authorized the state legis-
lature to spend 100000 for connect.
in lakes Cayuga and Seneca, was car.
ried by majority of about $4,000.
Gov. Augustus E. Wilson of Ken,
lucky, acting as chairman of a com.
| mittee to fix the date and place of the
second annual conference of COVER
will be held January IS. 1910, at Wash
ington.
During October there were 75,60S
\ immigrant aliens and 1874 nonimmi
| grant aliens admitted into the United
States, 26,451 United States citizens
arrived and 1916 aliens were de
barred, according to the October bull
letin of the immigration bureau.
| The casualty record for football this
season includes &c deaths and SO play
ers injured. with the Thanksgiving
day games yet to be accounted.
by the latest estimates OF the Pan.
anna canal commission the big water.
way will require nearly S4O0, 900 900 to
complete.
The ocean liners Lusitania and Ara
bic that reached Queenstown reported
severe weather in crossing the At
iantic