Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-16

| cided that mail carrier need not
deliver mail at house where a
vicious dog is kept.
| Despite the efforts of their father
and small sister and brother to save
them, three children of Robert A.
Walsh died in fire which destroyed
| their summer home at White Bear
lake, Mimi
The Farmers and Merchants bank
at Malakoff, Tex, was robbed of ST.
| 500 by men who blew open the safe.
| William Starr, bridge builder from
| Chicago, was killed near Kenosha,
with caboose.
A terrific rain and thunder storm
in the vicinity of Harrisburg, ILL.,, did
| great damage to fruit and shade trees.
Five hundred delegates will attend
the Baptist state convention which
will be held in South Bend, Ind, Oc-
tober IL to IT,
Jacob Wagner, a wealthy farmer of
| Posey county, Indiana, drank bottle
of carbolic acid in the presence Of
mis- family and as he did so remarked.
Here is my last drink" He died
When James Atkinson stepped from
a train at Kewanee, Ill, upon return
ing from visit in Nebraska, he was
Mortified at seeing men dragging the
body of his dying son, Samuel, from
under freight train. The young
man had gone to the depot to meet
his father and fell under the freight
cars.
Admiral Won Rooster will sail for
New York September II to command
the German squadron at the Hudson
Fulton celebration.
Pieces of the skeleton of a prehis-
toric monster have been found on
farm near Pendleton, Ore. One of the
teeth is IA inches long.
President Taft has taken up the
Ballinge row and upon his
decision probably will hang the ques-
ton whether the secretary of the in
terror or the nations chief forester
will resign from public service.
The National Federation of Post Of
fee clerks, in convention at st. Louis,
discussed plans of obtaining shorter
working hours.
During the fortnight ending Satur-
| day, September 4, there were "a bu-
bonic and IS cholera deaths in the
city of Annoy, according to an official
announcement.
Twenty-three miles was cut from
the distance between Chicago and
New York over the Michigan Central
and New York Central by a change
In the Niagara Falls branch from
Rochester.
|. N. Chapman was shot and killed
by Earle budding, a Huntington wv.
Va business man, as the result of
controversy following the arrest OF
Chapman's daughter, who was en-
ployed in buildings store.
Frankfort, KY, is quiet after a
clash Saturday night between civil.
ians and soldiers, in which two men
were killed and three severely wound,
ed. company of troops is guarding
the city.
With Mayor Stoy under a $4,000
bond to appear before the grand jury,
Atlantic City On. j. saloons all were
open Sunday and the reform move
ment was defied.
Fifty thousand Irishmen living in
the United States are expected to
make pilgrimage to Ireland, accord
ing to plans of F. ]. Kilkenny of
Washington, national president of the
Home-Going Pilgrims.
For the first time since the Spanish.
American war 200 armed men from
the Fifth Canadian artillery arrived in
Seattle to participate in the celebra-
| ton at the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex-
position.
Nearly 1000 soldiers of the war
with Spain, representing nearly every
state in the union were in Tacoma,
Wash, for the sixth annual encamp-
ment of the United Spanish War Vet
Grams,
At its annual convention in Birming-
ham, Ala, the Farmers union decid-
ed to ask congress to remove the tar
III on jute bagging, the union also de-
nying that a minimum price of Is
cents on cotton had been agreed upon.
Mount Robson, the highest peak in
the Canadian Rockies, was climbed
successfully August 10 by Rev. George
Kinney of Victoria, B. c., according
to an announcement made at Winni-
peg.
Scott Sprague, machinist, was
found slain in Cincinnati, and his
bride, whose marriage to Sprague took
place in Chicago a few weeks ago, was
held by the police. The man was shot
in the side in such way the police
say it could not have been suicide.
Mrs. Sprague was Miss Cross of
Rockford, ILL.,
Corporal James M. Tanner informed
the Union Veteran Legion at Washing
ton that organizations of old soldiers
will make complaint to President
Taft against the policy of dismissing
old clerks in the government depart
ments.
Announcement was made at Phila-
delphia by Samuel M. Clement, Jr., an
attorney, that the Kentucky Rapid
Transit Company, with capital of
$40, 000,0 600, was chartered at Dover,
Del.
Henry Hill, a negro who attacked
Miss Nettie Jones near Langham,
La, was captured by a mob and
drowned in the creek near the scene
of his attempted crime.
Rat clubs are suggested to the Colo
RADIO Federation pf Woman,c ,I,,hs IN,
Wilbur F. Cannon, state pure food