Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-04

caught are bel1eVeed 10 nave Deen
killed.
James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson
signed articles of agreement at New
York for a fight for the worlds
heavyweight pugilistic championship.
The winner is to take rs per cent of
the purse and the battle, which will
be As rounds, will be fought before
the club offering the most inviting
terms.
Earth shocks in northern California
and southern Oregon, lasting from 10
to % seconds, were more severe than
any felt in several years previously.
But little damage was done.
Rev. DIR. NJ c. Hawkes. of Ypsilanti,
Mich, in an address at Saline, charged
that the goods at the University of
Michigan drink rum in their tea.
Counsel for former Police Inspector
Edward Mccain of Chicago, convicted
of accepting brides from dive keepers,
are seeking njew trial for their client
on grounds that jury service has been
full of Irregularities, as contended by
States Attorney Wayman.
Thaddeus Wilson, % years OF age
school teacher of Garrett, Kan, was
arrested in Kansas City, charged with
sending two letters to R. A. Long, a
millionaire lumber dealer, demanding
$4,000.
John H. Mackle, a former business
man Of Columbus, O., was convicted
by Cincinnati jury of embezzling
$4,000 belonging to his wife's mother.
Sentence was deferred.
Commissioner Williams of the i'm
migration bureau will soon begin hear
ings in the cases of $50 suspects at
New York, charged with being mem
bers of the BLACK Hand" If the
charges are proved they will be de-
ported.
A French court has decided that the
children of Princess de Sagan, the
young Castellanes, must be sent to a
day is imposed for every day the or
der is ignored.
Troops are fighting forest fires in
the Huachuca forest reservation in
Texas. Sheep herders, driven off the
ranges, are believed to have started
the fires in revenge.
Mayor Pogue of Bemidji, Mimi, and
three other men had a thrilling ex-
perience when a freight train struck
the auto in which they were riding.
Pogue and a companion were carried
on the pilot of the engine for some
distance. All were injured, but not
fatally.
The Mccormick Theological semin-
airy at Chicago celebrated the eight
eth anniversary of it's founding, emf
nent theological educators and divines
from many cities taking part in the
ceremonies.
The honorary. commercial commits
sioners of Japan and their suites ar
rived in Washington and visited Po-
tomoc drive, along which will be plant
ed 1000 cherry trees which the en-
peror of Japan has presented to the
government.
John d. Rockefeller has given a mil
lion dollars to aid in the extermina-
ton of the disease of hook worm"
or lazy disease" germ in the south
ern states. He intrusts the expendi-
ture to commission of IL, including
his son and noted scientists.
The federal court of appeals has re-
fused to grant the petition of the gov
eminent that John r. Walsh be placed
in prison pending the appeal of his
case to the supreme court of the Uni
hnC o{u hn ha
years liberty at least
Mrs. Chaplin, suffragette, in at
tempting to destroy the ballots at an
election in London, broke a bottle of
acid over the ballot box as a protest
against the exclusion of women from
the right of franchise. Several Off
Gals were painfully burned and she
was arrested.
A general uprising of Korean revo-
lutionists is feared following the as
sassination of Prince Ito at Hardin.
His murderer has been identified as a
Korean newspaper editor, and the
open declarations of approval of the
murder has caused great alarm.
Mrs. Charles Edgecomb and four
year-old son were found dead at their
home in Chicago from gas asphyxia-
| ton. 1t is believed the child turned
on the gas instead of the electric light.
He was in the habit of playing with
the latter.
Frederick Dietz and his wife perish
ed in a supposedly incendiary fire which
destroyed a tenement at West Thir-
teenth street and Third avenue, New
York.
Inventors are to benefit from. a clas-
sification of patents undertaken by
| the United States patent Office at
| Washington.
Erwin Weinspach, a Los Angeles
druggist, his wife and Jesse r. Thorn
ton. who started for the Sierra Nevada
mountains eight weeks ago, are miss
ing. A searching party is to go out.
The body of Prince Ito, Japan's
murdered statesman, will be taken to
Japan on a warship now at Dairen.
Nine alleged accomplices of his assas-
sin are under arrest.
Arthur P. Heinze was sentenced to
piiooh III tCh anu uucu gov Wy
Judge Ray in New York on a charge
of obstructing justice by advising a
witness to evade service.
A naval battle between warships OF
Greece and 300 mutinous officers from
the Greek navy was fought at Salamis
but was not Of very serious nature
However, It is feared that the leader
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the government and declare a dicta