Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-28

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Germ is charged with creating an arti,
! fetal ice famine.
! A dam at Lake Derkos, which sup
| plies Constantinople with water, burst
and 25 persons were drowned.
/ Calcutta dispatches to London say
10000 people have persisted in ter.
rife storm which swept the plains In
the delta of the Gauges and Brahma.
putra, in Bengal. India.
According to a report from United
| States Consul General Griffiths. at
London, the army of unemployed in
has now reached proportions that are
causing the government great uneasi'
ness.
The grand jury at Chicago has
caused stir by joining States Attor-
ney Wayman in his demand that the
judges of Cook county courts clean
out the county jury commission in
such drastic manner as will prevent
any opportunity for jury tampering in
: the future.
A copy of a book written in 1910
by Robert Fulton, inventor of the
steamboat, and entitled, Torpedo
War and Submarine Explosions" has
been sold at auction in New York for
$50.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Whitlock of
East Orange. N. j., were so affected at
the prospect of losing" their two
daughters by marriage that they went
to their country home to escape being
present at the double wedding. They
are said to be well pleased. never
! theless. with their sons-in-law.
A fund to be known as the Charles
Eliot Norton memorial fund has been
endowed to the Archaeological Insti-
tute of America in Washington by
James Loeb, retired banker of New
York city.
Army officers to the number of IS
started from Fort Meyer, Va, under
the lead of Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, presi.
dent of the war college, for a 90-mile
endurance test.
1t is reported in Lisbon, Portugal,
that King Alfonso's mind is in serious
condition because of fear of an upris-
ton.
King Edward OF England is much
exercised over the socialistic demon
STATIONS In connection with Ferrer' S
execution and is laboring hard to pre-
! vent general election on the budget,
| no fN hn hi1h
ish condition of public opinion the
house of lords would be in-periled and
possibly abolished.
A typhoon OF unusual severity swept
over the island of Luzon washing out
railroad Leds. cutting off Geographic
communication and doing much other
damage.
President Taft had the time of his
life on his brothers ranch in Texas.
He rode a balky cayuse, saw wild
steers roped by cowboys and wit
messed the rounding up of a herd of
cattle. together with many other in,
teresting things connected with ranch
life.
The Minocqua (Wis.) bank was rob,
bed OF several thousand dollars by five
men who, after being rounded up at d
small station near there by a sheriff s
posse, turned on the latter with rifles
and made their escape.
The American Antiquarian society
laid the cornerstone of its new build
ing in Worcester. Mass, in connection
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tons annual convention.
Miss Eleanor Lorraine Beattie, who
was recently extradited from Londor
on charge of grand larceny and who
is now under bonds for trial, has ad
vertised in New York for a position
as chauffeur. She is willing to veal
a uniform and pilot taxicab.
William Fason, a blind negro, whC
killed two men in a Paterson IN j.,
saloon. when he was denied a drink
was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
W. r. Hearst won a strike" in the
New York political campaign Saturday
night when he threatened to retire
from the race for mayor and to leave
the fusion ticket to it's fate unless hi!
fellow nominees appeared on TIT
stage with him.
Two schooners, with IL persons
aboard, are missing off the Newfound
land coast and are believed to have
foundered in the gale last week.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
In h1,
500 delegates In attendance. Nationa
President Lillian NJ N Stevens deIiv
!, cred her yearly address.
Illinois cities and towns celebrated
the second arbor and bird day of tn,
year with exercises in the publ
=, schools.
, The United States supreme cour
, has issued an order staying proceed
ings in the northern Illinois circui
Q court in the matter of the application
of Capt. M. Carter for the allowanc
, Of further counsel fees in the govern
I ment's suit against him for the restol
!. alton OF the funds alleged to hav
4 been procured by him through defa
cation.
@ Nicholas j. Martin, who barred tn
r secrets OF the jury-fixing gang at Oh
cago, is missing. and detectives froI
O the state prosecutors Office arr searcl
c ing for him.
r. Cleveland (OD police are invest
r eating the cause of illness Of IA pc
, sons who were taken sick after eatir
:. chocolate candy purchased at an Ea
"a side confectionery store.
o The National Purity congress
holding its annual meeting at Rurlin