Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-07
GENERAL NOTES.

Prof. Jerome H. Raymond assumed
owned Toledo university, Toledo, O.,
and Prof. Harry B. Hutchins became
acting president of the University of
Michigan, the resignation of DR.. James
B. Angel going into effect.
In the Long Island automobile
derby. while running 65 miles an hour
a 60-horse power machine overturned
killing Mechanician James Bates and
seriously injuring Driver Herbert
Lyle.
The south is honoring the memory
of Admiral Raphael Semmes, the
naval hero of the confederacy, this
being the one hundredth anniversary
OF his birth.
A romance in the wake of the Louis
lana storm became known. A young
woman of Leesville, La, lost her
trousseau in the storm, and appeared
at the altar in improvised attire, while
the groom met her bare-footed, with
his garments insists.
d. J. Vent, one of the striking train
dispatchers of the Mexican National
railroad, who is now seeking employ.
ment in the United States, has fallen
heir to 100000 in Scotland.
A torchlight procession of 5000 per-
sons was feature of demonstration
for Gen. Trevino given in Monterey,
Mexico.
The National League of Veterans
and Sons, organized two years ago to
benefit men who have served in the
regular army or National Guard and
their sons, met in annual session at
Bay City, Mich.
One thousand children, terrified by
BLACK Hand" stories, became panic
stricken in a Jersey City IN. j.
parochial school when they heard fire.
works exploding on the outside. One
child was fatally injured and 1S
others more or less hurt
Six survivors of an unknown vessel
are aboard Winter Quarter lightship,
the remaining IL men of the crew
having persisted, according to report
made by Capt. Delano of the steamer
Porto Rico which arrived at Baltimore
from New York.
Sam Yong Ping, an aged Malay and
one of the wealthiest fishermen on
the Louisiana coast, hanged himself
by his feet from a tree near his home
on Paratana bay. He is supposed to
have been crazed by the recent storm.
Passengers on some of the Omaha
street cars drove off the crews and
ran the cars themselves, when the
motormen refused to start after the
fares were collected. The crews sent
in riot call.
Another dissolution of the Finnish
senate Is imminent as a result of the
clash over Finland's contribution to
the Russian defense fund. The Rus
sian cabinet asks 100000 from Fin
land; the Firms will contribute only
100000.
President Taft visited the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
Wash, and was the center of interest
for the great crowds at the fair.
The meeting between Presidents
Taft and Diaz will be a strictly inter.
national affair, according to the official
program just issued.
Two million people viewed the big
Hudson-Fulton parade at New York
Twenty thousand men were in line.
The street car service in Omaha
and Council Bluffs was almost normal
following the strike The Omaha CITY
council has by resolution, urged the
car company to agree to arbitration
United States District ATTORNEY
Sims has unearthed evidence thai
white slave traffickers are operating
again on large scale in Chicago
Raids and prosecutions are probable
Bush fires are raging in the Sas
katchewan districts and are threaten.
ing the property of the settlers.
Consul General Lay, at Cape Town.
says large quantities ofAmerican goods
could be sold in South Africa II rem.
resentatiyes were on the ground.
Public schools and co-education are
denounced as jeopardizing the faith Of
children In pastoral letter issued nv
,he French episcopate.