Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-23
GENERAL NOTES.

Gov. John A. johnson of Minnesota
was operated on for an intestinal alb.
scess at Rochester, Mimi, and his
condition was reported as critical. He
was on the operating table nearly
three hours.
Eight men were killed in a wreck
of passenger and freight trains on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
railroad near Pegram Station in Ten.
nesee.
Miss Gerda Sebbelov, a Danish girl
who is attending college in New York
claims to have received letters from
Eskipos in Greenland, where she
spent three years, saying DR.. Cook did
discover the north pole.
President Taft decided in favor OF
Secretary Ballinger in the controversy
with Clifford Pinchot and ordered the
discharge of l.. II. CLAWS, chief of the
field division of the general land of
fees.
The convention of the Yeomen OF
America rescinded at Springfield, Ill.
its action making the temporary or
ganization of the convention perma
nent
Commercial fishermen along the Hi
nois river in central Illinois are fav
ored by decision of Circuit Judge
Higbee in refusing to grant an injunc
ton asked by wealthy members OF
Chicago, st. Louis and indianapolis
clubs controlling lands in that section
Besides electing James Sweeney OF
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail-
road as president, the Roadmasters
and Maintenance of Way association
in session at Washington, picked Chi
cago for the meeting place in 1910.
BY an agreement between the attor
ney general and counsel at Union
Tenn, in the indictments against 100
men as night riders, the cases are
continued until November and bonds
of $4,000 are allowed.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the Association of American Gene
terry Superintendent is in session al
New York. Their hosts are enter
tanning them with trips to the metro
politan cemeteries.
Virginia has obtained from the fed
eral government the large figure-hea6
which formerly adorned the prov al
the battleship Virginia, but the state
of1cers are at loss to make prone,
use of the ornament now that they
have it.
Mrs. Will Nowling was slain neal
Pollard, Ala, by Mrs. Henry Nowling
her nephew's wife, who used a shot.
gun. The women had quarreled about
the use of a storehouse. The victim
was wealthy.
John Washburn, a 14-year-old bur.
glar, shot and killed himself at Free.
port, Mich. after attempting to slav q
deputy sheriff who tried to arrest him
Lord Tweedmouth. former first lord
OF the admiralty in England and
whose correspondence with the kaiser
caused sensation in 1908, is dead
The controversy over the boundar,
line between Bolivia and Peru. which
has threatened to cause war. ba,
been settled by the signing of a pro
tocol.
Peru and Bolivia will sign a proto
col for the settlement of their al,
ferences.
Count Leo Tolstoy, whose eighty
first birthday recently was celebrato cd
is visiting Moscow for the Arc
time in several years.
Governors and merchants OF for,
states will attend the convention -
the Ohio Valley Improvement assoo;.
ton at Cincinnati October Id and *
Speaker Cannon told the America,
Bankers association that he didn't be
lieve the next congress will pass ,
new monetary law, raped the uplif
magazines and defended the presen
rules of the house of representative
Striking miners of Crown Hill nea,
Clinton. Ind, have returned to work