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

O., under the auspices of the Ameri'
can Automobile association, the Ma.
| tional Grange and other national
bodies interested in the improvement
of highways
Hundreds of experts on taxation
met in Louisville, KY, in the third in.
! ternational conference on state and
local taxation. Forty-three states and
five Canadian provinces were repre-
sented, besides many colleges and
universities.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, in a wireless
message sent from the steamship Os'
car ii on which he reaches New York
Tuesday, assured the American peo'
pie of his ability to prove his claim
to the discovery of the north pole.
Prof. Donald b. Mcmillan of Wor'
cester, Mass, one of Commander
Peary's aides, was accidentally
wounded in the shoulder by the dis,
charge of a gun which one of the 9TH
eS explorers was cleaning on board
the Roosevelt.
Bandits held up a Denver & Rio
Grande express train near Leadville,
Col, and dynamited an express car,
but, according to officials, obtained no
booty.
Nat Nakala and Isaac Santi were
killed in mine 800 feet below the
surface near Bessemer, Mich, when a
miners candle accidentally set off a
quantity of dynamite. Two others
were cut off by gas.
Announcement was made at a meet
ing of the Cincinnati Aero club that
two wealthy men had pledged them
selves as hackers to the extent of
100000 to secure the international
aerial meet for Cincinnati in 1910.
Considerable excitement was
aroused at the national negro Baptist
convention at Columbus, o., by a re-
port that a resolution had been Of
fered withdrawing the privileges OF
the floor to Dr. Booker T. Washington.
American business men are plan
ming to organize a Russo-American
chamber of commefce in st. Peters
burg. The state department in Wash
lHSIOH ldNOTS the HOFe.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the artist,
whose divorce from his first wife that
he might wed his soul mate" brought
him much publicity, has returned Sc
cretly to his home at Monroe, n. Y,
from Europe, and is denying himself
to callers.
Imports from te United States into
New Zealand fell off nearly As per
cent. in the first quarter of 1909, COM
pared with the first quarter of 1908,
according to report by Consul-Gen,
eral William A. Prickitt of Auckland.
Commander Peary told of new OBJ
servatiOns at the north pole and
stood pat on his declaration that DR..
Cook had handed the world gold
brick"
Each of the 100 words in the will
of Edward H. Hartman is worth ST.
600, 900 to his widow, who, under its
provisions, probably becomes the
wealthiest woman in the world.
Fire in the Ernst Kerns dry goods
store at Detroit did $4,000 damage.
Fire destroyed the -four mills and
elevators of Iglehart Brothers of Ev-
ansville, Ind. The loss probably will
reach 100000; partly covered by in
surance.
David and Bascom Bogges, brothers,
were instantly killed and App Garner
so badly injured that he died few
hours later by boiler explosion at
saw mill at Middle Fork, w. Va.
He is not the man." was the dis
couraging declaration made by little
when Michele Rizzo, the man arrested
as a suspect in last Sunday nights
double murder at Utica, N. Y, was
brought before her for Identification.
While officers and relatives at Canal
Dover, O., investigating the death of
Miss Florence Weber, whose body was
found in the Tuscarawas river, are
unable to build up a theory of murder,
they are equally at loss to find mo-
tive for suicide.
A petition seeking the annulment
of a franchise granted the Vicksburg
Waterworks Company was filed in the
Mississippi city. The proceeding fol
lows numerous "breakdowns" "a the
plant and plans the taking over of
the management of the plant by the
city.
Lieut.. Moon of the artillery corps
who pleaded guilty to having failed to
return books borrowed from the corps
| library, was ordered by court-martial
reprimanded and confined within the
| post for three months.
Fraternities and sororities in the
high schools of Washington will be
allowed to flourish and multiply sc
long as they continue to be conducted
in an unobjectionable manner.
central bank with capital Of
100000, 900, the government to share
in its profits, was urged in the annua
address of George M. Reynolds, presi
dent of the American Bankers asso
citation, in Chicago.
Fargo, N. D., entertained the Japa
nese commercial commissioners, whC
are making a tour of the United
States. The travellers visited NORTH
Dakota Agricultural college.
Premier Stolypin has again sent {
circular to Russian governors genera
of the districts under martial law, in
structing them to restrict the appli
cation of the death penalty as mucl
as possible.
In the federal court at Marquette
Mich, E. T. Larson, former cashier o
the defunct First National bank o
Ironwood, pleaded guilty to embezzle
ment. Sentence was deferred.
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