Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

| Several thousand lllinolsans cele-
brated Illinois day at the Alaska Yu-
kon exposition.
Frank Nicolai, assistant cashier OF
the City National bank, Auburn, Ind,
is missing and the banks books show
shortage of $4,000 in cash.
Following the finding OF four
month-old dead baby with its skull
crushed, James Pullman and May
Williams of Mount Carmel, ILL.,, were
arrested. 1t is charged that the man
jumped off train with the infant
after an attempt to have it adopted in
East st. Louis.
Alaska is being inspected by Nor
wegian experts with view to set
element of Norwegians in that dis
trict.
Higher diamond prices are shown IL
figures from southwest Africa. Ameri-
cans, being more prosperous, are said
to be willing to pay the advance.
The Payne tariff bill was passed by
the senate by vote of AZ to 81, Pres
tdent Taft signed the measure and the
extraordinary session of congress,
which began March Is, was adjourned.
The great National Irrigation con-
gress opened at Seattle, Wash, with
about 1000 accredited delegates pres
ent besides thousands of others who
are interested in the reclamation of
desert lands. Among those in at
tendance are men from England, Ger
many, France, the Latin republics,
China and Japan.
Prominent churchmen and laymen
from all parts of the country gathered
In Pittsburg, Pa, where the American
Federation of Catholic Societies be-
gan its yearly convention
Street car employees of Chicago by a
large majority voted to strike unless
the companies grant their demands
for higher wages.
One man was killed and 60 hurt in
a collision of a Pennsylvania railroad
train and a car on the East Chicago
and Whiting electric line at One Hun
dred and Fourth street and Indianap-
oils avenue, Chicago.
Abram c. Eby, mayor of Burkeville,
Va, was arrested on a charge of
threatening to dynamite property of
the Pennsylvania railroad unless paid
$4,000.
A letter written by Stanford White
to Mae Mckenzie, an actress, was
used by the defense in the effort to
have Harry Thaw, slayer of the archi-
tect, released from the insane asylum.
Robert Pohl, the thief, and Edward
Larken, one of a posse, were killed
and four others wounded following a
bold robbery in the State bank of
White Bear, MINI.
The second appeal in the famous
Smell will case was filed in the Illinois
supreme court.
Joseph Hensler killed his wife with
razor and then ended his own life
at Houghton, Mich.
John w. Cravens, banker of
Spring Lake, Ia, and his wife were
killed when a trolley car struck their
auto at Alexandria, Ind.
The steamships Umbria and Etruria
of the Cunard line are for sale, be-
cause their engines are regarded as
out of date and burn too much coal.
The vessels were Atlantic record
breakers about twenty years ago, be-
ing the first ships to cut the ocean
trip to about six days.
French and American capital will
establish $50,000,000 steel plant in
the City of Mexico withine12 months.
An earthquake has been reported
/ from Brest, France. and the vicinity
of that city. A number of buildings
were rocked by the quake, and the
people thrown into state of panic.
Three trunks shipped by members
of the BLACK Hand" who stole two
children in st. Louis, were traced to
Chicago, but the bodies of the victims
were not in them as had been feared.
Several persons were hurt at Battle
Creek, Mich, when a storm blew down
circus tent and caused panic as
the animals set up roar.
King Gustave of Sweden summoned
members of parliament to Stockholm
when the country was threatened with
civil war as a result of strike in.
volving 100000 persons.
For the first time in Is years muir
derer was beheaded in public in
Paris, large crowd witnessing the
fall of the knife.
Laws governing Sunday closing,
which have been in effect in Connec-
ticut since 1922, were repealed by the
state legislature.
The Alabama house passed a reso-
luton for election of United States
| hryI of no
The deposed shah of Persia has
been offered a pension of $4,000 a
year if he will reveal the hiding place
of the crown jewels and leave the
country.
The strike of Italian quarrymen at
Marblehead, Wis. came to an end
after the Italian consul at Milwaukee
had addressed the men and urged
them to return to work.
Vessels of the United States navy
in all parts of the world observed the
one hundred and nineteenth anniver.
sary of the navy organization on Au.
gust 4.
While searching for Will Hendrix,
an escaped murderer under life sen.
tence, James Russell and Joseph
Boren, deputy sheriffs of Oklahoma
City, shot and wounded each other in
the darkness by mistake.
Complaints by western senators that
there is a Joker" in the leather
schedule of the tariff bill caused delay
in action on the measure by the sen,
ate.
Spies who were sent up in bal
loon by the commander of the Span
ish forces in Morocco watched thou