Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-09
GENERAL NEWS.

. Inc American society OF Merchantmen
Engineers met in New York in Its
thirtieth annual session. gr
President Taft, head of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, opened the fifth annu-
al meeting of that organization in
Washington, and addresses were made
on relief work in Italy, Key West and
elsewhere, o.. ,..i ..@.. f.....
The annual meeting of the Lake
Michigan Commercial Fishermen's as.
sociation was held in Charlevoix,
Mich, H. Barlow presiding.
The state horticultural societies OF
Illinois and Michigan met in annual
convention at Champaign and Kalama-
zoo, respectively. o.... ~ ...,. # ...sD
Striking foreign workmen at steel
plant in Monaco, Pa, tore down an
American flag and hoisted in its place
a black flag, and when Deputy Sheriff
Crowley sought to displace the latter
he was shot and fatally wounded.
The Pennsylvania st. Louis-New
York flyer was wrecked by broken
rail near Lewisville, Ind, and three
express messengers seriously injured.
None of the passengers were hurt out
side of some minor bruises and cuts.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer in his
annual report warned the govern
ment to hold on to the navy yards and
recommended the immediate building
of two battleships of the most de-
structive type and another dry dock
hn IF
ing the largest "Dreadnoughts."
President Zelaya of Nicaragua has
become a fugitive from justice and
a common murderer in the eyes of the
United States, according to report
which emanated from the state de-
partment. 1t is the intention of the
government to capture him If posi-
BILE and try him for the murder of
Groce and Cannon, the Americans.
! II is believed in New York that the
purchase. of the majority of the stock
of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety by J.. Pierpont Morgan fore
shadows the naturalization OF ! the
Equitable.
I The British parliament has been
prorogued and the fight to end the
powers of the house of lords has be-
gun. 80" ..''. ~
A full set of autographs of presi-
dents of the United States, from
Washington to Roosevelt, was sold in
New York for $4,000.
that Mrs. jeanette, Stewart Ford
shot and tried to kill Edgar s. Cooke
70: Chicago at New York several years
ago Is asserted by Prosecutor Henry
Hunt OF Cincinnati, after an investiga.
ton in connection with the Warmer
embezzlement case.
Secretary Dickinson, in his annual
report, recommends to the president
many sweeping changes and reforms
in the army, including the centraIiza
ton OF troops in forts erected ada
cent to the principal cities of the Uni
ted States. the adjustment of the
Roosevelt physical tests for officers
and governmental control of wireless
telegraphy.
Robert r. Doherty, prominent
Methodist who was one of the found
ers of the Epworth league. is dead o.
pneumonia at his home in Jersey City
lie was 62 years old.
The Rock island and Frisco rail
roads have dissolved the merger tina
involved more than 100000, 900 an,
will operate separately hereafter.
The English house OF lords rejecte,
the budget and have referred 1t to tn
country for its judgment on the meas
pre.
One miner was killed and 100 res
cued with difficulty when gas expIode
In a mine near Marion. III
Mrs Mary j. Wilhelm was placed o,
trial at Newark. NJ j.. charged wit
the murder OF her husband Nichola
S. Sica, indicted with her. will b
tried separately.
John A Bruce. iumberman of Strs
der. La. says 500.00O.000 feet OF iun
Der was destroyed by recent tornadoe
In the south.
Fire IN the S1.00O.O00 mansion {
Howard Willetts at Gedney farm. nes
White Plains. N. Y. did 100000 dan
age,
II Is urged by the post-office depar
ment at Washington In an official CT
Guitar that persons WHO contempla,
mailing Christmas packages for deli
cry 10 rurai communities post the
as early as possible to avoid congo
ton and delay at post Offices Guppl
ing carriers on rural reuter-