Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-05-20

Mackenzie, pastor of Rutgers Presby
terrain church, New York.
The first convention of the Interns
tional League for Highway Improve
ment began at Richmond, Va.
Five Filipino outlaws were kille,
near Bamno by cavalry under Capt
=! Rhodes.
! The business of the town of Tilton
ILL.,, is at standstill because thre,
resigned, having been told by thu
Standard Oil Company, which employ
them, that its employees cannot taxi
part in public administration.
Mrs. Myrtle Brewer, widow, is IL
Jail in Lyons, Kan, having confessed
that she shot and killed Frederick Arm
bridge carpenter, because he an
noyed her.
A dispatch received in Cologne sai(
| a massacre was threatened at Ezer
oun, Turkey.
The Wright brothers and their sis
ter, who have just returned from Eu
rope, were heartily welcomed to theii
nome, LAY ton, ~. ..
Former President Roosevelt after
| several days of successful hunting
moved his camp to George McMillan's
Ju ia ranch
Judge Harris of Paxton refused tc
quash the indictment against Joseph
Klein, the Chicago militiaman charged
with killing a Kankakee boy.
The rat" in her hair acted as a
buffer and saved Mrs. Richard Frost
of Jackson, Mich, from probable death
in an automobile crash.
The Illinois Elks voted to hold their
1910 convention in Quincy.
A medal was awarded by the wal
department to Amos Weaver of Dun.
kirk, Ind, for bravery in the Philip
pines.
Misses Maud Ewing and Ida Tilden
Des Moines Qa) teachers, were ar
rested on charges of cruelty whipping
David kaplain, nine years old.
William Price of Pana, ILL.,, com
mitted suicide by blowing himself to
pieces with dynamite.
William E. Corey, president of the
United States Steel corporation, sailed
from New York for Europe. He said
an early tariff adjustment meant pros
perity.
Geraldine Farrar, prima donna, will
be welded in June to Antonio Scott
Italian barytone. The ceremony will
take place in Paris.
+. j. WalZ, district forecaster Of
Louisville, KY, has been appointed tc
| assume charge of the new topograph
ical division of the United States fol
the collection of climatology data
Eastern Illinois is in the division.
Chicago is seeking the next conven
ton of the National Brotherhood o.
Railway Trainmen, which is meeting
In Columbus, o., and which is expected
to vote money for completing the
home for aged and disabled trainmer
at Highland Park, Ill.
Judge G. H. Cabaniss of the superior
court of San Francisco granted di
vorces to seven women in 20 minutes
The twenty-fifth worldwide quadren
NAL conference of the United Brethren
church began II days session a
Canton, o.
Wireless telephone between Chicago
and Milwaukee was put in operation
the first wireless telephone messag,
received in Wisconsin being picked vi
at the office of the Milwaukee journal
The departmental committee whicl
probed the alleged combinations il
the meat trade in England scored tn
American beef trust.
Twenty men were killed by the e1
plosion of 1000 pounds of dynamite a
Bethlehem, N. Y.
In deciding the suit of Mrs. Sara
A. Davis of Vermilion, Ill.,, the circui
court will determine whether tn
widow owns the body of her husband
Twenty-four men, who participate
in the recent mutiny, were hanged i
the streets of Constantinople.
Announcement was made that E. +
Gary will give 100000 Y. M. c. A
building to the city of Gary, Ind.
Thomas H. Netherland, who ha
charge of the social affairs of tn
|
ministration. committed suicide.
H. r. Brasfield of Unionville, Mo,
state representative, who in 1902 set
record by fasting 60 days, is said TO b
dying in Jefferson City, Mo.
John w. Heron of Cincinnati
father of Mrs. William H. Taft, az
companied by his daughter, Mr..
Louise More, has gone to the Whit
House for a visit
Both Henry T. Huntington, nephe,
of the late Coils p. Huntington. an
the Iatter's widow, Mrs. Arabella 1
Huntington, denied the dispatche
from Los Angeles that they are to b
married.
Claiming complete lapse of memor!
mysterious stranger has arrived 9
Mcneil. Ark, with the only means {
Identification being the letters III.
W." on his linen. He says he remen
bers he was a professor at unive
sity in Texas.
Because she wore high-heeled shoe
when she was injured by fall from
street car, Mrs. Anna Peterson Of Oal
land, Cal, has lost her suit for dan
ages against the Oakland Tractio
Company.
The Playground Association
America decided that baseball is
healthy sport for boys.
May Yohe. actress. formerly Lad
I Frances Hope, afterward Mrs. PutnaI
Bradlee Strong, is now the wife of
Canadian lumberman said to be name
Murphy. A son has been born to he
in Portland. Ore.
A bronze statue of Henry Wad