Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-11-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Two heroic men, r. Y. Williams and
+. M. Morris, descended into the st.
Paul mine at Cherry, ILL.,, and paved
the way for a fight against the flames,
and it is confidently believed that the
entombed men dead or alive will
soon be reached. They went down
through the air shaft and found that
the fire was raging at the foot of the
shaft but in other portions OF the
mine the temperature was nearly
normal, this gave the stricken women
and children renewed hope.
John Mitchell, in a speech before
The American Federation of Labor, in
dorsed a report of the committee on
boycott and declared that he intended
while at liberty to declare for the
rights guaranteed him by the organic
law of his country.
The body of Hedwig linda, the
young Polish girl who had been miss
ing several days, was found in an
abandoned Office at Milwaukee. She
had been assaulted and murdered by
unknown fiends.
A whole family is dead as the result
of a three-cornered duel that was
fought at Pioneer, La, between Clar-
ence Compton and Sylvester and Al
bert Owen. Compton, his wife and his
little daughter were all killed and
Sylvester Owen was slightly wounded.
After the killing he and his brother
surrendered to the sheriff The trou-
BILE grew out of an unkind remark
made by Compton to the boys sister.
Mrs. Compton with her child stepped
into the line of fire during the shoot
ing.
Rumors are current in New York
that the government will halt, temper
arily at least, the merger of the
Western Union Telegraph and Amer
lean Telephone & Telegraph Com
panies, and determine whether the
law prohibiting combinations in re-
straint of trade is not being infringed
upon.
Rev. J. c. Hathaway, rector of st.
Paul's Episcopal church, at Maryville,
Mo-, committed suicide by hanging.
No reason can be assigned for the
deed.
The National Association OF Rail.
way Commissioners have adopted a
uniform code of demurrage rules ap,
plicable alike to state and interstate
transportation. .
Rev. Thomas ]. Shahan, rector OF
the Catholic University of America, al
Washington, has received from Rome
the papal brief creating him domes
tic prelate of the pontifical court
with the rank Of monsignor.
The appeal of the Ohio State Fed
Grafton of Labor from the revocation
of it's charter was dismissed by the
American Federation of Labor in ses
sion at Toronto. II was voted to rec
ognize only the newly-formed Ohio
federation.
Dowager Duchess Consuelo Of Man
chester, formerly Miss Consuelc
Yznaga of New York, who has beer
seriously Ill for some time in London
is in a critical condition.
The laymen's missionary movement
for eyangelization of the world opened
its session in Baltimore.
President Gompers, Vice-Presiden
MlICHSll anu MOTTlSOn o
the American Federation of Labor
have been granted stay until Novem
Der 20 by the appellate court at Wash
ington of the issuance of a mandat,
sending them to Jail for contempt O
court.
Fifteen hundred hotels in Missouri
and Kansas lose $3.50 each every yea
in bad bills, total of $685. Tn,
question of curbing this evil will b.
discussed az the annual meeting o
the Kansac.Sissouri Hotel Mems as
sociation. which opened in Kansa
City.
Secretary Wilson says 100000 wi
be needed to administer the 25, OO0, 90
acres of public land added to the n;
tional forests by President Roosevelt
Josephine Chauvin, who is credite
with knowing of a white slave synd
cate on the Pacific coast, is under Al
rest in San Francisco.
Attorney General Wickersham
convinced he has sufficient evidenc
in his possession TO convict one {
more of the officers and several
the directors of the American Suga
Refining Company of fraud in conne
ton with the weighing of sugar at Ii
port OF New York.