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

| Tenn, 1ntimated that investigation OF
the case of J. H. Booker, charged with
hazing at West Point, will be re-
| opened.
The National Association of Super
visory Post Office Employees met in an
nual convention in Chicago. So.
A peace feet" of eight armored
United States cruisers sailed from San
Francisco on a five months trip to
Japan and China.
A monument to Chief Menominee
and his band of Pottawattomie Indians
who were unjustly evicted from their
reservation in Indiana in 1888 was I'M
yelled at Twin Lake, Ind.
Thirty Japanese sent by their gov
eminent to study commerce and trade
in the United States, landed at Seat
tie. They will travel through "a
states.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn,
N. Y, on April 81, 1908, discovered the
north pole, according to a message re-
ceived from him by his wife and in
formation sent to Copenhagen by the
captain of the vessel on which he re-
turned to that point.
| Through a conference between the
operators and the national executive
| board of the United Mine Workers Of
America the dispute with the $4,000
miners in the Pittsburg district has
been settled, and 1000 men now on
strike will return to work.
At Sleepyeye, Mimi, George w.
Sommerville, former state senator,
lawyer and politician, was shot and
fatally wounded, in his private Office,
by John S. Hayner, manager of large
! business block, in dispute over mon
ey matters.
A message received by relatives at
White Plains, N. Y, announced the
death from cholera at Foo Choo,
China, of Rev. and Mrs. George Corn
wall, for 20 years Presbyterian mis-
sionaries in that country.
Through a deal involving millions
the United States Steel Corporation
has taken over the property known as
the Kelly lands and Mines in Danville,
| Ill.,, district on which it held an option
from the Hammond Company.
KrasnOyarsk, Siberia, is to be the
place of exile of Alexander Lopukine,
former chief of the Russian police de-
partment, who was convicted of activ-
ity as a revolutionary.
John r. Myrick who enlisted in the
union army as private at the out
break of the civil war, and who was
retired as a brigadier-general in 1908,
is dead in New York.
! While playing with a shotgun at
Nicholasville, Ky, James Littrell.
eight years DID, accidentally dis.
charged the weapon and blew off the
head of his six-year-old sister.
Fire destroyed the Savoy theater at
Hamilton, Ont Loss, 100000. The
theater belonged to the Stroud-Ben-
nett syndicate, but was to have been
taken over by the Shuberts.
During the funeral at Seattle OF
George E. Eccles, the wireless opera
tor who persisted on the steamer Ohio,
every wireless telegraph instrument
in the western division was silent for
half an hour.
Mrs. Katherine Miller, formerly Mrs
Kate Soffel, who served a two-year
prison term for helping Jack and Ed
ward Biddle, the murderers, escape
from the county Jail at Pittsburg, died
of typhoid fever.
Tied to tree by robbers, an en-
ploye of the Ingram-Day Lumber Com
pany, suffered tortures for three days
near Nugent, Miss. His mouth was
stuffed with paper and rags and he
was without food, while mosquitoes
were torturing him.
President Taft has decided that Bey
erly, Mass, shall be the summer cap
ital again next year, and has leased
the cottage he now is occupying fol
the season.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, ant
delegate from Austria engaged In {
war of words at the lnternationa
Trades Unions congress in Paris wheI
/ the latter attacked American labo
for not joining the organization.
The United States and Europe wer,
brought nearly three hours closer to
D gether when the great liner Mature
j tania reduced her record from New
q York to Queenstown to four days, /
hours and q minutes.
:, After Staying Cecil Norton, Is year
| old, daughter of his housekeeper; hi
I daughter Dorothy, aged q, and sci
:. ting fire to his house, Will Tibbetts,
e wealthy farmer of Red Wood Falls
n Mimi, committed suicide.
Five persons, all relatives, wer
( killed when a street car struck an al
r tomobile, near st. Louis.
a A new tobacco war has bee
s started at Covington, KY, by the film
e of suit by Clark & Scott, indepent
/. ent manufacturers, against the Burle
society, demanding $135,520, said
, have been overcharged on Tobacco
s bought by them.
An important amendment has bee
e made to the navy regulations whic
r. places the engineer officer attached I
n ship of war in line to succeed tn
executive officer.
n Mrs. Fred Young, wife of farmt
fl near Barnum, Mimi, threw their thre
If children, one. two and five years, I'M
70 a we'll, set fire to barn, destroyin
1t, fred the family dwelling, swa
It lowed poison and then gashed h,
e. throat with a knife, afterward beir
taken to an asylum.
4. Rev. j. Holmes McGuiness, Edwal
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