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

are old ana rare. Inc lot is Soiu W
be worth more than $4,000.
While sleep-walking, 17-year-old Hin
man Knowlton Of South birmingham.
| Mass, fatally shot both his parents
The boy was arrested.
Patrick Cox, who was extradited
from Chicago few months ago, and
tried in County Mayo, Ireland, charged
with the death of Edward Murray, was
convicted Of manslaughter and SEN
fenced to five months Imprisonment.
An endowment fund for the support
of a postgraduate school for teacher
nurses" has been given to the teach
ers' college of Columbia university by
Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins. The
amount of the gift has not been made
public. 49," g.3M A..
The Canadian senate adopted the
bill ratifying the Franco-Canadian
treaty and It was assented to by the
governor general. The French and
Canadian governments will take i'm
mediate action to make the treaty eff
fective before the first of the year.
Lewis Merickel, 40 years old, Is
dead from a rifle wound in the abdo-
men and Joseph Myers, 10 years old,
who shot him is held at the Juvenile
home. The boy says that Merickel
dared him to shoot and that he fired,
not thinking the gun was loaded.
A gift of 100000 for the founding
Of home for convalescents in New
York city becomes available with the
death of John Masterson Burke, one
of Americas little-known millionaires.
The third National Corn exposition
opened at Omaha, Neb.. with exhibits
by the federal government and 70
states, and a vast quantity OF COM
petitive entries made by grain raisers.
Representatives of many civic and
| educational organizations met in New
York to devise a means of co-ordinat-
| ing civic activities and to plan more
effective methods of studying political
| problems.
J. Pierpont Morgan has gained con-
| troll of the Equitable Life Assurance
| Company with its $472.000,OOO assets
through the purchase of stock held by
Thomas F. Ryan, the latter having
bought the interests formerly owned
by James II. Hyde.
Following the abrupt termination OF
| diplomatic relations with Nicaragua
the government has dispatched the
cruiser Prairie from Philadelphia with
700 marines on board, the cruiser AL
| RI
trail American waters and it is deter
mined that stable government shall
be. established and maintained in the
war-riven republic.
A delegation of Chicago business
men visited President Taft and made
plea for the suspension of the pro-
visions Of the corporation tax law.
The president gave them but little
encouragement, saying he would take
their petition under advisement.
Albert l. Patrick, the New York
lawyer under sentence of death for
Staying Millionaire Rice, has lost his
ninth fight for freedom through the
| dismissal by the appellate court at
Brooklyn of the habeas corpus writ
secured by him to determine whether
he is being illegally retained by the
state.
Woman suffrage advocates through
out New York state are raising fund
OF several thousand dollars to be r-ed
| for promoting the suffrage bill which
will be put before the legislature OF
| Nau VnrE cta fhic uyintsr
Vermont will erect memorial to
Champlain, the explorer, and will not
join New York in such an undertake
ing
The average temperature for No
vember In Kansas City, Mo, was So
degrees, and the highest was so on
November g. This breaks all records
for the month since the weather, bu-
reau was established there.
Contracts are to be placed for two
submarines for the Russian navy.
They are planned to cruise in COM
pany with battleship feet.
The season of heavy gold receipts
at the United States assay Office in
Seattle ended with a total of 11.733.-
4S9 for the six months beginning June
/. This is falling off of SETS. 141.
compared with the same period in
1908. ,.fs
Twenty-three hundred switchmen
on Is railroads between Lake Superior
and the Pacific coast have struck for
higher wages and peter conditions.
Unless the strike is speedily settled a
serious interruption In traffic Is likely.
Combined resources of all the
banks of the United States reach
more than $21, 000, 00O, 900, or about
one-fifth of the entire wealth of the
country, according to special reports
compiled for the use Of the national
monetary commission.
The National Association of Live
Stock Breeders and Raisers. at its con
vention in Chicago. determined to ask
congress for a large appropriation for
the prevention and eradication OF
highly contagious animal diseases.
President Zelaya OF Nicaragua has
made overtures to Estrada, the revolu
zionist. intimating that he would re
tire from the presidency and permit
congress 10 choose his successor Es
trada promptly rejected the proffel
and says he will fight the matter out
Under writ of habeas corpus Min
ME Sprong of Fresno, Cal, recovered
her four-year-old daughter, Ruth. helc
by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank ID. Holland fol
debt. The Holland couple claimed So
for care of the girl. Judge Church
said the holding of a child under lieI
OF chattel mortgage is not to De con