Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-08-11
GENERAL NEWS.

With the departure of half of the
National Guard on riot duty, Mayor
Marshall issued a formal call on the
men of Columbus, O., for 1000 special
policemen to serve during the street
car strike.
President Taft dedicated the big
monument to the Pilgrim Fathers at
Provincetown, Mass. The presidential
salute was fired by IA battleships, the
Grafton was delivered by DR.. Charles
w. Eliot and Ambassador Brice, the
minister from the Netherlands and
other noted men took part in the cere-
monies.
Jacob Harmon, former national
Republican committeeman from Okla
homa, was named by Senator Thomas
P. Gore as the man who offered a
bride Of $4,000 in Washington in con-
nection with legislation affecting the
Indian land deal that is now being
Investigated by a congressional COM
mittee at Muskogee. Senator Gore
also declared that Harmon told him
Vice-President Sherman, Senator Cur
tbs Of Kansas and Representative Nc
CURE of Oklahoma were interested in
the deal.
An insurrectionary movement has
started in the Basque provinces Of
Biscay, Alava, Guipeuzcoa and Navar-
TO The Spanish government has dis
patched troops to the scene of the
trouble. The government has learned
that priest in one of the Basque
villages is distributing arms to the
populace.
Revolution is rampant in the Span
ish Honduras republic. Uprisings
have broken out in a hundred large
towns and cities in all parts of the
country and American interests in the
agricultural districts are in jeopardy.
Arrest of sailor at Portland, Ore,
Is expected to vindicate John Devine
of the charge of train wrecking, for
which he served six years in the
Canon City (Col) penitentiary. De-
vine, who died in prison in 1909, was
known as the man of silence" be.
cause Of his refusal to discuss the
case.
Four lives were lost in a fire in a
three-story frame dwelling at West
Hoboken, N. ]. The victims were Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Biassetti and their
children, Paul and John. eight and
four years old.
Champagne may become a greater
luxury this year because Of the ravages
OF mildew among the vines of the
Rheims district of France than 1t was
made by the imposition of a higher
duty in the tariff law.
The ''progressives" made almost a
clean sweep in the Kansas primary.
Six of eight "insurgent" congressman
We're nominated. Their majorities run
from 500 to $500.
Shortly after he was indicted In
New York on the charge of con
spiracy in using the mails for fraudu
lent purposes, Col. G. c. Wilson. presi
dent of the United Wireless telegram
company, sixty-nine years old. mar
ried his stenographer, Miss Stella
Lewis, eighteen years old.
BY the apprehension of a Japanese
boy, Henry Yamagachi, for whom a
vigorous search is being made, Sono
ma county officials hope to obtain the
key to the murder of Enoch Kendall
Mrs. IRA Kendall, his wife, and their
son, in their canyon home lust north
Of Santa Rosa, Cal.
Col. F. George Cooke, U. 8 A 20
tired, is charged at a court-martial n
Fort Lawton, near Seattle, with bor
rowing from enlisted men and civil
ans.
The annual convention of the Hi
nois State Hotel Clerks associatio,
began in Decatur.
lnimation of the formation of
new labor union of national scope
comprising the, Western Federation q
Miners, the United Mine Workers O
America. and the steel workers of III,
country. was given by Presiden
Charles IL. Meyer of the Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners at Denver.