Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-09

Fitzherbert captured the historic
Brooklyn handicap in magnificent
fashion at the famous Gravesend
course. Olambala was second, Prince
Imperial third.
Government officials and members
of the English cabinet are convinced
that Col. Theodore Roosevelt's speech
at Guildhall, in which he rebuked
England's administration of affairs in
Egypt, will greatly increase the diff.
Guilty of dealing with the delicate pc.
litical situation that confronts Eng.
land and Egypt.
Inspection by divers of the sunken
French submarine Pluviose, which
was in a collision with the cross
channel steamer Pas de Calais, shows
conclusively that the hull of the sub
marine was crushed and that all of
the crew Of twenty-seven men were
drowned.
Frank Gotch, champion of all cham.
pions at the wrestling game, made
Zbyszko, his Polish challenger look
like tyro at the game of grapple at
the Coliseum in Chicago, by easily
throwing the European twice inside of
a half hour.
Verne Casebier. a freshman at
Washburn college, snatched a baby
from in front of motor car at To
peka, Kan, tossed him out of danger
and herself was struck by the machine
and thrown to the pavement, her right
arm being broken.
A phenomenally heavy rush of Chi.
nese to Canada through Vancouver is
netting the government $75O,0O0 per
annum. This is due to a report in
China that Canada intends to increase
the head tax on Chinese from $500 to
$1,000.
AS a result of the court action by
Judge Dyer, preventing the western
trunk line roads from increasing their
freight rates, Chicago carriers an
nounce that period of retrenchment,
curtailment of equipment, laying off
of men and shortening of hours and
work days, for those retained, has
been begun in order to Offset the re-
duced net income and increased CD
Grating expenses.
War which threaten the life of the
coal industry in Illinois was declared
between the operators and miners.
Refusing the terms accepted by the
miners in other states, leaders of
the Illinois strike ordered out engi-
neers and pumpmen who had been
left at work to guard against destruc-
ton of property during the suspen-
sion.
Charles Stuart Rolls created
notable aviation record by flying from
Dover, England, to Sangatte, France,
near Calais, and returning to Dover,
without touching the ground, cover
ing distance OF so miles.
A delegation of members OF the
National Society of United States
Daughters of the War of 1912 IN
yelled a beautiful window dedicated
to the memory of American prisoners
of the war of 1872 who were con.
fined in Dartmoor prison, England.
and who helped to erect st. Michaels
church, where the window is placed
The names of fish dealers who put
up fund of $4,000 to kill the fish
rate bill in the Illinois legislature, and
the name of the legislator who collect.
ed the money as we'll as the individu-
al amounts put up were revealed to
States Attorney Burke at Springfield.
Ac hnl In ~, &C.
predicted as soon as the grand jury
can hear the evidence of witnesses.
In the midst of an address before
the Illinois commandery of the Loyal
Legion at Chicago, Col. w. A. Jenkins,
Civil war veteran and an intimate of
Abraham Lincoln, was seized with
an attack of heart failure and died
almost instantly.
Suit for $4,000 damages for alleged
breach of promise of marriage has
been brought in the supreme court by
Miss Esther Quinn against Prof
Harry Thurston Peck, holder of the
chair of Latin of the University of
Columbia.
States Attorney Edmund Burke
called on Governor Deneen to talk
with him concerning information
which he may have relative to the
killing" of bills in the senate and
house during the last session of the
state legislature. He asked the gov.
ernor to appear before the grand jury
as it was intimated he would be will.
ing to do in recent interview.
A premature blast in the quarry of
the Lehigh Portland Cement company
at West Coplay, Pa, killed eight men.
No more stems are to be drained
at Leland Stanford university, Palo
Alto, Cal. The appellate court has
upheld the state law prohibiting the
sale of liquor within mile and half
of the institution.
The prosecution In the bribery in
vestigation won sweeping victory
at Chicago, when Judge McSurely
handed down decision upholding the
against Representative Lee
O'Neil Browne. The court refused to
quash the true bill and ordered
Browne to trial on the charge of bri-
bling Representative White to vote for
Senator Lorimer.
Notwithstanding the refusal of con-
gress to make his next years travel
Ing fund Immediately available. Presi-
dent Taft started on four days trip
as far west as Jackson, Mich.
Theodore Roosevelt was presented
with the freedom of the city of Lon
don and accepted the honor with a
liberalism that led him into a frank
ness of speech which created a SEN
sation in old Guildhall. AS the for
mer head Of country which once
paid tribute to Great Britain, the
American statesman gave the mother