Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-11-10

by the senate at Madrid by vote
Of 149 to So.
The Philippine assembly unanimous.
| ly reelected Manuel Quezon delegate
to congress.
The first station of the United
States aeronautical reserve has been
established at Columbia university.
New York. The station will furnish a
series Of lectures on aeronautics next
winter.
An edict from the academic senior
council at Yale university, New
Haven, Conn, orders the discontinue
ance of studying during chapel exer.
else under pain of penalty which
may involve suspension. ..
Employees Of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton railroad are held re-
sponsible for the collision of one Of
their freight trains with a Big Four
passenger train at Middleton on July
4, in the formal finding OF Coroner
Burnett of Butler county. The wreck
caused the death of twenty-three per
sons.
Martial law has been declared In
Honduras as a direct result of the
revolt of Gen. Jose Valladares, the
deposed commandant of Amapala
against the government. The port OF
Amapala has been closed and the
island is in a state of siege.
Six men were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at Spokane, Wash,
charged with conspiring to defraud
the government OF coal lands In Alas
ka valued at s200,000,000. Among
those who were alleged to be as
signees of one or more of the claims
are Gov. James N. Gillett, California;
Congressman McLachlin, California,
and Henry T. Oznard. president of the
American Beet Sugar company.
Indictments returned by the federal
grand jury against nine ranchmen
Of western Nebraska were made pub
lie at Omaha, Neb. The indictments
charge conspiracy to drive from their
claims, at the point of guns, home
steaders who took sections of semi
ariG land under the Kinkaid home
stead law.
United States Senator Alexander s.
Clay. desperately i'll, was brought
from his home at Marietta and placed
in an Atlanta (Ga.l sanitarium.
A citizen of Fullerton, Cal. has sent
ten cents to the postoffice department
at Washington, with a letter in which
he explains that he used several
stamps which had been used but not
cancelled
Herbert Jackson, negro of Athens,
Ga, showed two pieces of his skull TO
a Judge when Ed. Dimson, the alleged
assailant Of the complainant was
called to trial. Jackson said Dimson
struck him on the head.
To inspect immigration stations at
Honolulu and points on the way,
Daniel ]. Keefe, commissioner general
of immigration, left Washington on a
tour that will require two and half
months
legal battle for the 100000 es-
tate of Gen. Thomas T. Eckert of
West End, N. j., for a long time pres
ident of the Western Union Telegraph
company, Is to be fought by one of
his sons, Clendennin Eckert, and the
generals brother, William Eckert.
Standing on a frail platform 235
feet in the air Rt. Rev. Nicholas G.
Matz, bishop of the diocese of Col
orado, sealed and blessed the capstone
of spire of the new Roman Catho-
lie Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton at Denver.
Preparations are being made in
New York for a countrywide strike
of express drivers and helpers. All
drivers and helpers on the various ex-
press compaIses in Brooklyn not al.
ready affected by the strike which has
tied up the express business in Man
haitian and Jersey City. 1t was an
nounced, will be called out by the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters. ..l
NJ. BRAND, after having handed the
resignation of the French cabinet to
President Fallieres, acceded to the
request of the latter to form a new
task at once. The new cabinet will
be largely the old ministry reorgan
lied, with the distribution of the port
folios made with special reference to
a solution of the vexatious labor prob
lens. Hl ~s
When Mrs. P. M. Guiou was killed
at the Nevada (Kan) insane asylum
tragedy stelked into the family fol
the fifth time in six months. Two
others of the family were slain, one
was wounded and one is in Jail facing
a charge of attempted murder.
After passing Newton Station, Mont.
the engine of Northern Pacific trail
exploded, killing Fireman Owen Jones
fatally injuring Engineer Ben Wilson
and scalding John Pollard and Johi
Peterson, who we're stealing ride.
President Taft has made public
letter from Chairman w. B. McKin
ley of the Republican congressional
campaign committee giving practica
assurance that the Republicans will
retain control of the next house.
Two men were blown to fragment
with pieces clinging to the mine rock
for a distance of forty feet and tw
others were decapitated by terrifi
explosion in the Leonard copper min
at Butte, Mont.
Women and girls played the leadin
roles in the most exciting incident
of the garment workers strike at CHI
cago. The whole program of stril
er's activity was gone through will
from picket duty to assaulting police
men and hurting missiles. Riotin
continued in the vicinity of the shop
of the larger clothing firms and eve