Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-10-13

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consin at Madison.
Never in the history of the Demo
cratic party in Michigan has there
been held a state convention which
| eaualed in size and enthusiasm the
| one that took place in Kalamazoo.
| Lawton T. Hemans of Mason was rati-
| fed as the candidate for governor.
The honeymoon journey Of Capt
Charles w. Littlefeld and his bride.
who was Mrs. Kirkland Armour, will
be delayed for some time. Capt
Littlefield broke an ankle stepping
from a train.
Terms of settlement have been
reached by bricklayers' unions Of
New York and other cities and 1t is
asserted they will return to work at
once.
The Michigan Republican state con-
vention adopted a platform unQuali-
fedly indorsing President Taft and
his administration and indorsing less
enthusiastically but none the less
certainly the new tariff law.
The regular Democratic convention
Of Tennessee nominated Senator
Robert L. Taylor for governor to sue
coed NJ R. Patterson who resigned.
The downpour of rain which has,
soaked Kentucky, Ohio and southern
Indiana for two days and two nights
continues in many sections Of those
states and has extended southwark
into Tennessee, northern Arkansas
and Mississippi.
The Standard OIL company through
Its official publicity representative. ].
l. c. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated a cam
pa1gn to Increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL" and is lower
Ing prices Of kerosene in Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
or August last, when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels l cent a gallon from 9% to S%
cents at the refinery, and refined oil
In tanks from 61a to 51a cents a gal
Ion. In part the statement reads:
The Standard OIL company has inau-
gurated campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil.
Inc level of prices for refined oil to-
DAY In the United States is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as direct result of these prices the
consumption Of refined oil In this
country is increasing. The same pol
ICY is now being actively pursued
abroad"
Inc cotton and corn crop of Geor-
gia is estimated at $500, 100000 in
the annual report of the commission
er OF agriculture made public in At
lanta.
Twenty-Five persons, all members
of the crew Of the battleship New
Hampshire, were drowned in the sink,
ing of a launch in the Hudson river.
That the death list was not much
greater is due to the bravery and per.
sonal rescues effected by Godfrey De
! c. Chevalier. a midshipman. Chevalier
rescued fifteen persons who were In
the water.
All but two of the bodies taken
from the wreck of the Illinois Trac-
ton system at Stanton, ILL.,. have
been identified. The complete list Of
dead numbers 81. Motorman Lier-
man and Conductor Leonard. in charge
of train No. IA, were arrested and
taken to Carlinville for the coroner's
inquest.
Thirty-eight persons were killed and
twenty-six others were injured in a
head-on collision between two inter
urban cars of the Illinois mckinley
Traction system at Dickerson's curve,
two miles north of Staunton. Both
cars were plunging down a steep
grade at a high rate of speed when
they met. Disobedience of orders on
the part of green" train crews is said
to have been the cause of the catas.
trophe.
The thirtieth annual meeting Of the
Farmers National congress opened in
Lincoln, Neb., with President Joshua
Strange in the chair, and delegates
present from every state in the union
The two-year-old kentucky Futurity,
valued at $4,000. the feature Of the
annual fall meeting of the Kentucky
Trotting Horse Breeders association
at Lexington, was won by Justice
Brooks who set a new worlds record
His time was 2:11A and 2:O9h.
DR.. George F. Kunze, a geologist Of
national rerute, declares that 1t will
be impossible to erect a bridge over
the Hudson river to connect New
York with the New Jersey shore ow
ing to lack of rock foundation.
The senate half of conference
committee at Denver, Col. invaded
; the lower house of the state legisla
ture, usurped the speakers chair ant
remained in possession until the house
members of their body consented to {
report of inability to agree.
Portusal's capital is now completely
in the hands of the Republicans. who
have formed provisional govern
ment with Theophile Braga as presi
dent. new national flag Of red and
green is flying over all the public
buildings including the town hall The
warships greeted the hosting Of the
!. Republican flag with salvos of artil
: lery 1t is impossible to estimate the
number o. killed and wounded in the
! fighting. but 1t is expected to reach
several hundred
The National Association Of Com
mercial Executives, whose aim is t.
help business by promoting the ideal
well governed city. met in annual con
vention in Grand Rapids. Mich.
!. The dry-farming congress. now Il
4 session at Spokane, Wash. has re
fused to change its name, but tn
I | u,Drd INF xuill ha nut ~. .