Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-09-14
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Latest Personal infer
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Washington

Washington
Grain crops of the United States
aggregate 4,409, 100000 bushels, an in
crease during August of 136,000,000
bushels, but loss Of $4,000, 900 bush
government crop report. While
weather conditions practically through
out the country were reasonably favor
able the report did not indicate gen.
orally much improvement in the con-
dition of the crops over the previous
month.
Fifty post Offices Of the first class
were designated by Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock as postal savings
banks. They will be open to receive
deposits on October Z. The list In
cludes Freport, Moline and Rockford.
H.; Elkhart. Fort Wayne and Koko-
mo, Ind; Burlington, Council Bluffs
and Sioux City, Ia, and Kalamazoo,
Lansing and Port Huron. Mich.
Instructions have been cabled by
Washington authorities to Admiral
Murdoch to bring American gunboats
Into play to guard American citizens
during the crisis which has arisen in
6zechuan. China, a province which or
dinarily is turbulent and which lately
has become much wrought up over the
governments railroad policy.
President Taft has cancelled an en-
gagement to play golf with officials Of
The Denver (Colo) Country club ON
his coming Swing around the circle"
Domestic
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was con-
victed of the murder of his young
wife, Louise owen Beattie. on the Mid
lothian turnpike, near Richmond. Va,
on the night of July Is last, and UNI
less a higher court than that in which
he was tried intervenes he must die
b the electric chair in the peniten-
tary at Richmond on November "a.
Another strike vote is being taken
by shop employees of the Illinois Cen
trail railroad and upon it's outcome de-
ponds whether more than 10000 me-
chanics on that line will quit their
posts within the next week.
United States Senators Thomas s.
hnr &fx, a~A unn ION ma
nominated at the Democratic pri-
maries in Virginia for the long and
short terms respectively in the
United States senate.
A fusillade of shots followed a bit
ter quarrel of laborers at Perth Am
boy, NJ j., and two Italians fell dead
and another was severely wounded.
The police are hunting for Marino
Rornio as the assassin.
Old Bill Miner, alias George Ander-
son, train robber, highwayman end
Jail breaker, is to turn farmer. Re
Gently convicted of train robbery in
Georgia and sentenced to a convict
camp, he began to fail in health and
the state prison commission has or
dered his transfer to the state farm.
Jesse Pomeroy, Massachusetts most
famous prisoner, who Is serving life
sentence for murder, has just entered
upon his thirty-fifth year of solitary
confinement at Boston. Pomeroy en-
tered the state prison when he was
sixteen years of age. Now he is fifty
one.
Joseph G. Cannon is candidate
for reelection to congress from the
Danville (Ill.) district This announce
ment was made at the Kankakee fair.
United States government agents
are In Chicago to serve indictment
papers on Nathan Allen, millionaire
banker and leather manufacturer of
Kenosha, Wis.,. and John r. Collins.
q coal operator Of Memphis. on the
charge of smuggling. Both men are
the erstwhile admirers of Mrs. Helen
Dwelle jenkins. They are under In
dictment for smuggling jewels valued
at $4,000 from Europe through the
port at New York.
Eight men and boys have been ar
rested and placed under bond at
Shady Bend. Kan. for alleged connec-
ton with the tarring and feathering
Of Miss Mary Chamberlain, young
schoolteacher. ten days ago by a
mob.
In q sawmill explosion on Madeline
island, near Ashland, Wis, Clyde ].
Jersey was instantly killed and half
a dozen other persons were seriously
injured. Elmer Ferris was scalded
about the head and shoulders and may
die
Charged with accepting a bride Of
$4,000 in connection with the granting
of heating franchise. Thomas E.