Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-11-02
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN iTEMlzED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into . Few Lines for The
PsrusaI Of the Busy Mar
Latest Personal Infer
nation
Italian Turkish W1s.

At4bek&SIks ~ NsSI W ~ tk
Sixty Thousand Turks and Arabs are
pressing back the Italian lines around
the city of Tripoli and the inhabitants
Of the town fear an attack at any mo-
ment and a massacre il the movement
IL successful Maltese and other
British subjects in Tripoli are asking
for warships to protect them.
According to q news agency dis
patch received in London from Tri-
poll which escaped Italian censorship.
the situation at Tripoli is serious.
European residents fear a massacre.
~ holy war has been proclaimed
BY the natives.
Letters received at Malta from
Benghazi, Tripoli. confirm the report
Of the heavy bombardment Of that
place and estimate the dead among
the natives as high as 1000. A panic
prevailed Cor several hours.
Domestic
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union met in convention in Milwau-
kee, President Lillian M. W. Stevens
delivering the opening address.
A statue of Robert G. Ingersoll was
unveiled at Glen Oak park. Peoria. Ill.
President Taft spent his first day in
Chicago addressing the American
Mining Congress. lunching with the
Chicago Bar association, dedicating
the Great Lakes training station at
Lake Bluff and attending the annual
banquet OF the Chicago Association OF
Commerce.
Following close upon the institution
Of the federal governments prosecu-
ton OF the Steel trust. President Taft.
speaking to a Chicago audience, an
nounced his determination to enforce
the antitrust law to the letter against
every monopoly or other unlawful
combination.
Their navy gone, armies defeated or
in revolt and their power crushed In a
score Of large cities, the Chinese i'm
perialist forces In the Yangtse Kiang
at the instigation of Yuan Shi Kai are
to sue for truce with the revolution
lists.
At the concluding session of the an
nual conference of the sanitary OH
GERS of the state of New York DIR. 81
mon Flexner, director OF Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, de-
clared that as result OF many ex-
periments with serum he was able to
say that eptiemics OF spinal menin-
gifts can now be controlled.
With her head almost severed from
her body. DR.. Helene Knabe. a well
known practicing physician OF Indian
apolis, was found in her apartments
by Katherine Mcpherson. her ONCE
girl. Whoever committed the murder
vanished into the night without leav-
ing any traces Of his identity.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde's counsel, at his
murder trial at Kansas City. Mo-. are
charging that Jurors who read ac-
counts of the first trial in the Kan
sas City papers are biased.
Lowery Goode OF New York, presi-
dent of the Cairo & Norfolk railroad.
was found dead at the Parker house
In Boston.
Samuel NJ Butler, chairman Of the
American Automobile association and
one OF the best known men In the
United States, was instantly killed
about three miles south of Triton. Ga.
when the car In which he was riding
was overturned in ditch. p. ]. Walk
or Of San Francisco and his wife were
badly injured
Col Thomas varland Richeson Of
Amherst. Va. visited In the Boston
jail his son, Rev. Clarence v. 7. Rich
eson. who is accused of the murder
Of Avis Linnell. his one-time fiancee.
It was their first meeting in seven
years In the first words Of greeting
the clergyman exclaimed: Father. |
am innocent"
Fusion of progressive Republicans
and Democrats was delicately pro-
posed by Gov Woodrow Wilson OF
New Jersey in an address at lunch
con at Madison Wis, attended by
100e state Democrats and many La
Toilette Republicans.
A famous old silk portrait OF George
Washington. the gift of France to the
city OF New York, which has hung In
the city hall many years. Is splitting
to pieces and 1t is feared the portrait
cannot be restored.
All unallotted lands of the Cherokee
Indian nation will be sold at auction
on various dates In December, &C.
cording to an announcement made by
J. @. Wright, indian commissioner
They amount to about $4,000 acres.
Prospectors returning from Port
Wells. Alaska. report that four new
volcanoes are belching masses of black
smoke on the Kenai peninsula From
the mountain towns the eruptions are
plainly seen.