Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-08-26
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torpedoed and sunk by German sub
marine about forty miles south of the
spot where the Lusitania lies, which is
65 miles southeast of Fastnet rock and
55 miles south of Old Head of Kinsale.
The steamer went down in IL min
utes. OF the 423 persons on board
1S1 passengers and 242 members of
the crew-32 are missing and are be-
lieved to have persisted. Only six of
the passengers are reported missing.
All passengers listed by the White
Star line as Americans had been saved.
DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg, the Ger
man imperial chancellor, in a speech
at the opening of the reichstag at Ber-
lin, declared that Sir Edward Grey's
words. spoken to the German ambassa-
dor at London when the latter took
leave of the British foreign minister
after the beginning Of the war in Au-
gust, 1914, indicated that England de-
sired the friendship of beaten and
weakened Germany as counter influ-
ence against powerful Russia.
German torpedo-boat destroyers
have sunk small British cruiser and
a British destroyer by torpedoing them
in an engagement of small craft off the
west coast of Jutland, the German ad-
miralty announced at Berlin.
Twenty Austrian warships and one
aeroplane attacked the Italian posi-
lions on the Island of Pelagosa, In the
Adriatic, but were repulsed by the
Italian artillery. The Italians lost
four killed, the admiralty announced
at Rome.
The Handelsblad of Amsterdam
says that Dutch troops opened fire
upon German Zeppelin which sailed
over Dutch territory. The Zeppelin
finally sailed away.
The Overseas News agency at Ber-
lin says: "The transport sunk by
German submarine in the Aegean sea
belonged to the Peninsular and Orien-
tai company. She carried 5000 troops
and sank in four minutes"
Kovno, the great Russian fortress
protecting the northern end of the
Russian second line Of defense
through Brest-Litovsk, on which the
Slavs promised to make their final
stand after the fall of Warsaw, has
been captured by the Germans. This
announcement was made officially at
Berlin.
Ten persons were killed and SO IN
tured by bombs dropped in another
Zeppelin raid on England, the govern
ment press bureau announced at Lon
don. One of the German airships is |
reported to have been hit.
An attempt of the Austrians to cap
ture the Island of Pelagosa by a COM
bined air and sea attack was frustrat-
ed by the Italian garrison. says dis
patch from Rome.
AOOSSSGtC
Four persons were killed when their
motor car was struck by train near
Pa. The dead are: Frank
his sisters, Blanche and Clara.
and Lena Bitter.
The Association of Veterans Of For
eign Wars, in session at Detroit. elect
ed Gus e. Hartung of Denver COM
mander in chief and Chicago has been
selected for the 1915 encampment.
Elihu Root of New York was unani-
mously elected president of the Amer
lean Bar association at the convention
held at Salt Lake City.
DR.. David B. Johnson, president of
the Winthrop Normal and Industrial
college of Rock Hill. s. c.. was elected
president of the National Education
at Oakland, Cal.
DR.. w. ]. Chenoweth and ]. F. Ber-
ing, both prominent in Decatur, ILL.,,
were instantly killed when traction
car struck their automobile.
George Adler, alleged to have swim.
died the public out of more than a
million dollars. broke Jail at Wauke-
sha. Wis. With him escaped three
other men. Two were captured.
Between eight and nine hundred
machinists employed by Potter &
Johnston of Pawtucket. r. l., struck
for an increase in pay. The shop is
making machinery used in the man.
ufacture Of machine guns to be used
by the allies.
Capt. J. G. Wright. balloonist from
Enid. Okla. was only slightly hurt
when he fell 5000 feet and dropped on
a roof with the balloon when the para
chute failed to work during an ascen-
sion at Iowa City. Iowa.
Agitation for national strike in
munitions plants as proposed by j.
J. Keppler. vice-president of the In
ternational Association of Machinists.
was repudiated at Washington by the
executive board of the association.
Three negroes. recently freed on
charges of poisoning mules on the
McBain plantation, were lynched near
Nopehull. Ala. One of the negroes
has not been identified hut Tho o&ha.