Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-13

western cyclers coming into Pltts-
burg on their wheels are liable to arr est
and Imprisonment unless they have a
license plate. The public safety coun-
Gil committee met recently and recon-
mended an ordinance regulating cycl-
ing within the city limits. Road racing
In prohibited. so is coasting. Gongs
must be sounded when passing vehi-
cles, pedestrians and busy street cross
ings. Speed is limited to ten miles an
hour. The penolly for coasting and
road racing is $50. One of tho council
men wanted to bar bloomers, but the
others were afraid to legislate against
the new costume. The license will
cost so cents per year, and must be
taken out before July /.
VIM. II. Young, OF Bloomfield, Pa.
heard noise in his stable the other
day and found bulldog with his teeth
imbedded in the horses nose. The
animal was paving with his fore feet,
vainly endeavoring to trample on the
dog. Mr.. Young tried to make the dog
let go by using pitch fork, but he
could not. An az was procured and the
dog knocked senseless by a blow. AS
soon as the dog dropped the horse
sprang upon him with both fore feet,
and then selling the dog in his teeth,
shook the life out of him. Mr.. Young
and his assistants were obliged to re-
sort to heroic measures again to make
the hose loosen his hold on the dead
dog. The AK was used to pry open the
jaws of. the horse.
The pension case of Judge Charles
ID. Long, of Michigan, which has been
before the local court IN one form or
another for some time, has finally been
decided by the court of appeals, the
commissioner of pensions coming out
victorious, though the probabilities are
that the case will not be taken to the
supreme court of the United States.
About year ago Commissioner of PEN
slons Lochren caused the pension of
Judge Long to be reduced from S75 to
sou per month. Subsequently the case
came before Judge Bradley, of the dis
trict supreme court, and he decided in
erect that the commissioner of pensions
had no authority to reduce the pension.
The court of appeals today reversed
that decision, holding that pension is
not vested right except in a very linn
ited sense, as shown by the act of
December II, 1893; that the courts can
not interfere i'll matters of this kind
and that the commissioner of pensions
had perfect right to review the acts
OF his predecessors.
The Free Thinkers hall at Dallas.
Texas, was entirely inadequate to con-
veniently hold those who listened to
John r. Chalesworth's infidel lecture
last week, and occasioned one of the
mostunique challenges on record. The
lecture was entitled, SIS There God?
The speaker claiming that while there
might be one, there was no actual evil
dence to prove it. He went over the
ground from that in the earliest his
tories and records to the present day,
and claimed that in the economy of
nature there was no necessity for a God.
At the conclusion of the lecture Mrs.
Sweeney, president of Dallas w. G. Il.
u, arose and asked the lecturer IL he
would give her his name that she
might pray for him and If he felt his
heart touched he was to make as public
admission of the fact as he had of his
unbelief in deity. Secretary Paget of
the Free Thinkers society arose and
asked Mrs. Sweeney if she would ac-
cept his name, as he, like the lecturer,
doubted the existence of a Jehovah
All he stipulated was for a time limit.
He did not want to wait till he was
dead, as they might say he made death
bed recantatiOn. The limit was set at
three months. Paget further stipulated
that, If at the end of three months he
and ChaleswOrth, or either Of them, had
not made a public confession, Mrs.
Sweeney is to admit there is no efficacy
in prayer, that God is a failure and
does not exist. This Mrs. Sweeney
agreed to and the lecturer and seCre.
tary signed this very extraordinary
challenge.