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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
WIDOW GETS A FORTUNE.
Was Forwarded Check For Pension
Accommodating Since the War.

Des Moines, August IA check for
$2,717.S0 was forwarded yesterday
from the pension office here to Jane
dier's widow. The amount is in pay
ment for a pension which was applied
for 1862 but which was not granted by
the government till recently.
The soldier for whose service in
the civil war the pension is granted
died for and one-half years ago after
waiting more than the average life
time for his services to be rewarded.
This was James Cameron, who was a
member of Company B. Forty-ninth
New York infantry. Directly at the
close of the war, in 1864, he applied
for pension, but because some salts
faction concerning his record, could
not be secured, the pension was not
granted. In the meantime the soldier
died and his widow has grown aged.
But once decided that 1t is right to
ect Uncle Sam does things right, and
he has now paid the widow all Of the
pension money which has been accum-
ulating during these many years.
The large sum represents pension
of "a per month from January 29, 1868,
to April 8, 1874; IS per month from
then to December 4. 1891, and $40 per
month from then till 1899, the date of
the husbands death.
The average lifetime is thirty-five
years. and after the war Mr.. Cameron
lived longer than that. Now the large
sum has come to his widow and will
undoubtedly be happy surprise to
her. This is the second check Of this
nature which has been sent from the
local pension office recently.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
ELECTRIC ROAD FOR GREENFIELD
cherry's Abandoned Survey May be
Used.

Des Moines, July 31.-Announce-
ment has been made by railroad at
torneys this morning that Chicago cap
ital was being interested behind a
scheme for using the old Cherry sur
yey of the Des Moines & Southern,
which the Rock Island has abandoned
after its purchase from +. W. Cherry
through Stickney and the c. B. & @.
\ A company is now said to be form
ing for the purpose of building a line
of electric railroad from .Winterset to
Greenfield via the western route,
located and purchased by F. W..
Cherry. The company, 1t is said, pro-
poses to build the railroad at once,
connecting with the new branch of
the Des Moines Interurban railway
company at Winterset. The proposal
is to operate the two lines in con-
junction, having direct electric con-
nection from Des Moines with Win
terset and Greenfield.
There are twenty-six or twenty
seven miles Of road to build. The
Rock Island has announced that it
win build to Greenfield by way of a
southwest connection, running through
the townships of Lincoln, Webster,
Grand River and Lee. Cherry's sur
vey, it was declared, ran to Green
field from a northwesterly direction,
going through the townships Of Doug
las, Jackson, Harrison and Grove This
line was declared by the Rock Island
officials to run too close to its main
Omaha line to tap fresh territory.
Accordingly, after buying the right
Of way, the Rock Island decided to
use about eight miles Of 1t running
west along the section line from Win
terset and then abandon the remainder
Iof the road at the expense Of the
right Of way which had already been
purchased. The Greenfield extension
of the Rock Island will run more
than fifteen miles south of the main
line to Omaha.
The real truth Of the purchase OF
the Des Moines @ Southern by the
Rock Island has just been given out
President A. B. Stickney of the Chi
cago Great Western bought the road
from Promoter F w. Cherry. He
then sold it to the c. B. &. O., which
road in turn sold the line to the Rock
Island. The Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific agents in the deal were forced
to pay a spot cash sum for the line.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
TO ELECT A POPE.
Ceremony Of Entrance of Cardinals In
conciave.

Ceremony OF Entrance OF Cardinals In
conciave.
Rome, August 1.-The largest con
clave in the history of the Catholic
church has now assembled in the Sis
tine chapel for the purpose of electing
successor to Leo XIII. Sixty-two
cardinals, with more than two hundred
clerical and lay attendants, are, to all
intents and purposes, prisoners with
in the vatican. One of them, Cardinal
Herrana Espinosa, archbishop of Val
encia, was Frustrated Immediately af
ter entering the conclave, and lies iii
In his cell. This morning the cardin
ais entered on the solemn duty OF
choosing the new pope by ballot. The
general impression exists that within
two or three days possibly. though not
probably, new pope will have been
chosen. But no matter how long a
time may be required, the absolute Sc
clusion of the princes of the church
from the outer world must, according
to the church law, continue until a
choice shall be made.
Representations as to who will wear
the tiara have little value, as even
the cardinals seemed to be without
definite ideas as to the issue. Cardi
nails Rampolla, Serafino Vannutelli
Di Pietro, Gotti and Oreglia continue
to be most frequently mentioned as
the likely candidates, but the moment
the name of one of them is mentioned
q hundred reasons are supplied to
show that he could not possibly be
elected.
So seldom have the majority Of the
cardinals now here met each other
and so widely do they differ in nation
atty and personality, that no organ
lied movement in support of any one
cardinal has thus far been practicable
nor, in fact, seriously attempted. This
does not apply to the Italian cardinals
who. naturally, are well acquainted
with each other. With their numeri
cal strength the Italians could, II unit
ed, practically insure the election OF
pontiff of their own choosing.
It is the disunion and rivalry among
the Italian cardinals which, in fact
leaves the question of Leo's successor
so open as to make one guess almost
as good as another.
The rival claims OF the leading
Italian cardinals. SO freely ventilated
in the local press, are matters which
are all-important in connection with
the discussion of the conclave, because
it is assumed, as foregone conclu
sion, that the next occupant OF the
holy see will be an Italian. The for
eign cardinals have shown no indica
ton of opposition to this assumption
but however willing they are to honor
an Italian, 1t is believed that serious
differences among the Italians them
selves on matters Of political and re
ligious opinion must be reconciled be
fore one of them suitable to all sec
tions can be elected.
An impression prevails In certain
sections that. no matter what the YER
dict of the conclave may be, great
changes are impending in the policy oil
the vatican, and within year or two
the new pope will no longer consider
himself a prisoner in the vatican, but
will, unlike Leo, leave his precincts
when necessary.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
LAST rRIeuTE TO POPE LEO.
Third Great Requiem Mass is cele'
brated.

Rome, July 31-The last tribute was
paid to the late Pope Leo yesterday
with the third great requiem mass
celebrated in the Sistine chapel of the
Vatican and the function was no less
acrimonious and imposing than was
the other two. While there was per-
haps fewer persons present there was
a greater display of gorgeous uniforms
OF the sixty-two cardinals now In
Rome, all attended the mass except
Cardinal Cretonio, project of the Con-
gregation of Sacred Relics, who was
i'll.
The picture presented by the pro-
cession OF cardinals, In violet robes
and red capes bordered with ermine,
escorted by noble guards in scarlet
uniform and with drawn swords, the
scene peing softened by the clouds OF
incense and the chapel resounding
with the strains of the Incompatible
Sistiue choir singing Liberia Me Dol
Nine" made those present feel as
though lifted into another world.
In the churches of Rome yesterday
began the offering of prayers to the
Holy Ghost to assist and enlighten the
cardinals to choose the right man to
sit In the chair of st. Peter. During
the conclave the blessed sacrament
will be exposed in several churches
for the special prayers OF the faithful,
with the same object in view
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
The Palma Trophy.
coNvIcTs AND MILITIA FIGHT.
Posses Meet Escaped Men and DespeN
ate Battle Commences.

Placerville, Cal, Aug 3.-Tonight
shortly after o'clock, Company H, OF
the California National Guards, met
the escaped convicts on the Pleasanton
Valley road, seven miles from Placer
vile, and terrific battle ensued.
Private Gill. of Company H, was
shot through the body from the
right to the left shoulder, as the shoot
ing began. The wound will prove
fatal. When carried from the field by
a relief force sent to the scene of the
fight as soon as the news Of the battle
reached the neighboring posses, he
stated that at least four of his COM
rades were hit by the convicts and
probably killed
1t is not definitely known what hap
pened to the desperadoes, but II is
said that two were shot and dropped
in the brush and are supposed to be
dead
Every available man and boy in the
town of Placerville has been armed
and all are now on the way to the
scene Of the fight
The battlefield Is at the base OF a
great hill adjoining the sit OF the
Grand Victory mine.
When the fighting began, Sheriff
Bosquit was on the other SIZE OF the
hill. With his men he started IN the
direction of the shots as soon as the
firing commenced, and it is said is now
in the thick of the affair.
The affair tonight overshadows any
thing of like nature that has occur
red in the west. At least sixty men
are now participating in the fight. All
sorts of rumors are floating into
Placerville as to the result of the meet
ing between the soldiers and the con-
victs. The people are in a frenzy.
Many of them have relatives at the
front
AS the darkness has set In. it is inn
possible to tell just how many were
killed or wounded The thick under
brush renders II difficult to find
man IL he drops helpless to the ground.
sheriffs Son Slain.
Dallas Bosquit, the SON OF Sheriff
Bosuuit is said to be among the slain,
and a message by telephone says his
body was found along the roadside.
Thegreatest anxiety prevails herecon-
man. Dill. who wars unable to give any
Is known that six Of them went into
the brush after the convicts, and the
only trace of them was the wounded
clue concerning his companions. The
convicts are believed to have taken
refuge in the Grand Victory mine and
there is talk of setting fire to 1t and
driving out the desperate criminals.
Another account of the battle reach
ed Brainard F. Smith, chief clerk OF
Folsome prison. He was notified that
three of the attacking party were kill
ed and that it was presumed two OF
the convicts were badly wounded. TWO
of the killed are presumed to be
young Bosquit, Dill and one OF the
sheriff's posse whose name has not
been ascertained. The scene OF the
shooting was near Cool. small place
a few miles outside of Placeryille.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
TO OFFER NEW MEASURE.
Senator crossley VIII Persist In His
Effort to Secure Primary Law.

Des Moines, August 1.-Senatoi
Crossley, of Madison county, who
made hard fight for the enactment
of primary elections law that
would mean something, in the last SEES
sion of the general assembly, says
that he proposes to make a still more
vigorous fight for like measure in
the next winters session, If returned
He will receive the cooperation of his
colleague in the house, Mr.. Greene.
81 expect to press the measure
again, if sent back" said Senator
Crossley. The more read and the
more | learn, the more firmly am |
convinced that the state needs a pri-
mary election law that will govern
primaries as definitely as the general
election laws govern our elections. /
am gratified that The Register and
Leader is agitating this question.
believe it to be one of the most import
ant before the people, / am not pre-
pared to go to some of the lengths that
have been suggested in other states,
and in some enacted into law, but GER
tainly Iowa will be in the rear guard
instead of the front, where she be-
longs, if. as her cities grow larger, she
fails to do something to keep pure the
fountain head of our political system,
the primary"
The Crossley primary bill provided
for the nomination of all political offic.
ers at primary election, in which
all parties should participate, and In
which the Australian ballot should be
used. 1t also provided for the holding
OF conventions, succeeding the pri'
maries, but the nominations were to be
made at the primary election.
The senator has been studying the
subject carefully since the last ses
sion, and will prepare a new measure
extending over more ground than the
original one. Il provided for the reg
istration of the voters at each election
as to their party affiliation, in order to
determine which party primary the
next year they might participate in.
Senator Crossley sees no hardship in
this. II man be neither a republican
nor a democrat, and does not choose
to say he is populist or member
of any Of the parties, there is no rea.
son for his participation in a specific
party primary. The bill that he in.
troduced last year did not provide
drastic penalties for violation. He
proposes to provide the same penalties
as apply to the general elections. AS
to the application of the law to cities
of a certain size, only such as
above 5000 or above 10000 people,
Senator Crissley has not yet reached
conclusion.
Probably he will propose specific
system for conducting the primaries.
He has provided in the old bill that
different tickets of each party be
printed separately. and the voter at
the primary be given the one of the
party which the registration books
show him to be affiliated with; or
which, on oath, he says he has or will
affiliate with.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
RApluM AND CONSUMPTION.
English Chemist Believes Its Rays Can
Be Applied Direct to Lungs.

London, Aug 3.--Frederick Soddy,
the eminent chemist of the University
college of London, believes there is
a possibility of curing consumption
by applying weak rays of radium and
thorium directly to the lungs. Soddy
was induced to investigate the matter
by Mackenzie Davidson's success in
curing rodent cancer by radium rays.
Soddy says:
1.-THE well known germicidal action
of the rays of radium suggests that
doctors may be interested in recent
physical discoveries which make 1t
practical to apply the same agency to
the treatment of consumption What
is needed, of course, is a radioactive
gas which can be breathed into the
lungs"
Radium and thorium give of an
emanation or gas which may be stored.
Like other gases, 1t possesses the
radioactive properties Of the parent
element with this difference, that its
energy is dissipated in periods vary
ing for the two substances. The radium
emanation. which is thousand times
more energetic than the thorium, is
produced much more slowly, retaining
its qualities longer. Thorium, how
ever, costs infinitely less than radi-
UNI. The latter's emanation remains
active for days, the thorium emanation
for minutes.
Both, however, possess this proper
ty in common that they leave a film
or radioactive matter on objects
with which they come into contact
On this Soddy bases the suggestion
that by thin inhalation, the active
properties of radium and thorium, al
ready successfully tried in cases OF
lupus cancer, may be directly applied
to diseased tissues of the lungs not
otherwise accessible to the rays.
Soddy being a chemist and not a
physician, expresses no opinion about
the prospects of success of such treat
ment. After warning physicians to
consider the enormous powers OF radi-
UNI rays, and describing the chemical
vessels necessary for the inhalation
of the radium and thorium emana-
ton, Soddy says:
"The simple nature of the treatment
proposed, the infinitesimal quantity OF
the active agents employed; the man.
ner in which the emanations may be
inhaled to do their work at the very
seat of disease, leaving behind an
excited radio activity to continue the
work in gentle manner after they
have been exhaled, make out strong
case why the attention OF doctors
should be directed to the new weapons
chemistry has placed at their disposal.
Indeed. II nature had designed these
..lo.,o .,,ana for the uurDOse DurDOSed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
INSANITY ON THE INCREASE.
Lunatics in England One to 293 Posi-
iation.. Beer and Whisky Cause.

lation.. Beer and Whisky Cause.
London, Aug. 3.-England has been
staggered by the appalling increase Of
insanity reported by the lunacy COM
mission Fifty years ago there were
about $4,000 lunatics in England and
Wales. Today there are 113,964. In
1859 the proportion of lunatics to the
population was one in 536; today one
in 1893. The increase of lunacy since
1894 has been extraordinary. In 1894
there were 92,067 registered lunatics.
In 1903 the number increased to 49,
964. The year 1902 was prolific in
producing insanity: 22.581 became in
sane in 1902, almost 500 week. How
far the war was responsible for the
appalling increase in lunacy in 1902 is
unknown. Physicians say 1t is the
largest. Students seeking to explain
the cause of the extraordinary increase
IN insanity find drink accounts for
about a quarter of the cases among
men and about ten per cent among
women. Physical rather than direct
mental causes are responsible for the
great increase in insanity. Thirty-three
per cent of the cases are attributed
TO disease. The chief increase was
found among the pauper classes,
whose lack of nourishment cause a
tendency to disease and to weaken
the mind. The increase Of lunacy
among the well-to-do classes is not
Droportionately larger than in 1859.
In Germany, also, the enormous in
crease of insane is arousing Attention.
Berlin alone has 5000 lunatics. Insan-
ity is in increasing faster than the
population. German alienists declare
intemperance is the most prolific cause
of insanity.
II Is stated seventy per cent OF all
cases OF mental disease treated in the
state asylums are due to excessive
beer and whisky drinking.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
Buggy Falls OFF a Bridge.

Independence, August LA terrible
accident occurred at the Main street
bridge in this city, when a horse and
carriage driven by Mrs. Arson Soules
dashed through the railing and fell
onto the rocks of the river bed. dis.
lance of twenty feet. The horse be-
came frightened by motor cars ap-
preaching from behind. II made a
dash forward and the entire outfit
turned completely over and dropped to
the rocks. Mrs. Soules received seri-
Gus spinal injuries from which she
may not recover. Clifford Soules, a
boy of 10, was uninjured. The horse
never arose from his fall and was
later killed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
HOGS MAIN A CHILD.
Small Boy Badly Used by sows With
Small Pigs.

Marengo, August 1.-The two and a
half years old son OF Mr.. and Mrs. A.
II. Slaymaker, living near town, was
found just outside Of hog pen terribly
lacerated and bruised. II Is supposed
that he climbed into the pen to get
one of the little pigs, as the pen con-
tanned seven sows and their young. 1t
is not known whether he managed to
crawl out or whether they threw him
out in tearing him. He has a five inch
cut on the head. crushed foot, badly
bitten in the thigh. leg and shoulder,
in fact, as the attending physicians
describes it, 1T is a great deal easier
to tell where he is not hurt than to
tell where he is hurt, although he will
live" He will be badly SCARED for
life. His body is entirely bandaged,
and he suffers terribly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
eiris Relatives Pay Losses.

Iowa City. July 31.-A check has
been presented to Sheriff A. C. Hoffer
or Johnson county to make good all
the losses incurred by thirteen banks
and merchants in Iowa City who were
recently victimized by prominent
young woman, who forged and falsified
frequently to achieve her ends. Her
name has been withheld by the Of
ficials for the family's sake and all
losers were Unidentified my the I'M
named relatives
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
Governor Mickey to Attend.

Des Moines, July 31.-Among the
distinguished visitors at the next
state fair will be Governor John III.
Mickey of Nebraska. Governor Mickey
recently received an invitation to at
tend the exposition from John Simp-
son, secretary of the State Agricult-
ural society, and has mailed the fol-
lowing reply:
II am in receipt of your kind favor
of July 2s enclosing to me the cour.
tesies of your state fair. hope to be
present, one great attraction being the
reunion of my old regiment, the Eighth
Iowa cavalry.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
TUCKER Is PRESIDENT.
Minnesota Man Selected as Head Of
Mason City Memorial University.

Mason City, August frederick
Derming Tucker, president of the ag-
ricultural department Of the Mime
sofa State university, has accepted the
presidency of Memorial university,
and will be installed the latter part Of
August.
He is a Massachusetts, man, a grad
uate of Yale, and has had wonderful
success as an educator, both at Wash
ington university, st. Louis, and the
State university at Minneapolis. He
has been a successful pastor, also. in
a Congregational church, is fine
speaker and a man of scholarly at.
tainments. He is most heartily en-
dorsed by President Northrup, of Min
nesota university, who wished to re.
tain him at the head of the agricul.
tural department of that school.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
HAS BULLET IN HEAD.
Theodore Koch of Dixie Is in a Critical
Condition.

Dixie, July S0.-Theodore Koch,
young man 20 or "a years of age who
has been living with his brother. four
miles east of this town. is in critical
condition as the result of a bullet
wound in his forehead. Whether the
fatal wound was selfinflicted or
whether caused by an accident, is un.
known, but the suicide theory is gen.
orally accepted. Young Koch was EN-:
ployed about the farm of his brother
at 8 o'clock. when he was observed by
d neighbor who passed. No one else
was at home at the time. Later he
was found in his room in an uncon-
scious condition with bullet wound
in his nose and forehead. He was
brought to town and the physicians
are doing what they can to save his
life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
SKULL is CLEFT BY AK.
In Alteration Plus Print, Full Blooded
Indian, Badly Wounded.

Council Bluffs, Aug. 3.-Piuse Print,
full blood Creek Indian, and Ed.
Campbell, a half breed Kiowa, who
were working in a railroad gang near
Malvern, got into an alteration this
morning and it likely will cost the
life of Print. He chased Campbell
with a large knife and was about &c
overtake him when Campbell grabbed
an axe and sunk 1t deep in his pur
suer's forehead, laying the skull open
from between the eyes to the crown OF
the head. The injured warrior is stih
alive and the doctors say there is
some chance for him to live as the
blade OF the axe passed between the
two lobes of the brain.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-06
TROOPS AND STRIKERS.
Conflict in Russia in Which Fl Work
men are Killed.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 3.-There are
reports that there were fresh coils
ions between the troops and strikers
ON the Trans Caucasian railway near
Tiflis, last Thursday. The troops were
ordered to fire upon the rioters. who
we're using revolvers, with the result
that twenty-one workmen were killed.
The removal of rail by the strikers
wrecked a Trans-Caucasian train.
Twelve carriages were smashed and
two persons killed. 1t is asserted here
shat the Armenians are melting the
strikers.