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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN lTEMlZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal lnfor.
nation.
SYNOPSIS OF TARIFF BILL.

The distinguishing features Of the
new bill introduced in the house are:
Maximum and minimum tariff plan
designed to secure fair play for United
States from other protectionist coun-
tries.
Inheritance tax estimated 20 bring In
revenue of $2O,000,00O yearly.
New provision as to goods manufac-
tured under foreign patents, designed
to increase manufacture Of such ar
ticles in United States by American
workmen.
Coffee on free list; tea taxed eight
cents per pound, and nine cents when
brought from other than producing
country.
Iron ore on free list, duties on manu-
features of iron and steel materially
reduced. Tin plate and steel rails re-
dlced.
Hides on free list and duties on man.
ufactured leather reduced; shoes re-
duced 40 per cent.
Lumber and timber duties cut in
half.
Reciprocal free trade with Philip
pines, with Limitation on amount of
sugar and tobacco annually to be i'm
ported. Reciprocity with Cuba con-
tnueS.
Internal revenue tax on cigarettes
increased from SO to $3.50 and from
S1 to $3.50 per thousand.
Beer and whisky not touched.
Nails, wire, hardware, tools, etc, re.
duced.
Change in pottery schedule not ma
terial: some sizes of window glass re
iuced and others increased
Sugar reduced five one-hundredths OF
a cent per pound.
Cheaper grades of wool are reduced
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
PERSONAL.

Miss Mary Garden, the opera singer,
will be married to Prince Mazcodato
of Russia after April Is, when she will
sail for Russia.
President Taft attended a meeting
of the Yale corporation and was given
rousing reception by students or
the campus.
Ex-President Roosevelt in a speech
to his neighbors said he had no fear
of becoming i'll in Africa and predict.
ed he would come out alive
George T. Oliver of Pittsburg was
elected by the Pennsylvania legisla.
ture to fill Philander c. Knox's unex.
pired term.
E. H. Hartman, in an interview at
Los Angeles, says he is giving up
business activity and will retire, on
the advice of his physicians.
Charles d. Norton of Chicago, gen.
eral agent of the Northwestern Mu,
tual Life Insurance Company, is to be
assistant secretary Of the treasury.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
CONGRESSIONAL.

1t is probable that the five-minute
rule which governed the debate on the
Dingley tariff bill will be applied in
the house to the Payne measure.
Shelby M. Cullom, senior senator
of Illinois, has been assigned to the
place held by former Senator Hopkins
on the senate's finance committee.
President Taft's special message
urging congress to revise the tariff,
on which work the house has begun
is the shortest document Of its kind
on record.
Senators Smith and Burrows OF
Michigan have prevailed upon Presi
dent Taft to keep Ambassador O'Brien
at Tokyo.
Joseph G.. Cannon was reelected
speaker and the rules of the house
were amended at the opening of the
extra session.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
GEN ERAL NEWS.

The Royal Northwest mounted DO.
lice Of Canada, under the command OF
Sergeant-Inspector Pelletier, has re,
turned to Winnipeg, Man, after max
ing probably the longest and most
northerly trip ever undertaken in Can
ada. The party left Edmonton, Alder
Ia, last July.
Reports from Africa say former
President Roosevelt will find all the
wild animals his heart may desire
when he reaches the jungles on his
faunalnaturalist hunting trip.
Fire started on Harris Island, New
York, and caused a scare among 1,50C
convicts in prison there.
James Ricalton, a naturalist, has
sailed for Africa to study the fly
which causes the fatal sleeping sick
ness.
w. d. Stephenson has been elected
mayor of Los Angeles, Cal, to serve
until March &c, when a successor &c
former Mayor Harper is to be elected
In statement issued In Havana
the government announces that the
revolution in Santa Clara province
amounts to but little and will be
crushed out promptly.
Judge George NJ. Dallas of the fed
erai court at Philadelphia has SEN
his resignation to President Taft.
The mail carriers of Paris have
joined the telegraph and telephone Cd
orators In their strike and France 1.
practically cut off from the rest of the
world.
Col. Goethals. chief engineer or the
Panama canal replied to critics anc
defended the lock type.
| The interstate commerce commits
sion has ruled that the rates on suga,
complained of by indianapolis shin
pers, are not unjustly discriminatory
Representative Sheppard OF Texa,
has introduced bill in congress I,
amend the constitution 30 as to begi,
with the words In the name of God
III. M. Tilford was elected a directo
of the Standard Oil Company, succeed
ing his brother, w. II. Tilford VIII,
died recently.
Robbers dynamited the post offic,
safe at Crown Point, Ind, obtained s7
and after a pistol fight with the tow,
marshal escaped.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Control Board WAITING.

The members of the board Of con-
troll and the heads of the state insti-
tutions under the management of the
board have adopted a waiting game.
Though their methods have been criti-
cised by members of the legis-
lature and stories of mismanagement
and even of cruelty have been told.
they are not disposed to make any
answer until an official investigator
is made and they are officially asked
to defend themselves. The head of ev-
cry state institution under the board
is attending the quarterly meetings,
but none of these men has a word
to say about the legislative investiga-
ton
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
JURY SAYS GUILTY"
cooPERs CONVICTED FOR THE
KILLING OF cARMAck.
SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS
Verdict Was Returned After Prolong-
ed Struggle for Many Hours
In Jury Room.

Nashville, Tenn.,-Guilty of murder
in the second degree with twenty
years Imprisonment as the penalty
was the verdict of the jury in the case
against Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and
his son Robin Cooper charged with
the murder of former United States
Senator E. w. Carmack
The jury acquitted John D. Sharp,
Q co-defendant.
State MistriaI.
Immediately the defense moved to
set aside the verdict because Of the
disagreement and asked the court to
declare it a mistrial.
Judge Hart said he would listen
30 arguments on this motion later.
He then fixed the defendants bonds
at $4,000 each, which amount was
acceptable to both sides.
Verdict Surprise.
The verdict, coming as it did upon
the heels of Foreman Burke's declara-
ton that we are hoplessly tied up
as to the Coopers" was a decided sur
prise.
The defendants took it coolly-al-
most without emotion. Mrs. Burch
and Mrs. Wilson, the young daughters
of Colonel Cooper, were brave and
aside from fearful eyes, restrained
their emotion gamely, Mrs. Burch
sat with her arm around her brother
Robins shoulder and Mrs. Wilson was
at her fathers right. The suspense
for the two young women had been
heart-rending, and any verdict, how
ever, unfavorable, was a relief.
Jurors Hurry Away.
The jurors looked tired and dis
heveled and when the court remarked:
Il thank you, gentlemen, for your
patience and devotion to the state
and dismiss you to your homes and
your personal avocations," the entire
twelve sprang from their seats as one
man and hurriedly left the court room.
The defendants and their counsel re-
manned to complete the bond pre-
liminaries and motions for a new
trial
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
They Must STAY at Home

Washington, ID. C.,-Territorial Of
ficials in Alaska, Arizona, New Next
co, Hawaii and Porto Rico are GO
ing TO get little shock in few
days when they receive an official ord
er from Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger informing them that in the flu
ture they must remain In their ter
ritories except in cases of emergency.
The order is intended to put an end
to governors and other territorial Of
iicials coming to Washington during
session of congress and spending
many months here lobbying for their
measures or for statehood.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Kills Friend Who Stole His Wife

+ ort Worth, Texas.-Fred Morris, in
Jail here, admits that he deliberately
shot and killed Otto H. Meyer, his
former friend. He declares that Mey-
er knew his death sentence had been
pronounced and that he unfiinchingly
accepted his fate. The shooting fol-
lowed confession written and signed
by Meyer, that he had won the love
of Mrs. Morris.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Deadly Eiuht on a Train.

Clarendon, TeXas-An unidentified
man is dead and Floyd Aubrey, of
Fort Worth is dying as the results of
three-cornered fight with revolvers
on a Fort Worth & Denver train
near Giles, Texas. That Aubrey and
his cousin, Fred Garrett, of Fort
Worth, killed third participant in
the fight and threw the body out of a
coach window is indicated by the
finding of body near Estelline
bridge later by the police.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Fire in a Penitentiary.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Fire in the laundry
house of the Western Pennsylvania
penitentiary partially destroyed the
building and valuable contents. On
the verge Of a panic $50 prisoners
half the population of the penitentiary
were marshaled together in the din
ing room and marched to their cells.
A general alarm sent a force OF arm.
ed guards to the walls and no at
tempts to escape were made.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
After White Slave Traffic.


To initiate some state movement
that would put stop to all future
white save traffic in Iowa, J. c. Hicks
of Ottumwa, well known reformer,
has come to Des Moines to interest
Governor Carroll and the legislature
in his work. For years Mr.. Hicks
has been making study of the white
slave traffic in Iowa and the number
of girls who are victims in this traffic
yearly. Because he has come to
realize that an enormous number of
young women in Iowa are lured from
homes in the country into lives of
shame in cities like Des Moines, Chi
cago, Omaha and Denver, Mr.. Hicks
believes that the time has come when
there should be an ironclad law upon
the statute books of Iowa that would
make a promoter of such traffic a
prisoner for life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
To Protect Liquor Dealers.

The senate having removed the word
knowingly" from the statute prohib-
iting the sale of liquor to persons who
have been inmates of an institution
for inebriates, Senator Moon now Of
fers bill intended to give some pro-
lection to the liquor dealer, fixing q
penalty of fine from s25 to 500 for
any person purchasing liquor to whom
the sale is forbidden. To put an end
to- some of the methods used to trap
liquor dealers, a penalty of $25 to
5000 is attached to the misdemeanor
of inducing any person to purchase,
to whom the sale is forbidden.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Nine "Lifers" Learn Their Fate.

The senate pardons committee re-
port, adverse to clemency for nine of
the eleven convicts who asked for
parole, was adopted by the senate
This leaves but two cases not dis
posed Of Some of those whose appli-
cations were rejected will probably
appeal to the parole board and COVER
nor soon
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Rankin Bill Reported Out.

The committee on suppression Of
intemperance in the lower house has
recommended for passage A. G.. Rank
ms bill providing for the appoint
ment by the governor of two state
commissioners whose duty it shall be
to ferret out and prosecute violations
of the liquor laws.
Contrary to expectations the bill
was supported by all factions of the
temperance and prohibition forces.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Robbers Loot Postotfice.

Kansas City. Robbers dynamited
the safe in postoffice sub-station on
the Southwest boulevard, two miles
southwest from the business center,
and escaped with a quantity OF
stamps and upward of $1,000 In cash.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Professor Resigns, Due to Mutiny

st. Paul, Minn.-Dr. F. H. orion, a
professor of dentistry at the Univer-
city of Minnesota, rendered his resig-
nation because the entire senior class
of dentist students passed resolutions
in which they refused to recognize
DR.. orion as a member Of the faculty.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Court Reporters Will Get More

The senate has passed the bill to- in
crease the pay of court reporters
without very much opposition. The
bill authorizes So a day for the work,
with minimum of $1,000 a year for
all who work less than 1875 days
year and 81 800 a year for others
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Can't Sell Beer Even If Papa Aarees.

The Iowa supreme court gave the
liquor laws another new twist which
will add to the troubles of the reg
istered pharmacists. In Polk county
case, that of Sharp against Davis, the
defendant resisted an injunction on
the ground that in selling liquor to a
minor he had the written consent of
the boys father. The court, in a de-
cision by Judge Evans, holds that this
is no protection to the permit holder.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
No Criticism From House.

The lower house of the legislature
has refused to adopt resolutions pre-
scented by the appropriations commit
tee censuring the governing boards OF
the state university and state normal
school for building expensive homes
for the presidents without asking per-
mission of the legislature. Instead the
house, by unanimous vote, instructed
Speaker Feely to appoint special
committee of five to investigate the
facts and report back to the house.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Chiropractic Examiners.

A third bill by Representative Mil
Ter, creating a board of chiropractic
examiners and recognizing chiroprac-
tic doctors was considered and three
practitioners Of this school were
heard.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Extend Term Of Justices

Representative Hunter of Polk
county offered a bill extending the
terms of justices and constables in
counties with more than $4,000 popu-
lation from two TO four years.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Betsy Smith Case.

Governor Carroll has referred the
request of Betsy Smith for a pardon
to the state board of parole and asked
that body to investigate the case, with
a view of recommending proper dispo.
sition. Mrs. Smith was sent up from
Des Moines for lie for the murder
of her husband July 2, 1894. Her
daughter, who was convicted with her
suicided by eating spiders The two
women were convicted of shooting
Smiths eyes out In their first effort
to Kill him. and of causing his death
by feeding him poisoned mince pie
later on.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Can't Drive on East Side Of Roads.

1t is now against the law for per-
son to drive on the east side of a
north and south road or the south half
of an east and west road after the
same has been dragged if 1t isn't dry
or frozen. That is the provision In
the highway bill which passed the
house after passing the senate few
days ago. The driver must observe
carefully which half the road he is
occupying. The bin encourages the
dragging of roads and pays 81 per mile
for It,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Investigate judicial Districts.

Both the senate and house passed
the resolution for commission to in.
vestigate whether the judicial dis
tricts of the state should be redistrict-
ed so as to. reduce the number OF judg.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Veterinary Department Gets Increase

Veterinary Department Gets Increase
The house passed the Doe bill in
creasing the appropriation for the
state veterinary department form ST.
500 to $4,000 and giving the depart
ment another clerk. This will greatly
facilitate the department in fighting
tuberculosis. hog cholera and other
animal diseases.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Would Restore Circle.

Representative Klay's bill to restore
the circle on the ballot was indorsed
by the committee on elections of the
lower house and will be recommend
ed for passage. The vote in the com.
mittee was thirteen to seven
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Organized Labor Wins.


Members of organized labor re-
Joiced when the senate passed the
Dowell bill which provides for air
brakes on all double truck street cars
and gives the companies until January
l, 1912, to finish the equipping of the
last one-third of the cars now in SER
vice. All cars purchased subsequent
to the passage of the bill by the low
er house must have air brakes, The
Dill was introduced at the request Of
the street car employees union.
Senator Ream introduced another
measure that is of interest to organ
lied labor. 1t provides that all road
engines on railways shall be equipped
with headlights powerful enough to
allow the engineer to distinguish Oh
jects 1900 feet In advance of the To-
connective. 1t was referred to the COM
mittee on railroads.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
STOPS GAMBLING
SENATE TAKES A HAND IN RE.
STRlCTivE LEGISLATION.
HAMIL BILL is ADOPTED
Prohibits Slot Machines and Selling
Chances on Anything
of Value.

Des Moines.-The senate has taken
a hand in restrictive legislation. The
Hamill bill, which will rewrite the en-
tire anti-gambling law, was adopted.
The bill prohibits gambling of any
sort-even slot machines-and sell
ing chances on anything of value.
Under the new bill any person con-
Quoting or being interested in any
game of chance for money will be
liable to fine Of from 500 to $1,000
and any person leasing property for
gambling houses is subject to a Sc
we're penalty. Any person winning
any money or valuable thing from an
other by use Of any brace" game,
marked cards, loaded dice, or any
confidence game will be guilty of fell
ony and liable to Imprisonment in the
penitentiary. The solicitation of any
person to enter gambling house for
the purpose of gambling, will be a
dismeanor. Any gambling apparatus
will be declared public nuisance and
the officers of the law will be order
ed to seize such apparatus, which
shall be destroyed by order of court.
II Is made the duty of officers to keep
places where gambling is suspected
under surveillance and raid them on
any occasion when it is believed
gambling is in progress.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Reported for Passage.


Representative Calkins' bill provid-
ing for legislative committee of five
to visit all state institutions between
the date of the general election and
the converting of the Legislature has
been reported for passage by the
ways and means committee of the
lower house. 1t provides that the gov
ernor shall appoint five representa-
tives and senator-elect as special
committee to visit all state institu-
tions and be ready with a report
early in the session. The bill is an
outgrowth of the controversy at the
beginning of this session as to
whether separate committees should
be appointed to visit each institution,
as the custom has been at previous
sessions. The problem was solved
for the present session by the appoint
ment of a single committee to visit
each Of the three state schools and
any other state institution about which
the appropriations committees desir
ed information.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Must Deliver Express.

The Dabney bill compelling express
companies to maintain express Offices
and deliver express in cities of 1900
and over was passed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
DowelI Bill Passes.

Lowell Bill Passes.
Additional powers are to be given
to cities under the commission plan
OF government as the result of the
passage of the Dowell bill which went
through the senate and will be push
ed through the house with as little
delay as possible. The measure is
the one framed by City Solicitor
Brennan and gives the cities of Des
Moines and Cedar Rapids, now the
only ones under the commission plan
OF government, the right to levy taxes
for the protection of the city against
Hoods, to lease city property for one
year, to create permanent mainte-
nance fund for cemeteries, to levy an
additional park fund tax of IL mills,
to issue certificates for repairing
bridges and to assess against the
street car companies the cost of the
part of bridges used by the cars.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-03-25
Oregon Plan Killed.

Oregon Plan Killed.
Senator Moon held the support OF
the democratic minority in the SEN
ate for his Oregon plan bills. He made
a speech for the bills and was follow
ed by Senator De Wolf. Both explain
ed the working of the Oregon law as
10 the election of United States sena-
tors and asked that the senate vote
TO adopt the same plan in Iowa. On
the roll call the Moon bills received
Just what had been conceded them
the democratic vote. The republicans
voted for Senator Peterson's motion
70 approve the report Of the commit
tee on elections recommending in
dennite postponement of the bills.
senator Smith of Burlington and Sem
a'or White. of the Iowa-Johnson coun-
W district were the democrats alb
sent, and Senators Smith of Mitchell,
Bruce and Seeley were the three re-
puDhcans not in attendance This is
the first strictly party measure to be
voted upon in the Iowa senate during
the present legislative session.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-08
Value Of Rubies.

Rubies are more valuable than dia-
Tonds and are practically indestruc-
hb'e, except by fire. While a flawless
diamond of one karat may be worth
roughly about 500, a perfect ruby of
the same weight would be worth at
least 5000. With increase of size the
difference becomes much greater. A
diamond of 10 karats is worth. per.
maps, $4,000, while ruby of that
weight would be worth any price up
TO $4,000, which was the value placed
on a unique stone exhibited at the
Franco-British exposition in London
last year.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-08
Boer War Cost Many Horses.

Tremendous was the drain on the
horsefiesh of the world caused by the
Boer war. In that war England sent
339,S29 horses and 100000 mules to
South Africa, four times as many ami.
mails as the Germans took to France
IN August, 1870. Tamerlane led $4,000
horses over the Hindoo Koosh in the
conquest of Delhi.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-08
Students Find Lead Mine.

A vein of lead and zinc ore has been
discovered on the grounds of the
school of Mines at Platteville, Wis.
and will be opened up by the students.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-08
Bowels and Stomach.

Miss Mary Jones, 1918 Reynolds Ave.,
Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
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medicine for chronic catarrh of the
bowels and stomach. have been troub-
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cone year ago began to take Peruna,
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noticed wonderful improvement at
once. I took six bottles in succession and
I always have it on hand to take some
now and then when my cough is bad.
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