Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-23

Is alleged that the accused mel
formed a pool for the purpose of col
nering and arbitrarily fixing the pric
OF cotton
The senate placed its final staml
OF approval on the administration rail
road bill, which has been pending II
one stage or another almost since tn,
beginning of the session, by adopting
the report of the conference commit
tee on that measure.
The house of representatives fur
nished the remarkable spectacle o.
passing, with only one member voting
in opposition, strongly worded re
form" rule, designed to correct ar
acknowledged legislative abuse-the
"smothering'' of legislation in com
| mittee. Democrats, Republicans and
Insurgents" Joined hands harmoni.
ously in adopting the rule.
A mutiny on board the British
steamship Highland Monarch, outward
bound from Philadelphia for Auckland,
N. T.. followed by a dash for liberty
by dozen Chinese members of the
crew, resulted in the drowning of four
and the narrow escape of three others.
Nine. Ricciardi, formerly Princess
de Chimay and later Nine Rigo, who
was Clara Ward of Detroit, reports In
Paris that her husband has disap-
peared.
Walking in his sleep, p. T. Brudder,
retired New York business man.,
seventy-nine years old, fell through
an open window in his sixth-foor
apartment and was instantly killed.
Relatives said that he had been a
somnambulist since childhood.
Mrs. George Fulkerson, as a men,
Der of new Canton (O.) cult disbe-
lieving in the use of food or medi-
cine to cure ills, ended fast of 81
days by eating a piece of toast.
Fearing lynching if he reached Still
water, Okla, where Sheriff w. A. Fox
was taking him to answer charge of
murder, James Chaplin, negro, leaped
from a speeding train near Shannon,
Ia, and was badly injured.
1t was a unique bequest that Rob-
ert Reidel of Detroit, Mich, who
fought through the Franco-Prussian
war, left to the Detroit survivors of
his old company. He willed them SIS
with which to buy beer after they
marched to the cemetery to his
funeral.
Sidney Hursey, young lawyer Of
Dillon, S. c., was shot and probably
mortally wounded as he left court.
room, by Richard s. Davis, a hotel
man. Davis said Hursey ruined his
home.
Charged with using the mails for
fraudulent purposes, Christopher G.
Wilson. president Of the $20,000,000
United Wireless Telegraph company;
Samuel S. Bogart, its vice-president.
and William M. Tompkins, who had
charge of selling it's stock to the pub
lie, were arrested in New York on
complaint of United States post Office
inspectors.
In an address on THE History of
the Northwest Territory" President
Taft, speaking at the diamond jubl-
lee anniversary of the founding of
the Marietta CO., college, referred to
the ordinance of 1887, for the govern
ment of the territory, as the greatest
instrument of fundamental law, except
the Constitution of the United States,
which has ever been enunciated by
men.
Stirred to action by insistent pro-
tests from all parts Of the state, Gov.
Gillett of California took steps to pre-
vent the championship fight between
James j. Jeffries and Jack Johnson,
scheduled to be held in San Francisco
July 4. In a letter to Attorney Gen.
eral Webb the governor directs that
the aid Of the courts be invoked to
prevent the match.
With $30,000,000 provided for the
completion of irrigation projects and
various other amendments, the house
bill authorizing the withdrawal of pub,
lie lands by the president passed the
senate.
The Republican leaders in congress
advised the president to cancel his out
of-town engagements. They told him
that If all goes well they expect to
bring about an adjournment of con
gress by Saturday, June 25.
At the thirty-third annual conven
ton of the Danish Evangelical Lu
theran Church of America, in session
in Ludington, Mich, Rev. X. G. Bod
holdt of Racine, Wis, the president
for eight years, was reelected for that
office.
The greatest international religious
meeting of the year, the Protestant
Worlds Missionary conference, opened
in Edinburgh, Scotland, every natior
of the globe being represented by lead
ing laymen and churchmen.
Great loss of life occurred in the
Abr valley of the Eifel regior
In Germany as the result of q
cloudburst which swept the dis
trict Late estimates place the tota
number of dead at $50.
vice-President Sherman, while al
Utica, N. Y, attending the wedding Of
his niece, said that he believes the
Insurgent movement in political af
fairs is subsiding, basing his opinion
on conditions found in Wisconsin and
Iowa
The widow of Charles T. Yerkes
will receive s163,362 from his estate
which has been in the hands of a re
ceiver in New York.
Charles Plantus has been convicted
in Detroit of concealing himself in {
trunk designated as jewelry and theI
escaping in order to defraud an ex
press company.
Oberammergau. the scene of the
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