Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-04-28

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| Albert Wolter, charged with the
killing of Ruth Wheeler, the pretty
young stenographer, in his apartments
in New York city on March "a, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree by the jury.
Two men were killed in a wreck az
Sanford, Ind, on the Big Four rail
way, according to official reports re-
ceived at Cincinnati
Plans for promoting immigration
into New York state of desirable farm
laborers are to be taken up by the
New York produce exchange next
Wednesday at meeting which Secre-
taries Wilson and Nagel will attend.
No reigning sovereign ever received
more enthusiastic welcome to Paris
than did Theodore Roosevelt, former
president of the United States. He
was greeted by the representatives Of
the president of the republic and the
cabinet, American Ambassador Bacon,
M. Jusserand, the French ambassador
at Washington, and a great concourse
of people, which the Gordon of troops
surrounding the railway station had
difficulty in holding in check.
Charles ID. Norton, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, made the aston
ishing statement before the house
committee on expenditures in the
treasury department that there was
at present no law on the statute books
by which subordinate in any of the
various subtreasuries of the United
States could be punished for making
away with public funds.
Vigorous investigation of the disap-
pearance of the states documentary
evidence in the Hyde case at Kansas
City, which fell into the hands of the
defendants counsel, was ordered by
Prosecutor Virgil Conkling.
The National Association Of Lumber
Manufacturers closed it's convention
at New Orleans, La, with the re-
election of Edward Hines of Chicago
as president
Joseph Letters famous $1,000,0 900
colliery at Zeigler, Ill.,, has been &C.
quired by the Bell and Zoller coal in
terests of Chicago after negotiations
lasting several months.
At Albany yesterday the Murray
resolution providing for the ratifica-
ton by the legislature of New York
of the proposed income tax amend
ment to the United States constitu-
ton was defeated by vote of IA to &c.
Petitions signed by several thou
sand women tobacco shippers were
presented to the Louisville (Ky.)
street railway company asking that
strike breakers be furnished separate
cars. The request was denied.
During an election disturbance at
st. Joseph, near Fort-de-F France, Mar
Unique, eight voters were shot and at
the town Of Robert several shots were
fired at clerk for one of the candi-
dates.
A thousand miners and coke oven
men employed by the Davis Colliery
company of Elkins, w. Va, of which
former United States Senator Henry
Gassoway Davis is president have
been granted an increase of five per
cent.
The cotton situation has become so
acute that dread of the governments
investigation of the so-called cotton
pool has given place to fear among
the large operators that more than
one big Wall street house dealing in
cotton is in bad way financially and
that if they should be forced to the
wall no one can predict where the
decentralization of the market will end.
William r. Hearst after a half
hours conference with President
Taft came out in a public interview
with an Endorsement of the Taft ad-
ministration which completely took
away the breath of the Democracy.
To give his vigorous Endorsement TO
Mr.. Taft, Mr.. Hearst found it neces-
sary to pull down the record of Roose-
welt and pass some criticisms upon
the former president which will hard
ly find a welcome, even in the ranks
of his own party.
A wild storm, raging over the
North sea, tied up shipping and sent
the Holland steamer, Nord Holland,
limping into port at Cuxhaven, Ger
many, in a damaged condition.
After fighting six years in the court
Wright Willingham has secured the
conviction at Rome, Ga, of John NJ.
Smith, who, he says, hit him with
cuspidor in 1904.
A special train carrying a battalion
of infantry and a battery of machine
guns under command of General Ri
vas has left Camp Columbia, Havana,
Cuba, bound for Santa Clara
Boldly asserting that President Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham
are planning to make the Supreme
Court of the United States subservi-
ent to the executive and the railroad
| interests of the country, Senator Pur-
cell of North Dakota enlivened the
day in the senate by making a fe-
rocious attack on the administration
rate bill.
Mark Twain, beloved the world
over because he made it laugh, is
dead. He passed away without pain
last evening in his country home,
"Stormfield," back in the wild Ca.
marack hills. For five hours he had
been unconscious and the end was al
most unnoticeable. 1t was simply a
cessation of pulse and respiration.
The annual dinner of the Missouri
Society of New York at the Waldorf
Astoria attracted a large number OF
well-known people. The chief speak
ers were Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Nagel, Ex-Governor Joseph w
Folk, Senator William Warner and
DR.. Neil Macphatter, president of the
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