Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-02-03

, LuQe OF the united States tOWdTu ucT.
They say business is dead here, com.
merce at standstill, the mines idle,
crops ungathered, men who should be
working in the fields to prevent starv.
alton throughout the country next
year are in the ranks of one or the
other army and being killed off by
wounds or disease.
Moved by the number of convicts
who have violated paroles from Michi-
gan prisons in the winter, several De-
troit men, one of whom Is Judge VIII
liam F.. Connolly, have formed the
Jean Vatican club, the object Of which
is to assist paroled men.
Although she is less than II years
old, Florence Kneipp of Newark, N. j.,
is under arrest, charged with bigamy.
The police say she has admitted mar
, riage with two men in the last year.
Because the United States is not in
sistent upon the admission of it's meat
to Germany, the tariff negotiations
with the empire are expected to be
simplified. ..ar.
During an election reform riot at
Brunswick. duchy of Brunswick, the po-
lice charged a crowd of socialists with
sabers, wounding 10, who we're re-
moved to hospitals.
Two hours after she had been lured
away from her mother while waiting
for train at East st. Louis, ILL.,, Eliza
beth Fricke. foyr-year-old girl Of
Belleville, H., was found half frozen
in the rear of saloon. stripped of all
her clothing.
The grand jury at Chicago returned
former city official and FIVE subordi-
ates, contractor and four employees
charging them with conspiracy to
obtain $254,000 by false pretenses and
three other offenses in connection with
the construction of the Lawrence av-
enue sewer.
Representatives Fowler of New Jer.
sey, one Of the house insurgents. in.
troduced a resolution to add five new
members to the rules committee, CIV
ing the majority six members and the
minority three, and to removing the
BY the consolidation of the Boston
Consolidated Copper Company and the
Nevada Consolidated Copper Company
by the Utah Copper Company, the
final steps have been taken in the
formation of the second greatest in
dustrial combination in the United
States, which embraces all the copper
companies and have a combined cap
italization of at least 100000, 900 II
not billion dollars.
Gov. Deneen, in a special message
to the legislature Wednesday, answers
the critics of the deep waterway pro-
ject. An important change in plans is
proposed whereby the state executive
figures that $2,500,000 will be saved
to the taxpayers. The governor esti.
mates that 1t will be advisable to con.
struct a nine-foot channel instead OF
one IA feet from Dresden Heights to
Utica
Warner M Van Norden, president OF
the Van Norden Trust Company OF
New York city. was held up and
robbed of $4,000 as he was leaving the
Waldorf-Astoria Bessie Roberts and
Annie Williams Of Chicago are held In
$4,000 bail. on charge Of stealing the
| money.
President Taft will send a special
message to congress in the near fu.
ture which he hopes will relieve the
people Of some of the hardships of the
present high cost Of living The presi
dent is getting his facts together now
and will soon begin to draft the docu'
ment TO be transmitted to congress.
A lynching was averted at Granite
City, ILL.,, when Mrs. Hendricks, moth
er Of a girl Of II, who said she was
attacked by a white man. persuaded
| Judge Riggs to give the suspect his
liberty. The man escaped the mob by
leaving the jail by a rear door.
The reply of the German foreign Of
fee to the request of the United States
that the application of Germany's gen.
eral tariff to American imports be de-
ferred until March 81 is understood to
for delay.
The war department has taken up
the charges made by Delegate Wick.
ersham Of Alaska, which are substan.
TALLY that the president and former
President Roosevelt and the army
board on Alaskan affairs have played
into the hands of the Guggenheims
and others, who it is alleged were in
a conspiracy to acquire coal lands in
Alaska
The Geographical society of Chicago
at its annual banquet presented to
Chamberlain of the University of Chi
cago the Helen Culver gold medal fol
geographical research.
The Illinois live Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION held its annual meeting al
the University Of Illinois in Urbana
with President e. d. Funk Of Shirley
in the chair
The flood situation in Paris and
throughout France is getting worse
instead Of better. Many thousand.
are homeless and the problem Of pro
viding for the sufferers has taken pre-
SSuouSo VI Oil oIhel hdtters VI eIdte
Backed by public sentiment aroused
by the Cherry mine disaster, the
bill creating a special bureau o.
mines and mining was passed by the
house Of representatives.
Paul o. Stensland, convicted presi
dent OF the defunct Milwaukee Avenue
State bank Of Chicago. and Henry w
Herring. his cashier. were released
from the Joliet Qll) penitentiary.
Members Of religious body a
South Norwalk, Conn, see signs o
their impending doom in the fall o