Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-08-25

ern Italy and the king mas given or
ders that he be KEPT constantly In
formed on conditions in the infected
regions. The queen is especially
touched by the stories of the distress
among the people and has ordered
that assistance be rendered them, for
which she will pay from her private
| purse.
With the Illinois coal strike dispute
as the underlying cause, John Mitchell,
former head of the Miners union. and
President Thomas l.. Lewis ciashed
at the Miners convention at Indian
apolis. Mr. Mitchell came out fatty
in favor of the Illinois miners in their
fight for the demands of the Peoria
convention. President Lewis, in hot
reply, severely criticized the acts OF
Mitchell in the anthracite coal strike
In 1902.
Special grand jury investigation of
wholesale charges of tampering with
members of the Browne bribery jury
and fresh attack on the jury COM
missioners' Office were promised i'm.
medfately after the discovery that sew
en- more veniremen drawn for service
in the bribery case had been ap.
preached by investigators"
Returning home from shopping
trip, Mrs. E. II. Fortmiller of Chicago
found her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bart
lett lying on the floor of her bath
room with her throat slashed. Be-
side Mrs. Bartlett was nestled the
body Of her little granddaughter,
Katherine, nine months old, dead ap-
parently from strangling. Mrs. Bart
lett told the police that her grand
daughter had been brutality murdered
and she herself attacked by man who
was concealed In the building.
1t Is believed that the R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco company Of Winston-Salem,
N. c., has bought all or nearly all the
1909 pooled crop of the Burley Tobac-
co society, amounting to 120,000,000
pounds.
In collision of Pennsylvania freight
trains at Plymouth, Ind, the tracks Of
the pennsylvania, Vandalia and Lake
Erie & Western railroads were blocked
by the debris of 80 cars.
Late reports from the province OF
Baridelle Puglie, in Italy, show that 33
persons have died from cholera since
the outbreak some time ago.
Governors or their representatives
from nine intermountain states met at
Salt Lake City to outline plans where
by the rights of these states to their
natural resources may be preserved.
1t has been reserved for an Ameri-
can citizen to perform one of the most
daring feats in the history of aviation.
John B. Moissant of Chicago flew
across the English channel from Ca
lais to Tilmanstone, with a passenger.
and by this achievement far surpassed
the feats Of Bleriot, De Lessons and
the unfortunate English aviator, Rolls,
who afterwards met his death at
Bournemouth.
Fifty out of sixty-nine veniremen
of the sixth panel in the trial at Chi
cago of Lee O'Neil Browne, the legis.
lator charged with bribery, were ex.
cused by Judge Kersten when they ad.
mitted that they had either been ap-
preached personally or through their
families by men interested In the case.
Daniel Cummings, storekeeper at
the county hospital at Chicago, was
shot on the steps of his home, in the
presence of his wife, by Thomas J.
Bent, discharged night Waterman at
the county institution. Cummings
died later. Bent believed that Cum.
mings was instrumental in his dis
charge.
Arrayed only in night robe and
stockings, Miss Columbia Cheek, a
society girl, was married at three
o'clock in the morning in Atlanta, Ga,
to Guy H. Buchanan. Earlier in the
night Miss Cheeks parents learned
that the couple had planned to elope
and they locked the girl in her room
after taking away her clothing.
zee Hong, wealthy Chinaman in
business at Ell Paso, Tex, twenty
three years, has been ordered de-
ported. Hong went to China to visit
his mother and was refused readmis-
sion.
The coal operators of the northern
Colorado fields, where a miners strike
is in progress, have appealed to Gov.
ernor Shafroth for military protec-
| ton.
The record Of the cholera epidemic
for one week In Russia shows 23.s94
new cases and 1923 deaths, which
brings the total number of cases. fol
the year up to the tremendous tota
of 112,9S5. The percentage Of NOR
talities is placed at 445.
The support of the negro electoral,
of the United States for a possibl,
third term was pledged in behalf O
Colonel Roosevelt by the LOO dele
gates of the National Negro Bust
ness Mems league in convention a
New York. The negroes endorsement
of the former president came afte
he had addressed the delegates on tn,
opportunities for advancement ope,
to the negro race In this country.
The jury which is to try Lee O'Neil
Browne at Chicago on the charge O
bribery in connection with the cleo
ton Of United States Senator Lorime
was completed after four more venire
men who acknowledged they had bee
approached had been excused.
Three of the highest former official
of the Illinois Central road were Al
rested at Chicago in connection wit
the $1,500,000 car repair fraud
Other arrests are to follow and furthe
disclosures In which new names ma
be revealed are promised at the tri,