Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-08-04

At the conclusion of a conferenc
between King Alfonso and Premie
Canalejas, it was announced that tn
Marquis Emilio de Ojeda, Spanish am
bassador to the Vatican, had been re
called. At the same time the opinion
was expressed that rupture with tn
Vatican was inevitable.
Jurors at the inquest over the bod!
of Ira Rawn, the late slain presiden
of the Monon railroad, at Winnetka
ILL.,, returned verdict finding that h'
was killed by bullet fred from his
own revolver, held in his own hand,
and that circumstances in connection
with the death made the theory o.
suicide seem probable.
Edwin Johann Wider, the $25-a-weel
, cashier who admits having stolen Sc
curities to the value of $680,000 from
the Russo-Chinese banks agency
where he was employed in New York
was arrested and committed weeping
to the Tombs in default of $4,000
bail.
Senator w. Murray Crane of Massa
chusetts has been requested by Presi
dent Taft to take trip through the
west to the Pacific coast to make a
confidential report to the president
upon political and other conditions OF
importance to the administration.
The state supreme court handed
down a decision to the effect that
Oklahoma's capital shall remain al
Guthrie until the legality of the cleo
ton recently held is determined.
Thirty passengers of a st. Clair
avenue car in Cleveland were near
death when the Pittsburg flyer on the
Pennsylvania railroad crashed into the
car on a grade crossing. Twenty were
injured. several fatally.
Following the purchase of the so
called Pearson syndicate's holdings OF
securities in the Rock Island, Lehigh
Valley, Wabash, Denver and Rio
Grande and Western Pacific systems,
the new combine, made up chiefly OF
American interests, will soon put into
operation the coast to coast railroad.
This scheme in transportation involves
over 10000 miles of railroad and total
capital aggregating $3,000,000,00O.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville Brooks and
Mrs. c. H. Thoring were killed a mile
east of Etna Green, Ind, when a fast
Pennsylvania freight train, east-bound,
struck the automobile in which they
were riding. Mr. Thoring was severe
ly, but not dangerously, hurt.
The Keystone party was formed at
Philadelphia to oppose the nominees
of both the Republican and Democrat.
ic parties in Pennsylvania. The con-
vention, composed of III delegates
from 81 counties, denounced both the
old parties as being under the domino
ton Of the liquor industries. William
H. Berry was nominated for governor.
While Governor Harmon fastened
to Columbus, o., to take charge of a
menacing situation in the street car
strike, officers of the Ohio state guard
took over the virtual government OF
the city and the streets bristled with
armed men marshaled to prevent an
outbreak which has threatened for
several days.
President Taft sent the following
dispatch to Warren G. Harding, Re.
publican nominee for governor OF
Ohio: Il sincerely congratulate you
on your nomination and earnestly
hope that you will be elected"
Glitch ciol IF ba Illinois Tanfral
railroad, who were interested in car
repairing plants, entered into an agree
ment among themselves to divide
profits grated from the railroad
These profits amounted to as high as
40 per cent. of the total amount paid
by the railroad company" That is the
charge made on the witness stand by
Harold A. Sims, in his testimony con
corning the grating from the Illinois
| Central railroad.
| A sweeping general strike order, in
volving 3S locals and $4,000 men en-
gagged in the building trades was is
sued by the business agents of the
Chicago Building Trades council aft
er long conference.
That conditions in the west are bet
ter than they have been for years
that the crops, in spite of the droughts
are going to show excellent return!
| for the farmers, are some of the con
illusions reached by President w. c
Brown of the New York Central rail
road, after ten days of personal OBJ
servation in Iowa, Minnesota, the two
Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas.
Not single complaint by the polic'
of the illegal sale of liquor in New
York city on Sunday was recorded
during the twenty-four hours ending
at midnight. This condition is UMPIRE
cedented and Is the climax to tire,
months of the operation Of Mayo
Gaynor's plan for enforcement of tn
excise law.
Chief Of Police Steward has place,
the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures un
der the official ban in a sweeping OF
der, which hit at all moving pictur
houses in Chicago and may bar man
plays from the melodramatic and eve
first-class theaters.
Rioting by Grand Trunk strike syn
pathizers at South Bend. Ind. wa
resumed when a crowd of from $50
to 1000 men and boys attempted t
burn freight car. After the car ha
been burning 20 minutes the fire d.
partment extinguished the flames.
B. v. Barger of Memphis, Tenn
was shot at Little Rock, Ark, by c. n
Gaynon, who in turn was killed b
Barger. Mrs. Gaynon declares thu
Barger was crawling through a vii
dow of her home. Twenty years az
} Mrs. Gaynon obtained divorce fro
Gaynon and married Barger. Late
. she won another divorce and rema
, ried Gaynon.