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

industrial company.
| The coroner's Jury in Monroe City
Mo-, the home of Prof. James L,
vaughn's widow and her wealthy IA
Their, brought in verdict finding from
| the evidence that Prof. Vaughn's
death was the result Of strychnine
poisoning" DR.. Charles w. Hull OF
| Monroe City was arrested there on a
warrant charging him with murder In
the first degree.
President Taft declared to callers at
the White House that his legislative
program has not been curtailed to
four bills, as stated in the newspaper
dispatches from Washington. The
printed list omitted all reference to
the conservative bills, whereas the
president has repeatedly pointed out
that he would insist, so far as he
legitimately could, that some at least
Of the conservation measures should
be enacted into law before the present
session adjourns
The Nicaraguan government reports
a decisive victory over the insurgents
at Tipitapa. Bulletins posted here
announce that Gen. Chamorro's army
practically has been annihilated. The
dead and wounded will number nearly
1900. according to reports. The in,
surgents are said to have lost 1.10O
and the government 400.
The Adirondack Cottage sanitarium
at Saranac Lake, N. Y, founded for
the treatment of tuberculosis, has re.
ceived from Mrs. E. III. Hartman a
letter. inclosing check for $4,000
and congratulating it upon the com.
pletion Of its % years existence.
Violet Gordon Charlesworth and
her mother were each sentenced to
i've years Imprisonment in a London
(England) court for fraudulently rep
resenting that the younger woman
was an heiress to a great estate. Or
the strength of a mythical fortune Of
$2,500,000 the girl had borrowed many
thousand dollars.
III get you," shouted Bowman B
Seybert, aged 80. as he sat dreaming
in chair in a Butler (Pa.) livery sta
awoke to find himself seriously
wounded .- .... .--.
President Taft came out fatty In
favor of budget system, by which
the governments finances may be reg
ulated, in a speech which he delivered
before the board Of trade at Newark
N. ]. The president talked Of waste
in the various departments of the gov
eminent and suggested that the way
to curb II is to have a system such as
is In vogue in other countries where a
schedule Of expenditures is made W
with reference to the income. His
speech with its various suggestions
as to government economy, was re
garded as the keynote of a campaign
to be carried on by the administration
looking to the reduction in the high
cost of living.
Following the discovery that the
National City bank of Cambridge al
Boston had been looted of $144 900
the doors of the institution were
closed probably forever, by National
Bank Examiner Pepper, acting on be
half of the comptroller of the cur
rency. Later a warrant was issued
for the arrest of George w! Coleman
the young bookkeeper OF the bank.
Three dead, three lying at the poin,
of death in hospitals and more than
a thousand persons injured is the toll
exacted by the reign of lawlessness
which has existed in this city for four
days as the result of the street car
strike at Philadelphia.
School states and sponges have
been barred by McKeesport (Pa.)
health officials, who declare them to
be germ breeders in scarlet fever
upon which they are waging fight
A japanese. supposed to have been
bent on the assassination of some high
official. was killed at Annoy, China. by
the accidental ignition of high explo.
sive in his clothing.
Secretary Nagel says 100000 to
stamp out the white slave" traffic
would be well spent, in recommending
a larger immigration regulation ap
preparation to the house at Washing
ton.
Seven hundred American tourists
reaching Yokohama, Japan. on the
steamer Cleveland were given warm
welcome by Tokyo and Yokohama Of
ficials.
Eight directors of the New Yorb
Consolidated Milk EXchange-the in
stitution which is said to be RESPONSE
BILE for putting up the price of milk
in this city-were indicted by the
grand jury. Each of the men is &C
cused Of aiding in the restraint Of
trade in violation of the state Law
| governing trusts and monopolies.
The justices of the supreme court
Of Illinois, at meeting in Chicago, is
sued an order directing that all fur
ther proceedings in the Joyce case
which resulted in the parole law o.
1899 being declared invalid, be stayed
until the April term Of court.
| In opening the defense Of New Yorl
Senate Leader lothian p. Aids to the
charge preferred against him by Sen
ator BENJAMIN Conger of having &C
cepted a bribe Of $1,000, his counsel
Martin w. Littleton, announced tina
Senator Aids had filed with the clerl
Of the senate his resignation as pres
ident pro tenn.
President Edmund Jayne James o
the University of Illinois appeared be
fore the house committee on agricul
ture in opposition to the Boutell bill
appropriating $4,000 or thereabout
to the George Washington university
He criticised Justice Harlan Of the ST.
preme court sharply, and he Ripe,
the proposed action of congress u
from one end to another.