Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-04-21

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making amends for the discourtesy
shown the president. The resolutions
were adopted unanimously.
| Warrants for payment of more than
"a, 100000, awarded to nearly 10000
Cherokee Indians by the court OF
claims, will be forwarded from the
treasury department at Washington.
Clinton st. Clair was hanged al
Rockford, ILL.,, for the murder of Mrs,
Mary Mcintosh. st. Clair entered the
home of Mrs. Mcintosh, an aged re
cluse, January 20, and stabbed her to
death. The motive was robbery.
"The Captain Of Koepernick," the
! cobbler who set all Germany laughing
by impersonating an officer and rob
bling the little German town, is under
arrest at Ellis island, New York, and
will be deported.
In delivering a scathing denuncia'
ton of the American Sugar Refining
company in the house Of representa-
tives Representative Rainey of Illinois
did not hesitate to make bold sugges'
tons concerning that most corrupt
and rotten trust ever created by the
protective tariff system" and President
Taft. Attorney General Wickersham
and Henry w. Taft, brother Of the
president.
President Taft was Kissed while de-
livering an address of welcome at the
convention of the American Woman
Suffrage association. The manifesto.
ton of disapproval was not unani.
nous, but 1t was pronounced. 1t inter.
rupted the presidents speech, but did
not discomfort him. He waited a few
seconds for the feminine sibilant OF
reproach to subside and then finished
what he had to say.
A series of earthquakes varying In
intensity has swept over Costa Rica,
doing vast damage, the extent OF which
can only now be estimated at more
than $1,000,000. So far there has
been no report of loss of life, but the
people in the cities are panic-stricken
and are abandoning their homes for
the hillsides.
Three men are dead, six are miss
ing and six probably MORALLY injured
as a result of freight wreck on the
Northern Pacific railroad three miles
west Of Spokane, Wash.
Under conditions that could not
have BEEN greatly improved upon,
even If the fans" had their shaping,
the baseball season of 1910 opened in
a most suspicious manner in the Ma.
tional and American leagues and
American association.
Sam Langford, the negro fighter,
knocked out Jim Barry in the six,
teenth session of their scheduled 25,
round contest at Vernon, Cal. 1t was
the ninth time the two had faced each
other and in none of which has Barry
ever been declared the winner.
Charles Revelee, 10 years old, Is
under arrest at Richmond, Ind.
charged with numbering Mrs. Charles
Allison at her home near Cambridge
City. The police say the boy has con
fessed that he beat the woman and
burned her to death.
Demonstrations continue at Melrose
Mass. by crowds of those who sympa
thize with the Dickinson IN. d. mar
whose claim to heirship in the Russell
estate was denied. Three policemen
were injured when the mob paraded
the streets.
The Nebraska railway commission
will attempt to influence President
Taft against the appointment Of any
person who has been a railroad attor.
ney to fill a vacancy In the United
States Supreme court.
In an expedition to the mountains Of
Walker county, Alabama, in search Of
moonshiners, Federal Deputy Marshal
Anderson was killed ten miles below
Oakman and Marshal Putnam was
shot through the hip.
Theodore Roosevelt and his son,
Kermit, reached Venice in a special
car which was placed at their dis.
rosal by the government and later
continued their journey to Vienna.
The demonstration given Colonel
Roosevelt on his departure from Porto
Maurizio was as impressive as was
that rendered him on his arrival.
A letter from William ]. Bryan, writ.
ten in Brazil and read at the Jefferson
day banquet at Washington, says:
AN item of news has just come to
my attention. President Taft, in his
Lincoln speech at New York February
IL, attributes the present high prices
mainly to an increased production of
gold and consequent enlargement of
tts volume of money. This unexpect.
ed Endorsement of our party's PROPOSE.
ton in 1896, when we demanded more
money as the only remedy for falling
prices. is very gratifying"
Six New Haven Comm firemen
were burned to death and a score Sc.
riously injured in a fire which par.
TALLY destroyed the county Jail and
destroyed the adjoining factory of the
New England chair factory, in which
so convicts were employed.
Exposure of an alleged conspiracy
through which the Illinois Central rail.
road has been defrauded out of hun.
dreds of thousands-some say a mil.
lion-of dollars is expected soon &C
companied by arrests at Chicago OF
the alleged conspirators.
What is said to be the first case OF
hookworm disease in Kansas is re
ported from Wichita, the patient being
young woman who became infected
on a southern trip.
Tie taking Of the decennial census
of the United States was begun by ar
army of 10000 enumerators. The worl
is to be completed in Is days in the
cities and 80 days in the country.
The forty-second annual convention
of the National American Woman Suf