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

The big guns" in the Ballinger in
vestigation will not be fired by the
prosecution until the secretary of the
interior is put on the witness stand.
This was indicated when Attorney
Brandeis refused to cross-examine
Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of
the interior, until after he had an op-
portunity to question Mr.. Ballinger.
In an address delivered to the stu
dents of the Graduate School of Bust
ness Administration of Harvard uni
versity George w. Perkins, associate
of j. Pierpont Morgan in the banking
business, advocated national control
OF great corporations and compulsory
publicity as a panacea for business
life.
According to report made public
by John F. Roche of New York,
consulting actuary to the insurance
department, charges are made that
the active managers of the Consoli-
dated Casualty company before it's re-
organization at Charleston, w. Va, re-
Gently, under direction of the insur-
ance department Of West Virginia,
had collected $757,114 in one year and
nine months, Of which only $191, 637
remains, and that they made false en-
tries on the books of the company
and false returns to the insurance de-
partment of the state. Robert B.
Armstrong of Chicago was former
president of the company.
The arrest Of several former and
present high officials of the Illinois
Central Railroad company is expected
soon as result of a nine-hour secret
conference at Chicago held behind
locked doors between President Hara-
han and w. ]. Burns, head of the
Burns-Sheridan National Detective
agency, which has been conducting
an investigation into the alleged
100000 graft operation on the ILL
nois Central
AS special mark of his personal
esteem the aged emperor-king, Franz
Josef, received Colonel Roosevelt in
his private apartments at the impo-
sing Hofburg palace in Vienna instead
of in the regular audience chamber.
The monarch, who was attired in an
imperial uniform, was extremely gra-
cious to the American ex-president
and kept him In conversation for 35
minutes. The colonel afterward de-
clined to reveal the slightest detail of
the conversation.
Montclair, N. j., believes that pros
perity has come to stay. There are no
poor left in the township and the au-
thorities have decided to abolish the
poorhouse.
Tramway employees and store clerks
at Marseflles, France, have walked out
in sympathy with the striking naval
reserve men.
Stock subscriptions to the New Or
leans exposition in 1915, to commemo-
rate the completion of the Panama
canal, have reached $500 900.
Almost the first thing that Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt did after reaching vi
emma was to brand as fake a state.
ment that he had consented to be a
candidate for the presidency again.
The statement this time was con-
tanned in the Paris Herald, which
quoted one of its correspondents.
Col. Duncan Cooper, convicted Of
the the murder of ex-senator Car.
mack. and sentenced to 20 years IN
prison. was pardoned by Governor Pat
terson of Tennessee.
Mail from Liverpool. England, was
received at Seattle, Wash, after beine
less than ten days in transit.
A most enthusiastic greeting by the
people OF the Austrian capital wa,
given Col Theodore Roosevelt, who I,
accompanied by his son Kermit and
DIR. Lyman Abbott's son, when h,
reached Vienna. During his first day',
stay he was received in audience b,
Emperor Francis Joseph.