Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-04-28
GENERAL NEWS.

In honor of Theodore Roosevelt, a
special session of the municipal coun-
Gil of Paris was held, followed by
formal luncheon at which the Ameri-
can met many persons prominent in
the official life of the French capital.
The centenary of the Argentine re-
public was marked by the opening OF
international expositions of art, trans
port facilities, agricultural and me-
chanical appliances and medicine and
hygiene, in Buenos Aires.
The fireblackened, black-damp filled
shaft of the Youghiogheny & Ohio
Coal company's Amsterdam CO., mine,
gave up 10 dead, killed in gas eX-
plosion. All the bodies were brought
to the pits mouth, there to be seized
on by the weeping, moaning women,
who, since the dull rumble and roar
of the explosion have watched through
tears hoping a miracle might bring
forth alive some few of the missing.
Seven miners escaped, Mine Boss Ed.
Jones bringing them through the air
shaft. Twenty-Five were in the mine.
With the simplicity which he re-
quested a few hours before death
claimed him, the funeral services of
Samuel L. Clemens were conducted in
New York city. He was buried Sun
day in one of the white flannel suits
which he had worn so frequently in
his declining years, at Elmira, N. Y,
where in the family plot lie his wife
and three children.
Following the efforts of President
Taft to have the inquiry rushed, came
a sensational climax in the Ballinger
investigation when the prosecutor
practically accused Attorney General
Wickersham of juggling public rec
ords in the interest of his cabinet col
league. Secretary of State Knox Wis
tied the capitol and informed several
members of the committee that it was
the desire of the president that the
investigation be concluded as speed
fly as possible, regardless of who is
hurt.
Senator Dolliver of Iowa, by start.
ing little filibuster, prevented a vote
on the pooling provision of the rail.
road rate bill. AS a result Senator
Elkins was compelled to submit to an.
other days delay in his plans to have
the administration measure disposed
of next week.
A report issued by the bureau OF
statistics at Washington shows that
in eight months ending February rs
the United States shipped goods worth
$10,151,276 to the Philippines.
]. N. Harwood, charged with pro
noting a green goods scheme through
the United States mails, under the
alias of w. A. Wales, was arrested al
Bristol, Tenn, by a federal officer
when he applied for his mail
Recovery Of bodies from the mines
at Mulga, Ala, was very slow. Wher
% had been brought to the surface the
rescuers came upon a bad cave-in IL
the mine and it was found necessar,
to remove tons of earth and rock
Some of the rock had to be blasted
away.
The situation in Human, China, prov
ince is reported as critical Foreig1
women and children are fleeing TO
their lives from Chang Sha, the can
ital. Several villages near that cit,
have been reduced to ashes by nativ,
mobs. The country Is placarded witt
threats to kill all foreigners.
Because of published statemen
attributed to Charles A. Peabody
president of the Mutual Life Insuranc,
company, rejecting on his connection
with the insurance disclosures O
1906, Samuel Untermyer, the attorney
has sued Mr.. Peabody for $4,000 dam
ages
Arthur Hewitt, Thomas Keatin,
Bob Clarke, John Gideon and Fran
Grigware, life-timers, and Theodor
Murdoch, a ten-year counterfeiter, e
capped from the federal penitentiar
at Leavenworth, Kan, by capturing
switch engine and crew. Four wer
subsequently recaptured.
Edward F. Bishop, fifty-three year
old, Is dead at his home at Dolla
bay, Mich. He was United States col
sui under Cleveland at Chatam. Ont
The seventeenth annual meeting
the International Kindergarten unic
opened In ST. Louis with session
the committee Of nineteen.