Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-04-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Robert w. Patterson, editor-in-chief
of the Chicago Tribune, died suddenly
in Philadelphia. Half an hour before
his death occurred, his mother, Mrs.
Julia A. Patterson, widow of one OF
the most prominent Presbyterian
clergymen of Illinois, passed away at
the home of her son-in-law in Chicago.
Marie Corelli, the novelist, is seri-
cusIy i'll at her residence, Mason Croft,
Stratford-on-Avon, England. She is
suffering from pneumonia.
James r. Meade, the pioneer who
named Wichita, died in Kansas City
of pneumonia. He was president Of
the first railroad built into Wichita,
the old Santa Fee stub" line from EN-
poria to Wichita
In a speech which occupied two
hours and which had not, been COM
pleted when the senate adjourned,
Senator Root came to the support of
the administration railroad bill. The
portion of the speech delivered dealt
almost exclusively with the proposed
court of commerce, which Senator
Root defended notwithstanding, he
said, it appealed to him far less strong
ly than did most of the other features
of the bill.
Convinced that the murder of Alex
der ]. Moody, the pie manufacturer, by
arsenical poisoning on February 20 at
his home at Chicago, was, in police
vernacular, an outside job"-not the
act of anyone within the Moody house.
hold-and given an important clew
during the examination of Peter Peter
son, the former coachman. Assistant
Chief of Police Schuettler detailed de-
tectives to investigate a new angle OF
the mysterious case.
Italy Is in terror and residents have
fed to the hills for safety from Mount
Etna. A heavy fall of ashes covered
the streets to a depth of six inches
Thirty craters are belching fire and
lava, and redhot stones lombard the
country about the slopes of the vol
cano. Hundreds of tourists, the ma
jority of them Americans, who came
here to view the spectacle, made haste
to depart.
Requisition papers for the extradi
ton of ]. Ogden Armour of Chicago
were filed with Gov. Fort at Trenton
n. j., by Prosecutor Garven of Hud
son county.
That the corporation tax law will
be amended to restrict the operation
~ &c nyblioity foatura u,oe y;rtuo1I,
assured when the house slightly
amended provision previously adopt
ed by the senate for that purpose. A!
passed by the house the law bearing
on this subject provides that "all cor
poration tax returns shall be open t
inspection only upon the order of thu
president, under rules and regulation
to be prescribed by the secretary o
the treasury and approved by tn,
president"
Unofficial returns from the Demo
cratic primary held in Arkansas ind
cate the denomination, equivalent t
election, of Gov. George W. Donaghe
over Judge c. c. Kavanaugh.
Because r. Il Mott, president of tn
village council at Elsah, ILL.,, persist
in pushing an ancient wheelbarroy
along the new granitoid sidewalks
after vetoing an ordinance forbiddin
the practice, the council has called
special meeting to pass the ordinanc
over his veto.
Senator Bailey introduced bill 70
the publication of campaign contribr
tons. A similar measure has bee
ordered reported favorably by tn
committee on the election of pres
dent, vice-president and members c
congress, but Chairman Gaines ha
not presented the report.
Nearly all the women and childre
in the village of Oekorite, Hungar,
persisted in the fire at ball Their
OF 400 dead, 1913 were children belo
the age of nine years.
Kansas City police will train a nur
Der of Airedale dogs for use in polio
work.
Letters from Crown Prince Ere
erick William of Germany to Coul
Hans Ferdinand Won Hochberg we,
read In the trial OF Noah e. Barn,
on a charge of larceny of the asse
of the Cottonwood Creek Cotton Cor
pany In New York Count Won Hoe
berg was witness in the case