Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-02-17

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Spring lake drainage district was
started at hearing in Peoria, ILL.,.
called by Maj C. S. Richie, U. s. A.
to take up the application of the
Spring Lake drainage commissioners
for permission to permanently close
that region to navigation.
Gambling in futures in cotton and
other agricultural products was the
subject of a hearing begun before the
agricultural committee of the house at
Washington, which brought together
prominent members of the Cotton Elk
change of New York, cotton growers
and agriculturists to testify on the
measures designed to prohibit deal.
ings In futures.
That Col Swope died from strych.
nine administered by DR.. B. c. Hyde
was the verdict of the coroner's jury
at Independence, Mo. 1t was held,
however, that the jury did not know
II Hyde acted with felonious intent"
According to a plan submitted to
congress by Herbert Knox Smith, COM
missioner of corporations the great in
terstate industries can be brought un.
der a permanent federal supervision
through a system of regular reports to
federal agency in a rational, effec-
tive way, which will involve no dras.
tic action, but, on the contrary, will
forestall 1t.
Federal regulation of cold-storage
| plants was prophesied by Dr. Harvey
w. Wiley, chief of the bureau of
chemistry, at Washington, in an ad.
dress at the annual dinner of the
alumni of the Massachusetts, Agrt
cultural college at Boston.
A sword presented by the United
States government in 1855 to Gen
Santa Ana, then president of Mexico.
| Is being hawked around Mexico among
curio dealers and has been offered tc
! the government for $4,000.
Crazed by the refusal of the parents
of his 15-year-old sweetheart, Ceres
Anderson, to allow him to marry the
| girl, John Allen shot and killed Axel
Anderson, her father, and the girl
and committed suicide at San Fran.
cisco.
Trades unionists at Louisville, KY,
have authorized a committee to pro
| coed with the organization of a bank
in order to circumvent the loan agen.
cies, to which an annual tribute OF
100000 is said to be paid.
The National Editorial association
celebrated in New Orleans the silver
anniversary Of its organization in that
city.
Stockraising must be generally fol
lowed if the farmers are to remain
prosperous and the people are to have
cheap meat according to Louis p
Swift, president of Swift & Company
packers. Mr.. Swift is one of the
leading packers in the country and
his statement of the case for the pack
er, issued at South st. Paul is sig
! nificant.
Scores of villages in Costa RIGA
have been destroyed by the sudden
| eruption of the volcano Poas, which
long has been dormant The loss OF
life cannot as yet be estimated, though
It is believed that a great number
persisted. Thousands fed in terror be
| fore the stream of lava and the burn
ing ashes that are thrown out in great
| density.
DR.. Ludwig Hektoen at the inquest
over the body of Col. Thomas H.
| Swope at Independence, Mo-, testified
strychnine had been found in minute
| quantities. in the stomach Of Col
Swope, and that one-sixth of a grain
of strychnine had been found in one
seventh of the liver.
A narrow gauge railway is to be con.
structed to the site of the Garden OF
Eden, which Sir. William Willcocks,
British adviser to the Turkish min.
istry of public works claims to have
located. According to Sif Williams
measurements the homestead Of Adam
and Eve was situated In the Haritah
district, about ESQ kilometers north OF
Bagdad.
Henry Pinckney, who was steward
at the executive mansion under Pes.
ident Roosevelt, declared that no unfit
and unwholesome meat ever graced
the table Of that president. That was
in answer to the charge made before
a special committee which is investi'
eating the cost Of living in the District
of Columbia by Inspector Dodge Of the
district force.
For the first time In Missouri the
death penalty for an attack upon a
woman was imposed upon two negroes,
George Reynolds and John Williams,
who were hanged at Kansas City fol-
lowing Judge Ralph s. Latshaw's de-
cree that he would not "desecrate'
Friday, the day on which legal hang
ings usually take place.
Three Nome merchants, who have
arrived at Seattle, Wash, report that
tho temperature in Alaska has often
been 70 degrees below zero and that
upon the trail from Nome to Valdez
and Fairbanks they found four per
sons frozen to death in a roadhouse.
Dynamite has been employed near
Kady, w. Va, to rout large bear
which has been disturbing the com
munity, but the explosions failed to dis
lodge him.
A murder was revealed when the
body of Mrs. Agnes Anderson was
taken from under the basement flool
of an abandoned house on West 94tf
street, New York.
Attorney General O'Malley of New
York is accommodating evidence tina
the Chicago packers have for nearl!
eight years defied state supreme
court Injunction against their prevent
ing competition. fixing prices and 9th
erwise violating the anti-monopoly Law
and the meat trust officials are nov
confronted with fine and imprison
| ment or both for contempt of court