Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-06-16
The dead at Carriage. Costa Rica,

LILIES were broken and the electric
light wires fell, leaving the city in
darkness. Thousands ran panic-strick
en- in all directions in an effort to
save themselves, leaving behind those
under the ruins. Every house and
building was destroyed, including four
churches and the palace of the Amer
lean peace court, the gift of Andrew
Carnegie. Some Americans are re-
ported to have been killed, but identi-
hcatlon is impossible. Many of the
wounded died, suffering terribly. En-
tire families have been wiped out.
The new battleship Florida was
launched at the Brooklyn navy yard,
IN the presence of Secretary of the
Navy Meyer and other notables. Miss
Elizabeth Fleming christened the YES
sci, which is the largest warship ever
built in the United States.
Statues of Pulaski and Kosciusko.
the former erected by the government
and the latter the gift of the Polish
National alliance, were unveiled in
Washington, President Taft and Sec
rotary OF War Dickinson taking part
IN the ceremonies.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde and his wife took
the witness stand in the Swope MUIR
der trial at Kansas City, Mo-, in de-
tense OF the accused physician. Rela-
tives, former friends and nurses who
mad testified for the state against
Doctor Hyde were accused by the two
witnesses of falsehood and trickery.
Doctor Hyde offered no excuses for his
actions in treating the sick at the
Swope home. Neither did he admit
that he might have erred. Finally he
said his course was right in the cases
OF James Moss Hunton. Col. Thomas
H. SWope and Chrisman Swope. He
maintained that the cause of death he
gave when the men died he still be-
heved to be correct
Figures from the middle ages
strobe through the streets of London
and other great cities of England and
ireland, proclaiming in good twentieth
century English the accession of
George V. to the throne just vacated
by the death of Edward VII. Clad in
gorgeous costumes and carrying trum-
pets, the heralds passed through the
streets announcing that Edwards son
has assumed the scepter of Great Brit
ain and India. Curious crowds watched
the spectacle soberly, even admiring-
ly, but without SMILE In Dublin
the Ulster king-at-arms read the proc
lamatlon in the presence of Lord
Aberdeen, lord lieutenant of Ireland,
and Lady Aberdeen.
That his railroad rate bill is still
in satisfactory state of preservation
despite the onslaughts of it's foes in
congress, and that it will be passed by
both houses within two weeks and
signed by him was the optimistic dec
laration of President Taft in speech
before the Passaic IN. - board OF
trade at its annual banquet. The
president also reviewed the condi-
ton OF other bills on what has be.
! come known as the White House legis-
lative program and contended that
| several OF them would be enacted de-
spite Washington reports that have
| appeared in the newspapers of late.
When Theodore Roosevelt and fam
lily arrived at Berlin they were given
| rouslng welcome. The colonel was
| feeling we'll, his attack of bronchitis
having responded readily to the treat
ment he received from specialists in
| Berlin. The party was met at the sta
ton by the American ambassador and
several of the high German officials.
Accepting Mr.. Roosevelt's sugges-
ton regarding changes in the program,
president at the railway station, and
will not receive him as his guest at
the Berlin castle.
Gilbert Coleman, mulatto, former
~ Pullman car cook, convicted of
wife murder in New York city, was put
to death in the electric chair in Sing
Sing On. Y.) prison.
Robert Livingston Cutting, who
sailed from New York three weeks ago,
just before his mother, Mrs. Judith
Moale Cutting, began suit against him
in the supreme court to recover $780,
600, died in hospital in London, Eng
land.
That parents of foreign birth make
the most successful fathers and moth.
ers, at least among the poorer classes
is shown by statistics of infant mortal
ity gathered by the Free Outdoor Ma
ternity clinic in New York
After causing the arrest of her hus
band, James Goldberg, on charge OF
bigamy, Mrs. Julia Goldberg, formerly
a hotel proprietress of St. Louis, com
mitted suicide at small town neal
Bakersfield, CAL, by shooting herself
in the head.
1t was announced in New York that
no agreement on the wage question
could be reached by representatives
of the Erie Railroad company and OF
the roads conductors and trainmen
The men are now being polled on q
strike vote.
Fire, caused by an older child play
ing with matches, resulted in the loss
of two lives at Deimling, Mich. The
home of Matt Servis was destroyed
and three-year-old girl and an in