Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-03-17

turning from a years hunt In the
wilds OF Africa and appearing At, hard
and strong.
Former Senator William d. Ed.
wards appeared in the court Of gen.
eral sessions in Jersey City and
pleaded not guilty to the indictments
found against the National Packing
Company. Armour & Co.. Swift & Co.
and Nelson Morris & Co. The Ham
mond Packing Company and the G.
H. Hammond Company were not rep
| resented.
Pupils of the McKeesport. Pa.
schools have smashed their states
against the walls of buildings follow
ing health order barring their use
because they were germ breeders.
Benjamin Bundy, negro of Cincin-
natl. who passed an examination for
the consular service, has relieved
the state department at Washington
Of an embarrassing situation by his
agreement to accept secretaryship.
Depositors gathered before the
doors OF the Society for Savings bank
at Cleveland, O.. and demanded their
money, but the run on the institution
is believed to be over.
Barney Oldfield. driving his 200
horsepower Hemmery Benz, covered
mile over the Daytona (Fla.) beach
in :2S fat. one-fifth of second faster
than the worlds record made by a
freak steamer on the beach four years
ago.
Announcement was made at New
York that Putnam's Magazine had
been incorporated with the Atlantic
Monthly and that the number for
issue Of Putnam's.
George A. Capron, the absconding
cashier of the United States Express
Company's Englewood branch office,
Chicago. was sentenced to an indie
terminate term Of imprisonment Cap
ron pleaded guilty to charges Of en-
bezzlement and the sentence, which
implies one to ten years in Joliet, was
pronounced
According to report received at
Erie. Pa, the wrecked Marquette car
ferry No 2 of the Bessemer & Lake
Erie railroad, which went down in
storm on Lake Erie the night of De-
cember Z, 1909, with 80 men on board,
has been located under the ice off Port
Bruce, Ont, IA miles from Port Stan
ley.
Peace in the street car strike de.
NJ a nd ut NxI,
stored, after a day Of continuous VIC
lence, when the company ceased their
attempt to run cars at nightfall. All
day long the strike-breakers were
jeered at. cars were torn and tracks
Four witnesses, who have turned
states evidence. gave sensational
testimony in the case Of John G. Ma.
bray and others at Council Bluffs, Ia,
charged with conspiracy to defraud by
unlawful use of the United States
mail.
James r. Garfield concluded his ties.
timony before the Ballinger-P
inquiry committee by charging that
Richard A. Ballinger had deceived him
after the latter had relinquished the
post OF commissioner of general land
Office. Furthermore, the former sec
rotary of the interior asserted that he
did not believe the $30,000,000 bond
issue, recommended by President Taft
to congress, was necessary for the
proper forwarding of irrigation work
In the west
Left to care for his two-year-old sis
ter. the five-year-old son of Louis
Washington, farmer. living near Fern
wood, Miss. decided that the child
was sick, and tried to give her medi-
cine. He administered rat poison with
fatal effect
Fire caused by crossing electric
wires destroyed the storage battery
department of the Westinghouse Ma
chine Companys plant, at East Pitts
burg. Pa. causing a loss of $4,000.
Edward Mccain. paymaster and
Charles H. Pommering, assistant pay
master Of the Dexter Coal Company
of Pittsburg, were attacked by high
waymen while carrying a $4,000 pay
roll in a buggy near the company's
mines at Brilliant, o. Both men are
seriously injured. The bandits es-
capped with the money.
Riot sticks freely used by the po-
lice at Philadelphia checked parade
Of more than 10000 persons who were
marching to the city hall to make
demonstration in connection with the
general strike. The parade started
from the National league ball park,
where the strikers attempt to hold
an open air meeting had been frus-
trated by a guard of policemen at the
gate. Several persons were quite bad
ly hurt.
The interstate commerce commits
sion was substituted for the proposed
court Of commerce in the administra-
ton railroad bill by the house COM
mittee on interstate commerce.
Prof W. E. Castle Of Harvard an
nounced to the Boston Scientific So
ciety that he expects that soon the
breeding of the human species can be
accomplished along scientific lines
and that characteristics may be deter
mined in advance.
|. Thomas Farrell is In Flower hos
pital, New York. with a dislocated.
shoulder and internal injuries as re-
suit of being run down by two baby
carriages.
On his brothers complaint Joseph
Miller of Sturgis, S. D.. was arrested
for murder at Toledo. o.. committed
30 years ago Miller declares he has
paid his brother hush" money and
that his refusal to continue caused his
arrest
| Because the skull of Caleb Cox was
| a hnnrmallu thin a Trauarsa CITY