Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-05-05

Z ueuC was driven III du duIOIOUiie
King Albert went there to surprise
Mr.. Roosevelt.
John w. Kern of Indianapolis was
nominated for the United States sen
ate on the third ballot in the Demo
cratic state convention. The platform
denounces the Payne-Aldrich bill as
master piece Of injustice, involving
remorseless exactions from the many
to enrich the few, condemns coward
ice of the Republican party in Indi
ana, which commends Taft, approves
Payne-Aldrich tariff act, and in same
resolutions, Beverage. who voted
against it,
| Construction of the edifice for st.
Thomas Protestant Episcopal church
at Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street,
| New York city, will begin next month.
! The structure will cost more than
100000, and two-thirds of this
amount is in the hands of the trustees.
The National Tube company has post.
ed notices that all employees wages
will be advanced May /. The amount
| will be from one to six per cent. and
the higher rate will affect day labor,
which will be paid s1.75 instead of
$1.60 day.
s. r. Nelson, vice-president of a
bank at Chillicothe, Mo-, and former
president of the Missouri State Bank
ers' association, committed suicide at
his home by drinking carbolic acid. 1t
is said that his accounts are correct.
Fifteen persons were injured, one
OF them so severely that ii is believed
he will die, in the collapse of a con-
crete and tile floor newly laid before
the entrance to New York East side
moving picture theater.
John Morris, a miner, maddened by
drink, shot and killed two men.
wounded several others and a woman,
at WEIGH, w. Va, and later met death
while trying to escape into Virginia on
freight train, by losing his balance
and falling under the wheels.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., re-
tired, was thrown from a new horse
he was riding in Potomac park, Wash
tngton. One rib was broken, he re-
ceived a slight scalp wound and was
bruised on one shoulder and side.
AS the result of conference here
between Michigan Republican leaders
in Washington it is announced that
Senator Burrows will remain in the
senatorial race. At the September
primaries Burrows and Representa-
tive Townsend will be candidates.
Stanley Ketchel, champion middle
weight Of the world, defeated Sam
Langford, the negro challenger for the
title, in six viciously fast rounds be-
fore the National Athletic club, Phil
adelphia. 1t was toss-up between
the pair until the final round. The
champion tore into his foe in the sixth
round, hammered Langford all over
the ring and had the negro so busily
occupied that he could do nothing but
protect himself.
Theodore Roosevelt for the United
States senate as successor to Chaun-
cey Depew," is the way the political
prophets and wiseacres of Washing
ton have the situation in New York
state forecast.
Search of the sea for the British
sealing steamship Aurora with a crew
Of 1877 men, which has been missing
the vessel. While its owners are hold
ing out hope that ice conditions may
have kept the ship from reaching st.
Johns, N. F.. and that she is safe, cap
tains Of the fishing feet are pessimis-
| tic.
Richard A. Ballinger, secretary OF
the interior, went on the stand at
Washington to give his version of his
conservation controversy with Clifford
Pinchot, which resulted in the ousting
of the latter as chief forester. The
secretary's testimony will mark the
beginning of the end of the long con.
gressional inquiry.
His mind unbalanced by anxiety
over the illness of his wife, Herman
w. Clough, a railroad switchman of
Concord, N. H., killed her by splitting
her head with an AK and then cut his
own throat with a meat knife, dying
Immediately.
At Washington, the house passed
the Wiley resolution calling upon the
attorney general to make full inves.
tigation of the finances and manage
ment of George Washington uniyer.
sity.
Members of the American Newspa-
per Publishers association and the
Associated Press, which have been in
annual session in New York, attended
a joint banquet at the Waldorf-As.
toria. Mayor Gaynor, in responding
to "The Press and It's Relation to
Public Officials," which subject had
been assigned him by the editors,
| took occasion to assail w. r. Hearst.
He referred to recent article in one
Of Mr.. Hearst's papers and branded
it as a forgery and Justification of
a public document"
After successfully holding up and
robbing crews and passengers of sew
eral street cars a gang of negroes, dis
guised as white men, was rounded up
by the New Orleans Ua) police, one
of the negroes being fatally wounded.
Indictments were returned at Ha-
vana, Cuba, against Gen. Evaristo
Estenoz, the negro leader, and %
other negro prisoners, charging them
with melting rebellion and instigating
anti-white violence.
The senate at Washington defeated
the Cummins amendment to the rail.
road bill providing that the railroads
may get together and make traffic
agreements. provided that the rates
following from such agreement shall
be submitted to and approved by the In.
terstate Commerce commission before