Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-20

| A sensational crisis in the Ballinger-
! Pinchot controversy was precipitated
| when a defiant letter from Chief For
+, ester Pinchot was read in the senate
at the instance of Senator Dolliver.
In this letter Mr.. Pinchot admits that
his assistants aided CLAWS In attack
ing Secretary Ballinger, praises them
as patriots who were trying to pre-
vent frauds, champions Claws as q
vigorous defender Of the peoples In
terests, virtually reproaches the pres
ident himself for having dismissed,
CLAWS, and in effect dares the presi-
dent to dismiss himself.
One hundred and ninety-three ltaS
fans, suspected members of the mo-
torious BLACK Hand" secret society,l
were arrested at Chicago in drag.
net put out by the police, following
the murder of Benedetto Cinene, a;
wealthy merchant, who was shot to,
death In his bed while his terrified
! 65-year-old wife struggled with his
three assailants to prevent the crime!
King Georges royal family was
routed from the regal palace at Tatoi,,
Athens, Greece, when a Christmas
tree, around which the circle was
gathered, caught fire. The blaze
spread with lightning-like rapidity
and the right wing of the palace was
destroyed before the flames could be
checked.
What has come to be known as the
flair list" of the nations of the world,
that is, those countries which will be
entitled to continuation Of the mini
mum rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill, soon will be officially proclaimed
by President Taft.
Mayor Gaynor Of New York has
notified every department head under
him that they must indulge In no
newspaper interviews and Issue no
statements concerning the business OF
their departments except through him.
Another notable New York pulpit Is
to be presided over by an English
clergyman. The Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain church has just called to its
passionate Rev. John Henry Jovett of
Carr's Lane Congregational chapel,
Birmingham He is offered salary
of $4,000. With this goes a home
valued at $1,000 year.
Believing that Thomas Reilly, a
state representative, had hypnotized
him, Frank Cavanaugh, cigarmaker,
started after Reilly at Joliet with a
revolver. He was arrested after sew
eral windows in the representatives
house had been smashed.
John Burns, president of the local
government board and labor leader in
the house of commons, had a fistic
clash with an unidentified man as he
was leaving a political meeting in
enter his motor car when the man
sprang upon him from the rear and
threw him to the ground.
According to bureau Of navigation
report 562 vessels of S2,425 gross tons
were built in the last six months Of
1909, compared with 52S vessels Of A.
ESQ gross tons in the corresponding
period of 1908.
Over 3.o00.000,000 revenue stamps,
will be required for the cigars, cigar
cites, strip tobacco and snuff during
the current fiscal year, according to a
deficiency estimate sent to congress
by the treasury department.
L. N. Barto, baggagemaster, was
killed and four other trainmen seri-
ously injured in Baltimore &c Ohio
wreck at West Alexandria, Pa. None
of the passengers was hurt.
Charged with the task OF inquiring
into the traffic in women, with view
sational ISLANDERS against New York
city, John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. was
made foreman of the grand jury.
A delegation of officials of the
American Federation of Labor, headed
by Samuel Gompers, made a personal
demand on President Taft that he di-
rect an immediate federal investiga-
ton of the United States Steel cor
poration.
Fire threatened the Japanese en-
bassy in Washington. The flames
broke out in the stables in the rear as
Baron Uchida and Nine. Uchida were
returning home from the diplomatic
reception at the White House. The
damage was slight.
]. Pierpont Morgan may unite In
one banking concern, through further
trust company mergers in New York
under consideration, the enormous
sum Of $260,000,000 in deposits alone.
This is approximately $75,000,000 more
than the deposits of the National City
bank, and $125,000,000 more than the
resources of the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, the largest financial
institutions in the United States.
A woman armed with shotgun
held a mob Of $50 drunken, Infatuated
ice cutters at bay near Kenosha, Wis,
while she cut the rope with which the
men had hanged one of their number
to the rafters of an icehouse. The
man had already lapsed into uncon-
} seriousness when his courageous res.
cuer routed his would-be executioners.
Leon Delagrange, the noted French
aviator, was killed while making a
J flight at Bordeaux. He fell with his
machine from height of about sixty
five feet and was crushed under the
weight of the wreckage.
: Matthew ]. Whittak of Worcester,
Mass, the largest individual carpet
manufacturer in the United States,
put his 1900 employees on 56-hour
schedule with no reduction in wages
The mills have been running SIS hours
Representatives of the Carriers and
: the Switchmen's union, in conference
: in Chicago for the last month, have
mutually agreed to submit their diff