Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

beef trust. Action will be based on
/, provisions contained in the Sherman
act. The prevailing high prices de.
manded for meat products is response.
BILE for the institution Of suit
/ Magazine owners in New York city
aroused over the effort of the post
| office department to bring about an
increase in the rate for second-class
mail matter, declare that any advance
in the postal rate will mean an in
crease in the price of magazines.
The Hamburg liner President Lin
coin, is bringing veritable menagerie
consigned by former President Roose'
welt. including elephants. camels re
| bras, llamas and jaguars.
Santos Zelaya, former president OF
Nicaragua, will sail next Monday from
Vera Cruz, Mexico, for Brussels, Bel.
| GUM. where he will be joined later
+, by his family.
| murder rivaling the atrocious
Whitechapel outrages committed In
London quarter Of century ago.
was revealed with the finding of the
headless body of Mrs. Jennie Cleg-
horn, 4S years old. woman Of form
er wealth, In a cheaply furnished
room at 81 West Seventeenth street.
The head had been cut from the wom-
ans shoulders and carried away by
the murderer The heart and other
organs had been cut out and then re-
placed.
Paul o. Stensland and Henry W..
Herring, president and cashier. respec'
lively, of the defunct Milwaukee Ave-
nue. bank of Chicago, will become free
men before the end of the week. AS
result of the action taken by the
board of pardons at Joliet, ILL.,. they
will be released from the Illinois state
penitentiary.
The Canadian parliamentary miner
al committee has decided to investi
gate the operations of the so-called
| nickel trust. The company Is con.
trolled by American capital.
President Taft won half victory
in the Republican caucus to select the
house members of the Balltnger-P1n
chot Investigating committee. He had
the name of Mr.. Rainey OF Illinois
one of the Democratic caucus nomi'
nees. taken off the list of the members
Of that committee. Also the "insur'
gent" Republicans won half victory.
| They succeeded in keeping on the
committee Mr.. James of Kentucky. to
whom the. president also objected.
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their death in a panic caused by a
fire In the four-story factory building
at Philadelphia. Five others received
probably fatal injuries and many more
were less seriously hurt. Nearly all
of the dead and severely injured were
employed in the shirtwaist factory OF
Joseph Chachkin.
Revolving conditions Of white
slavery" among Chinese restaurant
and laundry men Of Michigan have
been revealed through the arrest Of
two young Battle Creek girls In a
Chinese joint at Ann Arbor. One war
rant. for Lem 10y of Saginaw, was
| issued, while others will follow. Both
girls have confessed to depravity 80
disgusting as to be unprintable.
Speculative manipulation In the
| stock OF the Columbus & Hooking
Coal &. Iron Company, overreached It,
self with the result that two strong
financial houses, Lathrop, Haskins &
Co., and ]. M. Fiske & Co., were
forced to the wall and at least one, II
not three others are tottering on the
brink of ruin. The failure of the two
firms means a loss estimated at from
100000 to 100000 to the mem.
bers of the firms and their customers.
New York State Comptroller Clark
William has begun proceedings to
have the estates of George Smith, the
Chicago millionaire, and his nephew,
James Henry Smith, known in Wall
street as Silent" Smith, reappraised
on the charge that the executors
have attempted to defraud the state
out of the transfer tax on $1,263,481.
Charges that Secretary of the In.
terror Ballinger had been involved in
petty grating for the benefit of a
member of his family were filed by
Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska
in a statement addressed to the house
committee on expenditures.
The committee of the University of
Copenhagen has completed its final
examination of DR.. Frederick A.
Cooks original notes and confirmed
its previous conclusions that not the
slightest proof that the explorer
reached the north pole had been sub.
mitted. ... ..@ .- ...
A bill was filed in the circuit court
alleging that John C. Fetzer, a prom
inent Chicago flnancier; Benjamin
Thomas, former president of the Chi
cago & Western Indiana Railroad
Company, and Charles r. Kappes, q
former real estate agent of the com
pany, had defrauded, through the
manipulation of series of real es
tate deals, the Chicago & Western In
diana Railroad Company out of $3.50.
600.
} Even behind the bars in the fedora
prison at Fort Leavenworth the pow
erful influences that kept John r
Walsh out of cell for two years aft
er he was proved felon have pre-
vailed. John r. Walsh, convict No
1851. is enjoying practically every
luxury that was enjoyed by Walsh
the possessor of $40.000.000 and ar
income that could satisfy the wishes
of any human being.
Eight-cent milk for New York city Il
} expected as the result of the stat,
investigation of milk prices conduct
ed there. ..t.
9 The Republicans of the house elect
: ed James T. Lloyd of Missouri and Oh
lie M. James of Kentucky, Democra