Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-16

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Longworth, he sailed from Southamp
ton on the Hamburg American line
steamer Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
The steamer is due at quarantine on
the night of June IL, but the former
president will not land In New York
until the following morning.
| The mutilated body of Mrs. Porter
Carlton, wife of Porter Carlton, son
of Judge of Washington, was found
in a trunk by fishermen in lake
near the village of Moltrasio, Italy.
After the discovery of the body search
| was made for Carlton, but he was
found to have disappeared. An ex-
Russian postal official named Con-
stantin Ispolatoff was arrested, how
ever, on suspicion of having been an
accomplice in the murder.
In order to obtain possession OF
dutiable property a party of Chicago
and Kenosha women, headed by Mrs.
c. w. Allen, will have to pay $4,000,
according to statements of New York
customs officers.
An electric storm swept over the
southern states, one man losing his
life in the food at Fort Smith, Ark.
Permission has been refused to
Oscar Hammerstein, the impresario
of New York, to visit Russia. 1t was
Mr.. Hammerstein's intention to go to
st. Petersburg to engage Russian
dancers.
The Chinese government has de-
creed that English shall be the official
language for scientific and technical
education in that country, according
to reports which reached New York.
Plunging in his automobile through
the open draw of the Superior viaduct
at Cleveland, o., into the bank of the
Cuyahoga river, 80 feet below, Fred
r. Blee, an automobile dealer, was in
stantly killed.
For what he believes to have been a
reflection on his personal integrity
made by Congressman F. Burton Har.
rison of New York in newspaper in
terview growing out of the debate on
the Ballinger-Pinchot affair, the presi-
dent bluntly refused to see Harrison
in the executive Offices. Harrison
called with a delegation of prominent
men Of New York who desired to
shake hands with the president.
A message of felicitation to Presi-
dent Taft, the adoption of platform
strongly indorsing the national admin
istration, the selection of William d.
Conner of Marshfield as state chair.
man, the choosing of campaign COM
mittee Of % members, or two from
business transacted at the closing
days session of the conservative Re.
publican state convention of Wiscon-
sin.
The conference report on the river
and harbor bill, containing the pro-
vision for the lakes-to-gulf deep water.
way survey, was adopted in the SEN
ate by a vote of As to II, and also
was adopted in the house.
Indictments against Mrs. jeanette
Stewart Ford, leading figure in the
trial Of Charles L. Warmer, now
serving a term in the Ohio peniten-
tiary for confessed embezzlement,
have been dismissed at Cincinnati.
Official dispatches from Managua,
Nicaragua, state that the war Is fast
reducing western Nicaragua to a
state of panic. The expectation of
fruit products has been prohibited
and money exchange Is rapidly in
creasing.
The postal savings bank bill passed
the house by vote of 1872 to 113, re-
ceiving "a Democratic votes, al
though it was a Republican caucus
measure. This is the last of the
presidents legislative measures to
have to pass the house at this ses-
sion-the last, at least, that the pres
ident will insist on.
In deporting William Peterson, who
reached New York, the authorities
held that as he had only his pen to
depend upon for living, he was un.
desirable. Peterson lived in New York
for II years, but did not take out
naturalization papers. He was return
luS lTOIQ WISH 10 DSumdIh.
A course of lectures on agriculture
is being delivered in the New York
Tombs in order to induce prisoners to
lead better life.
The British steamer Metis reached
port having on board Miss Elizabeth
Ericsson, her father, Capt. P. A.
Ericsson, and nine men of the crew
Of the barkentine Good News of Phil
adelphia, who were picked UP $50
miles out on the Atlantic after q
three-days' fight for life in two small
boats.
AT the first shot fired against the
American flag on an American vessel
/ will level the bluff" This was the
reply made by Commander Hines,
commanding the American. gunboat
Dubuque, to threat made by General
Rivas of the Madriz force holding
Bluefields bluff, to stop by force any
vessel of whatever nationality enter.
ing the harbor.
Miss Margaretta Drexel, only daugh.
ter Of Anthony J. Drexel Of Philadel.
phia, was married to Viscount Maid
stone, eldest SON Of the earl Of Winch
elsea and Nottingham, in London.
According to information given
from the rooms of Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, the suffragist leader, who re
Gently went under an operation, she
has passed the crisis of her illness.
Hiram Goddard, a wealthy lumber
man of La Crosse, Wis, died after al
illness of three months. He wa!
seventy-four years old.
Damage of thousands OF dollars b,
frost is reported from Worcester