Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-12-01

them were Killed outright.
Three persons were shot and wound.
ed. one seriously, and many others
narrowly escaped being struck by bul.
let's In riot at Chicago caused by
striking garment workers. who attack
ed non-union employeea Bricks were
also thrown.
Twenty suffragettes who were ar
rested for smashing windows In the
British government effices In London
were sentenced to two months Inn
prisonment each.
Record-breaking exhibits and crowds
marked the opening of the Interna-
uonal Live Stock exposition in Chi
cago.
The government of Brazil yielded
to its mutinous navy. Congress-, meet
ing In extraordinary session. voted to
concede every demand Of the ulti-
matum presented by the sailors, in
GLIDING general amnesty for the men
who, after numbering as many of their
superior officers as was necessary to
place them in complete control,
trained the guns OF the warships on
the capital. a .-..... .
President Taft struck an effectuh
blow in favor of publicity of the af-
fairs of corporations when he APP
proved the rules OF the secretary Of
the treasury under which all returns
made under the corporation tan law
shall be available to the public
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c. l. Ewing and Joseph e. Buker
were indicted by the grand Jury at
Chicago In connection with frauds
said to have been praetised against
the Illinois Central railroad. The In
dictments charge conspiracy to OBJ
tain money by means Of false pre-
lenses Each defendants bond Is
fixed at $4,000.
The lives Of 800 passengers on train
No. 6 of the St Panl road. bound to
Chicago, hung In the balance when
Michael Crowley. the engineer, was
stricken with apoplexy at his post and
died as the train was running at the
rate of forty miles an hour.
Secretary Dickinson left Washing
ton for his old home at Nashville,
Tenn, where his son, ]. Overton Dick
inson, died from heart failure.
The most valuable shipment Of
grain ever carried across the great
lakes started from Fort William, Ont.
on the steamer Ireland, one of the big
American freighters. The cargo con-
sists Of 241 900 bushels of max. valued
at $5S3,228. s.-
Postmaster General Hitchcock says
in connection with the arrest Of J. w.
knight Of Knight, Yancy & Co. OF De-
catur, Ala, that the operations OF the
cotton brokerage concern through sup
posedly fraudulent, use of the mails
would exceed $1.0oo.oo0.
Fire destroyed Young's hotel. Win
throp Beach. Mass. Mrs. John c.
Beggs and her son, John c. Beggs,
Jr., seventeen years old. jumped from
a window and were SO seriously in
jured they are likely 10 die.
Two italian boys Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
have disappeared and demands for S.
900 ransom for each. under threat of
beheading the lads, have been re-
ceived.
A statement which may be of vital
Importance to DR.. b Clark Hyde, in
connection with his appeal from the
decision Of the Kansas City (Mo.)
court. which sentenced him to life i'm
prisonment for the murder Of Col. T.
H. Swope, has been made by John Ed
gerton of Helena. Mont Edgerton
says he sent Hyde two pounds Of
cyanide. Hyde was unable TO account
for his possession Of the poison.
Charles Leathers, once prosperous
merchant Of Glasford. Ill. shot and
killed his supposed wife. Anna Leath-
ers, at the home of Harry Willis In
Peoria and then committed suicide.
The Edward Hines Lumber company
of Chicago has purchased the entire
properties OF the St. Croix Lumber
company of Winton, Mimi. including
standing pine owned by the firm, for
$4,000. 900.
Advices from Mexico received in
Washington through diplomatic and
business channels, while confirming
In part the reports of insurgent vic,
tories In the early stages Of the revolt
indicate that the government OF Presi
dent Diaz has the situation well in
hand. The general expectation is that
the struggle win be short.
Augustine Birrell, the veteran CHIEF
secretary for ireland. was the victim
of a most vicious assault on the part
of the London militant suffragettes
MT. Birrell is confined to his bed un
der the care of physicians. He was
badly kicked and beaten. and has beer
forced to cancel all immediate private
and official engagements. He was Sc
| upon by the women as he was making
! his way through st. James park.
The annual convention of the Lakes
to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway associa
| ton opened In st. Louis with abou
5000 delegates present who we're de
termined to demand that the fedora
| government recognize and carry GU
their project.
| Octave Chanute. the real father o
aviation and the heavier than air fly
ing machines. died at his home II
Chicago. Mr.. Chanute. who was neal
ly seventy-nine years old, had bee
Ill for some time.
Francisco Madero. the Mexican re,
olutionary leader. fell from his hors
badly wounded during an engagement
at Guerrero between his forces an
200 government rurales and calvary
men. This is the news brought I
Customs Collector Dove at Eagl
Pass, Tex. by the Mexican command
er in Ciudad Porfirio Diaz.
Attachi ent suits aggregating 81
275.6S have been file' In St Loui
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