Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-02
The standard on company has in

| creased the wages OF its workmef
from 6 to 10 per cent The order 10
retroactive and became effective May
l. 1t is estimated that the company
will add from se,0O0.OO0 10 $4,000, DOC
to its annual pay roll expense. The
new scale affects employees engaged
In the company's works and factories,
but the Office men will not be bene
flied by this increase. Most OF the
employees who will get the increase
are laborers, and the advance applies
TO all the subsidiary companies in the
| United States. The company has ap
proximately 10000 employees. The
| Standard is one of the very few big
| concerns Of this country which has
never had a strike among its employ
ees.
Oliver Splitter, former superlntend
ent of the docks of the American Sugar
Refining company in Williamsburg, ex.
, planned in court at New York why he
did not confess during the trial which
ended last February with his being
sentenced to two years at Atlanta
Such confession, he declared, would
have carried him to a cemetery" In
other words, he would have implicated
dead man. Henry o. Havemeyer, late
head Of the sugar trust.
After he had moved the grass on
his own burial lot in preparation for
Memorial day at Battle Creek, Mich,
William E. Painless, seventy-five
years Of old, fell dead, rake in hand.
Commissioners of the Presbyterian
general assembly at Atlantic City, N.
j., object to Speaker Cannon having
the power of appointing the proposed
federal commission for the investiga-
ton of the liquor traffic in the United
States.
Motion for a new trial for DR.. Hal
dane Cleminson, convicted Of the muir.
der Of his wife, was overruled by
Judge McSurley at Chicago. A motion
In arrest OF judgment was granted and
sentence deferred to allow appeal.
A union Of washerwomen has been
formed at Orange, N. j., with a mem
bership of 300. The officers announce
that the standard of wages will be
raised from $1.25 to 81 a day and
the hours of labor will be reduced
from nine to eight.
Illness of a son of H. Clay Pierce in
st. Louis prevented Pierce from be-
ing present to testify in the custer
filed by Attorney General West of
Oklahoma against the Waters-Pierce
Oil company and the case was con-
tinued until June Ii.
After falling four stories down an
elevator shaft and landing In four
feet of water. in which he was nearly
drowned, John ]. Sloggart, carpen-
ter OF New York city, escaped with a
broken arm and many scratches.
AS result of what the Chicago
police charge was a fight among
thieves over the division Of their
spells, one man was shot and killed,
another is believed to have been
wounded. and third is under arrest.
Bitten by his pet dog, which he had
been teasing. Jackson Edwards, seven
ty-four years old, of Denver Col, be-
came alarmed over the thought that
later he was dead.
Beaten by woman with cuspidor
and a rollingpin, Louis Gratch, a
burglar, fell out of a third-story win
dow in a New York house which he
had entered and was dashed to death.
Belle Moore, the negress convicted
in New York of placing two girls for
immoral purposes, was sentenced to
the Auburn prison for women for not
less than two years and six months
nor more than five years.
States Attorney Magill has sum-
moned an army Of witnesses in the
Rock Island Qll.) grand jury investi-
cation of fraternal insurance scandals.
1t is now said that $4,000 members of
the societies involved are affected BIZ
the alleged entertainments. The states
attorney feels confident that indict-
ments and convictions will follow the
grand jury investigation.
James A. Patten was forced to take
the count" in one of the liveliest boxts
he has ever had with the bears on the
Chicago board of trade. The big spec
ulator acknowledged defeat by
throwing on the market sever
al million bushels of September
wheat at quotations said to aver.
age fully ten cents bushel under the
purchase price. Many of his follow
ers likewise suffered losses which in
the aggregate amounted to a large
sum.
Word received at New York from
Atlanta, Ga, indicates that Charles
w. Morse, the convict banker, is i'll
and has been removed to the hospital
of the federal prison. He Is said to be
suffering from kidney trouble.
Fire destroyed the downtown car
barns of the City Railway company at
Des Moines, Ia, burning 20 street cars
and Gripping the service The loss is
100000.
Because she refused to give her age
to the census taker, Miss Sarah E..
Peck, head of the normal department
of Union college, has been indicted by
grand jury in the United States
| district court at Lincoln, Neb.
James M. Anderson, formerly con-
fidential secretary to Emil Winter,
president of the Workingmen's sa-
wings Bank and Trust company of Pitts
burg. who pleaded nolle contendere In
the recent graft cases. was fined $3.50
and costs. He was alleged to have
mutilated the banks books.
Thousands of persons marching in
double file or either side of the cata-
falque on which rests the coffin of Ed.
ward VII. passed through Westminster
hall, and when the doors were closed