Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-10-20

The United States, the greatest cor
ton-producing country Of the world
imported in the fiscal year 1910 SO,
,037,691 pounds of raw cotton. valued
at $1s,S16,13S, the second largest
years importation of cotton in the his
tory of the country.
The United States embassy in
Paris was endangered when power
full dynamite bomb was placed near
the building, but was discovered and
removed in time to prevent an ex-
plosion. The police attribute the at
tempted outrage to anarchists, who
sought to put new life into the appar-
emily dying railroad strike.
The French government is meeting
the situation resulting from the gen.
eral strike of railroad employees with
firmness that challenges the admira.
ton even Of those who sympathize
with the men in their demands for q
minimum wage Of 81 day. Five of
the most influential strike leaders
have been placed under arrest.
President Taft assisted Boston In
the observation of the first formal
recognition of Columbus day, by re-
viewing with Governor Draper the big
military and civic procession in that
city. For an hour and half the pres
ident stood on his lame foot and
watched the $4,000 enthusiastic para
ders march past. Then he was COM
PEELED to give up.
Another great slide has developed
in the east bank of the Culebra cut of
the Panama canal at Bas Obispo,
where a quantity of rock estimated at
$4,000 cubic yards is slowly moving
toward the canal prism. This slide Is
95 feet above the sea level and the
break follows the lines of a fault in
| the rock.
Willard Sc Grue, aged fifteen. and
Joseph Pendegast, aged sixteen, both
said to be of Chicago families, were
taken from a freight car In the Fort
Wayne railroad yards in Pittsburg. II
! had been sealed at Elkhart, Ind, five
days ago.
Benjamin J. Duveen, one of the resi-
dent managers of Duveen Brothers of
ers and importers In America, was
arrested on bench warrant charging
him and the other members of the
| firm with systematically swindling the
United States government out of Gus
toms that run high up into the mil
lions.
Richard A. Ballinger, secretary OF
the interior, was one Of the IL passen.
gers who were more or less seriously
injured in the wreck of two passenger
trains which met in head-on collision
in the outskirts of Cincinnati. Secre-
tary Ballinger's injuries consisted OF
only severe shaking up and a slight
ly bruised left arm.
Theodore Roosevelt plunged into the
Indiana campaign with a trip across
the state, in which he made vigor-
Gus plea for votes to send. United
States Senator Albert ]. Beveridge
back to the senate.
The first case Of Asiatic cholera has
appeared in England. A man who
lived in one of the Rowton houses, in
London, a series Of poor mans ho-
tells" died in public hospital.
Wilson R. Evans, receiving teller Of
the Farmers and Merchants bank,
Los Angeles, CAL, has not returned
| from his vacation and officers of the
bank estimate he is short $4,000.
Contending his party loyalty had
| been questioned through the failure of
Ezra p. Prentice, the new chairman of
the Republican state committee. to re-
| appoint him a member of the execu-
| tive committee of the state committee,
William Barnes, Jr., of Albany, N. Y.
has rendered his resignation as state
committeeman.
The strike of the railroad men,
which threatens to spread throughout
the length and breadth of France, was
denounced by Premier BRAND as IAN
insurrection purely. built upon GRIM
inal foundations" The premier de-
clared the strike was called while ne
gotiations were going on through him
self and the minister of public works
for an adjustment of grievances.
St Paul and Minneapolis business
men have decided to ask Governor
Eberhart to appeal for a 100000 re.
lief fund for the forest fire sufferers.
II will be several days before the ac-
tual loss of life in the fires is known.
The known dead number SO. The
higher figures given out at various
points in the fire zone undoubtedly re-
suited from many Implications OF re-
ports of bodies found.
! Application was made by the Grand
Trunk Pacific railway to the British
Columbia government for permission
to employ Chinese on the railroad.
The request was not granted.
Fire rangers through the Minnesota
fire-swept zone report that they have
recovered 139 bodies of those who
lost their lives in the forest flames.
Sixty of the bodies have been identi-
fed Most of them were homestead
ers near Spooner and Baudette. The
estimated toll of death is now placed
between $50 and 200.
Baron Hengelmueller Won Henger-
var, Austro-Hungarian ambassador to
the United States, will be one of the
five new members about to be nomi-
mated for the house Of magnates at
Budapest.
An order has been issued at Pal
mer, Mass. that there shall be no
more tub bathing until the town in
creases its water supply by means of
artesian wells.
A suspicious appearing Portuguese.
who came direct from Lisbon. is under
arrest at Gibraltar. Since the man
has been in custody special precau.
tions have been taken to guard King
Manuel. as 1t is feared an attempt to
assassinate the exiled monarch may