Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-09-15

Boston. Mr.. Bowers has been con
sidered the probable choice for one
of the vacant places on the Supreme
court.
There is too much hysteria abroad
in the country. Let your watchword
be Down with the demagogue and up
with the patriot Thus spoke
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president of the United States, to the
survivors Of the Mexican war. at their
reunion at Indianapolis.
At the opening of the trial Of DR..
Hawley H. Crippen Ii London, who is
charged with the murder of his wife,
Belle Gilmore, the prosecution an
nounced that large quantities OF
poison had been found in the wom-
| ans body and that there were evil
dences that she had been subjected
to an operation.
Vice-President Elias Fernandez AL
bano, acting president of Chile, since
the death of President Montt. died
suddenly from an attack of heart
| failure.
umbus, O., has handed down its deci-
cion in the cases of 33 patrolmen who
were dismissed for refusal to do GER
tain riot duty and refuses to grant
the mutineers the privilege of rein
statement.
Mrs. w. J. DENIAL and her three
daughters-Marie, aged eight; Ethel,
aged three, and baby, aged one
were drowned in the Licking river.
near Cincinnati.
BLACK Hand" representatives from
New York city are accused of the
murder of Arthur Rovolino and his
six children in Pallaro, Italy.
The Gesang SEXTON of the Turn
verein Germania of Los Angeles. Cal.
was awarded the $4,000 gold cup
given by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany
for the best singing in the Pacific
saengerfest in San Francisco, which
held its first festival for three days
last week
The California legislature met in
special session to finance an interna-
tional exposition to be held at San
Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the
opening Of the Panama canal
Two negroes were lynched, one ia
tally wounded and two escaped, after
they had been discovered in a plot to
murder the family of a planter near
Athens, Ca. and rob and burn his
house.
Mayor Gaynors committee has dis.
covered that the average working
mans wage in New York city is $685.
and that 1t costs $3.50 a year for a
moderate-sized family to live prop
| erly.
Caught in an attempt to commit ar
son, murder and an attack, five ne
groes were lynched in an isolated part
OF Clarke county, Georgia, by infuria-
ted neighbors of the family against
whom the negroes had plotted
The four years, war between organ
lied labor and Bucks Stove and Range
| company of st. Louis was formally
ended when an agreement was signed
by representatives of both sides In
conference. The st. Louis unions will
unionize the plant.
Condemnation of the course of Sec.
rotary Ballinger in the administration
| of the department of the interior, and
declaration that he should no long.
er be retained in that Office, are con.
tanned in a resolution adopted by five
members of the Ballinger-Pinchot in.
vestigating committee. These five
four Democrats and one Republican,
assert that their vote is binding upon
the committee as a whole. This, how.
ever, is disputed by the other three
members of the committee, who at.
tended the meeting at Minneapolis.
Admission on the witness stand by
F. H. Niles, president of the Blue
Island Car company, that bills for the
reconstruction Of the Blue Island Car
Repair company's plant were paid out
of the extras" charged on padded
car-repair bills for the Illinois Contra
railroad, caused a sensation during
the hearing of the Illinois Contra.
graft charges before Judge Brugge
meyer at Chicago.
Holding a Bible in his right hand
and declaring the jury must choos
between the book of God and the
clustered tongue of perjury of Charles
| A. White and Sidney and Otis Var
borough" Attorney Patrick H. O'Don
nell concluded the battle at Chicago
to save Lee O'Neill Browne, Democrat
ic minority leader at Springfield from
prison cell.
DR.. Wayne Hatfield, a nephew OF
Devil Anse" Hatfield, the nefarious
feudist, was shot and killed by a six
teen-year-old boy named BlankenshiI
ten miles from Wharncliffe, w. Va.
The Connecticut Democrats in stat,
convention nominated a state tickle,
headed by Simeon E. Baldwin TO,
governor. The platform declares i,
favor of an extension of the free lis
and reduction of many of the tariff
rates in that law.
Upon the conclusion of States At
torney Wayman's closing address tn,
case of Lee O'Neil Browne at Chicago
charged with bribery in connection
with the election of William Lorimei
to the United States senate, was Civ
en- to the jury.
Forty-four thousand Illinois coal mi
ners will resume work at once aftel
an idleness of more than five months
as a result of an agreement reached
between the officials of the mine
workers and the Illinois Coal Oper
ators' association at Chicago. Prac
tically every demand of the men hal
been granted.
An explosion of fuel oil and the en-