Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-04-14

in the Pittsburg councilmanic briber!
affair when Max G.. Leslie, Delinquent
tax collector of Allegheny county ant
the leading Republican county politi
clan, was named as briber by the
judge.
Men interested in the upbuilding Of
the navy and its maintenance at q
high point of efficiency, gathered al
Philadelphia for the annual meeting
of the Navy League Of the United
States.
Mrs. Catharine Bomgardner, wife Of
a well-known plumber, was shot by
her husband, John w. Bomgardner, in
mistake for a burglar at their home
in Harrisburg, Pa, and died in a few
hours.
That 10000 persons are starving in
Armenia. and will die unless outside
help reaches them before the next
harvest season, two months hence. is
! the statement made in cablegram re,
ceived at New York by the Armenian
Relief association.
After tramping from New Orleans
to San Francisco in search of his two
daughters, Frank Schaum, SO years
old, has been promised aid by officials
of the California city.
Five daring bandits, sheriff and a
large posse and a town marshal fig.
ured in a spectacular, chase which re-
suited in the capture of three men fol.
lowing an explosion of nitroglycerin
which destroyed the bank at Coal
City, ILL.,, aroused the entire town and
Melted the burglars almost $4,000 in
money and stamps. The bandits en-
tered the town on a passing freight
train and began operations by tying
the night Waterman and the night en-
gineer Of the electrical plant. Three
of the bandits were seriously wounded
In fight with a posse and the other
two were arrested at Joliet.
Senator Lodge has introduced a bill
which provides that perishable food
supplies kept in storage longer than
one year shall be considered adulter-
ated and that such foods taken from
storage and wrongly labeled shall be
regarded as misbranded under the
meaning of the pure food law.
Empress Alexandra of Russia in
| attending the reception to American
Ambassador Rockhill at st. Peters
burg, furnishes denial of alarming re-
ports of her illness.
| Ten men were buried under wreck
age when the roof of barn belonging
to the Shore Line Trolley company
fell at Saybrook. Conn. No one was
killed.
Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son
OF the kaiser, opened the Kaiserin Au-
gusta Victoria Foundation, a hospice
for sick Germans, on the Mount of
Olives, at Jerusalem.
A terrific explosion occurred on the
British steamer Cairnrona off Dunge-
ness, Eng, which wrecked the wom-
ems quarters, killing one child and in
Juring number Of women and chill
dren. The steamer caught fire and a
panic ensued, in which men fought for
the possession of the boats and had to
be beaten back by the crew to allow
the women to be taken off first About
1000 passengers, mostly Russian emf
sells and were landed at Dover.
The marriage of Miss Eleanor But
Ter Alexander and Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr, Will take place on June 20, in the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church.
and will be followed by large recep-
ton which will be given by Miss Alex
ander's mother
Several prominent ecclesiastics who
were received by the pope managed
to introduce the subject of the Roose-
welt incident To these the pontiff ex-
pressed the deepest regret that he had
been prevented from meeting the
former president, but he gave utter.
ance to no opinion regarding the me-
EQUATIONS or the deadlock that fol-
| lowed.
A passenger train on the Louisville
q Nashville railroad, between Atlanta
and Cincinnati, ran into an open
switch at Saxton. KY. William Ru-
dolph, the engineer, was killed, but
none OF the passengers was hurt.
Nearly 100000 gallons of water,
descending from a reservoir in High
land park. Pittsburg, Pa, tore great
gulches in fine boulevards and flooded
many homes in the immediate vicinity.
Capt. James c. Gilmore, commander
or the cruiser Maryland, confirms the
report of the accident aboard that
vessel April 2 in Pacific waters and
adds that one man, who was scalded,
Is dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at
Spezia, Italy, and Immediately started
on carriage drive over the route to
Genoa, which they traversed on their
honeymoon. American newspaper
correspondents who accompanied Mr.
Roosevelt from Khartum promised, al
the former presidents request. that
they Will respect the privacy of this
sentimental journey. The carriage
drive from Spezia to Genoa, a dis
lance of 65 miles, will occupy the
greater part of three days.
The Pittsburg grand jury indicted
Frank N. Hoffstot, millionaire presi.
dent OF the German National bank OF
Allegheny and president of the
Pressed Steel Car company on charges
OF bribery and conspiracy. President
Emil Winter of the Workingman's
Savings Bank and Trust company OF
Allegheny. crept to the bar of justice
to confess that he had bribed council
men to the extent of 100000.
W. H. Merritt & Co., one of Chi
cago's oldest and most conservative
of the grain shipping and elevator
houses, announced their suspension
Their liabilities are 100000 and theil
assets s350,000.