Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-24
NEWS OF A week IN
CONDENSED FORM
kEcoRD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
At HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered From All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
Washington
. c. ROSS, Publisher.

Washington
After three hours of bitter debate
the house, by a vote of 227 to 129.
failed to pass the Underwood-La Fol.
Iette wool revision bill over Presi-
dent Taft's veto. The farmers free
hist bill also failed to pass over the
executive disapproval by a vote Of
f26 to 1877. II requires two-thirds
majority to pass a measure over
veto.
DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, chief OF the
bureau OF chemistry, created sensa-
ton before the house investigating
committee when he charged that
three cabinet officers, sitting as a
board OF review, had reversed the gov
ernment's ruling In the Corn Porducts
case after the corporation had offered
money to chemists to indorse its food
produce.
President Taft vetoed the Under
wood wool tariff bill. The special mes
sage to congress, setting forth his rea-
sons for disapproval. declares he is
not convinced the measure provides
the remedies sought.
President Taft laid before the
American people the issues between
himself and the senate regarding the
arbitration treaties with France and
Great Britain in speech delivered be-
lore 10000 at the Methodist camp
meeting at Ocean Grove, N. J. His ap-
peal was received with the greatest
demonstration Of approval that the
president has experienced In many
months.
Solicitor McCabe Of the department
pf agriculture appeared before the
Moss investigating committee on his
pwn request to deny the implied
charge made by Doctor Kebler that
McCabe prohibited scientists Of the
bureau of chemistry from talking with
members of congress.
Another comprehensive congress
tlOudi lufeSli6dtlOu, thAo tiAhO AHsS sA~
AFFAIRS of the international Harvester
company. will be under way during the
next regular session Of congress II
resolution introduced by Representa-
live Foster of Illinois is passed by the
house. 1t asks an inquiry by commit
tee of nine members of the house, to
be chosen in the same way as the com.
mittees of inquiry into the so-called
steel and sugar trusts.
A resolution providing for an inves.
tigation OF the election Of Senator
Stephenson of Wisconsin was adopted
by the senate The action was for
mality necessitated by technical
error some days ago In passing SINH
lar resolution without reference to the
contingent expenses committee.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of Cap. Bradley A,
Fiske, u. s. N. to be rear admiral
Domestic
Mrs. Marjorie. Burnes Love is a
-four flusher" and she deserted her
husband because he had lost his
money when his brokerage concern
went to the wall, according to Sidney
c. Loves attorney, who argued at
Baker, Ore, against the granting OF a
divorce to her.
No.. r,or rara LiIlad four fatally
injured and half hundred disabled
N an explosion that wrecked the Ill
Inois Steel company's plant at Jol-
et, Ill A ladle Of molten metal was
overturned on the wet floor Of the
foundry. The explosion which result
sy blew Off the roof of the building
Thirty-six persons were injured as
he result of smash-up which oc-
,urred when Big Four train No. 46
was ditched near the Ohio State hos
pital as It was entering Columbus.
Ellis Bartholomew Of Toledo. o.,
formerly president of seven banks.
was released from the Leavenworth
nc cCtNCu 10 hOulub
for misuse of the mails.
Mrs. Thomas Pettigrew of Lions
Head, Ontario. strangled her son and
daughter, aged twelve and ten years,
and then hanged herself in the
kitchen. She had been in poor health
and is believed to have lost her
mind.
Utopia seems at last to have been
found In a Virginia summer resort At
Virginia Beach the town council has
sounded the virtue Of the community
and, finding nothing to condemn. has
voted unanimously to abolish the po-
lice department on September l.
Joseph Ribs is under arrest In
Brooklyn charged with double muir
der committed In a dispute over the
possession of a two-year-old baby He
shot and killed the child's parents,
MIR. and Mrs. Rosco Debasco. and
wounded their nineteen-year-old son.
Announcement is made of the birth
of a son to Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher
Columbus Wilson. Mr.. Wilson is the
convicted head OF the United Wire
less Telegraph company and is fight
ing to escape three-year sentence
To the Atlanta penitentiary.