Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-26

4 dIo university are announced. Out
is from Henry r. Winthrop and the
other from Mrs. Edward N. Gibbs.
II a committee representing every
asylum in Michigan has any weight
with the state legislature, the word
asylum" will no longer be used in ref
erence to these state institutions. II
suggests the use OF hospital" and also
opposes the word insane"
1t is announced that King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy has subscribed
81 900 to the annual fund for the main.
tenance OF the proposed Verdi charity
schools for Italian immigrants In New
York city and, In addition, will send a
staff of 20 Italians to teach In the
schools.
The island town OF Port SAL SO
miles of the coast of Honduras, has
been taken by the revolutionary forces
under Manuel Bonilla, and an attack
upon Ceiba is expected at any time.
Protesting against certain decora
lions on the battleship Utah, Mrs. H
o. Owen In Washington spoke Of Brig,
ham Young as "treacherous rebel"
The Sangamon (Ill) county grand
jury has begun an investigation of the
charges of graft in Springfield city af.
fairs. A recent investigation shows a
shortage of $4,000.
A threat to withdraw from the
American Federation Of Labor was
embraced in resolution introduced at
the meeting of the United Mine Work
ers of America at Columbus, o. The
resolution declares that II the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor does not at
once take in the Western Federation
of Miners it shall break off all rela-
tics with the parent body.
A recommendation for the establish
ment by Massachusetts of school saw
ings banks, with the idea of encour-
aging children in the schools to form
the habit Of saving money is en-
bodied in the annual report of Bank
Commissioner Chaplin.
1t is announced that President Taft,
Governor Dix and Mayor Gaynor will
sit at the same table on the evening
of Washington's birthday as guests of
the Police Lieutenants' Benevolent
association at the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York.
Political corruption and vote selling
and buying In Vermillion county, ILL
nois, may be revealed as the result of
the calling OF half a dozen of the lead
ing bankers of Danville before the
grand jury to testify concerning the
$4,000 shortage of former County
Treasurer Hardy Whitlock, which
they, as bondsmen, made good.
The national board of trade, in ses-
sion at Washington, substantially in
dorsed the principles Of the Aldrich
plan of monetary reform by adopting
resolutions recommending a central
banking organization" State banks,
however, are included within the
membership of the proposed organiza-
ton.
The New York Central railroad has
discharged Albert Seagrove, the
motorman in charge Of the train
which knocked over a bumper and in
directly caused the explosion at the
Grand Central in New York, in which
eleven people were killed.
Upon the conclusion of the argu-
freight rates at Washington Chairman
Clements Of the interstate commerce
commission announced that the car.
riers had consented further to post.
pone the increases from February 1
to March Is, in order to afford the
deal with the great question presented.
One hundred and fifty-five panic
stricken children, aged from three to
ten, were saved from death by the
promptness of attendants and firemen
when the Susquehanna Valley home
at Binghamton. N. Y. burned.
The Japanese supreme court pub
licly sentenced at Tokyo twenty-three
men and one woman to death who
were charged with conspiring against
the throne and with forming a plot to
murder the crown prince and govern
ment officials OF the empire.
Champ Clark and Joseph A. Bailey
of Texas came into direct conflict at
the big Democratic conference at
Baltimore, and on the vital issue of
the tariff. Clark unqualifiedly de-
clared in favor of tariff revision by
Bailey demanded a straightforward
and complete revision In one compre-
hensive measure. .......
Governor Hay Of Washington has
ben notified by Secretary of State
Knox that the action of the Spokane
council In passing an ordinance bar.
ring aliens from employment on pub
lie work is in conflict with a treaty
between the United States and Italy.
The Callan automobile law, which
provides that a person who runs down
another with an automobile must stop
and give his name and address, is un.
constitutional, according to a ruling
by Justice Grain In New York.
This is the year for the seventeen
year locusts to appear. They are due
along the Atlantic seaboard from Vir-
ginia to New York, but DIR. Raymond
l.. Ditmars, curator Of the Bronx zoo,
said that he believed the Hudson
river would check the pest.
There is absolutely no proof in the
case, direct or indirect, from which a
legitimate inference could be drawn
that a single member of the general
assembly was corruptly influenced to
vote for Mr.. Lorimer." This was the
conclusion OF Senator Burrows in
speech in the senate at Washington
defending the right of Senator Lori
mer to his seat in the senate.
A playground institute for the mid
die west, covering the state Of Michi-
gan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
and Missouri, was opened in Detroit
under the auspices of the Playground
Association of America.
Confronted with tho nrocnact pf puh-