Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-07

Trust company of New York, Of which
| he was formerly president, was SEN
fenced to Sing Sing prison for not less
than four years and eight months. and
not more than eight years and eight
months.
Three persons were killed and two
seriously injured when an inbound
train wrecked an automobile at
grade crossing in San Berardino. Cal
| An express package containing $los-
600 was stolen from the office OF the
Canadian Northern Express company
at Regina. Manitoba. during the alb
sence of the clerk.
| Heads of all railroads operating In
Missouri have agreed to abolish COM
mon drinking cups on trains If the
state board of health makes the re-
quest.
New canals have appeared on Mars.
the Sabaeus, Sinus and Mareicarum.
! according to an announcement from
Lowell observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz.
They were seen and photographed No
vember q.
Charges OF collecting vice tribute
and permitting gambling and prize
fights have been filed against Mayor
A. r. Turnbull of Canton, Ohio, who
won his place by lot from Harry
Schilling. Socialist
| Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patterson
went on the witness stand at Denver
as the first witness in her own behalf
and told the Jury Of her life with
Charles A. Patterson. She testified
that sne shot him after he had knock
ed her down and kicked her. She also
told of the trip she made to Paris with
Emil Strouss, the millionaire Chicago
clothier. Her testimony followed
closely the stories she has related of
that incident In her life with Patter-
son.
Neither Edward Hines, lumberman.
nor Edward Tilden, packer, was the
custodian of 100000 fund nor any
other fund which was to be used to
pay the expenses of William Lori
mer to the United States senate" &C
cording to experts reports submitted
to the senatorial investigating commit
tee at Chicago
Every paid official of q labor union
in the United States and Canada was
asked by the American Federation of
Labor convention In session at Allan
ia, Ca, to contribute one weeks
wages to the fund for the defense Of
the Mcnamara brothers.
The epidemic of hog cholera over
Kansas and Missouri is declared by
men who have observed the disease to
be the worst In many years.
New York bankers who have been
comforting with representatives Of the
governors conference and the South
crn Cotton congress announce that
they had raised fund Of 100000 900
to be placed Immediately in the cotton
belt states for the purpose of handling
the cotton crop Of 1911 and enabling
growers to participate In any rise in
the market
Personal
Detroit was selected as the meeting
place of the 1912 convention OF the
American Bankers association. The,
time of the next convention will be
named by the executive council ct its
meeting In the spring.
Harold Kountze. son Of the late
Charles Kountze of Denver. will re-
ceive 80 per cent. Of his fathers inter
est In the New York brokerage Arm
of Kountze Brothers. The Kountze
estate is estimated at t10.000.000
Surrounded by flowers and the con.
gratulatory messages Of ohcial and per
sonal friends. United States Senator
Shelby M. Cullom Of Illinois celebrated
at Washington the eighty-second ami
versary of his birth.
A new organization known as the
Aeronautical Society Of Women has
been launched in New York. Women
aviators and would-be aviators are
qualified for active membership.
The will of Horatio Victor Newcomb.
former president of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad and thirty years ago
dominant figure In Wall street, leaves
his $4,000 estate to his nurse. Miss
Jeanne La Roe.
George b. Cox, president Of the Gin
cinnati CO., Trust company, an
nounced that his bank has consolidat-
ed with the Prevalent Savings Bank
and Trust company of that city, and
stated that he has retired from the
banking business. as 1t is "a hard
game"
Illinois State Grange, was elected ma
tional master Of the National Grange
at Columbus. o.
Former United States Senator John
F. Dryden. president Of the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance company. died at
his home In Newark. N. j.. following
an operation.
Mrs. Hetty Green. the richest wom-
an in the world. celebrated her seven
ty-seventh birthday In New York city