Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-10-02
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News Events
Washington
The speedy enactment of labor leg
islation now pending in five bills be-
fore congress was urged upon Presi-
dent Wilson by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
The tariff conferees at Washington
agreed ON $4,000 as the amount of in
come of single man that shall be
free from the income tax. For a mar
ried man the exemption will be $4,-
900, with no further exemption for
$4,000 will be allowed for family, |
even though the husband and wife
have separate incomes.
President Wilson took the position |
that the policy Of moral suasion |
adopted by the United States toward |
Mexico had accomplished its two |
cardinal purposes-to obtain assur-
ances there would be a constitutional |
election and Provisional President |
Huerta would not be candidate to |
succeed himself.
Secretary Daniels has ordered the |
regular elementary academic course at
naval training stations extended from
three to four months. He will extend
the course to six months for excep-
tional cases Of apprentices, who are
backward in their studies and to help
those who have chosen special tech
nical work.
BY a rule promulgated by Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury Downey all army
and naval officers when travelling with
out troops must pay for the transporta-
ton OF their personal baggage out of
their seven cents mileage allowed by
the government.
The department of agriculture will
hold a public hearing at Washington
October 20 to give persons interested
in the commercial grading Of Ameri-
can corn an opportunity to express
their views on tentative grades OF corn
before standard federal grades for CON-
mercial corn are definitely fixed by
the department.
Domestic
What is said to be the largest ship
ment of corn received from South
America for more than two years ar.
| rived in New York when a steamship
put in with cargo of 1900 tons of
shelled corn from Buenos Aires.
Navigation on the Yukon and White
Horse rivers is expected to close early
next month. The last shipments OF
freight for Dawson this season has
/, left Vancouver.
The members of the National Base
ball commission met at Philadelphia
| and decided that the first game be-
| tween that club and the Philadelphia
American league team for the worlds
| championship shall be played In New
York on October Z. In making these
| arrangements the commission as
sumes that the Giants will win In the
National league.
The will Of William ]. Gaynor, late
mayor Of New York, leaves to the
widow his Brooklyn residence and 500
shares of Royal Baying Powder COM
pany stock. The rest, with the excep-
ton OF minor requests, is divided two
seventies to each of two sons and one
seventh to each of three unmarried
daughters. The value of the estate is
estimated at 100000. a.
Two men were stabbed. several 9TH
ers were injured by hurled paving
stones and 10 persons were arrested at
St. Louis as result of the resumption
Of street fighting between striking gar
ment makers and strike breakers.
The tide of immigration from the
United States swept 1856 persons into
western Canada during the week ended
September 16, according to Canadian
government statistics.
Examination of the roster Of the
Eighth United States infantry for the
last ten yeats fails . reveal the name
of Private Arthur Reginald French,
who, through the death of his father
Baron de Freyne, at French Park,
County Roscommon, Ireland, succeeds
to the English peerage and inherits go
600 acres OF the "ould sod" Officials
RI the war department at Washington
believe the new peer may be enlisted
under an assumed name.
Criticism Of President Wilson's cur
rency reform plans took up most OF
the time at the opening session Of the
state bankers convention at Chicago.
Lawrence Y. Sherman, United States
senator, led the list Of critical speak.
ers.
Students routed from their beds and
formed into bucket brigades drove
flames from their own dormitories al
the University of Puget Sound, Taco
ma, Wash. but were unable to proven.
destruction of the college gymnasium
and the domestic science building.
The high financiers serving as direc-
tors of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad are guilty OF dere-
LECTION of duty. according TO the report
of the Interstate commerce commits,
sion on the Wallingford wreck al
Washington.
Primary elections in Massachusetts
resulted in the nomination of Angus
tus H. Gardner Of Hamilton as Repub
lican candidate for governor. The
Democratic candidate, David !. Walsh
NJ.