Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-27
Domestic

n mOFe W CREATE COIll1lSSluu VI
| rs leading business men of the state of
New York to study the state business
and recommend to the next constitu-
tional convention a system of manage
| ment which will take the business af-
fairs of government out of politics was
inaugurated by Governor Glynn at the
dinner of the chamber of commerce Of
New York at the Waldorf.
Eight officials and agents of the
Florida Fruit Lands company were
indicted by the federal grand jury at
Kansas City, Mo-, on a charge of con-
spiracy to use the mails to defraud In
connection with the sale of 100000
acres of land in the Everglades district
of Florida to 10000 purchasers in vari-
Gus states.
The Wilson policy" in opposition to
dollar diplomacy" was the keynote of
an address by Secretary William J.
Bryan before the Credit Mems associa.
ton Of Baltimore.
Governor Colquitt of Texas headed
the annual turkey trot' parade at
Cuero in which participated 5000 tur-
keys, which stalked through the streets
In droves of few hundred each be-
hind trained leaders.
Hearing of the governments suit to
dissolve the American Telephone and
Telegraph company, as a violator of
the Sherman antitrust law, was begun
at Chicago in the offices of Federal
District Attorney Wilkerson.
On Beaver creek, in Floyd county.
Kentucky, Arthur Martin shot and
killed his cousin, Oscar Martin. Oscars
brother Sandy then shot Arthur, whose
wounds will probably prove fatal The
killing was the result of trouble that
started on election day.
Evidence purporting to disclose that
q threat was made to force the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
company into the hands of receivers
unless an annual pass over the lines
was issued to State Senator John T.
Denvir. member Of the Illinois legis-
lative public utilities commission, was
introduced at hearing in the federal
building before an examiner at Chi
cago for the interstate commerce COM
mission.
How B. F. Yoakum and associate
officials of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad promoted the building
of small lines and "unloaded" them
on the Frisco" system at big profits
was revealed by Mr.. Yoakum himself
at the commerce board inquiry at st.
Louis into the causes of the Frisco"
receivership. Mr.. Yoakum admitted
he and other officials were partners
in the syndicate that sold the small
lines to the Frisco.
An explosion in No. mine of the
ton, Ala, entombed between twenty
five and forty miners, according to
estimates of company officials. Nine
dead were removed and five other
miners were rescued alive.
DIR. w. T. Elan, st. Joseph (Mo.)
physician, killed Putnam Cramer OF
$500 Lake avenue, Chicago, in hotel
at Kansas City, Mo. Cramer's body
was found with a bullet under his
heart Cramer's alleged attentions to
Mrs Elan caused the tragedy.
Falling thirty feet from the window
Of his room in Durice hall at Yale uni
versity, John Robert Alexander Lam
nom, a sophomore. was killed. Lam
nom was nineteen years old and was
the son of John L. Lannom, Louisville,
Ky.
One hundred and twenty-six stu
dents from Georgetown university and
the University of Virginia were arrest
ed In Washington for celebrating too
hilariously Georgetown's victory In
football game.
The sixth annual convention OF tho
Atlantic Deeper Waterways associa-
tion opened in Jacksonville, Fla. The
object OF the association is the com.
pletion OF an inland waterway from
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