Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-07-24
Washington

Secretary Bryan's policy of lectur
ing In his vacation time involved the
senate at Washington in a bitter con
troversy. 1t began when Senator
Bristow, ignoring the defeat OF his
resolution directed at Mr.. Bryan's &C
ton, insisted upon being heard In
severe criticism of the cabinet officer
S. Wood McClave, Republican candi
date for congress in the Sixth New
Jersey district, told the senate lobby
investigating committee that Martin
M. Mulhall had perjured himself in
his testimony before the committee
He denied that Mulhall had raised OF
spent money for him.
United States Consul Luther Ellis
worth at Piedras Negras, Mexico, has
reported to Washington the discovery
of plot to dynamite the American
consulate and that his life is in i'm
minent danger.
Formal DEGREES of the United States
Supreme court in the Minnesota and
Missouri rate cases have been issued
to the federal courts in those states.
In the cases won by the states the
railroads were ordered to reimburse
the state governments for the cost of
litigation.
So acute has the Mexican situation
become; SO insistent are the demands
from outside forces that the admin
istration do something to check the
anarchy prevailing throughout the
Mexican republic, that President Will
son instructed Ambassador Henry
Lane Wilson at Mexico City to come
10 Washington at once for confer
ence.
The American reply to the last two
Jap notes on the California anti-alien
land law was delivered by Secretary
Bryan to Ambassador Chinda at Wash
ington, who at once cabled 1t to To-
kyo. AS in the case of the proceed
ing note the contents were withheld
from publication.
/ The largest water power permit
ever issued by the department of ag-
riculture was signed by Secretary
Houston in Washington, granting
rights to the Pacific Light and Pow
er company of Los Angeles to oper-
ate power plants in the Sierra Ma
-tionaf forest It WIN carry electric
power 24O miles to Los Angeles and
vicinity at 10000 volts, said to be
the highest commercial transmission
ever attempted
Domestic .
Big Four passenger train No. Il
plowed into the Lake Shore G. Mich.
gan Southern passenger train, be-
tween Perry and Madison, O., while
the Lake Shore train was held up by
a freight. 1t splintered the dining
car to pieces and telescoped the next
car, Pullman, injuring IL persons,
United States marines and sailors
from the Pacific reserve feet, most
of the sailors wearing the name bands
OF the cruisers Colorado and Califor'
mia, started last night to clean up the
town." as they confessed 1t, by attack
ing the headquarters of the Socialists
and the Industrial Workers Of the
World, at Seattle, Wash.
One child was killed. one was prob
ably MORALLY injured and two others
and their father. N. s. Adams, were
less seriously hurt when the auto
mobile in which the five were riding
was struck by north-bound Chicago
Great Western passenger train at
Earl Grove, la.
A mob of women of Volo, McHenry
county, Illinois, angered at the con-
duct of Mrs. John Richardson, wife OF
an invalid, rode Mrs. Richardson to
the edge of town on a rail. Twelve
ings. William Dunnill, a brother-in.
law of Richardson, left Volo following
the affair
Sixty men, all prominent in the in
surance field in the central west are
suffering from what is declared to be
ptomaine poisoning, symptoms OF
which manifested themselves i'm
mediately following a banquet given
during an insurance convention in
Milwaukee.
Blossom Browning paid a s25 fine
in Judge Crutchfield's court at Rich
mond, Va, for wearing a slit skirt
and declared she intended to go to
New York at once where people are
not prudish." She was charged with
indecent exposure.
]. Elmer Vencil, wanted in Los An
geles, Cal, for robbery Of C. ]. b. Car
son, a jeweler. formerly Of New Bed
ford, Mass, was arrested at Los An
geles. The police say he has con
fessed the robbery of Carson.
Conrad Anderson of Chicago, whose
wife, Askara Anderson, died OF in
juries suffered when she jumped from
a car Tuesday after he had done SO
told the coroner's jury that he die
not know at the time that she hat
jumped.
The five men who we're entombed al
the Spruce mine at Eveleth, Mimi. al
a result of cloudburst, were rescued
II is believed all will recover. All Of
the men had stood in water reaching
to their necks for % hours.