Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-25
DIGEST OF WORLDS
IMPORTANT NEWS
EPIToME OF THE BIG HAPPEN
INGs OF THE WEEK.
TO Be READ At A GLANCE
Items, Both Foreign and Domestic,
That Have Interest for Busy Read
ers, Arranged and Classified
for Their Convenience.
Washington


Washington
national school for the instruction
of workers fcr women was opened in |
Washington.
President Wilson signed the Hetch |
Hetchy bill at Washington granting |
a water supply to San Francisco. He |
accompanied his signature with a
statement declaring that he believed |
the public needs Of the region con-
cerned we're served by the bill with
out impairing the usefulness Of the
public domain.
BY a vote of 81 to "a, the United
States senate at Washington passed
the Owen-Glass currency bill, with
which the Democrats hope to relieve
the financial condition of the country
and to make provision against posi-
BILE financial stringency.
Attorney General McReynolds made
public at Washington details Of an
agreement for reorganization Of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, "the telephone trust" which
will prevent litigation to dissolve that
and under which competitive condi-
tons will be restored In the tele-
phone service of the entire country
and the combine will dispose of It's
holdings In the Western Union Tele-
graph company. The reorganization
plan originated with the company.
President Wilson was elated when
told.
Democrats of the house rules com
mittee at Washington conferred over
prospective investigation Of the Colo
RADIO coal strike and the Michigan COP
per strike, but concluded to defer ac-
ton.
Senator William Stone OF Missouri
is confined In Washington hotel by
a severe attack OF bronchitis. Senator
Reed. his colleague, announced In the
senate that Senator Stone would not
be able to return for several days.
Physicians have denied all visitors to
the senator.
The Republican national committee
voted In session at Washington to cut
all delegates out of the apportionment
allotted to southern states in Repub-
lican national conventions. Seventeen
delegates are lost to northern states
and the territories, making the total
reduction SO. This is to apply to the
1916 convention, however, only II rati-
fed before January, /. 1915, by state
conventions held 10 states whose cleo
toral votes total more than half of the
electoral college.
A $1.0o0.0o0 appropriation for the
leyees at Shawneetown. H., was
urged at Washington before the house
rivers and harbors committee by
Marsh Lambert of that place. Repre-
sentative Fowler of Illinois also urged
the appropriation.
The charge that justices of the SUI
preme court of Michigan are either
stockholders in copper mines affected
by the Calumet strike or are 'keenly
interested" was made before the
house committee at Washington on
rules by c. e. Mahoney OF Denver,
vice-president of tho Western Fedora
ton of Miners.
All proposed new expenditures of
any consequence for the postal serv-
ice were stricken from the postoffice
appropriation bill by the house COM
mittee at Washington. Among the
items lost is the $2,000000 increase
in pay for rural mail carriers. The
bill carries about $300,000.000.
Senator Root of New York declared
on the floor Of the senate at Washing
ton that he would not accept the NOM
ination for president and could not
accept the Office IL elected.
Domestic
The drug store owned by Postmas,
ter Inglis at Milton, Ind, and the post |
office were robbed during the night OF
5000 in cash and 5000 in stamps
new record price for New York |
city land is established in a transac-
ton just recorded for plot 734 by
100 at Fifth avenue and Forty-second |
street The price was s2,250.OO0,
which is equivalent to 1907 square
foot. Il
The sum OF $4,000 was assured to |
the widow of Colonel Gaillard, Pana-
ma canal engineer, who had charge OF |
constructing Culebra cut. The reso-
luton providing for the appropriation
was favorably acted upon by the SEN
ate at Washington.
The $250,000 judgment obtained by
the hatters OF New York against the |
unions In the famous Danbury boy
colt case OF 1909 was sustained in the |
United States court of appeals. With
interest and court charges the judg- |
ment Is now $272000.
George II. Baker. son of former
State Railroad Commissioner Frank
M. Baker OF Oswego, N. Y, was
burned to death under an overturned
automobile. Bakers car turned tur-
tie while he was returning from Bing-
hamton TO Oswego alone.
Consumers Of nearly everything sold
by dry measure in the state of Mich
igan for so years have been cheated
out OF millions of dollars because CT
short measure. This fact has been
discovered through a ruling OF the
bureau of standards at Washington.