Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-07-10
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Washington
The house at Washington agreed
unanimously that the Mulhall charges
should be investigated. Representa-
tive Sherley, named by Mulhaii as one
of the persons easily influenced" de-
lnounced Mulhall and declared he had
never talked with him and did not
know him.
David Lamar, better known on Wall
street as THE Wolf" told the senate
lobby investigating committee at
Washington how he had impersonated
public men in telephone offers to
some of the most important figures |
In the nations financial circles. Of ON
nipotent influence with the admins |
tration at Washington. The inter |
mediary whom he named In those Inn |
presentations as the man who could de-
liver this influence. he said, was Ed
ward Lauterbach, New York attor- |
ney.
Who is to be the thirteenth White /
House bride was solved when Presi-
dent and Mrs. Wilson announced the
engagement Of their second daughter,
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, to Francis
Bowes sayre of District Attorney
iWhitman's office In New York city.
The annual session Of the National
Educational association opened In
Salt Lake City with big attendance
and fine list of speakers.
In reply to demand. following a
request from Postmaster General
Burieson, Arthur G. Fisk again refused
to resign as postmaster Of San Fran
cisco. In answering telegram from
Burleson he wired: Il do not recog-
nice the right OF any one to remove
me except the president Of the United
States"
Investigation of the Mulhall charges
by the senate lobby committee at
Washington will not be formally
opened until next Tuesday.
Charles r. Heike, former secretary |
of the sugar trust. who was convict
er of completely In the underweighing |
frauds and whose sentence of eight |
months imprisonment was commuted
by President Taft, died at his home In
Sea Bright. N. J.
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Quiet IN the national capital this
Fourth of July was broken oPly by the |
rattle Of street traffic and the cheers
of enthusiastic crowds watching base |
ball score boards at the newspaper |
Offices. There was no roar OF the
dynamite cracker of former years.
Fewer casualties were reported In the
United States than ever before as a |
result Of the sane Fourth campaign.
Rates over the Chicago, Rock Island |
& Pacific and "a other railroads on |
bananas from Galveston, Tex, and |
New Orleans, to Topeka, Kan, were |
found unreasonable by the interstate |
commerce commission at Washington.
Domestic
The first action by the recently ere
ated Oregon Welfare commission re-
garding a minimum wage scale for
women was taken when the commits
sion, after investigating conditions at
o fruit cannery, where a number OF
girls had struck, fixed a minimum |
wage OF 81 a day for all women work |
ers in the cannery.
Several villages are threatened by |
q forest fire which is raging In the |
Holy Cross national forest in Cali |
fornia. The fire swept beyond con-
troll.
A scathing arraignment of Mormon
ism was INDUCED in by the committee |
appointed to investigate Mormonism,
in its report to the second worlds |
Christian Citizenship conference. now
in session In Portland, Ore.
Three lives were lost when seven |
WOEkueu WtI6 luIO u bCWCi
by cavern at Railway avenue and !
West Seventh street at Cleveland. o.
The Progressive party celebrated its |
first birthday anniversary with big |
meeting at Newport, r. l.
The Welsh Eisteddfod opened at
u. ,.tfNL 10 knr nj
Welshmen in attendance.
Claude Clement. North McGregor,
Ia, and Sam Gillespie were instantly
killed when an automobile In which
they were riding turned over and
burned. Maurice Olson OF Mason
City, Ia. the third occupant OF the car.
was thrown out OF the machine and
escaped with minor bruises.
Eight workmen on the Yazoo Mis- |
sissippi Valley railroad were seriously
injured three fatally. when a south |
bound freight train collided with the
rear end of work train i've miles |
south of Memphis, Tenn.
Aboard the good ship Diana the
members Of another arctic expedition
sailed from New York down the bay
to the north. The expedition has no
intention Of proceeding to the north
pole, but will content itself with the
exploration OF Croker Land. sighted
by Peary on his trip north in 1906.
The National Conference OF Chart
ties and Corrections, in session at
Seattle. paid especial attention to the
immigration problems that will con-
front the Pacific coast after the open
ing Of the Panama canal