Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-11
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
With a final hearing before the
house rules committee on the question
of whether special committee on
woman suffrage shall be established.
the convention Of the National Associ-
alton for Woman Suffrage closed in
Washington.
Marked decrease in army enlist
ments under the new seven-year en-
listment laws was brought to the at
tention of the war department by In
spector General Darlington in his an
nual report
Lobbying in favor of the bill to al
low San Francisco to take a water
supply from the Hetch Hetchy valley
was charged to Clifford Pinchot by
Senator Works at Washington
President Wilson has improved
somewhat from cold, but his physi-
clan decided that another day OF con-
fnement to his room in the White
House at Washington was a wise pre-
caution
President Wilson delivered the open
ing address at the annual convention
of the National Rivers and Harbors
congress in Washington.
President Wilson sent to the senate
at Washington for the second time the
nomination of Henry NJ Pindell Of Pc
oria to be ambassador to Russia
At the state department the Zelaya
case, was considered closed and the
former dictator's release in New York
was ordered with the agreement that
he would return to Barcelona, Spain
Secretary Garrison has sent from
Washington a congratulatory telegram
to Brig. Gen. Hugh l. Scott, at Farm
ington, N. NJ, for that officers work In
pacifying the Navajo Indians upon
whose reservation an uprising was
threatened by some Is renegades.
Domestic
The bank at Primrose, Neb, was
robbed of $4,000 In currency by a
highwayman, who terroriZed the cash
Ter, compelling him to hand over all
the cash, and made his escape.
Enraged because he believed he had
been overcharged for a drink, John
Burrocks, an aged workingman, armed
himself with rifle and shotgun at
Sacramento, Cal, took possession of
the saloon, killed the proprietor and
wounded two policemen and three cit
liens.
Otto Eichman, a saloon owner, was
shot and killed at St Louis by two
negro highwaymen when he tried to
prevent them from taking $50 from
the cash register.
BY a unanimous vote the striking
coal miners in the southern Colorado
fields formally rejected the strike set
Element proposition made to them by
Governor Ammons.
Thomas Duncan, chairman OF the
Indiana public service commission,
when told that street employees could
not live on ss4 . month, declared
that many lawyers In indianapolis had
incomes of less than $50 month The
commissioner is the Judge of arbitra-
tion in the dispute between the trac-
ton company and its employees, who
recently were on strike
Five gray-haired women of Volo,
ILL.,, we're found guilty of having rid
den Mrs. John Richardson on rail
because rumors in the village accused
her of misconduct with brother-in-
law of her crippled husband The YER
dict was brought in the Lake county
circuit court at Waukegan, Ill
Radicals ruled the Republican state
conference in New York and forced
the approval of a direct statewide
primary law. State Chairman William
Barnes motion to reaffirm the more
conservative primary plank in the last
Republican platform was defeated by
1872 to 1877
Colorado is practically isolated from
the world. It Is with the greatest diff
ficulty that communication of any
kind by wire Is being maintained. The
state is covered with the greatest fall
OF snow on record. Forty persons are
missing.
To prevent waste in foreign mis-
sionary effort, women of IS Protestant
denominations have joined In common
understanding OF the general princi-
pies upon which missions shall be adj
vanced. There are 100000 women
In the new federation
The war against automobile speed
ers by the New York city authorities
has resulted in three days in sem
fences of one day or more In jail for
IS persons arrested and in a total OF
$6,450 in fines imposed upon reckless
drivers.
Twenty persons are known to be
dead and $4,000 are homeless as the
result of the disastrous floods which
are still raging In central Texas. Prop
erty damage win exceed 5000, 900, ac-
cording to the most conservative esti-
mates
Aigrettes win not be admitted to
the United States either on hats or de-
tached, according to q final ruling
sent to all collectors of customs.
Game birds will be admitted with
feathers, but the feathers must be
destroyed.