Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-09-25


Washington the nomination of VIII.
lam Hayne Leavell of Mississippi to
be minister to Guatemala.
Domestic
Following the first session Of the
impeachment trial of Gov. William
Sulzer at Albany, N. Y, the assembly
arrested James C. Garrison, press
agent for the impeached official, and
ordered him thrown into jail for con-
tempt. The assembly called on Mr..
Garrison to answer whether he had
ever said that votes we're purchased
to pass the articles of impeachment.
Mr.. Garrison said: 1T is not for me to
clear myself 1t is for the assembly
to clear itself"
Two robbers entered tbs jewelry
store of J. j. Thompson at Grand
Rapids, Mich. commanded the clerks
to throw up their hands and when
they refused opened fire. John A.
Thompson and Ed Smith fell dead and
Paul Thompson was probably fatally
wounded. The bandits escaped with
cash and jewels valued at $4,000.
All of the directors of the Chicago.
indianapolis G. Louisville railway were
reelected at the annual meeting of
the stockholders at Indianapolis.
Every man of 81 members of the
Sandusky Aerie of Eagles who went to
Bellevue, Ill, to help dedicate new
lodge room for the Bellevue aerie was
injured when the special car in which
they we're returning home over the
Lake Shore electric line jumped the
track at Castalia and turned over on
It's side.
Five men were drowned when the
schooner ]. B. Curret, from New Or
leans, went down In the Gulf of Next
CO with its cargo of gasoline and pig
iron. A negro deck hand who was put
in small yacht to take the wife OF
the ships captain ashore and the wo-
man were the only survivors.
One thousand persons attended the
sale of some of the property of Mrs.
Helen Dwelle jenkins, by whose as
sistance the customs authorities were
enabled three years ago to unearth a
conspiracy to smuggle large quantities
Of precious stones into the port of New
York. Nathan Allen, leather manufac-
turer of Kenosha, Wis, and John r.
Collins of Memphis, Tenn. were fined
heavily as a result of the exposures
Goods valued at $500 were sold.
Attorney Benjamin C. Bachrach Of
Chicago. attorney for Jack Johnson,
negro pugilist, informed Federal
Judge Carpenter that his client would
return from Europe and stand trial
on other indictments returned against
him before his conviction on the
charge of being white SLAYER.
The clubhouse of Castleton farm at
Lexington. KY. owned by David M.
Locke, New York multimillionaire
turfman, was destroyed by fire. The
blaze was started by an incendiary.
The loss was more than 100000.
The primary election at Rochester,
N. Y, resulted in a clean sweep for
the axemen. or anti-Tammany faction.
in the Democratic organization. In
all five assembly districts the Demo-
Gratis showed their displeasure over
the impeachment of Governor Sulzer
by defeating the organization by
large majorities.
The resignation of Deputy Warden
w. Fl. Mackey, of the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan, was demanded
in a letter from Attorney General Nc
Reynolds. received at the warden's Of
fee, The resignation will be effective
Octover Is.
The engine tender and six cars of
the Great Northern's east. bound Orien-
tai limited train were hurled OF the
track at a burning bridge on the Burl-
ington railway three miles east Of
East Winona, Wis. One woman was
injured seriously.
Motoring from Toledo westward,
Herman C. @. Luyties OF ST. Louis and
a party of FIVE were held up by three
men in an automobile six miles east
of Bryan. o. The thieves got loot
worth $4,000 cash. All three bandits
were captured.
Enforcement of an order excluding
women and children from the forty
seventh annual parade OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic prevented the
N. B. Forrest Camp Of United Confed-
crate Veterans from participating In
the pageant at Chattanooga. Tenn.
Fire that destroyed the big depart
ment store of the Howard Ware cor
poration Of New Rochelle, N. Y, was
extinguished after 1t had caused a
loss of about 100000. The burned
area covered an entire block on Main