Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-08-07
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Washington
Democrats of the house banking and
currency committee practically fin
tons currency bill. after Ave weeks
of discussion.
News Of the appearance of ex-Presi.
dent Castro In Venezuela caused ex.
element In the state department at
Washington. Two warships were sent
to guard American interests.
Although the forest service does not
include botany in its conservation
work. its field men during the last year
have discovered 125 new species OF
plants
Delegations of suffragists from every
part Of the country invaded the senate
at Washington and presented petitions
to their senators asking for votes for
women" Several senators promised
them the ballot
X. f. Pollock, section director of the
weather Bureau at Trenton, N. j.;
Prof. +. L. Heiskell of the office Of
metoorology, and Daniel J. Carroll.
chief clerk OF the weather bureau at
Washington. implicated in the alleged
activity of former Chief Willis l.
Moore, which resulted in his dismissal.
were removed from ONCE.
Despite the good impression" which
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson was
reported to have made on members Of
the foreign relations committee at
Washington with his views as to what
the United States ought to do regard
ing Mexico, the White House feeling
toward the ambassador and Mexico
seems to be unchanged. Besides, SEN
ate sentiment is veering to the presi.
dents views.
Secretary of the Senate McAdoo
startled the financial world by an
nouncing at Washington that he is pre-
pairing to distribute from $25,000.000
to $50.000.00O to national banks in the
west south. to facilitate the movement
Of crops. and that prime commercial
paper would be received as security
for such deposits.
Efforts will be made by the United
States senate the present session to
liberalize the homestead law by reduc-
Z ing the age ffmfr or ertrymen from
twenty-one years to eighteen years.
Three persons we're killed. scores
injured. when terrific gale swept the
national capital at Washington. Sew
eral government buildings were hit by
bolts of lightning. President Wilson
was imperiled when windows in the
White House were blown in. The loss
is many thousands.
Democrats and Republicans of the
senate at Washington clashed again
in debate on the Underwood Simmons
tariff bill, when Senator Stone charged
that the Republicans we're deliberately
attempting to bring on panic in their
speeches attacking the pending meas
ure.
The Mulhall confession" received
another blow when Representative
Oscar Underwood. chairman Of the
ways and means committee. and lead
er of the Democratic majority of the
house of representatives at Washing
ton, under oath denounced Mulhall
as liar and blackmailer."
Still another note from japan In
connection with the Japanese alien
land law is on its way to Washing
ton.
Domestic
William Vincent Aston will pay the
state Of New York tax Of $2,741,833
upon his Inheritance of sS.959, 599
from the estate Of his father, the late
John Jacob Astor. The tax was fixed
by the surrogate.
Thirty miners were burned, one IA.
tally, and ten seriously. in an explo-
sion Of gas and dust at Jackson Hill
mine No. 2. near Sullivan, Ind.
Earl Marshall Reid, the Philadelphia
aviator. and Edward Hoover had a
narrow escape from death when they
plunged into the ocean of Atlantic
City, N. j.. In a hydroaeroplane. Life
guards rescued them.
Automobiles and automobile parts of
the value OF $4,000, 900 were shipped
from the United States in the last fis
cal year. against $l,0O0,OOO worth in
1903. according to figures by the bu.
reau of foreign and domestic com
merce.
probably fatally injured in collision
of ore trains at the Great Northern
railroad docks at Allouez. Wis. The
bodies of the victims were thrown into
the shipping pits by the impact.
Cincinnati voted to have new char.
ter, but the vote was so close that II
required next to the last precinct OF
the 420 in the city to decide the result
One hundred and twenty-five yes"
votes was the majority attained.
To study the methods of the Indus.
trial Workers of the World, Thomas
Mann. who led the coal miners of Eng
land in the great Etrike in that coun-
try last year, arrived in Boston on the
steamship Franconia.