Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-10-16
Domestic

Domestic
Claiming that she was married to
Charlemagne Tower, Jr., on June Z,
1911, in New Haven Conn.,, Mrs.
Georgeanna Tower, formerly Miss
Burdick, brought suit at Philadelphia
against Charlemagne Tower, former
ambassador to Germany, for alleged
alienation of her husbands affections.
Leslie Bush, an Athletic recruit,
backed up by terrific swatting, pitched
the Philadelphia Americans to victory
over the Giants in the third game of
the worlds series, to 2. He yielded
five hits, one a double.
Miss Ellen Deeley, twenty, was at.
tackled by negro at San Diego, CAL,
and was saved from her assailant by
Chaffee Grant, son of U. S. Grant, Jr.
As the negro fed Grant shot at him,
but missed.
The Gamboa dixie, the last remain
ing earth barrier in the Panama canal,
was blown up by enormous charges
of dynamite and the waters of Gatun
lake allowed to run into the Culebra
cut.
Without calling eithers Sui
ger or his wife to the witness stand.
his counsel rested their defense In the
trial Of his impeachment at Albany, N.
Y. According to B. Cady Herrick,
chief OF hrs attorneys, Governor Sulzer
decided not to defend himself in per-
son because he did not want to be
placed in the position of shielding him
self behind his wife-for it was for
Mrs. Sulzer, according to the testi-
mony, that the governor had his Wall
street dealings.
The Portage Land district Of Hough-
ton county, Michigan, is In fury
against the strikers as the result OF
the murder of Deputy Sheriff James
PoIlack, who was ambushed, shot dead
and his body mutilated.
Christy Mathewson of the New York
Giants pitched the supreme game OF
his lifetime and achieved personal
triumph over the Philadelphia Athlet-
les In the second game of the 1913 bat
tie for the worlds championship at
Philadelphia, but 1t took him ten In
nings to do it by score of 3 to 0.
Race riots impended for time In
Romeo, ILL.,, and the surrounding por-
ton of Will county after negro had
been shot and killed and the village
jail had been partly wrecked. John
Winfield, giant negro, battered In
the lookup door in an attempt to free
his intoxicated wife.
Tomosi, Panama, village with 300
inhabitants, was destroyed by an
earthquake when checks were felt
both at Panama and Colon.
Fire has broken out in the city Of
Nome, Alaska, closely following a
storm that wiped out great part of
the town. The flames have attracked
the Pacific Cold Storage plant where
is stored the chief supply of meat for
the winter. The fire apparatus was de-
stroyed in the gale.
At a meeting of the joint legislative
efficiency and economy committee at
Springfield, H., the committee decided
to go to Madison, Wis, October %, to
investigate the work done In that
state along the line being pursued by
the Illinois committee.
A tornado tore it's way through
Custer county. Neb., striking Broken
Bow a glancing blow and doing
minor damage here. but wrecking
many buildings and injuring a num-
Der of people in the country districts.
No one was killed.
The American Bankers association
closed it's convention at Boston. James
]. Hill of st. Paul called the Owen
Glass currency bill too socialistic to
suit most Americans" Arthur Rey-
nolds of Des Moines was elected pres
ident.
An Investigation, in which thirty
Sing Sing prisoners were examined,
has disclosed the existence of sys-
tenn of smuggling which has enabled
the New York STATE convicts to OBJ
tain morphine, coceine and other
drugs.
In February, 1912, William Walker,
serving three months on the Alameda
county chain gang for yagrancy, es-
capped, with 80 days of his sentence yet
to run. He returned to Oakland. Cal,
married and wealthy, and surrendered