Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-10-23
Summary Of
Most Important
News Events
Washington

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Washington
Denial was made at Washington that
President Wilson or any government
official had communicated with Carran-
"a. 1t was unofflcially acknowledged,
however, that the administration knew
certain interested parties" had been
canvassing the situation unofficially."
President Wilson and Secretary Gar
rison selected four Filipinos to be
members of the Philippine commits
sion. They are Victorino Mapa, Jaime
G. de Veyra, Vicente Ilustre and
Vicente Singson. Mapa will be sec
retsry Of finance and justice. The
fifth Filipino commissioner will be
Rafael Palma, who since 1908 has been
the only native on the commission.
vice-President Marshall and Speak
er Clark will ask congress to grant
full citizenship to George z. Lerrigo,
general secretary of the Y. M. c. A.
for southern China, who discovered
recently that, although he had exer-
cised the rights of citizenship for 20
years, his fathers citizenship papers
had not been issued until he (the SOM
had passed his twenty-first birthday.
An increase in the already high
cost of living" was foreshadowed by
experts of the department of agricul-
ture at Washington, who announced
that food crops and meats were
scarce.
New bids for armor for battleship
No 80 were opened at the navy de-
partment, with the result that the
Midvale Steel company was given the
contract at saving to the govern
nent of s111,S74 from the identical
bids for the same material submitted
recently by other firms.
President Wilson's indisposition.
which was described a few days ago
as slight attack Of indigestion, 10
giving him more discomfort and his
associates more concern than has been
officially admitted. He is run down
physically because of his constant
work on the tariff and currency bills.
Domestic
Governor William Sulzer of New
York was convicted by the high court
of impeachment on three counts. The
final vote was 80 to IS. The court,
consisting of the state senate and the
judges of the court of appeals, found
the New York executive guilty OF
making false campaign statement to
the secretary of state, Of converting
campaign funds to his own use and
of using his office to prevent the truth
being brought out at the investiga-
ton. g.
Two more barges sunk and four
more lives lost were additions to the
toll exacted by the northeast gale
which has been sweeping the Massa-
chuseSts coast at an average speed Of
so miles an hour for the last three
days The lost barges were the Oak
land and ]. B. Thomas.
One man was shot and probably
fatally wounded, another seriously
hurt when struck on the head with a
stone and IA others arrested as the
result of a fierce fight In the heart OF
the business district of Indianapolis,
Ind, between union and nonunion
street railway employees.
1t was learned that Henry Clay
Frick, just after his son, Childs Frick,
married Miss Frances 8. Dixon OF
Baltimore, Md, handed the bride an
envelope containing check in her
name for $2.000,000. 1t is understood
that young Mr.. Frick received securi.
ties valued at $12,O00,000.
Julian Hawthorne, the novelist, a
free man after serving a term In the
Atlanta federal penitentiary. told
startling story of his life as convict,
In which he called the Atlanta prison
a living hell" and said Warden
Meyer was unfit" Hawthorne ar
raigned conditions In the penitentiary
as repressive, cruel and the equal Of
the most lurid descriptions In fiction.
II w. T. Jerome succeeds in getting
a new Indictment against Harry X.
Thaw in New York, Thaw will de-
mand that Governor Felker quash the
present extradition proceedings. This
course was decided upon at confer
ence held by the Matteawan fugitive
with his counsel at Concord. N. H.
Three hundred dollars Is the price
sheep growers In the southern part OF
Escanaba county, Alabama. have put
upon the head Of one wolf. which,
they declare, has killed 300 sheep in
that section within the last few
weeks.
The Metropolitan Museum OF Art OF
New York will receive the great art
collection of BENJAMIN Altman .sthe de-
partment store millionaire. whose win
was filed here for probate. The value
OF the collection has been placed at
Sic. 100000
One hundred days in Jail was the
sentence imposed upon Paul H. Wat
son, a stockbroker of Oakland. Cal,
IN police court for having driven his
automobile while intoxicated. Watson
announced that he would appeal.
newly discovered case of leprosy
at Los Angeles, reported to the pub
lie health service at Washington. is
taken to confirm Surgeon General
Blues declaration that more leprosy
exists in the United States than is
generally known.
AID Wolgast OF Cadillac, Mich, de-
feated his old rival, Bat Nelson of
L.