Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-04-23

IN EVE N is
TERSELY and
BRIEFLY TOLD
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Washington
The senate at Washington passed
the bill raising to an embassy the
United States legation to Argentina.
The bill had already passed the house
and now goes to President Wilson.
who approves It
Although there has been no formal
announcement from the. White House
at Washington as yet Of the date for
the wedding Of Secretary McAdoo and
Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson.
friends say Friday, May s, has been
tentatively selected. The affair is ex-
pected to be private.
E p. Hoicombe, chief supervisor Of
the Indiana bureau at Washington,
shot and killed himself in a room Of
a hotel Holcombe's associates be-
ieve dependency over his physical
condition led to the suicide
Unqualified disapproval was ex-
pressed by President Wilson at Wash.
fngton OF the proposal in congress TO
curtail the anti-trust legislative pro-
gram for this session. Later mem
bers Of the house Judiciary sub-com-
mittee declared that an effort would
be made to report out quickly a single
measure embodying the substance Of
all the separate tentative trust bills.
Domestic
When General" Coxey's two divi-
sions OF his army completed their
first lap Of the proposed hike to Wash
ington the force had dwindled down
! to 60. OF this number SO were high
school boys who had given Coxey a
sendoff from his home town. They will
go back home.
Charles S. Mellen, formerly presi-
dent Of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad company, may be-
come the active head of federated
body supreme among the various or
CARNATIONS of the United States, with
which 100000 railroad employees are
afiliated-
Possible basis for appeal of the case
OF Leo M. Frank Of Atlanta, Ga, un-
der death sentence for the murder of
Mary Phagan, fourteen-year-old en-
ploye in his pencil factory, to the
Supreme court of the United States,
was laid In a motion for annulment
of his sentence, filed in the superior
court
Harry K Thaw has won his fight
for writ OF habeas corpus. Federal
Judge Edgar Aldrich OF the United
States district court of New Hamp-
shire handed down his decision on the
petition of Thaw asking that he be dis
charged from the extradition proceed.
ings under which the state OF New
York has been trying to force Thaw's
return to Matteawan,
The American and National leagues
on Tuesday started the struggle which
win determine the 1914 champions Of
the respective organizations. On Mon
day in Baltimore the Federals, the
third major league. had Its opening
and 10000 wild. shouting Marylanders
saw their team win the inaugural
dash.
De Lloyd Thompson Topped the
loop" eight times at Los Angeles,
breaking Lincoln Beachey's record as
trick aviator.
II did not do the shooting. The men
who fired the shots were Gyp, Louie
and WALTON. | was miles away. II
was a gamblers fight Becker had
nothing to do with the case" Epit.
omized, this is the confession of
Frank Cirofci, alias 'Dago Frank"
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electrocuted at Sing Sing prison for
the murder OF Gambler Herman Rosen-
thai
Seven persons lost their lives-five
women, man and a two-year.old baby
during fire which swept through
five floors of the Melvin, fashionable
apartment house, in Boston.
Investigation by federal grand Jury
at Philadelphia OF alleged custom
frauds was completed when the Jury
recommended that the government
proceed to recover the duty losses suf-
fered because of alleged Irregularities
in the importation OF personal goods
by Wanamakers.
FUN discussion OF the responsibility
of parents to see that their children
are trained in good citizenship has
been provided for In the program Of
the third international congress on the
welfare of the child. which viii open
at Washington April 20.
While the crews of two life saving
stations at Sea Bright, N. j., struggled
vainly to save them. nine members OF
the crew Of schooner. which was
driven ashore by gale, we're drowned.
The only member OF the schooner's
crew to be saved was John Martinson.
Laurence Duke, a nephew OF James
B. Duke, the millionaire tobacco man.
facturer, will settle for $500 the suit
brought against him at Seattle by
Alvin Simmons, whose father he
killed by running him down in his
automobile.
Rev. Otis L. Spurgeon of Des Moines
told the grand jury at Denver. Colo,
how he was dragged out OF a hotel
by kidnapers "a miles away and
logged. Afterward six men were In
dicted on charges Of kidnapping grow
ing out Of the deportation.