Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-23


in the Investigations of New Haven
railroad financial affairs, reported to
the senate at Washington. The New
Ravens directors were pronounced
"criminally negligent"
|
The senate at Washington con-
firmed the nomination of Ira Nelson
Morris of Chicago to be minister to
Sweden.
Domestic
Prohibition forces lost their battle
for the insertion of plank favoring
the resubmiesion of the prohibition
| question to a vote of the people at the
Iowa Republican convention at Des
Moines. The convention did adopt a
plank indorsing the present liquor
laws and commencing their enforce
ment
| Detectives from Captain Halpin's
staff met a squad of Second Deputy
Funkhouser's morals investigators in
the heart of the old Twenty-second
street levee district in Chicago and in
the shooting that ensued one detec-
tive was instantly killed and two others
and civilian wounded. Both sides
said that the shooting was the result
OF failure of the detectives to recog-
nize each other.
Cbaroas that Arar;nap noaat yacb ;
ers and railroads out of New York are
in conspiracy to ruin the independ-
ent meat packing interests of South
America are made In letters from A.
H. Benjamin. representative Of two of
the largest South American meat pack
ers, to the interstate commerce COM
mission and the department of agricul-
ture at Washington.
Seven miners were killed in the
! Balkan mine at the Alpha location,
near Iron River, Mich. A drill hit
quicksand. Seven were overtaken and
killed by the quicksand
The federal grand jury at Seattle,
Wash, returned indictments under
the Sherman antitrust law against the
members of the socalled halibut
trust, which controls most of the hall
but caught in the North Atlantic,
North Pacific and Boring seas and
sold in the United States.
Charles Sanger Mellen. former pres
ident Of the New Haven railroad and
director of its activities during its
era of monopoly-seeking expansion, de-
clared at Boston that the report Of
the interstate commerce commission,
made public, was the report of po-
litical tribunal issued for political pur-
poses.
Nine members of the Barr-Widen
firm we're found guilty Of using the
United States mails to defraud by
Jury in Federal Judge Kenesaw Noun
tain Landis' court. The scheme by
which the Barr-Widen firm mulcted
the unsuspecting out of more than ST.
900, 900 within few years was daring
and wide in its scope.
| Theodore Roosevelt issued $500
word statement at Oyster Bay, N. Y,
accusing District Attorney Charles s.
Whitman. who has aspired to lead the
Progressive party in the gubernatorial
campaign In New York this fall, OF
being tricky and insincere. He de-
clares Whitman, IL eletced, would be
'as undesirable as was Governor Dix"
Two-year-old Nancy Carpenter, heir
ess to millions and niece of United
States Senator Henry A. Dupont OF
Delaware, was drowned In a shallow
pool on the estate OF her uncle, Pierre
8. Dupont, at Kenneth Square, near
Philadelphia.
| Charlie White OF Chicago was the
victor over Stanley Yoakum, the Colo
RADIO Gave Man." before 10000 cheer
ing fans in vicious battle at Denver
Colo. White won on knockout In the
nineteenth round.
high sea and heavy undertow
caught a party Of bathers in the lake
at Chicago. Two were drowned and
four others we're rescued. The
drowned. Miss Florence Jordan,
aged twenty-one; Charles MARGIN.
twenty-six.
! Permission for a baseball game at
Lynn, Mass, next Sunday between the
! Boston and Detroit clubs of the Ameri.
can league in aid of the Salem fire ssf.
ferers was asked of the city council by
the Lynn Lodge OF EIks.
Mrs. Mabel Probert, 1854 Baltimore
avenue. Chicago, was shot and killed
in a Manitowoc (Wis) cemetery by
Charles Danielson, boarder. Dam
ielson committed suicide. Danielson
followed the woman In the belief she
was To meet another man.