Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-30
DIGEST OF WORLDS
IMPORTANT NEWS
EPIToME OF THE BIG HAPPEN.
INes OF THE WEEK.
TO Be READ At A GLANCE

Items, Both Foreign and Domestic,
That Have Interest for Busy Read
ere, Arranged and Classified
for Their Convenience.
Washington
President Wilson withdrew the nom
ination of Thomas d. Jones as member
of the federal reserve board.
President Wilson, It was said, de-
cided to appoint Attorney General Nc
Reynolds to the Supreme court Of the
United States to succeed the late
Justice Lurton.
The government decided to intervene
in Haiti unless order was restored
within a week.
It was unoficially announced that
the Panama canal was ready for COM
merce.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations declined to hear Colonel
Roosevelt on the Colombian treaty.
Government estimate of the popula-
ton of the United States on July !,
1914, was 1Os.021.s92.
President Wilson ordered Attorney
General Reynolds to bring suit to dis
solve the New Haven system and to
lay the criminal aspects of the case
before a grand jury.
Representative ]. T. McDermott OF
Chicago, involved in lobby scandals,
resigned and announced he would seek
reelection.
The war department has let a big
contract to a Chinese firm for con-
struction of part of the army hospital
at Fort Shafter, Hawaiian islands.
The interstate commerce commits
sion made a report on the relations OF
the New York Central and other rail-
roads with local operations in Illinois,
charging frauds and Irregularities.
The senate judiciary committee
completed the Clayton antitrust bill
and ordered 1t reported to the senate,
MEXICAN War
Reginaldo Cepeda was sent by Presi-
dent Carbajal to General Carranza to
arrange for the transfer of the govern
ment.
An armistice was signed by the
Mexican government and the constitu
tionalists and full guarantees were
given to everyone.
Consular Agent Carothers was &C
cused of undue bias in favor of Villa in
his disputes with Carranza.
General Huerta boarded the German
cruiser Dresden for Jamaica, General
Banquet and their families accom-
panying him.
Domestic
Thomas d. Jones, appointed to the
federal reserve board. replied to his
opponents reiterating his belief thai
the harvester trust is and has beer
law abiding.
/ BY resurrecting a city ordinance
passed nearly fifty years ago forbid
ding trade. amusements and games or
Sunday, the Galesburg Qll.) city coun
Gil has launched campaign of litera
law enforcement which will forbid the
sale of newspapers, soft drinks, cigars
and candy on the Sabbath.
The Federal league won another bis
victory when Supreme Court Justice
Herbert P. Bissell OF New York state
dissolved the Injunction Of the Chi
cago American league baseball team
restraining Hal Chase, the first. base
man, from playing with the Buffalo
Federal league team.
The government began suit In fed
eral court in New York for the dissolu
ton OF the New Haven railroad monop
oily
William Barnes Jr., chairman OF the
Republican state committee OF New
York, sued Colonel Roosevelt for libel
asking $4,000 damages.
The Polar Wave Ice and Fuel com
pany Of st. Louis paid fine of $4,000
for violation of the antitrust laws.
Five men we're killed and many hurt
by premature explosion Of dynamite
on the Panama canal.
I DIR. t. L. Hutchinson, forty-two year.
old, shot and killed his two daughters
Lois, aged twenty-one. and Faye, aged
/ ten, and then killed himself at Glen
wood Springs. Colo. He is believed
TO have been insane.
Becky lEdelson, woman leader o
the Industrial Workers of the World
was sentenced in New York to serv,
three months in the workhouse for in
citing a throng of her followers to rio
in Union square last April.
Six persons were injured, two fatal
ly. at Derby, Miss. when the Queer
G. Crescent New York limited, south
bound, was derailed
Fire In the business district o
Brazil. Ind. caused losses of $4,000.
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Maurice e. Mclaughlin of California