Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
Domestic

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The Windsor hotel and the Western
Newspaper Union building, which
housed the Milwaukee Evening Wis
consin, one of the oldest newspapers
in the state, were destroyed by fire,
with loss estimated at $3.50, 1000, at
Milwaukee.
With little friction, state ticket
was nominated and platform in ia
vor of statewide direct primary law
was adopted by the Democrats of In
diana in state convention at Indianap-
oils, Ind. The candidates nominated
are: United States senator, BENJAMIN
F. Shively; judge supreme court.
Frank M. Powers; judges appellate
court. Joseph Ibach, f. s. Caldwell,
Edward w. Telf, Milton b. Hotel
secretary Of state, Homer l.. Cook /;
treasurer. George A. Bittler; attorney
general. Richard NJ Milburn; auditor,
Dale Crittenberger; superintendent
public instruction, C. A. Greathouse.
Stories OF quarrel between Mrs.
Hilda Lindstrom Of Chicago and her
husband, John, led the police to be-
lieve that the woman turned on the
gas, which killed two of her children
and made herself, her husband and
baby unconscious.
The state supreme court in session
Philadelphia declared the non-par-
tisan ballot law valid. Judge Elkin
wrote the opinion.
The Kentucky senate, by vote OF
Is to 10, killed a bill to submit to a
vote OF the people the question OF
dispensaries to replace saloons.
An explosion at the Equitable Pow.
der company's plant in Alton, ILL.,,
shook territory in Illinois within dis.
lance of one hundred miles. Henry
Miller, night Waterman. was killed.
Two hours after Dallas Shields, a
negro barber, had shot to death Con.
stable Joseph Gaines at Fayette. Mo-,
he was lynched by $50 citizens in the
courthouse yard in the center of town.
More than sixty thousand women
registered in Chicago. The exact fig.
ures as given in the police returns is
60,119; 21S,643 represents the total
eligible to vote at the aldermanic cleo.
ton In April. The total number of
men and women COW registered is
500, 1924. Chicago has the largest vot.
ing poulation Of any city in the United
States.
A bloodstained lock of Abraham
Lincoln's hair and number of relics
and mementos intimately related to
the history of the United States were
offered the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in the will OF Gen. James Grant
Wilson. filed for probate in New York.
-Four buildings in the business sec
ton OF Sidney, o., were destroyed by
fire, with a loss estimated at $780, 900.
The buildings were occupied by two
dry goods stores. department store,
clothing store and number OF
smaller shops.
Praise for President Wilson and
Secretary Bryan in nearly equal meas
ure was the nominating note in the adj
dresses at the annual banquet held at
Lincoln, Neb, on the occasion of the
ffty-fourth anniversary of Mr.. Bryan's
birth.
Fifty of the seventy unemployed
New York men brought to Fonda, n.
". in Governor Glynn's campaign to
place the jobless on upstate farms,
were lodged in the village engine
house, Only 20 accepted offers Of work
with farmers.
For the FIRST time in many years
seals have been seen on the ice foes
On the Hudson river at Hastings, N.
Y. Fishermen, at various landings
complain. that the seals have broken
their nets frequently.