Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-01-01

January to give the bank time to get
funds.
r. Pesquiera, who is confidential
agent at Washington of the Mexican
constitutionalists. told Lloyd's Mari
time Insurance agency that steamers
of any nationality bringing munitions
of war contracted for by the Mexican
government will be fired on by the
Mexican constitutionalists.
Foreign
The ebony box which was said To
have contained the will of the late
Cardinal Rampolla and large sum of
money was found in Rome. 1t is
empty. The will and the money pre-
sumably were stolen.
Recent deaths in the cardinalate
cast gloom over Christmas festivities
at the Vatican in Rome, but the season
was observed with the usual formali-
ties. The pope sent his personal greet
ings to all Catholic soverigns of Eu-
rope except the king of Italy, with
whom he is supposed to hold no COM
munication.
A meat famine is threatened in Paris
during the Christmas season. The
Slaughterers union decided on an inn
mediate strike as a consequence of the
employers refusal to agree to the re-
duction of the 14-hour day to ten
hour day.
Miss Zelie Emerson of Jackson.
Mich, who was arrested at London on
the charge of assaulting policemen
during suffragette riot on December
IS, was released, the charge being dis
missed.
A mysterious explosion occurred on
the Russian court special train which
was waiting in the railroad station at
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for the arrival
of Dowi Empress Marie OF Russia
from Copenhagen. Several members
of the train crew were badly injured.
Three hundred London policemen
assembled in Trafalgar square to pro-
test against the official ban placed
recently on their union and to demand
more pay.
Personal
After a lingering Illness of three
months, pneumonia being the primary
ailment, Mrs. Adlai u. Stevenson, wife
of the former vice president, died at
Bloomington, Ill.
James w. Murphy, the youngest
man ever elected to the Wisconsin
house of representatives. father OF
Laura Tiffany, Detroit actress and
singer, died at Denver, Colo. He was
sixty-two years old.
Joseph C. Root. founder of the
Woodcraft orders, died at Henderson
vile, N G. Mr.. Root was brother of
Senator Elihu Root of New York. and
served three terms as mayor of Oma-
ha, Neb.
Despondent because of Ill health, Os-
car Ecke, an attorney of Fond du Lac,
Wis, committed suicide at Los An
geles, CAL.
Rev. Thomas Chiperneld, retired
Methodist minister. died at Lewistown,
ILL.,, at the age of seventy-six years.
Charles M. Travis, minister to Bra
I'll under President Grant and law
partner OF Gen. Lew Wallace. died at
the Soldiers home at Danville, Ill.
Senator Lewis has been asked by
the president to represent the United
States at the Safety at Sea conference
in London. Compulsory wireless in
stallation is expected to be one of the
rules laid down by the conference.
Miss Mary Morrison was instantly
killed at Kokomo. Ind. when an auto
mobile struck her and hurled her into
a stone quarry. The car itself plunged
into the quarry, carrying with 1t the
driver, Edgar Hudson. He was res
cued.
President Wilson, accompanied by
Mrs. Wilson, his daughters, the Misses
Margaret and Eleanor, and DR.. Carey
It. Grayson arrived at Pass Christian,
Miss. and win spend about three
weeks there.
None OF the millions of the late A.
Montgomery Ward of Chicago goes to
any person or Institution outside his
family, according to a digest of the
viii given out by his attorney, s240.
900 is left to various relatives, two
thirds Of the residue to the widow
and the other third to the widow in
trust for the only child. Miss Marjorie
Ward
Congressman Irwin 8. Pepper OF
Iowa died at Clinton. Ia, following an
operation for peritonitis. He represent
ed the Second district.