Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-08-06

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United States minis last year pro
duced 1S6,621,S71 coins.
In April thirty-seven United States
mining companies paid out s7,41S.033
in dividends.
Fred A. Busse, former mayor Of Chi.
cago, and for years well known re-
publican politician, died at his home
there. He had been sick for many
weeks.
DIR. Charles Francis Baxter, former
'ly physician at the penitentiary on
Blackwell's Island, was sentenced to
serve the limit sentence of one year
in prison and fined $500 for selling
morphine to prisoners. He pleaded
guilty.
Guy Phillips, associate secretary o.
the Missouri Pacific Railway Co., shot
and killed himself in the offices Of the
company on the eighth floor of a New
York office building. His physician
said he had been sufferer recently
from dependency.
NTraveling at the rate OF seventy
eight miles an hour, Eddie Ricken-
bacher drove his car to victory in the
three hundred mile automobile race
at Sioux City and captured $4,000 Of
the $4,000 prize. $4,000 being divid-
ed among the other contestants.
Captain Robert Bartlett of the Ca
madam Arctic exploration expedition
positively denied that he had sent any
report to tle minister of marine at
Ottawa which could be construed as
indicating that eight men of the Kar.
luk's crew wer emissing and probably
lost.
Powerful champions went to the
defense of the Industrial relations
commission in the senate and de-
feated, 46 to 10. an appropriations
committee amendment to cut down to
$4,000 the 100000 provided for the
commission by the house in the sun
dry civil bill.
A. Dietz, of New York, diamond
merchant, and his son, Charles, have
been indicted by a federal grand jury
at New York on eleven counts as par
Elephants in an alleged conspiracy to
smuggle diamonds into the United
States. Diamonds valued at from
$500, 900 to 100000 were Struggled
from Canada in 1911 and 1912. it is,
alleged.
Federal legislation to be substi-
tuted for the "blue sky laws Of the
various states, the elimination of pri-
vate banks and the encouragement
of the practice of issuing overdrafts
were expressed in resolutions adopt.
ed by the National Association Of
Supervisors of State Banks at the
CLOSING session of their convention at
Atlantic City.
The Norwegian collier Storstad,
which collided with tae steamship
Empress of Ireland in May, with a
loss of more than i 200 lives when the
Empress sank in the st. Lawrence
river, will be sold at auction. The
Storstad was seized after it's arrival
at Montreal, in connection with the
suit for 100000 damages brought
against its owners by the Canadian
Pacific railway company.
A Chicago jury awarded James b
Wilson, former conductor on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, $4,000 for in
juries received after he lad been
forced to work sixty-eight hours out
Of seventy-two, While switching a
freight car to a side track at PENN
sula, Pa, on the third day he became
exhausted and fell between the car
and an engine. His right arm was
crushed and his spine badly injured.
FOREIGN.
A worlds altitude record for an
aeroplaDe carrying only the aviator
was made at Johannisthal by the Ger
| man airman, Otto Linnekogel, who
attained height of approximately
q, 1854 feet in his monoplane.
The Berlin police arrested the pres
ident and members of the Servian
Students club and searched their