Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-02-17
Domestic

Domestic
More than one hundred distin-
guished persons were poisoned, sup
posedly by ptomaines In soup at the
University club at Chicago during the
banquet given in honor of Archbishop
George William Mundelein.
M. M. Reynolds. fifty-seyen years
old. president of the Guthrie County
National bank and a brother Of George
M. Reynolds, the Chicago banker, is
dead at his home in Panora. Ia, having
committed suicide by shooting.
Marian Lambert, student and the
daughter of Frank Lambert, an en-
ployee in the home of Jonas Kuppen-
heimer of Lake Forest, H., was found
probably murdered in the woods near
Sacret Heart academy.
On receipt of government flood and
avalanche warning the Great Northern
railroad discontinued operations of
trains in the Cascade mountains, It
was announced at Seattle.
The United States navy possesses
the most effective torpedo in the
world. according to an announcement
at meeting Of the naval consulting
board held at New York. There was
also promised an aeroplane engine that
is said to represent the last word in
engine construction of that kind.
Josiah v. Thompson, former million
aire coke and coal operator, was in
dicted at Pittsburgh, Pa, by the fed
eral grand jury ON II counts, The In
dictments grow out of Thompsons al
legged manipulation of the funds of the
First National bank OF Uniontown,
which was wrecked last year.
German Consul General Franz Bopp
was indicted in San Francisco by
federal grand Jury in connection with
the so-called Crowley plot to blow up
munition plants and interfere with in.
terstate commerce in munitions Of
war; according to a report received at
the department of justice at Wash
ington. Others indicted were: Baron
e. H. Won Setback. vice consul Of Ger
many, and Maurice Hall. the Turkish
consul general.
s. Mota, a Japanese navy steward,
rs being held at San Francisco as a
witness at the court-martial Of Lieut..
II. A. Jones, former commander Of the
destroyer. He was on board the Hull
when the code book disappeared.
Geraldine Farrar. opera singer. and
Lou Tellegen, actor, were married at
New York at the home OF Miss Far
rar's parents. Mr.. and Mrs Sydney
Farrar.
The Most Rev. George w. Mundelein
came into his own as archbishop Of
Chicago amid what was declared to be
the most gorgeousiy brilliant cere-
monies ever held in this Roman Cath
Ollie archdiocese.
A general strike of the jewelry work
ers In New York city was called at a
meeting attended by more than 1000
members of the union. The jewellers
demand an eight-hour day The dia-
mond settlers earn 800 a week.
. Big packing houses are behind pow
erful interests which he charges are
manipulating the live stock market Of
the country, is the belief Of Arthur Cap.
per. governor of Kansas, as expressed
by him in an address before the Kan
sas Life Stock association at Wichita.
Representative Slemp made public
ut Washington letter from Justice
Hughes declaring: II am opposed to
the use of my name in connection with
the nomination and to the selection or
instruction Of any delegates in my In.
terest directly or remotely"
Two trainmen were killed when the
engine and tender of Big Four pas
senger train plunged into the Wabash
river. The dead are Engineer Frank
Lancaster and Fireman Oliver Hazel
ton, both of Mount Carmel. Ill.
Edward Holler, Alexander Aczell,
Charles Houghton. Joseph O'Mara and
George Severn. former city officials OF
Terre Haute. Ind. convicted in the
election conspiracy case, were re-
leased from the Leavenworth (Kan.)
penitentiary.
A roadhouse in Burnham. H., was
burned to the ground. Rose Staley.
an inmate. was burned to death, and
another woman and four men were
injured. The roadhouse is located ON
the Illinois side of the Illinois Indiana
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