Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-02-03

The constitutionality of the Mime
sofa presidential primary law YVES up
held by the state supreme court at st.
Paul, Mimi.
plans for the readjustment of the
United States army must be formu-
lated and carried out without delay,
for we do not know what the circum.
stances of another month or another
day may bring FORTH This was the
warning sounded by President Wilson
before the members of the Railroad
Business association in New York. 1t
was the presidents first speech in the
campaign for preparedness.
Eugene Van Schaick, millionaire
president of the Knickerbocker Oil
and Gas company, and cousin of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, committed sui.
eide by shooting at his office in New
York. He had been i'll
One man was killed and part OF a
fast New York-St. Louis Pennsylvania
limited train Topped over into a l5-
foot gully. shaking up AZ passengers.
when the train struck an automobile
near Newark. o.
The Republican state convention at
Madison, Wis, selected 26 candidates
for delegates to the national Republic
an convention in Chicago next June,
adopted a platform dealing entirely
with national questions except for a
paragraph indorsins the administra-
tion of Gov. Philip. and postponed
the Endorsement of a candidate for
United States senator to oppose Sen
ator La Toilette until later confer.
ence.
A car loaded with black powder ex-
ploded in the yards of the Norfolk and
Western railroad at Bluefieid. w. Va.
injuring more than forty persons, sew
eral probably fatally. ands causing
heavy damage.
A bill which would submit consti
tuticnal amendment providing for
statewide prohibition was defeated.
20 to IA. In the upper house of the gen.
eral assembly at Frankfort. Ky. where
1t originated.
Sheriff Matt Olson of Barron. Wis.
was shot and killed by John Baralek
on the latter's farm when the sheriff
attempted to arrest Baralek ON
minor charge. Baraiek was arrested.
Washington
President Wilson selected Louis D.
Brandeis of Boston to be associate
justice Of the Supreme court to sue
coed the late Justice Lamar Mr..
Bran1eis' nomiI ation went to the SEN
ate at Washington. Mr.. Brandeis is
a lawyer, who has been much in public
life during he last three years. He
is Kentuckian by birth and is sixty
years old. Mr. Brandeis will be the
first Jew to sit on the bench of the
Supreme court.
President Wilson left on his one
week expedition to preach the admin
istration's preparedness program to
the people. He is scheduled to make
10 speeches before his return to Wash
ington.
The text OF the American protest to
Great Britain against interference
with neutral mails. made public at
Washington, reveals that diplomatic
and consular pouches have been treat.
ed in manner the United States con-
siders "vexatiously inquisitorial." The
United States declares that parcel
post articles are entitled to the ex-
of neutral trade. (.
Internal revenue receipts for the six
months from July to December. inclu-
sive, on spirituous liquor taxes aggre-
gated $50, 100000, a gain of $741,00
over the corresponding six months OF
1914, it was announced at Washington.
To pay for the preparedness pro-
gram of the administration at Wash.
ington revision of the income tax
law is to be made by congress which
will net easily an extra S10O. 100000 Of
revenue. This plan. which has been
by the president and Demo
cratic leaders. means the repeal of the
existing stamp taxes imposed under
the emergency act of October %.
1914.
The munitions embargo clouds
which have been lowering over the
senate at Washington for several days
broke into deluge when a mammoth
petition for an embargo on arms. bear
ing over million signatures, was pre-
sented. The petition was worked up
by the organization of Women for
Strict Neutrality.
The administration at Washington
definitely committed itself to complete
Independence of the Philippines within
four years, abandoning its partial self.
government plan for the islands
Mexican Revolt
The bodies OF Benjamin Smell and
Frank Woods, American cowboys. have.
been found west of Cusihuiriachic, &C.
cording to an uncontirmed report from
western Chihuahua reaching FL Paso
George C. Carothers. special agent