Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-04-06
Domestic


Exports of domestic merchandise
valued at s22O.246,O21 shipped through
the port of New York during February.
established a new record from any
American port. according to figures
made public by customs officials.
The British steamer Matoppo put In
at Lewes, Del. with a thrilling tale
of piracy A German stowaway, armed
with two revolvers. had come within a
hairs breadth of capturing single
handed the vessel and it's cargo Of war
munitions destined for Russia. Ernest
Schiller. the German. is under arrest
Twenty-six persons were killed and
forty injured in the wreck Of three of
the New York Centrals crack passen.
ger trains mile west OF Amherst. o.
The signal set by the first section of
the east.bound Observation-Disclosures
Buffalo limited was not observed, caus-
ing another section of that train to
crash into 1t. A short time later the
Twentieth Century limited. west
bound. crashed into the wreckage
which had piled up on the westbound
track. A slip on the part of doing
tower man was to blame for the
wreck
The will of Mrs. Lucy Carnegie, sis
ter.in.law of Andrew Carnegie. has
been filed at Pittsburgh. Pa. for pro-
bate. The document gives her $10.-
100000 estate to her five children.
Ap attempt on the part of her hus-
band to kill her mother with gas was
related by Mrs. Clara Louise Peck
Waite to DIR. A. w. Wishart at Grand
Rapids, Mich. But for the fact that she
awakened and detected the noxious
odor he might have succeeded. she
said.
A legal attempt to GUST the Wander.
bilt interests from control of the man
agement of the New York Central
railroad was begun in the supreme
court at New York
Chicago faces a milk famine begin
ming April 1. A strike has been called
for that date by the Milk Producers as
ISOLATION. which takes in the territory
Of northern Illinois and Indiana and
southern Wisconsin. A raise from
$1.33 1-3 to s1.55 per hundredweight is
demanded.
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. editor of
the Los Angeles Times, continues to
improve in his fight against pneumonia.
He passed a good night without the
aid of stimulants.
Capt. Hans Tauscher, an officer OF
the German navy and the husband of
Nine. Johanna Gadski, the opera sing
er. was arrested at New York on fed
eral warrant charging him with being
concerned in conspiracy to blow up
the Welland canal In Canada.
Judge A. B. Anderson granted the
motion to quash the indictments re.
Gently returned at Youngstown
against Ave steel companies. charging
them with conspiring to fix the price
Of labor and steel products.
DR., Arthur Warren Waite confessed
at New York that he killed his moth.
er-in-law. Mrs. Hannah Peck, with dis
ease germs and murdered his father.
in-law. John e. Peck. with arsenic.
The dentists confession was made to
District Attorney Swami.
Gov. Hiram w. Johnson issued q
proclamation at Sacramento, Cal, ex
GLIDING from intrastate business in
California about $500 corporations. In
GLIDING the Ford Automobile com
pany. for failure to pay the state fran
chise tax last year.
The Oliphant plant OF the Du Point
Powder company, near Uniontown
Pa, was blown up by an explosion
Four men were injured. two seriously
No cause was assigned for the acct.
dent