The Newark journal., 1903-05-29

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 A general strike of all railway freight handlers at St. Louis block ed freight traffic for several days.
 Three lives were lost and several persons injured at a fire which de- stroyed the graded school building at Carlisle, Ky.
 Four persons were killed and Gge badly injured by the falling of an elevator from the fifth floor If dancing academy at Philadelphia.
 R. N. Franklin, an Alabama planter, has been indicted in fed eral court on the charge of detain- ing a negro as a slave for over a. year.
 In a trial trip between the old yacht Columbia and the Reliance, the new boat built to defend the cup against Lord Tipton's Sham rock III, the Reliance defeated the old champion with ease.
 The big packers of Chicago have refused to grant an increase in wages to employees, and declare that in ease of strike they will shut down their plants and supply the trade from other cities.
 The attorney general of Texas has filed suits against a number of wholesale grocer dealers of San An tonic, alleging that they have form ed a combination or trust in viola tion of the state antitrust act.
 Running at a high rate of speed, Grand Trunk passenger train crashed into an electric car where the two tracks cross at Forty-ninth street, Chicago, seriously injuring five passengers on the trolley car.
 Paper box manufacturers com plain that the Strawboard trust has recently increased the cost of raw material $8 per ton, which will in- crease the cost of paper boxes to such an extent that these articles will be disposed with in many eases.
 The war department has direct ed Gen. Funston to begin court martial proceedings against Lieut.. L. N. Rushfeld, Seventeenth in- fantry, who is charged with being short in his accounts while acting quartermaster and commissary at Fort Lawton.
 The strike of boiler makers on the Union Pacific, which was be- gun in June, 1909, has been settled by the granting of an increase in wages demanded by the strikers. The ordering of a sympathetic strike on the Southern Pacific brought about conference at which the trouble was settled.
 Chicago health officers have dis covered that hundreds of infants are dying daily from being fed im- pure milk. Investigations by the tails of uncleanliness and disease pure milk commission reveals de- breeding conditions almost unbe- lieyable Physicians, chemists and bacteriologists agree that dirty and adnlterated milk are claiming their victims by the hundreds.
 Capt W. r. Norton, an eccentric millionaire of Louisville, Ky, who died recently, left the bulk of his fortune to orphan asylums. Ia his will it was provided that while his remains were being cremated an orchestra should play popular airs and his friends should drink and make merry on the occasion. He belonged to no church, but during his life time gave freely of his means to the deserving poor.
 Suit has been filed in the federal court at Texarkana by Charles B. Brown against the Texas and Pa- cifc Railway Company on claim of s4,9o0,Oo0, which plaintiff claims to be due on d bond issue made thirty-fve years ago by the Memphis, Fl Paso and Pacific Railway Company, which was sub- sequently merged into and became a part of the Texas and Pacific. Some of the most eminent lawyers in Texas have been retained by the plaintiffs.
 The Jewish citizens of every city and town in the United States are contributing to the relief of their suffering brothers in Russia.
 Several Kansas towns were swept by tornado on the goth. At Ash land the best residence portion was wrecked and several persons in- jured. In Salina county William and Peter Olsen were killed and dozen or more injured, and at Kins- ley ajyoung girl by the name of Tutge was crushed to death.