The leader., 1904-12-17

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governments invitation to participate
in a second peace conference at The
Hague, provided the rulings Of the con-
ference should not affect the present
conflict.
The Farmers state bank, Of Lam
bert, Okla, has been robbed by three
men who dynamited the safe, obtain
ing $4,000 as their booty.
The income of Bertha Krupp, who
owns nearly all the $40,000,000 capital
Of the Krupp company, is $2,40O,000,
the company having just declared o
six per cent. dividend.
At Trenton, S. c., B B. Hughes, his
wife and two daughters, were murder
ed by unknown persons while they
slept. Their house was set on fire, and
the bodies Of all were burned to a
crisp.
Syveton, the nationalist deputy
whose action in striking War Minister
Andre in the French chamber Of depu-
ties November led to the minister's
resignation, was found dead in Paris,
having been asphyxiated by gas.
The relatives of ]. L. Boyd, a 16-
year-old jockey, whose whereabouts
are unknown, state that he is the sole
heir to an estate of 100000 left him by
his grandmother.
Charles H. Slack & Co., prominent
Chicago grocers, failed with liabilities
of $167, 900 and assets of 100000.
The safe of the Point Pleasant (W
Va.) post Office was dynamited and 81 ,050
in stamps, $160 cash and number of
registered letters were taken.
w. H. Thompson, secretary of the st.
Louis Worlds Fair company, may sue
ceed Secretary of the Treasury Shaw.
Rabbi Abraham Click. was snowballed
by crowd of schoolboys in Chicago and
soon after dropped dead.
Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely,
in his annual report, tells Of the splen-
did financial condition of the country,
and declares that the people of the Unit
ed States are the richest in the world.
Special efforts are being made to get
in the river and harbor bill provision
for the beginning of work on waterway
from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi.
The drought is growing worse every
day and stockmen of central Illinois are
concerned over the difficulty in supply
ing water for their stock. Water has to
be hauled many miles in some instances.
The Vermont house of Representatives
refused to pass to a third reading bill
to commute to life imprisonment the
sentence of hanging imposed upon Mrs.
Mary M. Rogers, who was convicted of
numbering her husband.
By an order of the court women will
be excluded from the second trial of Nan
Patterson.
An official statement given out by the
interior department announces the gov
ernment's purpose to prosecute every
guilty man in the public land frauds to
the full extent of the law, regardless of
position in life
Messenger Evan Roberts, of the Wells
Fargo company, who was shot recently
by train robber while en- route to Los
Angeles over the Santa Fe railroad near
the Needles, is dead.
Thomas B. Ayers and wife, of Meadow
Grove, Neb., each SO years old, were
caught on a high bridge by train, and
were hurled to death.
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles is head
ing movement for the erection of a
monument on the site Of the famous An
dersonville prison, at Andersonville,
Ga.
According to the annual report of
Herbert Putnam, librarian of congress,
the total number of printed books and
pamphlets in the library is LIS, ,713, a
gain of 1871 for the past fiscal year.
A bold robbery was committed at the
Office of the waterworks department, in
the city hail. Cleveland, o. About $1,000
in currency and checks was taken from
the desk of Cashier c. A. Patterson
while he had stepped aside for mo-
ment.
Ralph Adams, aged 16; Frank Bay
less, aged 16, and Burdett Bleet, aged IL.
were drowned while skating on the Lake
Of the Woods, near Decatur, Mich.
The annual report Of Secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock tells of protection of
public domain, reclamation of arid lands
by irrigation and decrease in timber
frauds.
The president has decided to appoint
a special attorney to investigate opera
tions of the tobacco trust"
Hugh Mclaughlin, leader of the Kings
County Democracy, died suddenly in
Brooklyn from heart disease
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in his
annual report, points out that nonelas-
ticity in the monetary system is weak
ness, and advocates remedial legisla-
tion. He also urges a law to place the big
trust companies under federal supervi-
sion.
Richard A. Garfield and David w
Bucklin furnished the evidence to con-
Wet themselves of keeping a gambling
house in New York. and after being in
dicted paid fine of 81 900 each.
The water Of the reservoir of the Es-
2eranza mine in Mexico broke its bounds
and rushed with roar down the noun
tain. Five natives were drowned.
Plans for a big combine of cattle
raisers, to INCLUDE sheep and COW men,
were launched in Chicago.
Sir Thomas Upton has been sued
for $4,000 by former employe, who
alleges defamation of character.
Congress may appoint a committee
to inquire into the interstate COM
merce law, according to the presi-
dents wish.
The annual report of Secretary of the
Navy Morton favors big battleships
constructed by private contract and es,
tablishment of a government gun fac