The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-30

itect, charging them with manslaughter
in the second degree for the collapse on
Aug 8 of the department store build
ing of the John G.. Myers company,
when thirteen persons were killed or
fatally injured and thirty others We're
hurt.
The New York Herald's Washington
correspondent states that the isthmian
canal commission will take adverse ac-
ton on the sea level project. The Her
aid also says that Secretary Taft ex-
poets that the advocates of the con-
! struction Of a canal across the isthmus
of Darien, which involves the tunnel
ing of a mountain, will appear before
congress in advocacy of that route.
Senator Foraker has presented to the
| senate committee on interstate COM
merce the draft of his bill to amend
| the interstate commerce law. The sem
ator stated that he had tried to meet
the complaints against present railroad
regulation and at the same time avoid
comforting upon the interstate COM
merce commission or any similar body
the power over railroad rates.
The Record Herald of Chicago says:
An organized movement on the part of
the railroad employees in every branch
of the service has been put on foot to
secure concerted action against the
presidents idea of rate legislation.
Rate regulation, in the opinion of many
of the employees, means a subsequent
reduction in wages for them.
United States Senator Joseph Burton
of Kansas was found guilty in the
United States circuit court at st. Louis
of the charge that he practiced before
the postofiice department at Washing
ton while a United States senator to
prevent the issuance of a fraud order
against the Rialto Grain and Securi-
ties company of st. Louis
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the decision of the
United States district court of Vermont
in the case of Mrs. Mary Mabel Rog-
ers. who is under sentence of death
in Vermont for the murder of her hus-
band Unless the state authorities in
tervene Mrs. Rogers will be hanged on
Dec. 8.
United States District Attorney John
G. Rose of Baltimore said that, with the
hope of stopping 'shanghaiing, as the
forcible shipment of clustering crews is
called, he contemplates attempting to
apply to the oystermen the federal law
forbidding the advancing of money to
seamen before they ship.
The total value of merchandise ex
ported from the United States to China
in the ten months ended with October
1905, was $50 104,T67 against $20,55I,-
1874 for the same period of 1904, which
up to that time was the high record
year in our export trade with China.
A secret meeting was held in Phila-
delphia a few days ago by the anthra-
cite operators, says a Pittsburg dis
patch in the New York Tribune. They
decided to fight the demands which
will undoubtedly be made by the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America
Mark Twain says that although hui
mainly has reason to be thankful this
fall, he believes the Deity is not thank
full for certain mundane happenings.
such as the nlassacres in Russia, life
insurance revelations, etc.
President Roosevelt removed from
office William S. Lieb, assistant Unit
ed States treasurer at Philadelphia, for
alleged constant and persistent VIC
lation Of the civil service law while III
Office
Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor by practically unanimous vote
Minneapolis, Mimi, was selected as the
next place Of meeting of the federation.
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, has
appointed August Belmont of New
York treasurer of the committee, to
succeed George Foster Peabody.
Bishop Henry NJ. Turner of the Afri-
can Methodist church in an address at
Macon, Ga, made an imprisoned at
tack upon the government and the
United States supreme court.
The department of agriculture an
nounces a growing market for guinea
fowl as table birds and suggests that
I Cley Hight wen De Dfeu III the United
States more extensively.
BY means of the breeches buoy and
the heroic action of Robert Smith, a
life saver, the passengers and crew of
the steamer Argo, wrecked near HoI-
land, Mich, were saved.
Protestant Episcopal Bishop W. c.
Doane of Albany, N Y, in his annual
address declared himself in favor of a
canon opposing the remarriage of di-
vorced persons.
The court OF appeals, the highest tri.
bunal in New York state, has denied
the motion made in behalf of Albert T.
Patrick, convicted of murder.
The fund raised in America to aid
the victims, principally Jewish, of the
recent massacres in Russia is rapidly
nearing the $1,000,000 mark.
The state of Pennsylvania, through
Governor Pennypacker, has presented
a handsome silver service to the ar
mored cruiser Pennsylvania
d. T. Hurley. captain of the Harvard