Fair play., 1905-04-29

The Chicago-Denvcr express on the
Rock Island road collidcd with a switch
ing engine at Lincoln, Neb, completely
wrecking both engines. r. L. Latter.
a mail clerk, was seriously injured.
Actipg Superintendent Fred H. VIZ
son end seven clerks of the Indian
warehouse in New York city were sum
marily dismissed as the result of an
official investigation, which revealed
the fact that men were being carried
on the payroll who never performed
any service. One was bartender
practical and successful test has
just been made on the Great Northern
railroad of an automobile as an inspec-
tion car.
Twenty Hungarian laborers were
chloroformed in boarding house at
Omrod, Pa, and robbed of about $4,000
900.
An unknown man fired at the burgo-
master of Bralystok, Russian Poland,
and missed his aim, but the bullet
killed passing Cossack.
Advices from West Palm Beach, Fla,
on the night of the Goth. were of
hopeful tenor with regard to Joseph
jefferson, the veteran actor. Doctor
and attendants thought the worst had
been passed and that slow recovery
would follow.
The remains of John Paul Jones have
been temporarily deposited in the re-
cciVing vault of the American Church
of the Holy Trinity in Paris, to await
the arrival of the naval escort from the
United States.
Immediate steps are TO be taken by
Mayor Dunno of Chicago to urge upon
the state legislature the passage Of
bill which will enable Chicago TO en-
gage in the manufacture of gas.
Three children of John Hunkle were
burned to death and fourth probably
fatally burned at Greensburg Pa, as the
result of fire originating from the
explosion of a bottle of gasoline in the
Kunllle home.
The city of Chicago has been perma-
nently enjoined by Judge Grosscup
from enforcing the so-called inter-
changeabe transfer ordinance, as ap-
plying to street railways. The city
will take an appeal.
Col. G. Havard and Capt. William
V. Judson, United States military OBJ
servers with the Russian army in Man
churia, and who were captured by the
japanese at Mukden, have arrived
home. Capt, Judson says no one can
help liking Gen. Kuropatkin.
Richn~l H. Little, the well-known
war correspondent who was with the
Russian army in Manchuria and who
| was reported killed by Chinese in
Mukden, has returned home to Chlca-
go. He was captured by the japanese
and afterwards set at liberty.
| Cowboys arriving at Lawton, Okla.
| from the big pasture, where the presi
| dent recently hunted wolves, say that
| dead coyotes are being found over
the entire tract, evidently run to
| death.
Ten miners were imprisoned in the
Cabin Creek mine at Kainford, w. Va,
by an explosion. Five of the number
managed to reach the surface in a ter
ribly mangled condition. The other
| five pershed
The Grant W. Kinney elevator at
| Argentine, Kas., together with $4,000
bushels of wheat, 1900 bushels of
corn and 1000 bushels of oats, was de-
stroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
| Five girls were hurt, one seriously,
during panic among the so women
employed by the Kaufman Manufac-
| turing Co at Kansas City, Mo. Fall
| ing plaster from the ceiling caused
them to think the building was col
apsing, and in the stampede down
the narrow stairway the girls were
| bruised and otherwise hurt.
Mrs Jane Russell Parker motherin,
law of Mayor Wells of St Louis, is
dead after a long illness with heart
| trouble.
After an exciting canvass, Mrs.
Donald Mclean, of New York city
was elected president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
to succeed Mrs. Fairbanks wife of the
| vice-president of the United States.
Charles Finck, cra2ed with cocaine,
threw Loretta Kreckler aged nine
years, from the Liberty street Viaduct
in Cincinnati, to the street, distance
of SO feet, fatally injuring her. Finch
was arrested.
Former Mayor John b. Goodwin. OF
| Atlanta, Ga, has been appointed grand
secretary of the sovereign grand lodge
of Odd Fellows to succeed J. Frank
Grant, of Baltimore, Md, deceased
A commission has been appointed, in
| New York, to determine the mental
condition of Gesscr Rosseau, convict
ed of sending an internal machine to
the steamship Umbria in May, 1908,
Several thousand emigrants, for the
most part bound for America, are held
up in Rome being unable to reach Ma
pies on account of the strike on the
Italian railroads.
| Att'y-Gen. Hadley of Missouri has
given an Official opinion to GOV. FolR
that gasoline must be inspected in
Missouri under the provisions of the
inspection statute.
Negotiations are under way In Chl-
cago for the acquisition by tie NUM-
cipality of the street railways OF the
city. IL Is believed that arrangements
will be made without legal complica-
tions.
The Montgomery WARD strike in Chi
cago has developed some ugly features
Thuggery Is resorted to by organized
gangs, who go to the limit in beatlhE
their victims.