The La Jara chronicle., 1906-10-19

The supreme court of the United
States has denied the petition OF
Former United States Senator Bur-
ton, of Kansas. for a rehearing in
the case in which he is under SEN
tence OF Imprisonment and fine and
it is expected he will begin serving
the six months sentence at once.
The Spanish ministry has an
nounced that the war budget has
been increased by s2.16o.0o0.
1t is expected that 1,50o delegates
will attend the mining congress at
Denver.
The general manager of the Iowa
Central railway has announced an
increase in the pay OF the telegraph
operators of the system beginning
November /.
Damages of fully 100000 includ-
ing the partial demolition of one
town was done by the hurricane on
the coast of Central America.
A negro has been sentenced to
life imprisonment in Iowa for as
sault
Testimony has been presented to
the interstate commerce commits
sion at Chicago attempting to prove
the existence OF grain trust.
The Chicago club of the American
baseball league defeated the pennant
winners of the National league in the
sixth championship game by score
of s to 3 and in doing SO won the
championship of the world.
Charles E. Magoon has assumed
the governorship of Cuba and has Is
sued a proclamation declaring that
the policies of Secretlry Taft would
be strictly adhered to and carried
out.
Suit has been commenced In the
district court of Shawnee county,
Kansas, under the antitrust laws of
the state against the International
Harvester company of America on so
counts alleging combination for the
purpose OF preventing competition in
the sale of agricultural machinery.
1t is reported in territory oil cir
cles that the Texas Oil company
and the Standard Oil company have
combined to construct a pipe line
from the Midcontinent field to the
gulf
To indictments have been returned
by grand jury against persons
charged with participating in the
lynching OF a negro at Argenta. Ark.
AT meeting OF the board OF regents
OF the university of Kansas a PROPOSE
tion presented by Chancellor Strong
to ask Andrew Carnegie for money,
with which to build a new fine arts
butldfng was voted down
The internatit val balloon race for
the Bennett cup, won recently by
Lieut.. Lahm, in Paris will next year
be started from st. Louis unless pres
ent plans of the merican Aero club
miscarry.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the NJ. E. church recently
held their 25th annual convention at
Lincoln, Neb. Every state in the
Union was represented by the 200
delegates present
The schooner yacht Frolic for which
the revenue and immigration author
tiles along the New England coast
have been watching for two weeks,
succeeding in landing AZ contraband
Chinese immigrants at Providence. r.
l. The vessel was later confiscated
by the government and a portion of
the crew and II of the Cinnamon
arrested.
Cablegrams to all parts of the world
have been sent out from New York
asking the authorities to watch for
Manuel Silviera, who recently alb
seconded from Havana, Cuba, with
81 900, 900, thereby causing the failure
of the New York bank of j. NJ Cebal-
los & Co.
At Summerside. Prince Edward Is
land, fire destroyed AZ buildings in
cluding the post office. four hotels and
the English and Baptist churches.
Five men We're killed in a head-on
freight collision on the Union Pacific
railroad near Laramie. Wyo.
In the trial of :he Standard Oil
company at FIndlay, Ohio, all the OBJ
jections of the defendant to the in
PRODUCTION of the New Jersey records
were overruled by the court. The
evidence submitted shows how the
company was organized after being
driven from Ohio.
Edward Raker died recently in the
Ohio penitentiary while serving his
third sentence for stealing the same
horse.
Judge Wilson, in the district court
at Wichita. Kan, has decided that
separate schools for whites and blacks
in that city are legal. The negroes
will carry the case to the supreme
court.
Three men were killed and dozen
others rendered unconscious by an ex-
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