The Irish standard., 1906-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

by an agreement of counsel, the
cases against the packing companies of
Swift, Cudahy, Armour and Nelson
Morris, charged with accepting rebates,
were consolidated in the United States
district court at Kansas City and
Judge Mcpherson agreed to the attor-
neys presenting the cases to the jury
on a statement of facts. No witnesses
will be examined.
Vice President E. V. w. Rossiter, of
the New York Central, testified that
the Beech Creek Coal & Coke company
had presented the railroad with 5000
, shares Of stock, par value 500 "for
traffic reasons"
Doss Galbraith and Hill Gooch,
blacksmiths, were arrested at Spring
field, Mo-, charged with murder in the
first degree for their alleged participa-
ton in the lynching of three negroes
on the night Of April IA.
The National Liquor Dealers asso-
citation, in convention at Louisville,
KY, issued an address to the people of
the United States, in which the belief
of its members in Temperance is ex-
pressed; obedience to the law is in
dorsed; the work of the various tenn
perance societies is commended, and
the statement made that intoxication
should be considered a crime.
A resolution was introduced before
the southern states immigration COM
mission requesting congress to allow
the importation of laborers by en-
ployers, the contracts between such
laborers and their employers to be filed
with the government at any port of
entry and the wages to be not less
than the recognized standard of the
locality in which the work is to he
done.
The final order of the Illinois rail-
road and warehouse commission makes
ten per cent reduction on the sixth
class, and eight per cent, reduction on
the seventh class, material reduction
being made on the eighth, ninth and
tenth classes. ten per cent. reduce
ton is made on wheat, grain, lumber.
salt, coal and hogs.
The Democrats of the Twelfth 1ndi-
ana district nominated DR.. John w.
Mari, of Albion, as their candidate for
congress.
The seventeenth miners information
al congress opened at London with 11e
delegates present, representing the
United States, Great Britain, Germany.
Austria, France and Belgium.
F'raternal societies are not liable "a
regular life insurance companies ac-
cording to ruling by the Missouri
supreme court. Mary WNsterman sued
the Knights of Pythias for s5,236 for
the death of her husband. The lodge
refused to pay because Westerman
failed to make payment.
The Madrid police arrested an ele.
gantly dressed Englishman. who gave
his name as Robert Hamilton. as he
was boarding a train, as the person
nearest to fitting the description of
the author of the outrage; but q
lengthy interrogation of the prisoner
gave no satisfactory results.
A bomb of terrific power was hurled
at the king Of Spain, Alfonso XIII.
and his queen, Victoria, as they were
returning from the church at Madrid
where the marriage ceremony was per
formed. The royal couple escaped in.
jury, but 16 other persons were killed
ana many were injured.
Delegates to the annual meeting n
the tri-State Grain Dealers conyen.
ton and country grain men generally
met in Minneapolis. South Dakota was
we'll represented. The association IS
composed of country grain dealers OF
Minnesota and South Dakota PRINCIPAL.
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w. X. Vanderbilt's Prestige won the
Victor stakes at the Long Champs
races.
The engagement is announced of
Bertha Krupp, owner of the Krupu
works, at Essen. to Gustav Won Bob
= len und Halbach, secretary of the
Prussian legation at the Vatican.