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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
DENoUNCE ACaUITTAL OF GROVE
Omaha Business Men Declare Verdict

Omaha Business Men Declare Verdict
to Be ''Travesty on Justice"
The executive committee of the Com
mercial Club of Omaha, the leading COM
mercial organization of the city, has
adopted resolutions denOuncing the recent
acquittal of Pat Grove of the charge of
robbing e. A. Cudahy in connection with
the kidnapping of the latter's son in De
cember, 1900. The resolutions declare the
verdict "a travesty on justice" and say ::
"The evidence against this man was per-
fectly clear and should have resulted in
his conviction of the crime charged and
admitted"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Operated on Thirty-tro Times.

Charles Roraln submitted in the Ger
man hospital at Newark, n. j., to the
thirty-second operation that has been per-
formed on one of his legs in fourteen
years. The thirty-one preceding opera
lions had taken away almost all of his
leg, and the surgeons found only a
stump.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Slcuths Find kidnancd Baby

Pauline Skillman, the Indianapolis
child who was kidnapped by her father,
Paul V. SkiIlman, in November and
whose Borrowing mother so excited the
sympathy of Mrs. Roosevelt that she urg-
ed Mayor Bookwalter to renewed activity,
has been found by detectives in San
Francisco and will be returned to her
rnnt hnr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Ends Life with Frecdom Nenr.

Thomas Magic, charged with murder,
was found dead in his cell in Philadel-
phia. having starved himself because his
case was not brought to trial although
he had been in Jail eighteen months. He
did not know that he would have been
brought TO trial within a week. and there
is every reason to believe that he would
nave been acquitted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Would Abolish Treating.

In Columbus, Ohio, the House COM
mttee on temperance favorably reported
the Spangler anti-treating bill. The
measure makes it unlawful for any per-
son to buy a drink for another in sa-
loon or in any place where liquor is sold.
1t also prohibits bartenders giving away
drinks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Diamond Robber Nets $4,000.

Diamonds and rings valued at $4,000
were secured by two robbers on crowded
street in Dayton, Ohio, at 6 o'clock the
other evening. The men drove up in a
buggy. One held the horse while the 9th
er broke a window and grabbed a tray.
After firing at the crowd they drove rap
idly away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
EXCITEMENT IS JUSTIFIED.
"omnn's Husband Demands n
Apology in Morris Case.

DR.. Minor Morris, whose wife was
elected from the White House in Wash
ington several weeks ago, has given out
for publication the correspondence which
recently passed between himself and the
President regarding the case. DR.. Nor
ris demanded a public apology of the
President "for this outrage on woman
hood and common decancy." Secretary
Loeb replied to the letter, stating that an
investigation by the chief of police show
ed that the arrest was justified, and that
the kindest act to Mrs Morris and her
kinsfolk would be to refrain from giving
the case additional publicity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Noted suYragist Has Pnralxnis.

While making preparations to go to
New York to attend a banquet and recep-
ton in honor of her eighty-sixth birthday
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the noted suf-
fragist, was seized with a stroke of paral-
ysis at her home in Rochester and lies in
a critical condition, although hopes are
entertained of her recovery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Relieving the Metzger bill will pass,
Cleveland officials are planning ordi-
nanceS giving the right to parallel at
least five car lines to the lowest bidder.
The Metzger bill provides for a vote of
the people Should they approve. work
on 3-cent lines would start at once I'M
less the monopoly capitulated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Torpedo Boat winsIow Disabled.

The torpedo boat Winslow of Spanish
war-Cardenas fame was towed to the
Norfolk navy yard Friday from sea by the
naval tug Mohawk, with her engines COM
pletcly disabled. The Winslow left New
York Tuesday for that station and suf-
fered three breakdowns during her voy-
age, the last one leaving her helpless off
Cape Henry, when the Mohawk was hur-
ried to her assistance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Choked in Picket Fence.

Martin Rogers, a Steamftter, was found
dead with his neck between the picketS of
a fence in Sixteenth avenue. Minneapolis.
Investigation showed that Rogers. who is
known to have been drinking, slipped on
the icy sidewalk and fell between the
fence picketS, where he was strangled to
death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Kills Himself in School Building

While fifty children were praying dur
ing religious exercises at st. Michaels Pa
rochial School in st. Louis, William
Hemphill, aged Al, recently discharged
after a long service as janitor of the
school, entered an adjoining room and
committed suicide by shooting himself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Thirty Hurt in Explosion

Thirty persons were hurt, three of
whom will die, by the explosion of 200
pound charge of dynamite, which was
struck by steam shovel at the Carnegie
Steel Company's plant at Duquesne, Pa.
The shovel was removing a Stag pile that
had been previously broken up with the
ovrlociua
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Trafnmen Held for Theft.

While on the lookout for Dayton dia-
mond robbers in the Big Four yards in
Middletown, Ohio, the police arrested
part of the train crew of a Big Four
south-bound freight train. Many articles
were found, the police claim, in the lock-
ers of the caboose after the cars had
been rited
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
plan. 4O-story sLyscraper

The Singer Manufacturing Company
has filed plans with Building Superin-
tendent Murphy IN New York for forty
story structure which will be higher than
all existing sl1yscrapers by from 200 to
300 feet and will be about forty feet high
err than the Washington monument
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Cowcatchers for Trolley Cars.

The Metropolitan Street Railway Com.
pany of New York is experimenting with
new car tenders designed much like the
cowcatchers of the steam locomotives. Ii
comes to a point in front 2 inches from
the ground, and is so constructed thai
a body caught by it will be showed to
either side clear of the forward trucks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Real Suicide Act on Stage,

Mrs. c. A. Weilder left box seat in
the Crystal theater, Denver, Colo, at the
opening of the afternoon performance,
made her way to the stage, and shot her.
self before the audience. She probably
will die. The audience thought it was
part of a vaudeville sketch until the
woman was carried from the stage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Lawson's Copper Secret Out.

The Boston Herald reports that the
basis of Thomas W. Lawson's bear cam
paign on the copper market is the dis
covery made by DR.. Alexander Shells, a
chemist of Glasgow, Scotland, through
which it is possible to manufacture COM
mercial copper at a cost of ? cents a
pound Although the process is not
known, it is said that the basis of it is
low-grade iron ore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

backed by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League,
which provides for municipal local OPP
ton by petition instead of by election,
places the initiative exclusively in the
hands of the temperance people and it is
claimed by the AntiSaloon League that
it will enable the people to drive saloons
from all the residence districts of cities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Entire Company Is Slain.

An unconfrme2 dispatch has reached
the British government reporting that five
British officers and a company of native
troops have been killed by fanatics near
Sokoto, in northern Nigeria. A dispatch
from Lagos, Africa, reports that a punt
tive expedition has been sent out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Decides Against Union.

The Illinois Supreme Court has af-
frmed the sentences against Franklin
Union No. 4 of Chicago, holding the
union guilty of conspiracy and response
BILE for the acts of its members in as
saulting non-union workers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Four Persons Burn IN death

-Four persons were burned to death.
three others were seriously injured aud
four horses were destroyed by fire which
originated in the home of Patrick Grogan
at Tunnel Hil.. about twenty-seven miles
east of JohnStown, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Offers to Give Up Booty.

Cashier Casey, who wrecked the Salem,
Mo-, bank, has offered to plead guilty and
locate 100000 of the stolen funds if
sentenced to not more than five years in
the penitentiary. The judge refused to
dicker with him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

The new armored cruiser Tennessee, in
her screw standardization trials at Rock
land, Me-, showed a speed of 22.36 knots
per hour. The average screw revolutions
were 1913 per minute for five hours.
and the revolutions necessary TO reach
her contract speed of twenty-five knots
an hour are figured at 1868.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Woman Dies in Smoke.

blinded by smoke in her attempt to
escape from 4 burning fiat building at
G050 Washington avenue, Chicago. Mrs
John Hanly, % years old, lost her way
while cropping for the exit, and when
found by Fire Captain Goetz she was
SuffoCated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
C,hnrged Mith Thirtr N1nrhers

Thirty murders are charged to Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone, leaders in the
Western Federation of Miners and re-
Gently arrested for the assassination of
former Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho by De-
tective James McParlan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
AGITATION for Popular Senate

The Iowa Senate has started ma
tional movement for reform of the Sen
ate. calling a convention of the States
with a view to amendment of the Con
stitution so as to permit elections by pop
ular vote
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
BanI, Robber Shoe and Cartnrcd.

Three robbers blew open the vault of
the Missouri City bank at Missouri City.
Officers were aroused and the robbers fed
after Il fight with pistols. One of the
robbers, Leonard Bell, alias Edward Dun
can. was overtaken at Randolph, shot in
the back and captured
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Explosion Kills Thirteen,

An explosion in tie Victor Fuel Com
pany's Maitland, Colo, mine caused the
death of at least thirteen miners and per-
haps sixteen. The explosion was caused
by gas and the deaths were caused by the
gas and afterdamp.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Lakewood, \. j. His
d e a t h followed a
breakdown due to
the strain and wor-
ries caused by dis
closures to the legis-
lative insurance in
vestigating commit
tee.
Mr.. Mccall was
subjected to a severe
examination as a
witness before the
committee, and the
legislative work of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Severe EarthouaI>e shook,

Another very severe earthquake shock
was felt Wednesday on the British West
Indian island of St. Lucia. Slight shocks
hav been felt there at frequent intervals
sin, Feb. 16.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
ChIoroform in wifeIy Touch.

view, Ohio, filed a suit for divorce from
his wife, Ada, alleging, among other
things, that she chloroformed him while
asleep in order to rife his pockets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
losses on Stored Errx

The warm weather has brought heavy
production of fresh eggs, and as a result
it is estimated there have been losses ag-
gregating from 100000 to S45O.OOO on
the storage supply in Chicago, the price
going as low as cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Confesses Twenty-sfx Murders

Confession that he plotted the death of
former Gov. Steunenberg and murdered
twenty-siX persons, made by Harry Or
chard, under arrest at Boise, Idaho, for
murder, has been revealed in a statement
issued by Gov. Gooding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
ohio,s Head Losing Mind

In a habeas corpus case in Common
Pleas Court in Columbus, Ohio, DR.. E. ].
Wilson, attending physician, testified that
Gov. Pattison because of his bodily illness
is incapable eff sustained attention to any
subject.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Joseph Arthur Passe. Awav

Joseph Arthur, playwright, died at the
Normandie hotel in New York, of
Bright's disease, after months illness.
His wife and several friends were at his
bedside. He had not been in robust health
for three years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Gen. Charles II. Grosvenor, the veteran
Congressman from the Eleventh Ohio
District, was beaten in the Republican
convention at Lancaster by Albert Doug
Las
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

With only four negative votes the Unit
ed States Senate passed the Hepburn
pure food bill, with the alleged under
standing that the House is to fail to take
any action on the measure at this ses-
sion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

A. B. Swift, son of L. F. Swift, the
Chicago packer, prevented an explosion
of the gasoline tank in his automobile at
Los Angeles by hurting Lawrence Red
ington of Santa Barbara, whose coat had
caught fire, out into the street Mr.
Swift then leaped oUt and smothered the
flames.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Chicago Hangs Hoch.

Johann Hoch, bigamist. robber and
poisoner of women, paid the penalty of
his crimes Friday, when he was hanged
in the county Jail in Chicago. His neck
was broken by the fall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Three BODIES Found Under Rridre.

The bodies of three men, evidently la
borerS, were found under the Tennessee
river railroad bridge at Knoxville. 1t is
supposed the men fell from the bridge
while jumping from a freight train.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
En.oined Against 75-Cent Gas.

Judge Grosscup has made perpetual
the injunction restraining the city of
Chicago from enforcing the 75-cent gas
ordinance of 1900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Death of David b. H.ndcrson,

David Il. Henderson, former Speaker
of the House of Representatives. died at
Dubuque, Iowa. after suffering for months
from nnreSiS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
WHOLESALE MURDER PLOTS.
Idaho Suspect COnfesses to BIoody
Conspiracy.

Idaho suspect COnfesseS to Bloody
Conspiracy.
1t transpires that the purpose of the
Idaho and Colorado authorities is to try
to fasten upon Charles II. Meyer, presi-
dent, and William d. Haywood, secre-
tary, of the Western Federation of Min
ers, who were taken to Boise, response
bility for wholesale plots to murder
through a confession said to have been
made by Harry Orchard, a prisoner at
Boise charged with the murder of former
Governor Steunenberg.
Orchard charged, it is asserted, that a
plot was Matched to kill former Gov
James Peabody of Colorado, William II.
Gabbert, chief justice of the Colorado
Supreme Court, and John Campbell for
mer chief justice. Orchard is said to
have declared that wholesale assassina-
tons were planned at the headquarters of
the Western Federation of Miners in
Denver, chiefly by refugees from the
camps at Cripple Greek and Telluride.
1t is said also that Orchards statement
gives a history of the explosion at the
Independence station near Cripple Greek
on June 6, 1904. which Killed fourteen
men and injured many others.
The murde. committed during the la
Dor troubles in the Cripple { eek and
Telluride districts in Idaho and Colorado,
which have been shrouded in mystery, the
earlier Occur d'Alene murders and the
more recent Steunenberg assassination,
form a chain of crimes with which efforts
are being made to connect The officers of
the Western Federation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Mrs. It. A. Edison, Jr. Dies

The wife of Thomas A. Edison, Jr.,
formerly Mary Tuohey, a Casino SOU
brette died in New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Chief of Police Kelley of st. Louis
was suspended by the commissioners be-
cause he refused to resign after having
been accused of ordering a sergeant to
make false reports.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Bubelik is accident insured for $780,.
600: Paderewski holds a policy for So
OGO: Lillian Nordica has the same
amount, and Anna Held holds 100000
worth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Five passengers on the Atlanta-Savan-
nah train on the Central Georgia were in
jured in a rear-end collision with a Chi
cago-Florida fast train near Forsyth, Ga.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

John D. Rockefeller's wealth is said to
equal the annual budget of fifteen Euro
pean States, and if put into dollars
would form a double circuit around the
earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

George W. Ellis. the charge d'affaires
of the Am, rican legation at Monrovia,
has presented the National museum with
a monograph of 5000 words covering the
habits and customs of the Val speaking
people Of west Africa and collection Of
their work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

United States District Attorney Dey
lin filed in the Office of the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco two bills
in equity for the purpose of setting aside
patents issued by the United States 10
Frederick \. Hyde. John Benson and 9th
ers to lands in fourteen counties of Cali
ror
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Steven Baird of Chittenden, Vt, after
working ceaselessly for forty years de
clares he has discovered a method Of
welding copper. something metallurgists
say has never been done before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
DEPosED INSURANCE CHIEF DIES
Mccall Succumbs TO Illness Induced
by Criticis n of Acts.

John A. Mccall. ex-president of the
New York Life Insurance Company, died
late Sunday afternoon at Laurel house,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
FARMERS IN COMBINE.
WILL HOLD PRODUCTS FOR MAX
ImUM PRICE.

Over 100000 Agriculturists Banded
Together in Organization Known
American Sons of Equity
Boy who Killed Brother Released.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
STRENGTHENS Local Option

The Ohio House of Representatives, by
q vote of 81 to 16, passed the Jones bill,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

The Senate was not in session Friday.
The Tillman-G Gillespie resolution calling
for an investigation of the ownership Of
coal and oil properties by the railroads
was passed by the House, after being
amended so that it will have to go back
to the Senate for consideration. The
famous Mussel Shoals bill, providing for
the development of water power on the
Tennessee river in Alabama, sent back
by the President for amendment, was.
passed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Notes of the National capital.

Old age of veterans is sufficient evil
dence to secure a pension, according to a
bill passed by the House.
Reports received by the Department Of
Commerce and Labor show coal and coke
exports in 1905 of So, 215,62S.
Rabbis Krauskopf of Philadelphia,
Guttmacher of Baltimore and Simon Of
Washington, accompanied by Herman F.
Haha of Chicago, composing a commit
tee appointed by the national conference
of rabbis, called on the President to pre-
sent resolutions cOngratulatlng him for
his work in behalf of peace.
The Brazilian ambassador and Madame.
Nahuco gave a dinner in honor of Secre-
tarv and Mrs. Root and invited as their
,r,,es+s all the ministers of those South
American republics which will take part
in the Pan-American congress in Rio de
Janeiro next spring, which Secretary
Root will attend.
Acting under instruction of the House..
the Judiciary committee began an inves-
t;oafion in order that it may report
whether or not Congress has the power
to provide federal control of insurance.
That this authority does exist. was main
tanned by r. W. Breckenridge of Omaha.
Neb. chairman Of the insurance commit
tee of the American Bar Association.
The general appropriation bill for the
year ending June 80, 1907, carrying a
total of $40, 900, was passed by the
House. In presenting the bill Mr.. Gar
diner said that the first cost of the Civil
War had been estimated at $6,OOOOOO.-
600, and he estimated that the cost of
pensions would be ? like amount, and that
in twenty years the number on the roll
would be less than half a million. The
bill puts into the statutes the Roosevelt
order, No. 7S, covering age pensions.
The case charging conspiracy in the To-
cation Of postofice sites against Charles
L. Blanton, an employee of the Treasury
Department, was dismissed, Judge Reed
at Joplin, No., sustaining demurrer.