The Springfield herald., 1906-04-27

A court of inquiry has been ap-
pointed to investigate the recent fatal
explosion ON the battleship Kear-
sarge.
the supreme court of the United
States has decided that a state in
which only one party to divorce
proceeding resides. has no right to
desclve marriage tie that other
states must respect.
Tammany celebrated The lG3d birth
day anniversary of Thomas Jefferson
with dinner at the WaldorfAstoria.
Plates were laid for 500 guests.
Following n brutal attack on an
aged couple near Hampton. Ia, A. E.
Evans, a prominent insurance man
of Waterloo committed suicide by
shooting himself.
John Alexander Dowie has been
granted a temporary injunction against
Wilbur G. Voliva restraining the lat
ter from in any WY interfering with
Dowie's return to Zion City and from
doing anything to affect tthe title To
certain property described.
pluneer, was shot and probably fatally
wounded by his wife in Memphis. Tenn.
recently. The woman claims self
defense.
William Beckers. a Milwaukee mill
ionairc, committed suicide in Mobile
Ala. recently.
The scale committees for the Iowa
miners and operators have signed tnc
scale on the 1903 basis, ending the coal
strike in that state.
The international executive board
of the United Mine Workers of America
have rejected the arbitration proposal
OF the soft coal operators of the middle
we2;
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
railroad, Darins Miller and Claude G
Burnham have been convicted Of giving
rebates in the federal court at Chicago
and were fined an aggregate of 100000
Fire recently destroyed 1000 dwell
ings in Maraquina, Rial province
Philippine islands. The town of Pasil
near Cebu, was also recently destroye |.
by fire.
The Grand Trunk railway recently
paid into the Michigan state treasury
S177.73i in back taxes.
Father Louis Martin, of the Jesuits,
known as the BLACK Pope diel re
Gently in Rome of cancer of the breast
Charles f. Hughes, the New York
attorney well-known in connection
with the recent insurance investiea-
tion, has been retained by the gov
ernment to assist in the prosecution
Of the coal carrying railroads for
violations of the interstate commerce
law.
All negotiations looking t;ward a
peaceful settlement of the differences
of the Dowieites at Zion City have
been broken off. The proposition of
Voliva for board of control con-
by DR.. Dowie
Gov. Felix went to Springfield. Mo-,
to confer personally with the city and
county officers in regard to the recent
lynching. He is determined to bring
the leaders of the mob to jus ice.
President Roosevelt has turned
down claim of the New French Pam
iillb StAdl Coilpsthy Ioi fG,puV,VVV.
An earthquake shock in Michigan re-
Gently killed one man and injured tom
others while working mile below :ha
earths surface in the Quincy mine at
Calumet.
Chicago attorneys declare that the
recent decision of the United States
supreme court will make illegal at
least 500 divorce cases in that city
alone and pave the way for all man
ner of complications over rights to
property.
The anthracite operators have sent
letter to President Mitchell of the
miners, rejecting his latest proposals
and declaring that they had nothing
to arbitrate.
The drydock Dewey has reached
Port Said in its journey to the Phil
ippines.