The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01

pharmacist, murdered Mrs. margaret
Leslie, an actress at the Palace Hotel
and then robbed the body OF jewelry
valued at $4,000.
Patrick F. Sheedy will open unique
art gallery in New York, offering Tor
sale the paintings collected by Jack"
Carr and others.
Report is current in New York that
Senator Plat has been served with
| papers in a suit for divorce brought
| by his wife.
| Six New York men give $4,000 en-
| dowment to the American Institute or
Scientific Research, conducted by Pro-
fessor James H. HyslOp.
| Proposed measure for uniformity IN
the divorce laws of the United States
20 be submitted to the divorce con-
gress makes provisions to curb hasty
separation.
Representative of the corporation
counsel of Chicago appear before the
state board of equalization and charge
that $1,000 100000 worth of railroad
property has escaped assessment.
| Milwaukee secures site for new mu-
nicipal lighting plant, which is ex-
pected to cost about $1,0O0,0O0
Evidence of vital rebating by many
railroads, of favoritism and OF boycott
ting and unfair acts on the part or
| the grain combine is produced at the
grain inquiry before the interstate
commerce commission in Kansas CITY.
| President Roosevelt selects Oscar
S. Straus of New York and George
Won T.. Meyer, the ambassador to Rus
STA. for places in the cabinet when At
torney General Moody retires on the
first of next year and Secretary Shaw
steps out next March. There will be
a general shifting of portfolio posi-
| tons. S
Demand for an eight-hour day for
switchmen without any reduction In
wages is filed with the general man
ayers of practically all the railroads
in the country by the Brotherhood OF
Railway Trainmen.
i Uneasiness in business circles over
the New York campaign recalls the
conditions that prevailed during the
Bryan canvass in 1896 and parable
features in the two contests.
Senator Rayner, in an address a.
Baltimore, advocates tariff revision az
weapon against trusts, which, hi
SAYS. are the product of unjust duties
President Roosevelt orders Secre
: tary Metcalf to go to San francisco
to investigate the complaint of japan
that Japanese children are being treat
ed unfairly in the public schools.
Illinois Manufacturers Association
starts an investigation of the interests
g behind the latest bid for telephone
e franchise, to make sure that they arr
+ not playing into the hand of the oil
t company,
4 Almost dead from hunger and thirs
r five men adrift at sea on a frail raf
/ are rescued and landed at Norfolk, Va
t after a companion, driven mad, ha'
l. thrown himself into the water AM
4 drowned
s Chicago soldiers chagrined over ar
e parent affront by Governor Vardamal
0 at Jackson, Miss, which is later ex
l. planned as result of change of plan
J, not being communicated to Colone
|, Sanborn
0 Four persons are known to be dead
f ten missing and more than fifty hur
), in fire which destroys the Chambe
: of Commerce building in Kansas City
g Kan.
Charles G. Dawes in an address a
Life Underwriters banquet at 81
Louis, declares that the Sherman anti
trust law is and always will be fail
n ure because it fails to define Grim
S it seeks to punish
Four hundred striking chauffeurs il