Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-06-21

company were found guilty in the
/ United States district court at Kansas
City of accepting rebates frcm the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railway on
export shipments on packing house
products.
Justice Day, OF the United States SUI
preme court at Canton, o., granted
writ 2f appeal and consequently stay
of execution on behalf of Lawyer I.
Patrick of New York.
The house of representatives, having
under consideration the sundry civil
bill, on motion of Mr.. Williams, in
creased the appropriation for the
Vicksbarg National Military park to
100000.
The jury at Edwardsville, ILL.,, in the
case of Joseph Nolan, for the killing of
Fred Haynes and William Sonnet, two
fishermen, returned verdict of guilty
Nolan was ente-ced 10 81 years i'm
| prisonment.
The business section of Leclaire, Ia,
was burned. Buildings destroyed in
clude the hotel, the knights of Pythias
hall and several stores. Loss, $4,000
| During a balloon ascension at Mon
roe, s. D., Bert Ward, the aeronaut,
! fell from the parachute and was in
stantly killed.
The Berwind- White Coal Mining com
pany is allowed seven cents ton by
| the railroad company for handling its
cars on the Harsimus pier. The work
! is performed, however, by Pennsylva-
mia railroad crews with railroad loco
motives.
Mrs William Ellis Corey, wife of the
president of the United States Steel
corporation, filed a petition in the sec
ond district court of Nevada at Reno
for an absolute decree of divorce.
The labors of the special grand jury
which has been investigating insurance
abuses at New York bore fruit when
| indictments were returnSd charging
forgery and perjury against DR.. Wal
ter B. Gillette, and forgery and filing
of false statements against Robert A.
/ Granniss, both former vice presidents
of the Mutual Life Insurance company.
A spark from a passing locomotive
set fire to the warehouse of the Waters
Pierce Oil company at Springfield Mo-,
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mated at $4,000.
E. r. Townsend, former city editor
of the Iowa City Republican, shot and
killed himself.
A formal decree was entered by Unit
ed States Circuit Court Judge w. H.
Seaman in the so-called rebate case,
instituted by the government. The de-
cree restraints and perpetually enjoins
the Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit
company and representatives from in
any way soliciting, accepting or receiv-
ing and the defendant railroad COM
panies from paying or giving any re-
bates or concessions whatever.
Mrs. Moses Kaufman, wife of
wealthy Sioux Falls brewer, was ar
rested on the charge of manslaughter
in connection with the death of Miss
Agnes Polre!s, who was employed as a
domestic in the Kaufman home.
The Western Federation OF Miners
virtually reelected Charles H. Meyer,
president, and William d. Haywood,
secretary by making no nom
nations for these offices.
The committee of the illinois state
board of charities which has been. in
vestigating the Illinois Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Normal, H., reports
discipline lax; INSTRUMENTATION for i've
or six years on the teachers star;
management is incompetent.
Col. Henry A. Dupont, of Whining
ton defeated ]. Edward Addicks in the
caucus contest for the vacant seat
from Delaware in the United States
| senate.
Edwin B. Hay, a lawyer, known
throughout the country as an expert in
handwriting, died at his home. Mr..
Hay was past grand exalted ruler of
the Elks, and was well known
Mason.
! The Ohio operators who have been
resisting the demands of the miners,
decided to place the whole matter in
the hands of John II. Winder, chair
man of the conference. All negota-
tions for reopenng the mines will De
made by him.
Fire gutted the building occupied by
the oleo department of the Armour
packing plant at South Omaha causing
the deaht of one man and a pecuniary
loss estimated at 100000
DR.. Mary Putnam Jacob, one of the
most distinguished women physicians
IL the country, prominent advocate
of woman suffrage and writer of med
ical works, lied at her hona I. New
York.
Chancellor Day, of Syracuse univer-
sity, in his baccalaureate address,
again attacked President Roosevelt
depicting him in Il kingly robe, at
tempting to influence courts and con-
gress, and scored the muck-rakers for
uncovering packing house evils
The Rev. A. Fl. Zechel, of the Wis
consin Anti-Saloon league, was found
guilty at Appleton of violating the Sun
] day La lNr law by nlIrch Sino lee.. ON