The Springfield herald., 1906-08-03

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at Kansas City of rebatinS have hled
transcripts and bills of exceptions IN
United States court of appeals in st.
Louis.
1t is proposed to sell at public auc-
| ton in September every parcel VI
land belonging to the late e. j. De'.
lin, of Topeka now in the hands CT
The trustees.
Proclamations announcing that the
death sentence has been imposed on
the emperor Gen. Trepof, NJ. Pobie-
donostseff, Gen. Orloff and others have
been scattered throughout Peterho1
by the Russian terrorists.
| Nine perons were killed and num-
ber of others seriously injured as the
result of wreck on the Great North
ern railway near Spokane, Wash, re-
Gently. The engine. mail, baggage and
smoking cars plunged over 10 foot
embankment into the deep waters OF
Diamond lake.
Peonage in vicious form is charged
against the officers of the jackson
Lumber company at Lockport, Ala,
and federal warrants have been issued
for their arrest
The 14th conference of the lnterpar-
liamentary union has opened in the
royal gallery of the palace of West
minister, London, with adherents Of
international peace from all the par
liaments of Europe, as well as several
of those of the Western hemisphere,
present.
The railroad accident bulletin issued
by the interstate commerce commission
for the three months ending March
81, 1906, shows passengers and EN-
ployes killed to have been 1,12G and
1910 injured.
The jury in the murder trial of
Mrs, Edmund Bailey, of Fulton, Mo-,
charged with being accessory to the
murder of Jay Lowder, whom her
husband shot, returned a verdict OF
acquittal. Her husband has also been
acquitted by jury.
e. f. Snyder. formerly banker at
Oilin, Ia, has been arrested at Sioux
City, Ia, charged with fraudulent
banking.
While a party of young ministers at
tending the State Baptist association
at Pertle Springs, Mo-. were bathing
in the lake, Rev. S. L. Rogers, pastor
of the De Kalb and Nelson, Mo,
churches, attempted to swim across
the lake and was drowned
Suit has been filed in the federal
court at Muskosee, l. r, to restrain
Tams Bixby, commissioner of the five
civilized tribes, from re-opening the
roll for the addition of the names of
infants born since the regular en-
rollment-
A warrant has been issued for
Charles II. Everly, formerly teller
of the St. Louis Union Trust company,
who disappeared recently leaving a
shortage in his accounts of $4,000.
He had been considered ar exemplary
citizen and was prominent in church
circles.
A severe wind and electric storm
recently swept over St Louis Destroy
ing several frame houses. One man,
a negro, was killed. A loaded cX-
cursion steamer was blown across
the river at Alton. ILL.,, but the pas
sengers were rescued.
The biennial conclave of the Kappa
Sigma fraternity was recently held on
Lockout Mountain, Tenn. Several
hundred delegates We're in attendance
from all sections of the United States.
Political discomfort in Persia is
again assuming an acute phase.
Suits have been filed by the govern
ment in the federal court at Salt Lake
City, Utah, to recover 10000 acres of
valuable coal land alleged to have
been acquired from the United States
by gross frauds.
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson, of Cleve-
land, O., recently took drastic action
against the Cleveland Electric Rail
way company. While tearing up the
company's tracks he was served with
an injunction by the court which he
ignored until the work was finished.
He was cited for contempt
Plans are under way for merging
the brick plants in Findlay. O., Kan
sas City, Kan, Chanute, Kan, West
Superior, Wis, GAINESVILLE, o.. Roches-
ter, N Y, Kansas City, Mo, Phil
adelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Min
neapolis and Omaha, into one company
to be known as the Hydraulic Pressed
Brick company of st. Louis. The new
organization will have a capital of
SO 600, 900 and a capacity of 500 900 600
bricks a year.
An amendment to the model ar
bitration treaty proposed by William
j. Bryan was unanimously adopted
amid great enthusiasm by the inter-
parliamentary union in session in
London.
The arrival of Secretary Root at
Rio de Janeiro was made the occa-
sion for an enthusiastic reception by
the assembled delegates to the Pan
American congress and the Brazilian
officials.
Sixteen indictments on charges of
restraint of trade in the matter of ad-
vancing the price of ice have been
returned by Cincinnati, o., grand
jury.
Premier Stolypin has issued orders
to the governors and projects through.
out Russia to strike and spare
not in efforts to- preserve order and