The Springfield herald., 1906-08-17

Illness.
William Loeb, Jr., secretary to the
president, has been sued for $4,000
damages for having caused the false
arrest in Washington of Nadage
Doree, Jewish writer.
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miscellaneous.
NJ. F. Grier, assistant manager of
the Hotel Metropole, the leading hotel
of ST Joseph, Mo-. has been arrested
on a charge of obtaining money un-
der false pretenses at Little Rock,
Arkansas.
Samuel Untermyer has declined to
be a candidate for trustee of the
Mutual Life Insurance company and
the New York Life Insurance com
pany.
E. r. Balzer, vice president. and
C. F. Anderson, secretary, of the de-
funct ]. p. Baden Produce company
on a charge of forgery. Anderson is
also charged with perjury.
The American Osteopathic associa-
tion in session at Put-Iu-Bay, Ohio,
has elected Dr. S. A. Ellis, of Boston,
president, and DR.. H. l.. Chiles, Au-
burn, n. Y, secretary.
The Iowa democrats in state con-
vention at Waterloo nominated full
state ticket headed by Claude A. Por-
ter for governor. William j. Bryan
was indorsed for president.
The federal grand jury at James
town. n. Y, has reported indictments
against the Standard Oil company,
the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
and the Vacuum Oil company on
charges of rebating. If convicted the
defendants will be liable to fines ag-
gregating sl,ioO,OoO.
The senate committee which is to
investigate land matters in Indian
territory has been called to meet in
Kansas City on November 12.
The claim of Mrs. c. j. Devlin
against her late husbands estate FOR
s620. .661 AZ life insurance collected by
the receiver of the First National bank
of Topeka, has been disallowed by
the referee in bankruptcy.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
held a conference at Chicago recently
with packers and cattle raisers. A
square deal for everybody was pro-
missed by the secretary.
Frank Kowalski, paying teller of
the defunct Milwaukee Avenue State
bank, killed himself at his home in
Chicago. This makes the third death
due to the wrecking of the institution
by its officers.
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tion commission. President Doherty
of the Gas & Electric company, and
two other men, were recently fined
and sentenced to the county Jail al
Denver for contempt of court in con-
nection with the alleged frauds in the
recent franchise election.
The Standard Oil company, through
former Senator James X. Jones, OF
| Arkansas, and Mr.. Barnesdale, OF
| Pittsburg Pa. has appealed to Presi
| dent Roosevelt in the matter of its
controversy with the department OF
the intorior regarding oil line leases
in the Indian territory.
Cornelius p. Shea, of Boston, was
reelected president by the lnterna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters al
| the Chicago meeting About so bolt
ing delegates held rump convention
and decided to organize rival inter-
i national union.
I Report comes from Boston that by
expendins s10,000,000 Swift & Co., has
secured control for the beef trust oi
the entire beef packing and tanning
| business of New ENGLAND
Fourteen indictments have been re
turned against members of the Phil
adelphia Ice trust.
Capt. A. B. Drum, for the past Il
years superintendent of the Airing
ton National cemetery, is dead
N. C. Rathburn the son OF farmer
living near Downs, Kan, drowned
while bathing in the South Salmon
river.
Augustus Hartje, the Pittsburg mil
lionaire, has been held to court il
bonds of $4,000 on a charge of con
spiracy in connection with his recen
divorce suit.
A grandson of Red Cloud, the notet
Sioux chief, is now a petty office
in the United States navy.
The workmens council at St Peters
burg have called off the strike Nor
than half of the factories had re
sumed before the council acted.
The little town of Assaria, Kan
suffered a loss of $4,000 by fir
recently.
Twenty persons were injured in
ger and freight train on the Frisc
road at ST. Genevieve. Mo.
More than POO machinists in tn
Missouri Pacific shops at Sedalia. Mo
struck recently, for time and a hal