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President Roosevelt directed the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
send to the House all its information
bearing on the alleged Pennsylvania
Railroad combination.
Charles G. Dawes testified in Chi
cago that he heard Commissioner Of
Corporations Garfield give pledge of
immunity to the beef men.
Stockmen in convention in Denver
declare depression in cattle industry
( is caused by decreased consumption
of beef, due to peoples resentment
toward Beef Trust.
Miss Charlena Pemberton, of
Long Branch, N. j., who shot her
father, DR.. Henry H. Pemberton, and
tried to drown herself, was taken to
an asylum.
Detectives in New York are
searching for $4,000 diamond
necklace which was stolen, and for
valuable furs taken from another
place
One hundred and twenty-five trot-
ting bred horses were sold at Madi-
son Square Garden, New York, for
/ $66, 430, an average of 1881.
4 The House of Representatives
/ passed a resolution calling on Presi-
/ dent Roosevelt for information as to
an alleged combination by the Penn
4 sylvania Railroad and allied lines in
violation Of the antitrust law.
The Ways and Means Committee
OF the Assembly ordered a favorable
report on the resolution for an in
vestigation of the New York State
Banking Department.
Nidshipman Hawthorne, of New
4 York, resigned from the Naval Acad-
/ envy because he has been haZed so
frequently he could not prepare for
his examinations.
Rufus Johnson, a negro arrested
in Baltimore, confessed to the muir
der Of Miss Atkinson on a New Jer-
sey farm.
General Joseph Wheeler was bu-
ried in Arlington Cemetery In the
/ presence OF a great gathering of dis
tinsuished mourners from North
and South
Miss Roosevelt is in New York
with Representative Longworth to
complete her trousseau.
Four hundred non-union men ar
rived in New York to take the places
Of striking ironWorkers
Judge Kellogg, in the Supreme
Court, in New York, in a decision
sustained the right of policy holders
to sue directors in an insurance
company.
One hundred thousand dollars in
Hungarian bonds were found con-
cealed under false bottom in the
trunk of Isak Heicher, a passenger
on the steamer Finland, New York,
Customs men made the seizure.
Suit was brought in Chicago, Ill,
against nine of the great railways of
the country for conspiracy against a
firm in Kankakee, ILL.,, by discrimi-
mating in rates.
Intense cold weather in Mexico re-
suited in the death of twelve persons
in the nations capital. The govern
ment is furnishing fires for destitute
poems and Indians and great crop
damage is reported.
At the Missouri oil inquiry in New
York a witness declared that the
Standard Oil Company deluded buy
ers with a so-called Independent"
company, really a branch of the
Trust.
The Board of Investigation which
has caused the series of hazing trials
at the Annapolis Naval Academy is
preparing to adjourn sine die.
Correspondence was made public in
the White House to show that an at
torney for indicted beef packers in
Chicago had given money to a news
paper reporter.
The House of Representatives re-
fused to appropriate $4,000 for
the Bureau of Animal Industry, in
the Department of Agriculture.
Theodore P, Shonts, chairman of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, tes-
tilted before the Senate Canal Com
mittee that he was still president of
the Glover Leaf Railroad, at a sal
airy of s12, 900 year.
Midshipman Stephen Decatur, Jr.,
fifth of his name in the United States
navy, was dismissed from the service
on the charge of witnessing hazing
in the Naval Academy without re-
porting it.
The House of Representatives
passed the joint Statehood bill by
vote of 1914 to $50.
Wireless reports from the dry
dock Dewey showed she was making
more than one hundred miles a day
on her voyage to Manila, and all go
ing well.
Trying to follow her daughter into
subway train in New York, after
the door had been closed, Mrs Sarah
A. Drummond fell between two cars
and was killed.
John T. Jackson, who had suffered
long from locomotor ataxia, poisoned
himself, leaving a letter directing
that his body be given to science
with the hope that it might aid in
the discovery of cure for the dis