The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-08-30
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

The Standard Oil Company and
the New York Central Railroad Com
pany were indicted by the federal
grand jury of Western New York for
violation of the Interstate Commerce
law
J. b. Osbourne. socialist candi-
date for governor of Georgia, has
been arrested for making a public
speech without a permit.
Sixty policemen was overpowered
by a rush of depositors at the Mil
waukee Bank, Chicago.
One man was drowned and seven
others were rescued in a severe
storm off Atlantic City.
The telephone system in the
downtown section of Chicago was
crippled when 200 hello girls"
went on strike, defying a command
that they pass through an alley for
300 feet to a rear entrance of the
telephone building and ride to the
operating-roOm on an elevator To-
Gated there, instead of using the
main entrance.
Senator Dick, OF Ohio, favors the
framing OF the state platform by
the convention in committee of the
whole, all questions to be debated
No committee on resolutions, he
says, should be appointed.
Traffic officials of all railroads
and steamship lines operating in
the territory south of the Potomac
and Ohio Rivers have promised to
comply with the provisions of the
new rate regulation law.
Between 100 and 200 corpses
were washed from their graves in
ElmwOOd Cemetery, Kansas City, in
the flood following an unprecedented
rainfall.
Charges of peonage and cruelty
are preferred against the South and
Western Railway Construction Com
of North Carolina.
In the hope of removing the cause
of recent serious attack of illness,
an operation was performed upon
Mrs. Reginald c. Vanderbilt at her
country home, at Sandy Point, r. l.
The physicians announced later that
it was entirely successful, adding
that ii was not a serious one, though
the effects of it might not wholly
be overcome for a month.
One of the worst storms I'm recent
years visited the military camp at
Mount Gretna. Pa, blowing down
tents and flooding company and regi-
mental streets. At the boathouse of
Lake Conewago the waters rushed
down the mountain side making it
difficult for women and children to
escape. Many of the people were
rescued by the soldiers.
Insurance commissioners and at
tOrneys, representing several States,
are meeting in st. Paul. and are pre-
pairing a uniform code of insurance
'"lS which the legislatures of sew
eral States will be asked to adopt.
At Lincoln, Neb., Attorney Gen
eral Norris Brown was nominated
for United States Senator to succeed
Senator Millard on the sixth ballot
by the Republican State Convention
Senator Beveridge made a speech
at Portland. Me, in which he said
that President Roosevelt is an i'm
pOrtant issue in the campaign.
NJ. NJ. Hench, of near Harrisburg.
Pa, refuses to hand over $4,000 to
men who threaten TO kidnap his IL
year-Old daughter.
Louisiana sugar planters have i'm
ported 100 Porto Ricans as an ex-
pertinent in labor on plantations.
n proposition has been made to
tax all deposits in Chicago banks,
amounting to S6OO,OOO,OOO.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longsworth
will unveil the Mckinley statute at
Columbus, o.. next month.
Hon. 4. NJ. Healy, an Irish mem
ber of the British Parliament, ar
rived in New York.
Jay c. Morse, a brother-in-law of
the late Senator Mark A. Hanna, is
dead.
". a. McAneny. a New York law
yer, committed suicide
After a stormy session the Illinois
State Democratic Convention laid on
the table Bryan's request for the
resignation of Roger Sullivan as
national committeeman and indorsed
Bryan for 1908. 1t was a complete
victory for Sullivan.