The Globe-republican., 1906-01-18
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

webb City, Mo-, by falling down the
Mercantile Mining Company's shaft,
a distance of about $50 feet.
A Kansas state baseball league was
formed in Chicago and Ed Bero, Jr.,
OF Parsons, Kan, was elected presi-
dent of the new organization.
An elaborate and comprehensive
answer to the charges against the
Isthmian Canal Commission contain
ed in an article in the Independent
has been made by Secretary Taft.
Congressman Joseph c. Sibley in
an open letter to his constituents,
dated Washington, January 10, says
all his political ambitions are graft
fled and he will never again ask for
political Office.
The general assembly of the men,
bers of the British Royal Academy
has elected Augustus Saint Gaudens,
the American sculptor, and Josef Is
raels, the Dutch painter, honorary
foreign members of the academy.
While no official statement could
be obtained from the physicians it
was rumored that grave change had
taken place in the condition Of Mar
shall Field of Chicago. who is i'll at
the Holland house in New York.
At council Bluff, Ia, Pat Grove was
indicted by the Pottawatomie county
grand jury for alleged completely in
a street car hold up January -, 1908,
when about $50 was secured from
two conductors and motorman.,
The attempt to fire the big zinc
smelter at Canon City, Colo, two
million dallar plant, makes the fiji.
teenth attempt at incendiarism in
Canon. City In the past two weeks
and convinces the citizens that an
organized gang of. firebugs is trying
to burn the town.
Arthur H. Soden and William H.
Conant, owners and directors of the
Boston team of the National baseball
club, refused an offer of $250,000 for
the grounds club and franchise, made
by M. ]. Reagan, who is well known
in local baseball circles. The own
ers want $275,OOO.
Severe weather has so delayed
construction of the Northwestern
railway extension across Wyoming
toward the Shcshone reservation that
the road may not be completed when
the reservation is opened in June. AS
there are no railroads near the reser-
walton a movement is on foot to post
pone the opening until later in the
season, when both the Burlington and
Northwestern extensions may reach
the borders of the reservation at Ian
der and Thermopolis.
Senator Long saw the president
and laid before him William T. Yer
mons answer to charges filed against
the latter for appointment as register
of the treasury. Senator Long ex-
poets complete vindication Of Yer
non. He will see the president again
within few days at which time it
will probably be decidea as to wheth-
err Vernon will or will not be appoint
ed.
John II. Converse, of Philadelphia,
has endowed the chair Of homiletics
and pastoral theology Of the Presby.
terrain Theological seminary of Oma.
ha with $4,000
A. M. Linn, of the Iowa state board
of health. giving expert testimony in |
the Pratt murder case at Rockwell |
City, testified that Josiah Pratt. for
whose death Mrs. Pratt is on trial,
was due to the effects Of arsenical
poisoning, the poison having been adj
ministered prior to the mans death
Druggist Mickles, from Yetter, has
already testified that Mrs. Pratt pur
chased arsenic prior to her husbands
death, and also that he sold Persing,
the hired man, several sheets of fly
paper.
The ceremonies OF opening Tain.
anfrl, capital of the province of Shang
Tung, to foreign trade were attend
ed by many Chinese and foreign Off.
Gals. The invited American guests
present included consular officials
and representatives OF prominent
companies.
Dr. William Rainey Harper, presi
dent Of the University Of Chicago
since its inception, one Of the fore
most educators and one Of the most
earned Hebrew scholars of his time,
lied Of cancer Of the intestines