The Springfield herald., 1906-08-03
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The American Surety company, one
of the largest and most powerful
bonding companies in the United
States. has been cited to appear be-
fore Superintendent of Insurance Lu-
ling, of Kansas, and show cause why
its certificate should not be revoked
on the ground that it is trust.
Gov. Ide, of the Philippines has re-
uuested military aid to punish the
Pulajanes in the island of Leyte.
A commission composed of ]. w
Yerkes, l. r. Hit, jr., and c. "A
Champion are in Berlin studying the
manufacture and preparation of de-
natured alcohol for the internal reve-
nue. depai tment.
Two bombs were dropped from an
elevated train in New York recently
into crowd of 200 members of the
plumbers union, who were standing
in the street below. Eight men were
painfully injured.
For the first time since the Civil war
practically the entire army of the
United States is on the march, concen-
trating at the maneuver camps, where
with the militia of the different states
several months will be spent in prac-
tice.
At the first session of the Pan
American congress at Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, vote of thanks was adopted
to the United States and Mexico for
their part in the bringing of peace to
the warning Central American repub-
lies.
Twenty-Five passengers were injured
two probably fatally, by the derail-
ment recently at Springfield, Mo-, OF
st. Louis & San Francisco passenger
train.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
made public the regulations govern
ing the inspection of meat products
for interstate and foreign trade under
the new law. They are very stringent
throughout and are in line with the
best authorities on the subject.
The will of the late Russell Sage
has been filed for probate. After be-
queathing s65o,O0O to blood relations,
the document gives the residue of the
estate, about $4,000, 900, to the widow,
who will distribute it in charity.
Judge Lands. of the United States
district court at Chicago has handed
down decision declaring that John
Alexander Dowie is not the owner
of Zion City and its industries, the
court deciding that the money given
to Dowie was a trust. A receiver was
appointed aud an election for a gen
eral overseer ordered to be held on
the third Tuesday of September.
At conference in Chicago in which
every road interested was represented
it was decided to end the grain rate
war from Missouri river points to Chi
cage on August TO-
The Stromboli volcano. after quiet
ing down, has again become violently
active
A special federal grand jury has
been called to meet in Chicago to in
vestigate the Standard Oil company S
methods of transporting its products
1t is said by officials that new and i'm
portant evidence has recently been
discovered against the company.
Four men were killed and five in
iured in the explosion in n powder
and dynamite house near Robertsdale
Pa.
The federal grand jury at New York
has returned three indictments against
the American Sugar Refining company
charging rebating.
At the end of long series Of con-
ferences the Russian revolutionary
committee has decided not to declare
a general strike at the present time.
Typhoid fever has developed anon:
the members of the new fourth class 4
the naval academy at Annapolis.
At Helsingfors, Finland, recently
1900 soldiers and sailors of the gar
rison took an oath to fight on the side
of the people in case of a revolution
A negress, living in Kingston. Ky.
recently gave birth to six children
They were were all alive at last ac
counts.