The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-17
Summary Of News
(Continued)

be used by American men-of-war in
registering the speed and in guaging
the velocity of the wind when firing
guns at sea.
Fight for the republican nomination
for governor is believed to be virtu-
ally at an end, friends of Governor
Cummins claiming he will win easily.
First part of the Standard Oil in
inquiry by the interstate commerce
commission ends with stories of cor
ruption and bribery, training of en-
ployes to commit deceitful practices,
if not of actual crime, to secure mo-
nOpoly of the oil trade by the Stand
ard company.
In an effort to defeat tuberculosis
Mathew McCue, a steamfitter, will
make a wagon trip from Chicago to
San Francisco.
I Whether trying to feed man hair
in pancakes in a cause for divorce will
be decided by Judge McEwen in Chi
cago.
Willie Hoppe, by defeating George
Slosson 500 TO no. gets first place in
| the local billiard tourney.
II. H. Rogers alone is said to be
out $4,000 as result of the defal-
cations of Charles l.. Spier of New
York, who committed suicide to avoid
paying the penalty.
w F. Bechtel former president of
the Northwestern National Life In
surance company, on trial in Mime
apolis, tells of big hidden expenditures
| of funds of the concern which the
prosecutor estimates at $1,000,000.
Banker of Montezuma, Ind, is killed
by his insane brother, who takes ref
uge in a strongly fortified house
and for hours defies capture.
Chief of Police Collins of Chicago
is denounced by Magistrate Wahle OF
New York for causing the arrest of
Victor E. Freeman and Rufus A. Ev-
ans on the charge of swindling a
woman.
Charles E. Wenham, former Chi
cago passenger agent of the Canadian
| Pacific railroad, who is accused of be-
ing short in his accounts, is freed in
New York on writ of habeas corpus,
but is re-arrested one minute later.
Salvation Army is swayed by imam.
cial interests, misrepresents it's work
and runs miserable lodging houses
says E. D. Solenberger, Minneapolis
charitable worker, in an address in
Philadelphia. Minneapolis Salvation
Army leader replies.
Rapid progress is made by the joint
committee of the senate and house al
| Springfield, which takes UP the new
primary measure and apparently viii
make few changes in it.
Drug men are emphatic in theil
denials of the charge of Attorney
General Moody that they maintain 6
trust
Two important amendments to the
railroad rate bill are adopted by thu
senate, one restoring Imprisonment a!
part of the punishment for rebatins
and the other imposing heavy fines OF
shippers for receiving rebates.
| Postmaster Busse of Chicago ap
7 pears before the department official
: in Washington and makes an urgen
. plean for more space in the new fed
eral building.
Il Secretary of War Taft notifies Gov
/ ernor Magoon of the canal zone tina
: any revolutionary troubles in Pans
6 ma which interfere with the work o.
. the canal will be suppressed by tn
O United States.
q Question of veracity between tn
president and former Senator Chant
h Ter stirs Washington. Senator Til
# man issues statement, containing a
excerpt from statement written
r. Mr.. Chandler, in which the latte
d declared that the president had crit
cised Knox, Spooner and Foraker.