The Ordway new era., 1906-03-23
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Thirty one persons were drowned
March 18th on account Of eQuinoctial
overfiows on the Scheldt river In Hol-
land.
Andrew Carnegie has given Drury
College tCongregationaD. at Spring
Held. Missouri. $4,000 without any
condition.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
to Coe College. at Cedar Rapids. Iowa.
The college will erect a 100000 sci
ence hall.
King Edward has sold to dealer
the $4,000 collection OF $50 etchings
presented to Queen Victoria in 1887,
by Whistler, the artist.
Three hundred Independent tele-
phone companies In Iowa are perfect
ing an organization to fight the Bell
Telephone Company in that state.
The total loss in nineteen provinces
OF Russia investigated by special COM
missions inquirins into the agrarian
troubles OF last year was $l5.50O,00O.
There was great rejoicing at Okla
homa City. Oklahoma. over the passage
OF the statehood bill by the Senate and
universal concurrence in the amend
ments.
oeNtIt 10 bdiu " hdNe
occurred at kagi, Formosa, March
18th. Hundreds OF buildings were de-
stroyed and many hundreds OF people
We're killed.
The new child labor law. passed by
the lowa Legislature and signed by the
governor. prohibits the employment of
children under eighteen In any occupa.
ton injurious to health.
Gross earnings OF $42.51S.OO0. n de-
crease OF $l.l75.000 AS compared with
the preceding year. are shown by the
annual report OF the Missouri Pacific
Railway Company for 1905.
Andrew Carnegie's spelling reform
movement nnds little favor with Brit
ish authors. Charles Algernon Swine
burne describes the movement as
"monstrous. barbarous absurdity."
Both houses of Congress have
passed the bill to give the Soldiers
home at Hot Springs. South Dakota.
200 acres OF government land for u
park In connection with the home.
A military train armed with machine
guns and quick firers and intended for
use in punitive expeditions, which has
arrived at Kieff. Russia, is said to have
developed speed OF 100 miles an hour.
1t is stated at Berlin that the Rus.
sian loan that will be issued after the
Moroccan question is settled will
amount to $25O.0O0, 900 and possibly
more. New York's percentage will bo
small.
President Roosevelt is now honorary
member OF the United Veterans. hav-
ing been elected by the camp at Poplar
Bluffs, Missouri. The organization is
composed OF Union and Confederate
soldiers.
A census bulletin on the preserving
and canning industries of the United
States for 1904 shows 24,113 establish
ments. with capital of $69.339. l15. an
increase In capital over 1900 OF forty.
five per cent.
At Christie's auction rooms, London.
Lord Nelson's original memorandum.
giving his plan OF attack at the battle
of Trafalgar. realized $4,000. 1t Is
believed that the document was bought
for an American.
The leader OF the Chinese rebels OF
Kuang 81 province and three others
who were implicated in the attack on
the house OF the Rev. DIR. Andrew Beat
tie. the American missionary at Fati.
in February, were behcaded March IL.
An airship company, having for It's
definite object to conduct an expert
ment with war craft. has been formed
at Berlin. The directors are hard
headed persons who take up the mat
ter from patriotic impulses and with
the patronage of the emperor.
Robert l.. Gregory. wholesale gro
Ger. is the Democratic candidate for
mayor ut Kansas City. Tho platform
advocates municipal ownership OF all
public utilities, and urges that no fran
chises shall be granted or extended
without adequate compensation 10 the
city.
The right OF labor union to con-
duct strike was sustained by Judge
Howard Ferris OF the Superior Court
in Cincinnati. The. case was that or
the Perkins. Campbell Company against
the United Leather Workers. the COM
pany seeking to enjoin the union from
striking.
8. II, Kaufman, president OF the
Evening Star Newspaper Company OF
Washington City. president Of the Cor
coran Gallery Of Art, former presi-
dent O: the American Newspaper Pub
lishers' Association, and one OF the
best known men in Washington. died
March 18th.
David e. Sherrick, former auditor OF
state in Indiana, has been found guilty
OF embexxlement. Sherrick was tried
on Indictments charging him with the
misuse of $127,000 belonging to the
state. He resigned on the demand OF
the governor and the money has since
been paid back to the state treasury.
Governor Higgins Of New York has
issued further reprieve until May
18th In the case of Albert 7. Patrick.
whose sentence Of death for the al