The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
News of
A Week
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Paragraphs Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings


dreds of saloons in Chicago is largely
lutely UNIT for use was discovered by
Food Inspector Murray when tais force
of assistants raided barn at A24 I'LL
nois street, owned by William David
son. The place contained thirty stoves,
over which six men were working in
an endeavor to prepare decayed pork
and beef into a semblance of it's origi
nal form and thereafter manufacture"
it into free lunch for the saloon trade.
At Minneapolis, on Thursday, r. B.
Brown of GAINESVILLE, O., was elected
by reclamation commander in chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic
Other officers elected were: Senior vice
commander, William II. Armstrong.
Indianapolis; Junior vice commander
f. B. Felton, Detroit; chaplain in
chief. Archbishop John Ireland, ST.
Paul; surgeon general, W. Fl. Johnson.
Lincoln, Neb.
President Roosevelt has appointed
James s. Harlan of Chicago a mem
Der of the interstate commerce com
mission. Mr.. Harlan is a son of John
| NJ Harlal. associate justice of the
|. supreme court of the United States.
He is a lawyer of extensive practice
and held for some time the position
of attorney general of Porto Rico.
David Belasco and Mrs Leslie Car
ter-Payne finally have parted. This
sequel to the romantic marriage Of the
actress was made known in a formal
/. announcement by Charles Dillingham;
that contract had been signed foI
Mrs Carter-Payne to appear under his
management for the next five years.
William j. Bryan confirmed the re
port from Melbourne that he intends to
visit Australia. He says he will start
j Immediately after the November cleo
, ton, sailing from San Francisco and
making tour of New Zealand as well
as Australia He will be gone ten
weeks and travel alone.
The First National bank of Chelsea,
Mass, has been closed by the comp
troller of the currency 1t is reported
that the banks failure was caused by
unsecured loans of $500,000 to Presi.
dent Hinckley, who is said to be dying
in his home in Brookline.
Axtell, the stallion that in 1889 made
the worlds trotting record of that
time. dieI at the Warren Park. stock
farm at Terre Haute Ind, of spas
modic collie. The night after the rec
ord race Axte,l was bought by a syn
dicate for $105,00o.
! William j. Bryan left Gibraltar on
| Monday on the North German Lloyd
| steamer Princess Irene for New York.
! Mr. Bryan expressed himself as being
delighted with his tour, which closed
| with visits to places of interest in and
about the rock.
Fred O. Murray of Buffalo was ac-
quilted of the charge of grand larceny
in connection with what has been
known as the graveyard scandal. Muir
ray was tried on an indictment charg
ing the larceny of $4,000 on June II,
1901
Senator Chauncey NJ Depew's health
is so improved that he is seen almost
daily driving or motoring on the roads
of Westchester county, n. Y. The sen
ator is living in the old Patton place,
between Dobbs Ferry and Irvington.
L. L. Whitman and c. s. Carris, in
thirty six horsepower machine, estab
lished new cross continent automo-
bile record of Is days, l hour and 80
minutes The former record 81 days
and % hours. they made in 1904
The twelve japanese poachers cap
tured recently on st. PauPs island,
while raiding the seal rookeries, have
been indicted for violation of the Unit
ed States law enacted to protect the fur
bearing seals.
Miss Mildred Fredericks, daughter
of farmer of Legrangeville, N. Y,
was married at Asbury Park, N. j., to
Frank Folrhorns, Sioux chief, who
performs with the Pawnee Bill Wild
West show.
Owing to the lateness of the season
Walter Wellman, the chief of the Chi
cago Record Herald arctic expedition,
has abandoned the project of balloon
ing to the north pole this year
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad has transferred all
its trolley lines in New England to an
association known as the New England
Security Investment company
A report issued by the department of
commerce and labor showed that the
purchasing power of wages in the
United States was | per cent higher in
1905 than in 1904.
The Santa Fe railroad has voluntar-
lily granted its thousand telegraphers
from Chicago to Ell Paso an increase of
wages averaging about 81 a man, eff
fective at once.
The isthmian canal commission on
Monday invited bids for furnishing
$500 Chinese coolies, to be delivered
on the isthmus of Panama on or before
Jan 8, 1907,
The London Morning Post says that
it is rumored on the Stock. Exchange
that King Leopold and John Rockefel-
Ter will Jointly finance the railways of
Tanganyika. =
Tho boa rd ssuponted TO make an eX-