Sharp County record., 1906-11-16
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST I'M,
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully OigestGd and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

assistant secretaries dL lue w WHlIG
House, is away on trip to the 18TH
MUS of Panama to inspect the canal.
They are due to return Nov. 27
A great fire ragged in Canton, China,
destroying the section where the res
taurants and gambling houses were
located.
Hon. Robert L. Henry, chairman Of
the democratic caucus in congress,
has issued a call for meeting of the
democratic members to be held in
the house of representatives Dec. l.
Lasalle A. Maynard, associate editor
of Lesle's Weekly, and a prominent
figure at Lake Mohonk peace confer
e5ences, died at Claremont, Cal. His
home was in Oneonta, N. Y.
Ten men perished in the wreck of
the full-rigged Russian ship Sovinto,
which struck the lodges at Priests
pond, Charlottetown, Prince Edwards
Island, during a severe gale.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at st. Paul, Mimi, has hand
ed down a decision upholding the va
lidity of contracts for the purchase
and sale of grain for future delivery,
as it is practiced by the Chicago board
of trade and the Merchants exchange
of st. Louis.
Eleven indictments were handed to
Judge Lochran in the United States
district court at st. Paul Mimi, by
the federal grand jury, covering the
giving of rebates by certain railroads
and the receiving of the same by
grain firms and individuals.
Edwin Stone, of Brooklyn, who died
In Saratoga, N. Y, Oct. 27, left half
of his estate, valued at 100000, to
various educational and charitable in
stitutions. Tuskegee Institute, Book
er T. Washington's school is men
toned.
The Riga correspondent of the St.
Petersburg Bourse Gazette has sent
in narrowing details Of the execution
by shooting of three boys, who had
been condemned by q court-martial
for robbery. The firing party was com
pletely unnerved at the sight of mere
children before them for execution
and fired wildly, and it was only after
several volleys that all the condemned
were killed.
The agitation in Italy against the
action of the government in placing
an ordr for armor plate for an ltal.
ian man-of-war valued at $1,000,000
with the Midvale Steel Co. of Penn
sylyania, is assuming serious char.
acter
Mrs. Henry Williams, about SO years
Old was found murdered in her home
near Stafford Springs Conn. Robbery
apparently was the motive and the
murderer is believed to be a tramp.
BY the election of j. T. Harahan as
president of the Illinois Central Rail.
road Co. tosucceed Sturyvesant Filth,
it is believed that f. H. Hartman has
at last realized the fulfillment of his
plan to control a railroad line from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. In this
great plan the Illinois Central was the
one link missing to complete a line
of track from New York to San Fran
cisco and Portland, Ore, from the
great lakes to the gulf of Mexico and
from the gulf to the Pacific OCEAN
again.
Reports from Washington of a case
in preparation for prosecution Of the
Standard Oil Co. has received some
attention in Wall street and on the
stock market
After stormy scene, lasting
several hours, the coroner's jury at
Atlantic City agreed to place the
blame for the Thoroughfare wreck of
Sunday, Oct. 2S, upon Daniel Stewart,
the aged bridge tender
Congressman-elect Judge Geo X.
Favrot shot and instantly killed his
lifelong associate and former school
mate, Dr., H. H. Aldrich, one of the
best known citizens at Baton Rouge,
La, while hundreds of persons were
near the scene of the shooting, but
none knew what happened between
the two men, Judge Fayrot refused to
talk beyond letting it be known that
the matter was a private quarrel
Secretary of the Interior Ethan Al
len Hitchcock will retire from the
cabinet March 4, and will be succeed.
ed by James r. Garfield a son of
former President James r. Garfield
who is at present commissioner of
corporations.
Seven persons were killed and nine
were injured at Mocha, Ecuador a
station on the Quito railroad, owing
to natives meddling with the brake on
a car.
The death is announced of Auberon
e. w. M. Herbert, the English jour
nalist He was born in 1S3S
Mrs. Edward Wilson Nye, widow OF
the famous Bill Nye, died at Avsca
plantation, Louisiana, at the home of
her son-in-law, Eugene A. Pharr.
The various railroads in Missouri
have united on a letter to be sub.
mitted to Folk for immigration COM
missioner,