The Irish standard., 1906-07-21
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The governments colossal fight
against the Standard Oil company is
to be transferred from Cleveland to
Chicago Immediately. Claiming that
enough evidence has been brought out
to make a clear case against the al
legged Oil trust, but the federal court
lacked the legal jurisdiction for indict-
ment and prosecution, the government
unexpectedly and summarily ended the
proceedings before the Cleveland granc
jury.
Circuit Attorney Sager filed huge
ice trust suit at St. Louis, in which
he asks that fines of 81, 400 be levied
against the Polar Wave Ice & Fuel
company and the Merchants Ice &
Fuel company. The suit is the result
OF three-weeks' investigation and
the amount named represents pen
atty of 500 for each day since the
Two ice concerns are alleged to have
formed combine and trade-restrain-
ing agreement.
The New York World says: Harry
Thaw will never be placed on trial for
the murder Of Stanford Write. An ap-
pltcation will be made for the appoint
ment of a commission to inquire into
his sanity. There is no doubt that he
will be declared insane and sent to
the hospital for the criminal insane at
Mattewan.
The navy department has received
a cablegram from Para, Brazil, an.
nouncing the safe arrival of Secretary
Root and his party at that city on the
United States cruiser Charleston.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, Ger.
man ambassador to the United States,
was overcome by heat at the South
station in Boston as he was about
to take train for New York.
The British cabinet has decided to
rescind its action cutting down the
naval estimates and to build two bat
tleships of the Dreadnought class.
Congressman Frank B. Klepper, of
Kingston, was renominated for con-
gress by the Republicans of the Third
Missouri district.
Two men were instantly killed and
third is believed to have been fatal
ly injured as result of the derail-
ment of a switch engine in the Hous-
ton & Texas Central railway yards in
Houston, Tex.
One man was killed and four seri-
ously injured by log roll in Bige-
lows lumber camp near Alpena, Mich
The fourth annual meeting of the
Young Peoples Union of the Indiana
district of the German Evangelical
synod of North America, convened at
Mount Vernon, Ind.
Lee fletcher and Joe Robinson,
both colored, were hanged in the Jail
at Fayette, Miss, for the murder of
Lamb Anderson in January, 1904, over
a game of craps.
A number of minor chiefs of the
Gnatemalan revolution who made an
invasion of the northern portion of
that republic say all movements Of
the revolutionists in Guatemala are
brought to a standstill awaiting nego-
tiations for peace.
Over 100 cases of typhoid fever have
already been reported about Ipswich
S. D., as the result Of drinking lem
onade which was served at a celebra-
taken from an old we'll.
Judge Henry Melvin, of Oakland
Cal, was unanimously elected grand
exalted ruler of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.
Practically the entire business sec
tion of Wentzville, Mo-, was DESTROYED
by fire, the loss being estimated at
$4,000.
The state of Wisconsin is to have
St. Andrews cross.
The jury in the Hargis- Callahan
trial at Beattyville, KY. returned a
verdict of not guilty. The men were
charged with the murder of ]. B.
Marcum.
The bureau of statistics of the de-
partment of agriculture has so extend
ed the scope OF it's work that ito re-
ports will hereafter cover far larger
number of agricultural products than
in the past.
Judge Henry w. Holt, in the case
of Virginia versus the Baltimore &
Ohio railway declared the two-cent
mile rate bill to be in violation OF
the fourteenth amendment to the con-
stitution.
The Salvadorian army attacked the
Guatemalan forces at Platanar and OBJ
tanned victory over them. The Qua
temalans suffered loss of 1000 men in
killed, wounded and prisoners.
A former sailor named Shetenko,
who was arrested confessed that he
was the murderer of Chouknin.
The sailors at Cronstadt declined to
participate in a requiem for Vice Ad-
miral Chouknin.
The announcement is made of the
engagement of Miss Annie Ide, daugh-
ter of Gov. Gen. Ide, of the Philippines
and Bourke Cochran. The wedding will
occur in Washington next fall.
The men in the collieries of the Cen
trail Pennsylvania bituminous coal
district numbering nearly 10000 who
have been idle since April 1, when the
mines closed down because the oper-
ators would not restore the scale of
1903, will resume work on practically
the same scale as 1908.
DR.. Carl Sattler, one Of the leaders
Of the National liberal party in the
Reichstag, is dead.