The Ordway new era., 1906-04-13
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


Geronimo. the Apache warrior. has
Joined Wild West show for the sea.
son. with the consent OF the war de.
plrtment.
David Z. Sherrick. convicted OF the
embezzlemcnt OF Indiana state funds
10 the amount OF 100000. has been
landed In the penitentiary.
The chief OF police OF st. Petersburg
after various tests, Is equipping the
police and gendarmes with coats OF
mail to be worn under their uniforms.
Executive officials OF the western
railroads in conference at Chicago de-
cided to run homeseekers' excursions
to the Northwest every Tuesday dur.
Ing the coming coming summer.
The keel was laid at the docks OF the
American ShipbuNding Company. Bay
City, Michigan. April I'd. for the big
gest vessel ever built for the great
lakes. The vessel will be G2O feet long.
Larry Rogers. who recently perjurcd
himself telling the New York district
| attorney OF plot to assassinate Rev.
c. II. Parkhurst." has been sentenced
to seven years and six months in Sing
Sing.
The lord chancellor. Sir Robert
the House OF Lords making bribes and
bankruptcy cXtraditable offcnses in
accordance with the Anglo-American
convention.
President Roosevelt will deliver his
Memorial Day address this year before
the Army and Navy Union ut Norfolk.
| Virginia. The ceremonies there will be
held at the navy yard and in the sail
| ors' cemetery.
| At the meeting OF the executive
board of the National Council OF
| Women at Toledo. the bill for the ere
alton of the United States Children's
Bureau was indorsed and its immedi'
ate passage urged.
I Convinced that the Yaqui war In So
! nora has been abetted by Americans
importing firearms into Mexico for the,
use OF the Indians. the Mexican govern
ment has issued blanket order eS'
Guiding all weapons.
The Prussian government has pub
| lished n bill for the construction of
twenty.fcur secondary railways and
double-tracking twenty-seven existing
roads. and for other purposes. the total
cost being :5i,2O0,000.
! Physicians ut Cincinnati kept Joseph
| II. Wilson alive for three days after
| he had taken poison to end his life.
and thus prevented the accomplish
ment OF his wish to die before his
$4,000 insurance policy expired.
The trial trip of the protected
cruiser st. Louis. built ut Philadelphia
| by the Neafie & Levy company.
showed speed of twenty-five and one
half knots. which exceeds the govern
ment requirement by half knot.
Charles NJ. Carpenter of Chicago.
agent of the Barber Asphalt Company
for Wisconsin, was fined $1,000 by the
court of Green Bay for bribing three
aldermen with $4,000. Carpenter testi
fed that he knew nothing of the brib-
cry.
The city election at Springfield. 1lli-
nois, Tuesday, resulted in victory Tor
| the advocates of the municipal owner
ship of the electric light plant. Every
alderman who favored municipal own
ership was elected by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
The executive board, National Coun-
Gil of Women. has decided upon ma
tiona; memorial to Susan B. Anthony.
to be placed in Washington. The me-
mortal will be an immense bronze bust
and more than $1,000 will be raised for
it's construction.
! The criminal court at Breslau, Rus
| sia, sentenced Karl Bezier, n lawyer,
son of the recently appointed Prussian
minister of justice, DIR. Bezler, to four
months detention in fortress Tor
having fought duel with pistols. In
the duel no one was hurt.
Alaskan cable and telegraph tolls
paid to the United States government
in March aggregated S14,5OO, and ex-
ceeded the receipts for any previous
month. In the fiscal year which ended
last June, the government collected
more than 100000 in tolls.
Burglars broke into Three Saints
church at Kieff, Russia. They made
complete haul of all of the jewels and
dug out the gems from the ikons and
chalice. Even the gold work of the
| ikonistasis and altar and the bullion
from the embroidered vestments were
| taken.
James B. Howard. who has been in
Jail at Louisville, Kentucky, pending
the disposition of his case by the
United States Supreme Court has
taken to Frankfort to begin his term
of life Imprisonment to which he was
sentenced for the murder of William
Goebel..
Rev. Samuel Murray, a well known
German Baptist minister. died at Wa
bash, Indiana, April 1st. 1t was the
one hundredth anniversary Of his birth
and he expected to celebrate the event
by preaching the last sermon of his
life He had been in the ministry for
seventy years.
In the three months which ended
March 31st, 234 persons either resigned
their employment at the navy depart
ment, or In the navy yards, or refused
to accept positions under the Navy De-
partment after being certified by the
civil service commission to the secre-
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