The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-31

lHSufdHce OHlcldl OF jersey City, N.
j., is accused by a woman stenograph-
er Of attacking her in his office.
Three men choke woman and rob
her In a New York street.
| Congressman Lamar of Florida in
speech in the house declares the
rate bill, weighted down by senate
amendments, is a snare and a delu-
sion.
! President Roosevelt gives a cold
reception to delegation which visits
him to present the pleas of the pack
! ers against the meat inspection law.
One million dollars will be added to
the naval appropriation bill by the
senate for the purchase of submarine
torpedo boats, and the houses recon-
mendations for a battleship are ac-
cepted
Cornell wins the eastern intercol-
legiate track and field championship
meet at Cambridge with SO points
Pennsylvania is second with 20.
More charges of rail discrimination
in favor of Standard Oil and corrup-
ton by the company of rivals en-
ployes and others are made at Cleve-
land.
George l.. Thomas and l.. B. Tag
CART, convicted of rebating at Kansas
City, plan to appeal their case if a
prison sentence is imposed, but pre-
pare, if the yescape with. fines to
pay.
Chicago and Lakes Michigan and Su-
periOr are swept by a gale while the
temperature drops twenty-four de-
grees. Shipping loss is expected to
be heavy.
District Attorney Morrison confers
with the president regarding the pros
ecutions in the packers and oil cases.
House committee on rivers and har-
boris agrees on a. bill for the preser-
walton of Niagara Falls which per-
mits the free use of water from the
great lakes for sanitary purposes.
Beveridge bill providing for strict
sanitation and inspection in the stock
yards of the country is rushed to pas
sage in the senate without a word of
protest. 1t is expected that all an
tagonism in the house will be allayed
and that the measure will become a
law.
Interstate commission, as result of
the oil inquiry, is to urge the limita-
ton of property and capitalization of
industrial corporations. More dealers
and former employees tell of Standard
methods of killing competition.
Government wins and loses in the
railroad rebate trial at Kansas ity,
Freight Broker Thomas and his clerk
being convicted and George N. Cros-
by, Burlington official, set free.
A. ]. Cassett president of the Penn
sylvania railroad, suddenly sails from
herbourg for New York and may APP
pear before the interstate commerce
commission to reply to the charges
of graft made against the road.
Eighty fertilizer manufacturers are
indicted by the federal grand jury at
Nashville, Tenn, on the charge of vio-
lating the Sherman antitrust law.
George w. Perkins is freed of the
charge of larceny by the appellate d.
vision of the New York supreme court,
which points out that civil suit is
the only hope the policy-holders of
the New York Life Insurance company
have of recovering money appropriate
ed for campaign gifts
Muck raking must end before the
muck rakers can be stopped, says
oil. ]. Hamilton Lewis in a speech be-
fore the Knife and Fork club of Kan
sas City, in which he criticises the
recent utterances of President Roose-
Welt.
Armenian assassins after bloody
work in Turkey entangle the Ameri-
can government by claiming citizen
ship in this country, having taken out