The Springfield herald., 1906-06-01
MIscclfuiieOu us.

Judge Smith McFhefson, in the fed
eral court at Kansas City has denied
the demurrer of the Burlington rail-
road to the rebate Indictment. The
railroad and packing companies must
now go to trial.
At the supreme council of the Royal
Arcanum of the United States. in ses-
sion at Old Point, Va, Howard c.
Wiggans was reelected supreme re-
gent and the entire list of officers was
reelected
The registration of applicants for
lands in the Crow Indian reservation
in Montana will begin at Miles City
and Billings on .runc II and continne
for two weeks. The drawings will be-
gin at Billings on July 2.
Charges have been made by the
independent oil men of Ohio that their
private kilograms are transmitted to
the Standard Oil headquarters at &c
Broadway. New York The interstate
commerce commission will investigate
the allegation at Cleveland
The supreme court of Missouri has
affirmed the verdict of death IN the
cases of Mrs. Agnes Myers and Frank
Hoffman for the murder of Mrs. Myers
husband at Kansas City in 1904. They
were both sentenced to hang on June
10 next.
Thomas f. McCarry, a former prom
inent attorney of Grand Rapids. Mich,
serving a sentence in the penitentiary
for bribery, has been paroled by the
governor.
stroyed.
Judge Lands, in the federal court
at Chicago. has issued an order re-
straining w. G. Noliva. his attorneys,
agents, and employees from disposing
of or dissipating the assets Of the es-
tate of Zicn City.
The foreign commerce of the United
States for April aggregated S25l ,000,-
900.
The supreme court of the United
| States has granted the petition of the
state of Kansas to file a suit against
the government for the benefit of the
NJ. X. G T, railroad.
The opening of a mine Mt Smith
field. o.. with non union miners was
the signal for the beginning of hos
Many shots were exchanged but no
one was reported injured.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
| Railroad company have appointed a
committee to investigate the allega-
tons that certain officers of the COM
pany hold stock in several coal COM
panies.
A revolt e.ainst Cuban authority
in the Isle of fines in the near future
is predicted unless the United States
assumes authority over it
At Lexington KY. recently. BARNEY
Oldfeld drove an automobile 80 miles
in one hour, 13 minutes ami two
seconds. ~.
1t is asserted that the 600 marines
which were hurriedly gathered for
shipment on the cruiser Columbia are
intended for the protection of the
canal zone on the isthmus in case of
revolutionary troubles at the coming
Panama elections.
In his Memorial day proclamation
Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, asked that the
day be not desecrated by frivolous
| spOl Is anu iuSollpHlbie tNlllDlI IONS.
An application for an injunction TO
prevent the union of he Cumberland
and the Presbyterian churches has
been denied at Decatur, III.
A treaty has been signed between
representatives of the United States
and Mexico regulating the use of the
waters of the Rio Grande which it i.
hoped will remove what has long beer
cause of friction between the two
countries.
sixty-two boxes of English SOW
ereigns. valued at $l,5O0,00O r-ccntly
arrived at San Francisco from Aus
tralia in one shirment.
Count solsliy has been reliased G.
the presidency of the Russian uppcl
house of par lament at his own re
| quest on account Of il heath.