, 1907-08-22

Inc attorneys general OF the Missis-
sippi valley states met in ST. Louis
to formulate plans for a national con.
ference of attorneys general.
New York detectives have arrested
the ~ringleaders of the Armenian
Hunchakist secret society and OBJ
tanned confession from them regard
ing the murder of a priest and a
wealthy rug merchant. 1t is believed
the murderous organization has
been broken up.
While playing hide-and-seek with
her father, the three-year-old daugh-
ter of c. A. Rock, residing near Cuba,
ILL.,, lost both her feet by coming into
contact with the sickle blades of a
mower.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Hudson,
an aged couple living near Mobiles
vile, Ind, were recently murdered
and robbed of $4,000. the price of a
farm which they had Just sold.
The Federated Trades Council Of
Milwaukee,, Wis, has passed a resolu.
ton opposing the fine imposed re-
Gently on the Standard Oil company
by Judge Lands. They declare gov
o"h M IL ohiy nv E
A convention of the attorney gen
erals of all the states in the United
States has been called to meet in st.
Louis September 80 and October l.,
to provide for concerted action in
prosecutions against corporations for
violation of state laws.
President Small of the Commercial
Photographers union has ordered a
general strike of all members of the
organization
During a heavy storm at st Joseph,
Mo, many business houses were flood
ed and the Moran packing plant,
which was struck by lightning, was
entirely destroyed
A negro burglar recently shot ant
severely wounded Stella Austin and
C C Hoyt, of Wichita, Kan. After
rifing the houses the burglar es'
capped.
Large operators in the Joplin lead
and zinc district IT preparing to in
stall steam shovels in their mines. If
the plan proves successful, some 5000
laborers who have been earning from
five to eve dollars a day will be
out OF employment.
Secret service agent of the govern
ment are said to be on the ~payrolls
of all the big railroad corporations
and trust companies in the country
watching for attractions of the anti
trust Law.
The Kansas charter board has
granted a charter to the Great West.
~ p,,bha~ -Dr,pa,y - nIatLo NH
capital stock of the company is 5000.
900.
The, Farmers State bank of New
Folden, Mimi, was recently entered
by burglars and robbed of $1,000.
Members Of the Chicago Press
club made an emphatic protest when
William d. Haywood. secretary-treas
urer of the Western Federation oil
Miners, who was recently acquitted
of a charge of murder, paid a visit
to the club rooms.
The Kansas board of railroad com.
! missioners has issued an order that
arrival and departure of all trains
must be bulletined at each station.
The internal revenue receipts for
the fiscal .Tear ended June 80 were
S269, 664 ,O22, an increase of $2O,561,
23i.
Gov. Folk has committed to life i'm.
prisonment the sentence of Lord"
harrington. convicted of the murder
of James Mccain at st. Louis.
Heavy loss of life is reported from
central Japan because OF floods.
According to the figures of the
county assessors, Kansas has gained
$4,000 in population during the past
year.
Five persons were killed and II
others injured by the collapse in Chi
cago of a two-story frome house occu.
pied as a boarding house.
Papers in a proposed suit to dis
solve the harvester trust are being
prepared in the department of JUS
tice at Washington. The suit will
probably be filed IN Chicago.
A 36-inch water main burst in a
Chicago street recently throwing a
column of water 60 feet high. The
easements for several blocks were
flooded and much damage to property
resulted.
One man was killed and several in.
jured by the derailment of the Bur.
lington Kansas City-St. Joseph train
near Weston, Mo-, recently.
Seventeen summer hotels, 60 cot.
tages and a score of buildings occu.
pied as stores were destroyed by fire
recently at Old Orchard, Me. Two
lives were lost and five persons were
injured.
j. Warren Hastings, since 1864 a
trusted official of the United States
%subtreasury in Boston. has been ar
rested for the embezzlement of $4,000
of PnYernment funds