The Ordway new era., 1907-07-05

adopted fayoring Kansas City as the
place for the next republican nation.
al convention.
temporary restraining order has
been granted In St Louis prohibiting
the state board OF railroad and ware.
house commissioners from enforcing
the law regarding the inspection and
weighing Of grain outside OF public
elevators.
While on the way TO attend tho
commencement exercises at Yale an
automobile containing four passengers
plunged off bridge. D. l.. Oliver, a
student. was killed and the other oc
cupants seriously injured.
For the eighth time the Cornell
crew succeeded In winning the eight.
cared race at PoughkcepsIc y. Y.
Columbia was second and the United
States Naval academy third
The premature explosion Of box
OF dynamite near Tola. Charlotte
county. Va, killed eight persons and
injured six others.
AT New London. Conn. Harvard
won the eifht,oarcd freshman race by
a close margin. while Yale won the
varsity four cared race by ten
lengths.
At Findlay. Ohio. the jury in the
trial Of the STANDARD oil company on
II charge OF violating the state anti
trust law disagreed and We're dis.
charged.
The pension department Will urge
congress at its next session 10 equal
izc the pensions OF soldiers widows
ON basis OF sl2.
The beard of police commissioners
OF San Francisco has denied prrmls.
sion TO japanese to keep intelligence
offices in that city.
Judge lands. In the federal court
at Chicago. has refused the request
frller for the withdrawal OF III. sub
pocna recently issued for their client.
A Russo.Italian commercial treaty
has been signed at st. Petersburg.
Judge Chytraus. of Chicago. has de.
clarcd the law passed by the last
INV Hhi' ~
cigarettes in Illinois invalcd.
According to the verdict OF Jury
in the federal court ut Fort Dodge,
Iowa, grain transactions on boards OF
trade are gambling and debts thus
contracted can not be collected.
Mrs. Russell Sage has sent to the
Lincoln Farm Association contribu
tion of $4,000 to the fund for the
preservation OF the Abraham Lincoln
farm and log cabin.
Yale defeated Harvard in the an
nual varsity eiehtoared race at New
London. Conn. by scant boats
boats length before the largest crowd
that ever witnessed n race on the
Thames river. The time was 2l:l0.
Il. II. Hartman. the railroad mag
nate. was arrested DUNG the Yale
Harvard boat race at New London.
Conn. and confined on revenue cut.
ter for violating the rules of the
course.
All of the mail carriers of Butte,
Mont. have gone on strike, declaring
IudI lntN tpulu ToN iiNt Ah'
paid at present by the government.
on the Kickapoo Indian reservation
near Horton. Kan, Jack Masquat and
his wife were struck by lightning and
killed.
A destructive flood is reported in
the saltwater Valley. Montana. Five
of the seven bridges over the Still
water river were carried out.
In the United States district court
at Chicago Judge Lands overruled
the motion OF the Standard Oil com
pany for n new trial of the case in
which they were recently convicted
of rebating.
The sentencing of Mayor Schmitz
of San Francisco. convicted of extor.
lion. has been postponed by Judge
Dunne. until July s. Schmitz must
remain in jail.
Harry Vaughan, Edward Raymond
and George Ryan, the three convicts
in the Missouri penitentiary VINO
killed their guards in desperate at
tempt to escape, were hanged In the
county Jail at jefferson City.
After hearing the message from
Premier Clemencean the French wine
growers have voted unanimously tc
continue the agitation In the soutn
of France for laws against wine adui'
teration.
Ths navy department has sent the
new cruiser Milwaukee to Ceh'ra.
American ports in anticipation OF
trouble between Salvador and Nicar'
angua.
A subcommittee appointed by the